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spiritual atheist with cramp
Belacqua Offline
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RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 24, 2025 at 4:39 pm
(March 24, 2025 at 11:24 am)o.patrickm Wrote: not feeling like being insulted

People on this forum don't believe in magic, and they look down on people who do.

If you talk about magic here, you will be mocked and insulted. I'm sorry that's the way it is, but I think you should be warned.
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#32
RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 24, 2025 at 4:57 pm
(March 24, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Belacqua Wrote:
(March 24, 2025 at 11:24 am)o.patrickm Wrote: not feeling like being insulted

People on this forum don't believe in magic, and they look down on people who do.

If you talk about magic here, you will be mocked and insulted. I'm sorry that's the way it is, but I think you should be warned.

Why do you stick around?

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#33
RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 24, 2025 at 5:14 pm
Welcom to the forum 'o.patrickm.

(March 24, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Belacqua Wrote:
(March 24, 2025 at 11:24 am)o.patrickm Wrote: not feeling like being insulted

People on this forum don't believe in magic, and they look down on people who do.

If you talk about magic here, you will be mocked and insulted. I'm sorry that's the way it is, but I think you should be warned.

Learn to speak only for yourself, Bel. Speaking for others makes you look like an ass.
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#34
RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 24, 2025 at 5:42 pm
(March 24, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Belacqua Wrote:
(March 24, 2025 at 11:24 am)o.patrickm Wrote: not feeling like being insulted

People on this forum don't believe in magic, and they look down on people who do.

If you talk about magic here, you will be mocked and insulted. I'm sorry that's the way it is, but I think you should be warned.

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RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 24, 2025 at 5:46 pm
(March 24, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Belacqua Wrote:
(March 24, 2025 at 11:24 am)o.patrickm Wrote: not feeling like being insulted

People on this forum don't believe in magic, and they look down on people who do.

If you talk about magic here, you will be mocked and insulted. I'm sorry that's the way it is, but I think you should be warned.

I have nothing against magic. Huge fan of Penn and Teller, and I was gutted when Doug Henning died so young.

I even perform about a dozen illusions myself (nothing fancy - card tricks, cups and balls, that sort of thing).

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#36
RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 pm
(March 24, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Belacqua Wrote:
(March 24, 2025 at 11:24 am)o.patrickm Wrote: not feeling like being insulted

People on this forum don't believe in magic, and they look down on people who do.

If you talk about magic here, you will be mocked and insulted. I'm sorry that's the way it is, but I think you should be warned.

For whom the Bel trolls...
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#37
RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 24, 2025 at 6:43 pm
(March 24, 2025 at 5:17 am)o.patrickm Wrote: spiritual atheist interested in black magic, dark arts etc.

I'm a lifelong magic fangrrl.  I'd love it if magic was real.  However, critical thinking compels me to push that possibility firmly to one side until a consistent testable and falsifiable mechanism for magic can be empirically demonstrated.

For now, the best I can do is to view magic as "headology" - applied psychology and social engineering - in the spirit of Granny Weatherwax from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
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RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 24, 2025 at 9:34 pm



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RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 25, 2025 at 12:20 am (This post was last modified: March 25, 2025 at 12:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Welcome aboard... what kind of black magic? We talking ritual, ceremonial, sympathetic, intuitive, shamanistic, behavioral, whatever else? Any particular tradition, or a more personal syncretism?
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RE: spiritual atheist with cramp
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 am
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