(September 22, 2012 at 4:40 pm)LastPoet Wrote: It takes a special way of detachement from reality to believe in magic things & all that shit.
I think I'd go a bit further, myself. Believing in magical things does involve some level of detachment, yes, but are often the product of insufficient or faulty education. To prefer the belief over reality, to the point at which the belief takes precedence if they conflict with reality, that's some Grade-A detachment.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
