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  • otto@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlAre white and black magick real or bullshit?
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    7 days ago

    In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.

    “Magic” is just a term ignorant people use to describe something they don’t understand and are too lazy and to figure out. Sometimes, just because they refuse to accept the facts.

    Example: man-made climate change causes record wildfires in LA, and some claim “God did it!”

    Another: cancer patient goes into remission after successful medical treatments. Some believe “God did it!”