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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:32 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:43 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:13 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:36 pm
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Oughtn't be so hard a question, but it is. For me, it's like asking "What is art?" I can tell you that I like art, and I can even show you some attempts of my own to create art, but actually pinning something down and saying that "this is absolutely art" is not something I feel qualified to do.
I think, as an answer I'd give if I really had to, I'd say that magic is a physical, substantial change in the world which has a cause that is insubstantial. I don't like the language of it, but that's why I really don't like trying to define it. I love English, but sometimes I just can't find a precision of meaning that gets across what I feel. And my above has gaps and inclusions it probably shouldn't. I mean, insubstantial-- like what, waves and photons? Does that make a sunburn magic? Yeeh.
Insubstantial and... somehow supernormal. Something twined, probably, with what is nonfalsifiable.
Oh hell, if I could pin down a definition and give a good, stable example, I'd win the James Randi Foundation challenge.
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