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azurelunatic) wrote2003-09-02 03:37 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-09-02 03:37 pm
Wow! More Muggle friends!
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godai just reminded me that yaksha42 is not, in fact, my only Muggle friend. godai is a Muggle, and come to think of it, Mama's probably a Muggle too. We won't even go into FatherSir, who may well have been Muggle-born, and ran away from his acceptance letter into Hogwarts because it tripped him out.
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Nobody has ever shown me something that I am sure was magic, or even something that really made me wonder. I've heard various accounts of things that people consider magic, many of which I also would, but I have no first-hand experience, even as an observer. I haven't decided whether I believe in it, or in parts of it. (Actually, that's not quite true. At some level I do believe things like monsters under the bed. Not necessarily as truth, but as something in the conglomeration of universe and my mind which I must take into account, if that makes sense.)
I've occasionally taken jumps in reading people's emotions, interconnections, and next moves. I've moved to calling these "stupid primate tricks" after reading enough about primates; they're all of them perfectly well-explained by micro-observation and primate wiring, even (or especially) "driver's telepathy" and emotionally resonating with people I'm cross-wired with. And I'm ADHD, focus-out version: I can do incredible amounts of micro-observation.
I'm currently taking a class that bills itself as a sorcery/chaos magic class. One of my goals is resolving the confusion over whether magic exists, although I'm aware I can't prove a negative. Another is to gain more self-control in a couple of specific ways. Another is to learn more about people -- it's very related to my fascination with religion. Actually doing magic-stuff would be neat and would definitely be a perk, but it's way down on my list of goals.
I have spent significant chunks of my life believing at some level that I'm an alien. I occasionally get in mental states where I can lead people very nearly anywhere. I can sometimes find things that other people have lost. I can make myself sick via thoughts. My glasses are thick enough to give some things rainbow auras. All of these are explainable with current scientific principles; many of them are also thought to be magical.
I'm bad at fitting into binary classifications. Really bad. This makes me wary of them. This one's less emotionally and politically charged than the whole gender thing, but I'm still bad at it.
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Because that's how they have to work. Humans are not computers.
I have no trouble cheerfully holding several explanations for things in my head, and picking the one to work with that works best for me at the moment. This makes me very confusing to work with, if someone is pure-science, or pure-magic, to the exclusion of the other.
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So, err, basically, I'd love to know how you're classifying me on that continuum and on what basis, because I can't see anything that would make sense.
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Development of the skills would raise your wizarding level; attempts to kill those skills would scoot you over into Muggledom.
I consider that a typical human being with a statistically average set of possible primate tricks/magic potential, but no practice, is a perfect 0. I suppose that I also see the scale as not just a flat number line,
but something with two sides, like so:
S C I E N C E Muggle ----- 0 ----- Wizard M A G I Cwhere the muggle/wizard axis is what you can do, and the science/magic axis is your approach to it. I'd count you, on that far better measurement scale, as a beginning wizard with a very scientific take on things.
One of my many viewpoints is: "Magic is what science hasn't gotten around to explaining yet", tempered with, "Magic is science written as poetry."
time?
Re: time?
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Me too.
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In my estimation, you actually have to be doing something in order for it to be magic. Not just tune into the channel but actually be able to broadcast as well. *shrugs*
Or it could be my uncomfortable-ness with the whole magic thing.
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Have you ever taken any sort of yoga class or martial art? Those classes, there, even though they're working only with the body's own energy, are the same thing, the same principles. It just differs where the energy comes from.
Some work with the body's own energy. Some work with nature's energy. Some work with energy from whatever source can be coaxed or threatened into giving up energy. Some work with divine energy and only according to divine Will.
The same skills are used to sense it, to weave it, no matter the source.
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*There must be a deity involved for a prayer. Magic may have one, but not necessarily.
*They're called different things.
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Not sure if muggle would be right term.
Since Muggles tend to reject/ignore magic.
I don't reject it as there are things in this world i can't explain. But even parts or magic I could explain. I can do meditation, self-centering and alot of the things associated and agree with the concepts of chi.
However I have the problem externalizing the concepts. Chi-transfer/chi-visualization/aura reading.
Not that there is no effect. Just can't associate it with the pure (and I use the term loosely) meta-physical aspect.
Chi-transfer and along the same boil down to a mind over matter thing. I believe you are transferring positive energy into me, it is a relaxing thought hence I relax.
Aura reading is a combination of reading physical tells and demeanor.
Ok realize its really late. and i'm starting to babble.
So I would say i'm more of a disenfranchised squib? Knowledge of fundamentals, but inability to produce. Or more specifically inability to produce full scale effects. (since squibs supposidly can eventually learn some magic i.e. the correspondance course)
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Why?
engorgment charm.
Just like the two ton tongue treats or whatever.
Just lower.
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...And, for the purposes of this entry, I was mostly thinking about my friends who are not necessarily my LJ friends list, though there is a certain degree of overlap.
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