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Stuck. It was indeed stuck. The sticky white substance was solidified and trapped in the pipe. My skin tone has changed slowly from brown to gray, from gray to black. The cause? Air was not able to circulate in my whole body because of the coagulated mass of milk in my throat. For this reason, my parents had to hasten in getting me to the hospital. Good thing I was brought there on time. I was saved through the help of the hands of the doctor.
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Stuck. It was indeed stuck. The sticky white substance was solidified and trapped in the pipe. My skin tone has changed slowly from brown to gray, from gray to black. The cause? Air was not able to circulate in my whole body because of the coagulated mass of milk in my throat. For this reason, my parents had to hasten in getting me to the hospital. Good thing I was brought there on time. I was saved through the help of the hands of the doctor.
Living this second life of mine, for me, is a miracle. This incident that happened to me when I was five months old was something out of my control. It was something that has been decided not by me but by God. And I thank Him for giving me another chance to live.
This is just one of the several miracles that I have gone through. And these miracles have aided and still continue to aid me in surviving the circumstances that I face; no matter how trivial or crucial they are.
With this, I can say that miracles are really a lot of help to us human beings. As a result, people keep on looking for them, especially in times when this is the only hope that they have in order to endure their tribulation.
However, miracles are not only treated as blessings that happen all of a sudden.People sometimes consider them as a tool for escaping ordeals. Instead of dealing with the problems on their own, they just wish and hope that there would be some kind of divine intervention that will drive their hardships away. They do not exert enough effort in searching for the root of the problems and looking for their solutions. They think of miracles as things that can be acquired easily for convenience.
But, for me, this is a wrong assumption and notion. First of all, miracles happen in a blink of an eye. They cannot be manipulated. They just occur arbitrarily. Next, individuals must not always expect miracles to happen every single second. Miracles will not be called miracles if they actually exist ordinarily. Thus, people should not rely on such. They must still make their own path so that their lives will continue to move whether a miracle happens or not.
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We are enamored by what we cannot explain.
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We are enamored by what we cannot explain.
When a magic trick is performed in front of us, wouldn't we first ask, "How did that happen?" We can see that people are also enamored by paranormal instances. This is why there are "ghost stories" that are told, and as well as the recent types of creepypasta circulating around the internet.
These are deviations from reality. It is natural for humans to seek what they don't have. We can observe this when we see how dark-skinned people use whitening products while fair-skinned people want to have a tan in the beach. Thus, it is natural for humans to seek these unexplainable phenomena to escape from the repetitive cycle of reality.
We submerge ourselves in this magical culture as a means to make ourselves feel better from reality. This is probably why JK Rowling made Harry Potter's interaction with his family as such. Rowling twisted Harry's world to the point that it seems so sad and dull, and by emphasizing this, Rowling also made the magical world an escape to Harry's "real" world.
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I don't think most of us are purely rational. As one example, many of us can emotionally irrational - I think that's called love - and overlook even the biggest faults in people. While rationality belongs to human beings, its opposite does, too. I think the love of magic is a part of human nature.
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What JK Rowling did was make magic seem possible.
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What JK Rowling did was make magic seem possible.
Rational society? In my lifetime alone I have seen the impossible become the norm. Science is magic, sooner or later almost everything becomes possible. Scientist are working on teleporting things, and they have technology to replicate tools.
I am a magician, sort of, I'm a clown who does some illusions. That sort of magic has nothing to do with being rational, and has everything to do with being entertained. When I do magic, its a matter of telling a joke in a surprising way.
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Reality isn't always clear to the mind. The fragile psyche doesn't always want to accept the fear of a colder and more dissonant reality.
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Reality isn't always clear to the mind. The fragile psyche doesn't always want to accept the fear of a colder and more dissonant reality.
Some people would rather avoid truth and fill the emptiness and disparity they feel with something that makes them feel less challenged or more comfortable. Often times when the mind experiences fear- it will create its own reality to avoid accepting the one that's real- creating a delusion.
Some miracles are real- I mean think of the miracle of birth, but that can be logically explained. Once the mind accepts reality as it is then the unexplained becomes visibly and mentally easier to accept and decipher.
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Same reason we make and love iPhones and any other tech because we are designed to progress and evolve, the idea of magic is just a progression so advanced we lack the ability to understand it.
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Same reason we make and love iPhones and any other tech because we are designed to progress and evolve, the idea of magic is just a progression so advanced we lack the ability to understand it.
(though the Harry potter magic is wildly inconsistent, sometime they all seem like gods and other time they are useless, but that is a writing issue)
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"If you think about the Harry Potter craze and what it did to affect the young readers, many can attribute it to the mystical concept that JK Rowling provided."
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"If you think about the Harry Potter craze and what it did to affect the young readers, many can attribute it to the mystical concept that JK Rowling provided."
Huh?
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Magic to me is somewhat erotic, it mesmorizes me. intrigues me, and leaves me with a, I want to see more, feeling. It is peaceful to me, and gets me thinking, hmmm, and I like it when my thoughts are challenged and entertained.
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Magic to me is somewhat erotic, it mesmorizes me. intrigues me, and leaves me with a, I want to see more, feeling. It is peaceful to me, and gets me thinking, hmmm, and I like it when my thoughts are challenged and entertained.
I have seen live shows with magic that goes beyond magic. Clever, passionate, realistically unrealistic, powerful, convincing, and there comes a time when I just don't care how they did that, I just sit back and enjoy.
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Because people don't know how to create their own life and happiness so they turn to Hollywood.
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Rationalism, and materialism can't explain everything... You know what a magical miracle is? The fact that you are aware.
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I guess that leads to the real question - is magic real? According to a quick Google search, magic (as a noun) is defined as "the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces". Yes, we live in what we'd like to call a "rational" society - which I highly doubt, what with war & the Kardashians & a million religions all claiming to be "the one" - but "society" is just a system of interaction that has evolved to facilitate human interaction. If you but do a simple mind exercise of making yourself smaller and smaller and smaller - imagining you can perceive the cells that make you up and then the dance of DNA below that, and below that the activity of atoms, and below that - well, what is below that? You get into quantum mechanics and all sorts of things that are inherently NOT RATIONAL. These things are influenced just by the presence of an observer. Yes, we influence events just by being aware! Magic?!?.. My point is - a huge mystery underlies everything we know, at the most fundamental level. I don't necessarily call that magic, but it is DEEPLY mysterious.
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I guess that leads to the real question - is magic real? According to a quick Google search, magic (as a noun) is defined as "the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces". Yes, we live in what we'd like to call a "rational" society - which I highly doubt, what with war & the Kardashians & a million religions all claiming to be "the one" - but "society" is just a system of interaction that has evolved to facilitate human interaction. If you but do a simple mind exercise of making yourself smaller and smaller and smaller - imagining you can perceive the cells that make you up and then the dance of DNA below that, and below that the activity of atoms, and below that - well, what is below that? You get into quantum mechanics and all sorts of things that are inherently NOT RATIONAL. These things are influenced just by the presence of an observer. Yes, we influence events just by being aware! Magic?!?.. My point is - a huge mystery underlies everything we know, at the most fundamental level. I don't necessarily call that magic, but it is DEEPLY mysterious.
I think when popular culture hints at this mystery - even in ways like Harry Potter and Houdini, there is some slight sense of recognition and awe that not everything is known, no matter how far our ego goes to tell us otherwise.
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Probably because they lift us out of subservience to "the rational" -- even if just for a moment or a movie?
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Probably because they lift us out of subservience to "the rational" -- even if just for a moment or a movie?
They can get us, for a time, exercising our imaginations and wondering if perhaps there WAS something beyond the construct of Human rationality. Even if later proven to be fake or explainable by "rational" thought.
They bring us the gift of looking to see if there might be something beyond the rules and regulations and equations and rationalizations.
If something touches us to the depths even beyond these shallow things . . . do we not still say, "Wow! That was magic!".
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I think the bigger question is "why do people love epic stories that always correlate to the bible" and then say "oh I hate the bible"?
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There is a difference between magic and parlor tricks.
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There is a difference between magic and parlor tricks.
I believe Alan Moore has put it in the most interesting of ways. At least to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOw-oOiNvIY
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uhhh because magic is cool? i don't necessarily side with the whole "work of G-d" miracle shenanigans, but creative and imaginative things are just cool. Sometimes it's good to think about the impossible being possible. good magicians are as fascinating as any other superbly talented person. would watching joshua bell play a concerto be any less entertaining than a great magician? well.. maybe if you're not a dork like me..
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Oh, many reasons!
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