Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...
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Aight, So I'm a weird guy. I believe in paranormal shyt, w/e but I saw this youtube series by this sexy ass iceland chick who broke down the science of the Norse Mythology Gods/Goddesses. in one video she broke down how Thor was really an allegorical lesson on magnetism and electricity. don't remember word for word or even the youtube link but the shyt made alot of sense.
I think that's what God's are, beings with advanced knowledge in their own founded technologies and knowledge of the physics of reality and know how to blend to two seamlessly.
Dragonfly Jones
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that Showbow android streaming straight to ur TV via wifi and allcast is some straight up magic type shyt tho
If I could do that sh1t 2 thousand years ago there would probably be a religion devoted to me by now
If I could do that sh1t 2 thousand years ago there would probably be a religion devoted to me by now
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To elaborate more on my stance to add to the discussion;
I believe that phrase (thread title) is a very accurate one and doesn't necessarily relates to Gods, Goddesses, or even extra-terrestrial/Dimensional beings. for example, let's say there is some indigenous tribes still surviving in 2014 who have never once seen anything from their 'outside' (not even modern day tissue). if you or I showed up at their village or community with GPS devices, Global SIM Cellphones, Laptops with Wifi Access, and all our other technology - we would undoubtedly be seen as 'other worldly' and our devices would be what the indigenous people attribute as our tools which grants us 'powers'.
Ignorance (not in the derogatory format but the literal format and definition) is nothing more than not being knowledgeable about something. when we as humans tend to not have a valid explanation (valid being the functioning term meaning 'arrived at a researched, fact checked and reproducible understanding') we comfort either our own fears or ego's and attribute it to something greater or different than us.
Before Doppler Radars and software to plot out weather patterns, the weather telling was left to specialized individuals who utilized keen observations of terrestrial and celestial changes and 'landmarks' to predict future weather events. and when this wasn't sufficient enough, they gave praise to different deities for blessings in upcoming seasons and months.
I love thinking about the origin of God and Life, and I tend to contemplate theories I'd like to expand upon but just for example, I saw something that made me think about the story of creation in the Christian and Jewish Holy Books of the Old Testament in relation to Adam and Eve. so for shyt's and giggles;
*What if Adam and Eve is nothing more than an allegorical tale about a scientist splitting an "atom"? What if Adam and Eve were never real individuals? but were symbolic of some ancient understood science or branch of knowledge?
either way, the stories in all religious books (Current Religion and Ancient Religion aka Mythology) all have magical elements to it. if we are to take them for face value and believe these beings actually did exist at some point in time in earth's history then the manner in which they executed various feats would be seen as "magic" to us if we had no knowledge of or were ignorant to these beings technology and technical knowledge.
All in All, Magic and Technology are one in the same and will be interchangeable terminology in the very near future.
Science is science. Magic is magic. Being ignorant of the mechanism has no bearing on it's objective reality. Magic would be something like mental telepathy or telekinesis.
so if lets say Apple, Microsoft or Oracle or someone releases a device which allows for "telepathy" or "telekinesis" would that not be technology operating in a magical format?
Operating in the fashion of a thing is not the same as being the thing. A tractor does the work of 100 yaks, but it is not 100 yaks.
Even if I didn't know you had Googlepathy, you'd still have it.. and it wouldn't be magic.
notPsychosiz
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Whenever you label anything magic or science, you are not actually ellaborating on the topic... but merely indicating your understanding of it.
I can see where you're coming from.
My personal feeling, it's magic to those who do not understand how the ability was accomplished.
There is, after many years of scientific study, a state of grace one achieves however; where one no longer cries magic, undauntedly ever. It's a Tony Starks level of stubborness where one would rather claim ignorance than quit the beautiful art, and relinquish their wonder-filled ignorance to mysticism and ghosts, the latter is a despicable and cowardly imprisonment of the imagination and erosion of man's greatest quality.
