Magic

霊気 - nice. I'd like to collect those.

You know how thay say: It's impossible to proove the existence of unexistable, but it is also impossible to proove its unexistance
If I only traineined to develop my magician abilities from my childhood I woul now be able to do something unusual...

Revenant wrote:Not everyone belive in magic, but everyone agrees that there are lots of things whitch science cant give an explanation to. Magic is something that makes the impossibilities possible. Magic is more then a fantasy.
What do you think of magic?

Although I agree that there are a lot of things that science cannot yet explain, I do not believe that science wont be able to explain them eventually. So, I do not believe in a surreal or metaphysical form of magic of anykind. It is fun to talk about.

But I have no problem in seeing magic as more something of context than anything else. So if this is the case then magic may very well exist to children, who are awed to wake up on Christmas morning to find Santa has flown to their house to deliver presents. Haha.

As an idea in fictional mediums such as books, movies, and video games I think magic is fun because it adds a sense that anything can happen, and occasionally throws a wrench into the gears of the usualy mundane and predicatable storylines that we all know.

As a performance craft in our own world (the likes of David Copperfield and David Blaine) magic is fun because it is an unusual artform which has left me scratching my head more than once, even though I know there is nothing supernatural about it. And it is far more difficult than many people would believe, as the set-up (requiring perfect timing and persuation) is almost always just as important as the eventual pay-off in making a magic trick so successfull.

It is the force which challenges my usual sense of logic and hard-set reasoning that makes it so vexing, while at the same time so entertaining. And I enjoy it for that, and that alone.

Magic is cool.

EDIT: I have tried to reconstruct this post as well as I could, but I am afraid I wrote it late at night yesterday and now I can't remember all the points I was trying to make. I think I know what happened JET; now that you have new moderator powers, you need to be extra careful to click the right button, either Edit or Quote, because you can edit anyones posts now. You probably meant to quote my post but ended up editing it by acco. Oopsy. No real harm done.

I copy-pasted Midgar's post into the quick-reply thing, and I must have accidentally messed something up because it replaced his post, changing the quotes. I'm sorry, Midgar, if you can reconstruct your post from the quotes, go ahead and try. This was a problem that I'll have to assume was caused by me, so I'll see if there's any way to fix it. I don't think there is a way, to, say, "Undo Last Edit," but i'll still try.
(unless of course that actually is your post, in which case you should tell me in case my reality is glitching again.)

Midgar wrote:As an idea in fictional mediums such as books, movies, and video games I think magic is fun because it adds a sense that anything can happen, and occasionally throws a wrench into the gears of the usualy mundane and predicatable storylines that we all know.

A wizard did it.

Midgar wrote:As a performance craft in our own world (the likes of David Copperfield and David Blaine) magic is fun because it is an unusual artform which has left me scratching my head more than once, even though I know there is nothing supernatural about it. And it is far more difficult than many people would believe, as the set-up (requiring perfect timing and persuation) is almost always just as important as the eventual pay-off in making a magic trick so successfull.

THis is my favorite kind of magic, illusion. Not satatistics manipulation like most "sleight-of-hand" tricks are based on, but the sort of magic you might see done by David Blaine (have only seen one copperfield show, and it was supposed to be one of his worst, and Criss Angel... I haven't developed a definite opinion about him yet.). I was just saying the other day that it's a piuty about how eventually, technology will be able to easily replicate any effect done by a human preparing for days, and practicing for years, and people will just say "He had the nanobots cut the card into microscopic pieces, and reassemble an exact replica of the card on the other side of the stage" (for example).