Text: Lessons

[tis_disapproval]

Different paths, different worlds... From what I read in the library, there exist any number of such examples gathered here, upon this voyage. And until given student to guide, I can do little more but refine my education while aboard ship.

But if there is one thing which puzzles me in the literature I find of other times and places, it is this: Why, for some of you, is the subject of magic treated with such disbelief?

'Tis a tool like any other... Can be felt, used, developed and controlled. Is it mere ignorance which prevents some from learning of it? Or perhaps something deeper?

After all, where so many desire power, it seems strange, indeed, not to harness the arcane.

Comments

[creatingalegacy]

It flat-out doesn't exist in my world.

[tis_disapproval]

And how was this conclusion formed?

[creatingalegacy]

It was proven a million times over. "Magic" back home consists of party entertainment using sleight of hand.

Don't be so fucking egotistical as to think that the laws of your world govern everyone else's as well.

[tis_disapproval]

I cannot understand how something can be alive without it.

Do not think me naive in the way of common tricksters... I have met my share and find great amusement in their humiliation. But to find oneself surrounded only by mud does not disprove water.

[creatingalegacy]

It's basic biology. Go to the library and read up on it, for fuck's sake. Nothing in my world uses magic to live. Nothing uses magic to function there. Why the fuck do you think technology came to be?

[tis_disapproval]

I am no religionist. But nor am I ignorant as to the natural world. I merely see the force of life, itself, for the energy it is. This is why it can be controlled, replaced or returned.

Nevertheless, I appreciate your situation is much as it is mine when confronted with superstition. Until another demonstrates these things in your world, then you have no reason to believe them.

[aka_heisenberg]

Magic? Until I came onto this ship I thought magic was make believe. We told kids stories about it, but no one experienced it.

Honestly, if we had magic in my world, I would have mastered it. Instead, I spent my time learning about chemistry, a magic of it's own I doubt your world knows much about.

[tis_disapproval]

It is not an unrelated profession...

[aka_heisenberg]

To the naive maybe. What is magic really, but one thing reacting to another invisible and causing a shocking reaction? Chemistry and magic are pretty close, least I think so.

[tis_disapproval]

Finally someone who understands these very basic principles! Not that there isn't a great deal more to it, but so many fail to realise even this subtle relationship.

[curiositydies]

I am unsure. In my own world, magic is commonplace. But people are usually the same everywhere; willfully ignorant, blinding themselves to what they do not understand.

Of course, it may be simply that magic is not usable for those of different worlds. There is no way for them to find it, if it exists there.

[ He's been doing lots of reading. It's good. ]

[tis_disapproval]

In what way is it not usable? Is fire unusable? Is air or water?

Things do not divest themselves of their natural properties.

[youwillgotohell]

People don't believe in magic's existence, here? How can they possibly explain where we are?

[tis_disapproval]

I really cannot think... 'Twould be surprising, but the human capacity for wilful ignorance knows no bounds.

[youwillgotohell]

Would that wasn't so true, but some prefer their ignorance.

[tis_disapproval]

And more fool them... But this only begs the question, why has someone not taken advantage of this?

Seems the most unlikeliest of things, for an entire world to possess no practitioners of the arcane.

[youwillgotohell]

Advantage of their ignorance? I can't believe no one has.

My [Father AUGH PRETENDING right] guardian would no doubt be much happier there.

[tis_disapproval]

[All the suspicion...]

Why?

[youwillgotohell]

He's fought to eradicate the magic, and the Old Religion, for years.

[tis_disapproval]

Religion, old or new, I have no care for... But one cannot annihilate a force. This is the very height of arrogance!

[youwillgotohell]

In that we are agreed. [She'll just hope Merlin doesn't see this :v]