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Do you believe in magic?

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Elias encountered a fortune teller or shawafa. Elias felt a quiver in his nerves when the fortune teller claimed that she saw Kanza Malawi in his palms and she read how he feels. This is some kind of Magic. Do you believe in Magic?
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No, I don't believe in magic. I enjoy reading about it, if it is done well.
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I'm religious so I don't believe in magic. I agree that I enjoy reading books and watching shows/movies with magic but I know that it is fictional.
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I believe there is a distinction between enjoying and believing in magic. I love reading about magic, but at the same time, I understand that all this is fictional and not real.
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I'm not sure that I believe in magic per se but I do believe some people have the ability of being extremely perceptive. Intuition can be powerful. And I believe in the spiritual world because I have had experiences, but that might have to do with intuition. Either way, I find such topics quite interesting.
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I don't believe in magic, as much as I want it to be real. I think there's an explanation for everything and can't wrap my head around things appearing out of thin air. I would like it to be real though.
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Yolimari wrote:I'm not sure that I believe in magic per se but I do believe some people have the ability of being extremely perceptive. Intuition can be powerful. And I believe in the spiritual world because I have had experiences, but that might have to do with intuition. Either way, I find such topics quite interesting.
I agree that there are people who are gifted with intuition or premonition. There are also individuals who can heal without the help of science.
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Gravy wrote:
'Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.'

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lol, good one! :text-goodpost:
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Gravy wrote:
'Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.'

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:tiphat: :tiphat:

I believe in energy, the power of imagination :D, the 6th sense and The Secret :D but I don't trust furtune tellers.
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Gravy wrote:
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Nice one :D . Beyond beyond what Science can explain, we call them magic.
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I do believe in magic, but not the kind that happens in fantasy novels. I see magic in little things in life, like how someone who's a stranger today could turn into one of our beloved within a few days or weeks. The way flowers bloom overnight when yesterday it was just a tiny bud; isn't that magical? Yes, there is probably science behind all these, but that doesn't make them feel any less magical, in my opinion.
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Insomniac07 wrote:I do believe in magic, but not the kind that happens in fantasy novels. I see magic in little things in life, like how someone who's a stranger today could turn into one of our beloved within a few days or weeks. The way flowers bloom overnight when yesterday it was just a tiny bud; isn't that magical? Yes, there is probably science behind all these, but that doesn't make them feel any less magical, in my opinion.
Wow! I believe in this. Magic is considered as beyond the natural things that we see, hear, or feel in an ordinary situation. We can treat magic as something positive but not treated as fatalism. Thanks to this comment.
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Insomniac07 wrote:I do believe in magic, but not the kind that happens in fantasy novels. I see magic in little things in life, like how someone who's a stranger today could turn into one of our beloved within a few days or weeks. The way flowers bloom overnight when yesterday it was just a tiny bud; isn't that magical? Yes, there is probably science behind all these, but that doesn't make them feel any less magical, in my opinion.
:text-goodpost: I agree in your kind of magic!
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Dh_ wrote:I don't believe in magic, as much as I want it to be real. I think there's an explanation for everything and can't wrap my head around things appearing out of thin air. I would like it to be real though.
I just consider things which are beyond the explanation of science to be magic. They will remain magic until science can give explanations to them.
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