Personally I think "magic" is just something that science hasn't gotten around to explaining.
there is underlying force to the universe I can't explain it to well but I feel it and which way and there is partial control, everyone can use it, it's just most of them forget it in their childhood
There are alot of Mulders in this world, and there are an equal, or more, amount of Scullys.
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The Last Strider stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
1. E=mc^2 does not govern EVERY SINGLE DAMN THING in the Universe.
Actually, it does. It has yet to be disproven. Matter can not be created or destroyed is another law. Show me where this has been proven to not be true. Any moron can say "Well, I heard a Monk on the top of a mountain somewhere made a person with HIS BRAIN!", but that doesn't make it true. It just makes you a flaming moron.
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2. So, seeing the EXACT SAME EVENT, down to the last minute detail like a shirt I don't own, later buy, and wear isn't a preminition? Gee.
I think you are exagerating here.
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3. No, I mean my Dad can actually UNDERSTAND the cat. He can tell the cat to do something and it will. A CAT. The most independent animal on the face of the Earth.
See my reply to #2.
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Science is not the only explanation for stuff. Dan Rationalists. *goes back to reading Thoreau*
Yes it is. See Bloodsage's comments regarding those who feel otherwise being ignorant.
-Tok [ 03-08-2002: Message edited by: Toktuk ]
Necromancer: How DARE you imply that I was involved in a rude act with my undead servant! I will flay the flesh from your bones! I will summon a thousand maggot-ridden corpses to gnaw your flesh! I will trap your soul in-
Ghoul: My ass hurts.
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Check out the big brain on The Last Strider!
*rolls his eyes* So, does E=mc^2 govern the Human soul? Thought process?
Yes.
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Non-science crap?
There is no such thing as "non-science crap".
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And, No, I was not exaggerating on the other two things. I am totally serious. I can understand them not being believed, but they are true.
I think you are a big, fat LIER!
-Tok
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Personally I think "magic" is just something that science hasn't gotten around to explaining.
I agree. 
My two grandmas used to live in two seperate cities, Windsor (here) and Toronto (4 hours away)
Well, one day my grandma that lived here suffered a massive stroke and died shortly after in her home, she lived alone
We get a call from my grandma in Toronto, saying something was wrong with her sister. We check it out and find her body
No explanation for it, but she knew
But I wouldn't call it magic either
My mom and her sister are like that from time to time as well
When playing Pictionary they tend to know what the other is going to draw before she starts
*draw a single line*
"Pond!"
"right!"
*collective crowd goes 'WTF?'*
Magic can be found in thousands of different areas. It all just depends on where you look
EDIT: Want to elaborate, Sol? [ 03-08-2002: Message edited by: Bloodcookie ]
Mortious is a creature that parents say lives under their children's beds to frighten them into behaving.
Bloodsage is an urban legend that stalks teenage couples and scratches on their car doors while they're making out in the park.
Ja`Deth is a fey creature that is known for dancing around in wooded glens. If you catch him, he'll give you a pot of gold.
You'll always have a friend wearing big red shoes.
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Bloodsage had this to say about pies:
"Magic" is just a label used by the ignorant, the romantic, and the religious.
Believe me sir, I am a romantic.
*gives Bloodsage a treat and a pat on the head*
Ozius
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D had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Loch Ness.And I believe in sixth senses. Pyrokenesis, telekenesis, etc.
Those aren't senses, D. Break down their meanings. Pyro-kinesis ("Fire Movement") and Tele-kinesis ("Distance Movement"). They're abilities granting some variety of control. ESP by definition deals with perception of something beyond the 5 normal senses (6 if you think the ability to sense the passage of time is a sense, which has been argued both ways).
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Mr. Parcelan had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
I do not believe in Bloodsage, Mortious, or Ja`Deth.Mortious is a creature that parents say lives under their children's beds to frighten them into behaving.
Bloodsage is an urban legend that stalks teenage couples and scratches on their car doors while they're making out in the park.
Ja`Deth is a fey creature that is known for dancing around in wooded glens. If you catch him, he'll give you a pot of gold.
Ain't nothin' fey about me...dancing in the glen? Damn explosion lit my ass on fire and I ran myself down to the water. And that "pot of gold" stuff is a rumor started by Arrenn.
Seriously, though, on the topic of "Is magic real?" I have to say only the following:
The romantic in me wants to believe there is magic in the world, or a meta-science that we could call magic. That part of me hopes someday we'll understand it. But the realist in me isn't going to give up my car in favor of a flying broom just yet.
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I've been called a dreamer, an idiot, and worse for believing so but it doesn't bother me... there's not a damn thing anybody can do or say to make me stop believing.
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The Otaku Penguin had this to say about Punky Brewster:
No, science CANNOT explain everything.Sorry, but no
Women for example ... =/
-Right before they die.
-Right after they become one.
seriousy? yes i do, ive seen toman weird stuff my self
However, I also feel it can be viewed as a branch of scientific art that has not been fully unlocked yet.
Why the phrase "scientific art"? Because I think that it can alter the rules of "normal science", such as 1+1=2. Therefore, just running the numbers and patterns won't do it, it will take the skills of both an artist and a scientist to use it.
Even so, I feel that it will have it's own rules that it follows. Magic won't just "work like magic", so to speak.
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Mr. Parcelan had this to say about Cuba:
-Right after they become one.
d3wd wtf
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D had this to say about Robocop:
d3wd wtf
All babies begin their embryonic cycle with a penis. Over time in the female feti, the penis contracts into itself and 'changes shape'(I can't think of a good way of putting that [ 03-09-2002: Message edited by: Comrade_Snoota ]
) into the female sexual organs. The clitoris is the exterior remnants of the penis.
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Comrade_Snoota had this to say about Cuba:
All babies begin their embryonic cycle with a penis. Over time in the female feti, the penis contracts into itself and 'changes shape'(I can't think of a good way of putting that) into the female sexual organs. The clitoris is the exterior remnants of the penis.
they begin the embryonic cycle as female, with all the female organs (they aren't there but it is progammed into the DNA to make them). its not until after the first 6 weeks does the sex change occur [ 03-09-2002: Message edited by: Mr. Duck ]
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Mr. Parcelan was all like:
There are two times when men will understand women:-Right before they die.
-Right after they become one.
<Insert romantic idealism about understanding women here>
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Mr. Duck had this to say about Optimus Prime:
they begin the embryonic cycle as female, with all the female organs (they aren't there but it is progammed into the DNA to make them). its not until after the first 6 weeks does the sex change occur
<Insert flame here>
<Insert medical refrences and other somesuch proving Snoota was right here>
<Insert other smaller flammable topic here>
<Insert here>
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First Dragon wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
No, I dont believe in magic. I also dont believe in faries, dwarves, and elves do I could be wrong though.
Do you believe in Dragons?
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Deja vu has already been explained by scientists. It has to do with the way the brain stores memories--it's quite easy to match sufficient parameters to get a feeling of "I've done this exact thing before!"
"Premonitions" through dreams work in similar ways. It has to do with pattern-matching in the brain.
If it's a detailed and large as certain people claim, they should start keeping logs so they can collect the million-dollar bounty for proving the existence of psychic powers . . . .
E=mc^2, as has been pointed out, does indeed govern all of the processes in the universe. Creating matter would require a huge input of energy, because it's not just a simple coversion. The nuclear forces that bind atoms store huge amounts of energy (c^2, and that's a lot).
While it's quite all right to believe what one wants, it's generally better not to hold believes that are easily disproved through elementary application of basic science. IMNSHO. One can believe the earth is flat all day, but that doesn't make it so.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
"I can't explain it, therefore it must be magic," is the worst sort of logical fallacy.Deja vu has already been explained by scientists. It has to do with the way the brain stores memories--it's quite easy to match sufficient parameters to get a feeling of "I've done this exact thing before!"
"Premonitions" through dreams work in similar ways. It has to do with pattern-matching in the brain.
If it's a detailed and large as certain people claim, they should start keeping logs so they can collect the million-dollar bounty for proving the existence of psychic powers . . . .
E=mc^2, as has been pointed out, does indeed govern all of the processes in the universe. Creating matter would require a huge input of energy, because it's not just a simple coversion. The nuclear forces that bind atoms store huge amounts of energy (c^2, and that's a lot).
While it's quite all right to believe what one wants, it's generally better not to hold believes that are easily disproved through elementary application of basic science. IMNSHO. One can believe the earth is flat all day, but that doesn't make it so.
Science cannot explain love. It may explain how the brain reacts around certain people, but it cannot explain love. Face it, there IS things that cannot be explained Via science.
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The thing that you have to remember is that whether it's magic or hardcore science doesn't really change the miraculous nature of it. I'm sure Bloodsage would agree that the scientific manner by which it all works is amazing in how complex it all really is. And any magic-loving sort would likely live in awe of it.
So you say potato, I say potahto, you say tomato, etc...
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