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1785584 No.1785584 [Reply] [Original]

If magic really existed, or suddenly came into existence, would you abandon science to become a master of the arcane? Assuming the magic is testable, apparent, and follows pattern like DnD magic, for example.

>> No.1785590

You've got to be fucking kidding me, who wouldn't?

>> No.1785598

>>1785584
If magic existed, it would be part of science.

>> No.1785599

>>1785590
Magic is usually presented as a difficult, complex, and expensive pursuit, so it's pretty much the same reason not everybody is a doctor or a physicist.

>> No.1785726

Like most things we blab about and turn out to be real in 30 years, lets keep blabbing about this.

It would be easy to pick up a couple basic spells considering your outlook... but a bunch of different spells and outlooks on magic would take a lot of time. A 'doctor' would be a highly specialized magician.

>> No.1785733

The fact we're here at all is magic.
Soon as you all realize that... magic will happen.

>> No.1785741

>>1785598
this.

>> No.1785745

Magic is just unexplained science. If random DnD type magic started popping up over the world it just means our baseline understanding is wrong.

>> No.1785746

>>1785741
>>1785733
that

>> No.1785755

>>1785745
This.
We don't understand a damn thing about whats going on. 4.6 billion years to evolve from monkeys to play on the computer and jerk off to drawings of ideas???

Yea ok science.

>> No.1785761
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1785761

You don't know what magic really is do you...

>> No.1785766

>>1785761
What is magic? A genie? God?
Something weirds going on... and everyones ignoring it cause its too weird.

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1785775

As a Christian and a D&D player, my biggest problem with both Christians and D&D players is that they don't understand just how MECHANICAL and non-sorcerous the magic systems of role-playing games IS. It is purely rational, it merely assumes the existence of various sorts of "arcane" energy that can be manipulated for desired effects.

Now, a REAL magic system would describe pure mysticism, i.e., a relationship to the divine, or some other unknowable and unfathomable spiritual being. That relationship would be the foundation of all sorts of irrational will-workings.

In the meantime, you've got fundamentalists who assume that your teenagers are playing D&D and developing (at best) an interest in things magical and sorcerous, when in fact, there is no such thing, and (at worst) communing with some sort of spirit-beings telling them secrets.

WHEN IN FACT....there are only Oreo snack-cookies(tm), Mountain Dew(tm) and general nerdity going on.

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1785778

>>1785766
You'll know soon enough