+704 Magic is all about how you interpret it. Sure we don't have flying cars, or magic wands, but we do have technology that allows us to talk to someone thousands of miles away, doors that open for us, and access to all sorts of information at the touch of the button. It's just a matter of perspective, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I view it as an awesome card game

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yu-Gi-Oh! isn't all that awesome.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

MAGIC THE GATHERING -_-

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Is that a tuner monster?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the most awesome of card games.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

An awesome card game? Eh. Here's the def: Magic Noun: The power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces. Technology isn't any form of magic because it's understandable; it's not a matter of perspective at all. Disagree with OP.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually If you took our technology back in time to say, the 1860s most would assume its magic, note the APPARENTLY in the definition. It appears to be supernatural or mysterious, usually it just means forces that can't be comprehended

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha, you'd have to go a bit farther back in time bro. 1860s is post enlightenment, and still very close to the invention of the lightbulb. Now, if you went back to the Salem Witch trials...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

helicopters and cloning, what demon magic is that!?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/84535

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A man floating in an ancient tribe can be seen as normal to them, but if we come in with a simple watch, they might think its magic. vis-versa to us. We might think the floating man is magic, and the watch is normal to us. So it is all perspective.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A man... floating?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or some form of witchcraft. If that works better for you

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah but that doesn't happen because magic doesn't exist. Uneducated people could explain things away by saying magic, but you'd never see a group of scientists or something decide that the default for something they didn't understand was "magic".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't be an asshole, there are things that scientists can't explain, sure they don't call it magic, but it's as good as saying it's magic, because it doesn't do anyone any good. So it might as well be called magic.... Anyway, if someone says it's magic at least they're admitting that they don't know, which I see as a good thing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or they could just admit they don't know. That's better than trying to come up with some covering reason and then ignoring the problem.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I disagree with your reasoning, admitting that you don't know the answer and saying that the answer is magic are two different things. If you admit that you don't know what something is you can actively work towards finding the actual answer. It's the complete opposite of sweeping it under the rug by calling it magic. What makes me an asshole for pointing that out?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Slow down there, I'm still trying to find out how they get the rabbit out of that hat...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

From a magician, it's easier than you might think ;)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Porn is some of the greatest magic ever.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"There is no such thing as miracles or the supernatural... only cutting-edge technology"- Revolver Ocelot

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"There is no such thing as magic. Or science. There is only your cat." - Favvkes

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"I'm not sure if I've got one of those or not." -Schrödinger

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Just keep telling yourself that wary

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think Favvkes ever said that, actually.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And sometimes, magic is FORCED PERSPECTIVE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfDYt-E9Kc //OOOOOOOH!!//

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Since this is my own POTD i feel like i should get auto-loves on any comment i make

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'll go ahead and rate this comment down, then.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Perhaps for other reasons than you hoped...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i am going to cut to the chase and say that i want a god damn teleporter, and not another fucking i-phone compass.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WHY IS THIS POTD?!?!?!?!?! http://ctrlv.in/84047

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But unfortunately, we'll never get to magic wands or flying cars at the rate we're going. At least in the USA. Home of the stupid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And the greedy. I'm dying to punch every greedy, corrupt politician square in the face. And a few more punches for anyone who thinks doubling the interest rates on student loans is ok.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, magic is when the implement defies logic and constants in the known universe. And an illusion is when it just seems to. A telephone wouldn't even be magic in the 13th century. Some people might think it was, because belief in magic was commonplace back then, but a scientist would know that there is just mechanics going on there that they don't yet understand.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes, but that was the thirteenth century. And if magic is real, then what is an actual example of magic. A potion of immortality, a spell? Perhaps it is something different, something that defies what we expect it to be. Maybe we've already made it. We have hover trains, why not?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I remember when this was on the just-in page on chat. Those were the days.

by Anonymous 12 years ago