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The Silver-shod Muse · 06-21-2002, 08:55 PM

I liked what burrahobbit had to say: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I don't know if there is any such thing as magic, but I am inclined to disbelieve that there is. The most incomprehensible force is merely a science that man has not yet understood.

Some people like to think of God as an invisible, magic genie that wills things to happen. Who's to say that God is not the highest form of science, the true science of life, the universe, and everything that man has not even begun to delve into? I don't know if this is what Tolkien felt, but that is the impression that his Elves leave on my mind.

As Galadriel said of her mirror, "...this is what your folk would call magic, I believe...", so we might say, if we could, to the common man of centuries ago, and so too might the man of centuries to come say to us.

06-21-2002, 08:55 PM	#1
The Silver-shod Muse Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The shoulder of a poet, TX Posts: 388	I liked what burrahobbit had to say: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I don't know if there is any such thing as magic, but I am inclined to disbelieve that there is. The most incomprehensible force is merely a science that man has not yet understood. Some people like to think of God as an invisible, magic genie that wills things to happen. Who's to say that God is not the highest form of science, the true science of life, the universe, and everything that man has not even begun to delve into? I don't know if this is what Tolkien felt, but that is the impression that his Elves leave on my mind. As Galadriel said of her mirror, "...this is what your folk would call magic, I believe...", so we might say, if we could, to the common man of centuries ago, and so too might the man of centuries to come say to us. __________________ "'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis

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