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3rd January 2013, 06:37 AM | #1 |
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Ask A Wizard... 9 rules of wizardry...
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3rd January 2013, 07:47 AM | #2 |
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This guy who tells us we know nothing has written his BS on a magical device I guess, can't use a computer, nah.
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3rd January 2013, 10:20 AM | #3 |
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According to John Constantine there's one true secret of magic......
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3rd January 2013, 10:31 AM | #4 |
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1st rule of Wizardry : ALWAYS carry a few latumofis potions with you if you're going down below level 4.
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3rd January 2013, 10:33 AM | #5 |
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To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. Woo's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by aliens. |
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3rd January 2013, 04:24 PM | #6 |
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3rd January 2013, 04:42 PM | #7 |
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Can any philosophers here tell us when we get to do magic? |
3rd January 2013, 05:35 PM | #8 |
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I’m no philosopher but I’ll give it a go:
Words and language have POWER. A subtle change in emphasis or the wording of a sentence can dramatically alter its meaning and impact. More than simply referring to things, through the use of words we are not only able capture, construct, and reconstruct events but to spread such events across great distances and well beyond the here and now. Words conjure images and can affect the manner in which we understand and engage with the world around us. To be able to affect one’s own world or that of another through the use of words alone is magical, I guess, but it is something other than “courage” which separates the wizard from the philosopher… |
3rd January 2013, 05:57 PM | #9 |
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I think somebody's been reading too many Harry Potter books.
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3rd January 2013, 05:58 PM | #10 |
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3rd January 2013, 07:03 PM | #11 |
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Sufficiently lengthy gibberish is indistinguishable from magic*
*may not apply if critical thinking is applied |
3rd January 2013, 07:11 PM | #12 |
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3rd January 2013, 08:44 PM | #13 |
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At your Ph.D. confirmation you have to levitate a copy of Parfit's Reasons and Persons. (It used to be Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics before the spiritual warfare and subsequent spiritual genocide of the mid-eighties left most of the senior Philosophy faculty without spirits, although they were of course seemingly completely unharmed to the eyes of knowlessmen).
Normally I wouldn't reveal this, of course, but I've built up a high wall of spiritual sandbags around my spiritual bunker, and thanks to cost-cutting in the tertiary sector in recent years I'm reasonably sure the local universities can't afford enough spiritual napalm to get me. In any case, if you people reading this post tried to explain the truth about spiritual warfare and The Others to the general public you'd just get laughed at for being a loony or locked up and medicated for being schizophrenic. We philosophers really do have all the bases covered. |
3rd January 2013, 08:53 PM | #14 |
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Magic is easy.
All you have to do is control the effects by controlling the causes. |
3rd January 2013, 09:02 PM | #15 |
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3rd January 2013, 10:24 PM | #16 |
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4th January 2013, 04:05 AM | #17 |
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I found the claim that the article provided insight into an often misunderstood mindset to be false. The lunacy of the article pretty much matches my understanding of the mindset of people who believe in magic.
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4th January 2013, 04:11 AM | #18 |
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4th January 2013, 01:32 PM | #19 |
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4th January 2013, 01:34 PM | #20 |
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Oh, cripey.
1. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. 2. Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear to be magic to those who don't understand it. What else do you need? |
4th January 2013, 02:50 PM | #21 |
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4th January 2013, 04:36 PM | #22 |
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5th January 2013, 09:21 AM | #23 |
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Pfah. Real Wizards are appointed by the government, are acknowledged as living works of art, dematerialise on census days, perform successful rain dances, descend from the mountains bearing tablets inscribed with their web address, rescue dogs, cast spells that ensure victory in the rugby, discomfit Ray Comfort and earn the Queen's Service Medal.
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5th January 2013, 09:31 AM | #24 |
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