It's just occurred to me a few weeks ago that if we ever witnessed magic, it would always just be explained away. Everything has a cause. Fundamentally, when you get down to it, a lot of modern-day technology IS magical; there's no reason that strange liqu

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Anonymous 03/13/25 (Thu) 11:01:16 No.1949

It's just occurred to me a few weeks ago that if we ever witnessed magic, it would always just be explained away. Everything has a cause. Fundamentally, when you get down to it, a lot of modern-day technology IS magical; there's no reason that strange liquid crystals should react to electrical stimuli in a way that makes them suitable for displaying images, or that we should be able to transmit information through invisible waves, other than that our arbitrary view of the world explains it away as normal.

Even if magic did exist, we would just expand our worldview in a way that nominalises it as part of science.

nama3!i4ggqOCXfI 03/14/25 (Fri) 21:04:42 No.1951

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>>1950

nama3!i4ggqOCXfI 03/14/25 (Fri) 23:11:00 No.1953

>>1952
ok, but its interesting. unlike your bitching and moaning.
youre on the /x/ board whining about autism????

Anonymous 03/15/25 (Sat) 01:53:00 No.1955

>>1952
OP here. You are a special flavour of retarded. I never said "science is le magic", I said that if we did come across "magic", we would quickly change our worldview to accommodate it as part of scientific doctrine, meaning that it's forever out of reach. You are the autist here buddy. Go lick some bird shit off of the pavement.

Anonymous 03/15/25 (Sat) 10:58:50 No.1957

>>1956
you are so stupid you might honestly convince me of the ethical value of eugenics

Anonymous 03/15/25 (Sat) 11:48:13 No.1959

>>1958
ok this is ragebait glad we've clarified but really do mado yourself

Anonymous 04/22/25 (Tue) 17:35:02 No.1981

>>1949
I think this is why the supernatural-natural distinction is linguistically deceiving. There are things with ontological status or not. God, the divine and transcendent, non-reducible mind, et cetera, if real, would be a fact of life as cells and the orbit of Earth around the Sun (however they may exist). This is what obfuscates a lot of discussion on the validity of spiritual concepts is that people preemptively decide they cannot exist because supernatural = impossible. Discourse would benefit for both religious and atheistic positions if we just removed the idea of the supernatural as anything more meaningful than a colloquial way to refer to a type of thing.