09-19-2015, 01:23 PM | #1 |
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Do you think of magic as a kind of supernatural talent particular to an individual, or some kind of learned art anyone who is educated can have access to?
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09-19-2015, 01:27 PM | #2 |
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I myself prefer a mixture of both, because that's the most realistic. It's like any other discipline really. You can teach someone how to play soccer but not everyone is going to be a world famous player. Experience can do wonderful things but genetics are still important and it wouldn't surprise me if someone's genetics gave them a certain magic that is just incomprehensible to the world.
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09-20-2015, 12:21 PM | #3 |
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Magic is just an idea of mystery, not so much a thing in and of itself. It's simply power that is not understood. Wheher it's techchnology, trickery, innate ability etc. amd whether it's teachable is kind of irrelevant.
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09-20-2015, 04:01 PM | #4 |
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No one is born with Magic. You have to go into a shop and buy a starter deck or packs. Duh!
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09-20-2015, 04:19 PM | #5 |
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I'm with Emi here. Everyone, or almost everyone, has the capacity for some magic, although some can be much more naturally gifted or challenged with it. Some people have to put in twice the effort to be half as good as some others. Different people carry different gifts.
Of course, "magic" can mean so many different things, too. The line between magic and mundane is not a fixed one. |
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Maybe this means that, somewhere in there, the definition of magic should include a reference to reality. "If it can really be done, then it isn't magic." This precludes us from labeling as "magic" any and all achievements in the future that viewed from today's lens would be seen by us as "magic," e.g. twirling a baton and suddenly spirals of fire twirl out helically towards a target. It isn't "magic" if species in the future can do this in the real world. Speaking of FSN, of course Nasu tries to intelligently write his way around this by claiming, "Well ... once the people of the future are able to do it, then sure, it quits being 'magic'; but until they can do it, it's fair to call it 'magic'." Nasu tries to differentiate magecraft (magic performed by magi which, some day in the future, could theoretically be replicated by an advanced civilization through other means, e.g. technological means) from true magic or sorcery (magical acts which, no matter the time period, should never and will never be possible of being carried out by ordinary men -- because they violate the very rules of reality) and sets up for his play's star players several magi capable of true magic/sorcery who intermingle with a hodgepodge of more ordinary magi who can only perform magecraft. But still ... Nasu's mental gymnastics be damned, personally I feel like if ever humanity can do it -- whether using technology, whether owing to genetic engineering, whatever the case -- then it's no longer "magic." For it to be magic, it has to be something where 99.9% of people's reaction is, "Whoa :o ... that's not possible ...!" Well alright, then. Here we go! Quote:
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09-20-2015, 04:39 PM | #7 |
seems theres a case aclaw
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