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> Do You Believe In Magic?, Do u belive in magic =?
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post Aug 17 2008, 01:10 AM
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Arthur C. Clarke long ago said what should have been the final word on this subject. Wikipedia presents it as follows
The .. three "laws" of prediction:
  1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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I speak as a retired member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. cool.gif
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post Aug 18 2008, 05:27 PM
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I am very much a realist and do not believe in such things. It's just an old word that was used to explain things which couldn't be explained. Today, we have science to explain such things wink.gif

I do enjoy Derren Brown and his style of entertaining. He deals more in human psychology and uses that in his programs. He's worth a look up on youtube. The thing I like most about him is that he explains what he does after the experiment. If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's a smug magician!
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post Aug 18 2008, 09:37 PM
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I don't believe in the word magic. That is is because when I think about the the word magic I think of the unexlainable. However, science proves there is a cause to everything that happens, so there is no void, or truly unexplainable situation. As long as you look deep enough into any instance you will find a scientifc reason for its happeing.
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