The universe didn’t force you not to believe in magic. You could have spent your whole life believing magnets are magical stones, that the electromagnetic force is magical energy, and that computer engineers are wizards who conjure spirits from magic. And you could have been 100% factually and scientifically correct.

But you chose to believe that magic is by definition not real, because you didn’t want to live in a world of whimsy and wonder. You defined magic as supernatural, in opposition to the natural world. While every scientist knows that nature is just a word for everything that exists. You chose to define magic in a way that it wouldn’t exist, denying it through tautology and not through science.

Why did you choose that?

  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Ok, so your definition of magic is anything with complexity and alterability that is not well understood by the perceiver or subject.

    So basically, ignorance.

    I mean I guess I agree with you that the ignorant will label things that function in ways they do not understand, or take issue with, as magic.

    So then! Your original posted meme does not work that well then.

    Not sure why you posted a meme where atheists are dumb for defining magic as not real, thus precluding it from being real, when you yourself are an actual antirealist solipsist who does not believe in reality.

    Pretty much a perfect example of the classic right wing authoritarian strategy of painting your opponents as bad because they believe in bad thing, when they themselves actually believe in the bad thing.

    The ‘No U’ rhetoric.