...as someone famous once said, 'the only problem with magic is that it doesn't work.'
Then it should be possible to set up a trial to prove it.Then that famous person was massively, massively wrong.
Then it should be possible to set up a trial to prove it.
Let's hear the details then.Go ahead. I did ☺
Then that famous person was massively, massively wrong.
but as someone famous once said, 'the only problem with magic is that it doesn't work.' Still, a very unique individual.
Let's hear the details then.
Lee was the master of making himself more interesting than he actually was. Looks like he got most of this from a combination of the News of the World and Dennis Wheatley.
...how does it work?
Please expound on those ideas, James - thanks.I don't know.
I have some ideas. But I don't know.
Please expound on those ideas, James - thanks.
If magic works at all, how does it work?
I'm thinking, how did anybody find out which words, rituals, thoughts etc. had a magical effect in the first place?
Did some poor sap sit in a darkened room pronouncing made-up shit out loud for years and years until something happened? If words have a magical effect on the world, do they work in some way like commands used to program a computer? And...if that's how it works...maybe that does mean we live in The Matrix?
I genuinely don't think it would be a good use of my time to try and convince you that my experience of practising magic has proved, to me, that it "works".
I would be concerned that you would be trying to refute and rebuke everything I say on the matter. I think, if you are curious rather than cynical, it would be more useful for you to have a try yourself. It's really not that hard to start and I guarantee you would have some results that surprise and intrigue you.
Magic does work.
There is a reason that it has been practised by every culture throughout every epoch of history across every continent on the planet. It may well be considered to be the most widespread and continuous human endeavor on the planet. These people have not been wasting their time.
I'll test before I decide something is real or not.
So why not give us the tools to prove it to ourselves or to others.
I'll wait for you to provide us with something I can be surprised and intrigued by.
I'd like to hear an example of something you can do with magic.
Patronising...Entirely my suggestion Have a go at it
You can google I assume?
Lots of places to start...er...why not havr a crack at some of Spare's Sigil Magick- super easy, undemanding - http://disinfo.com/2012/12/a-beginners-guide-to-sigil-craft/
Once you start practising you can then subject it to your critical analysis techinique. Then you'll decide wether or not it "proves" itself for you.
Really- you'll be waiting a long, long time before the day I can convince you.
I have an exceptionally poor memory, sorry.Another example is precognition, but that's more random and completely erratic, as soon as you try to control it it stops. I think Mytho might remember my prediction of vast forest fires a couple years back on the forum, that came true apparently a couple of months later.
I have an exceptionally poor memory, sorry.
Patronising...
I'll think on it for a day or two to come up with something to wish for that might be free of either of those things.
They're not 'my' critical analysis techniques, they're 'critical analysis techniques'. They're not personal nor application specific.
I am open to be convinced you only had to do a good job of it!
I try to keep the little energy I have for helping people nowadays, especially family. But a nastier example would be how to kill someone by manipulating a series of otherwise natural events instigated and synchronised by the force and ripples created by a single ritual.
If that's the size of his fork, what does his spoon look like?
A magician- yesterday.
No...I have not.Have you ever tried to perform a magickal formula dr wu?