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OpenStars@discuss.online

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3 months ago

Does it, really? Or is it “magic” all the way down…? :-D

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AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world

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3 months ago

As someone who was crazy about magic as a kid and learned a bunch of magic tricks, yes, it does. Really.

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OpenStars@discuss.online

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3 months ago

Oh yeah, for magic “tricks” that’s fair:-).

You could still use it to cause squeals of delight from young’uns who don’t know any better yet. So the utility is vastly diminished, but not entirely gone.

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lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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3 months ago

As someone else who was crazy about magic as a kid, I feel like that just made magic even more magical. Having an understanding of how magic tricks work lets you really appreciate the art and be truly wowed when you see a trick you can’t figure out.

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AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world

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3 months ago

I still appreciate it, but the “magic” is gone. It becomes an intellectual and physical challenge once you understand the mechanics behind slight of hand and other forms of stage magic.

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lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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3 months ago

Yeah, for sure. To me, the intellectual and physical challenge is the magic.

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AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world

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3 months ago

I guess to me the magic that’s left are the reactions I get from people who really love magic. There isn’t really anything else I can do that provokes such a happy reaction from people. Plus the genius behind some of these tricks is really amazing. Guys like David Blaine really are geniuses in their field. I found a PDF file on the torrent network that contained all of his popular tricks back in the mid 00’s, and the looks of absolute amazement I got at parties was priceless. One of my brother-in-laws accused me of being a warlock when I showed him some tricks the first time I met him. Haha!

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MindTraveller@lemmy.ca

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3 months ago

What did you think of magic after you learned occultist techniques?

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AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world

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3 months ago

That it’s not real, which was also a disappointment.

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MindTraveller@lemmy.ca

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3 months ago

Of course magic isn’t real. Magic occupies the border between reality and unreality, and is the mechanism by which effects cross it. Take money, for example. Not real, it’s just a social assignment of value. Magic is what makes money have real effects on the world.

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