18th April 2005, 2:17 PM
Look ABF, I don't care at this point. Now that I know those "laws" are just the ramblings of some sci-fi author I really don't care. There's no point debating something that has no proof. Some cultures might, some might not. And besides, if it's not 100% accurate, it can't be a law.
But anyway, Weltall moved on and so will I.
Magic, I really don't think it NEEDS any more explanation than it is magic. It works by using MP. Some authors like going into fully detailed explanations for how it works, but I really do NOT want ALL stories with magic to have explanations. It's just not magic unless it's simply magic :D. In FF6's case, magic is just a magical force with no real explanation. What is it? Well, as far as I can tell, "true magic" in most people's minds is being able to literally break the laws of physics. Not just find out a new way the laws of physics work, but have an established method by which the universe works, and totally contradict it at random in a way that can't be explained due to the fact that most of the time the universe can't possibly behave like that. For example, casting a cure spell that causes flowers to randomly sprout from the ground which somehow cures you, even though actually GROWING flowers around you would produce no beneficial effect, ever. Anyway, from what I can tell magic is a secondary set of laws that preempts the normal physical universe's laws, and also contradicts them.
Oh yeah, I really wish Star Wars didn't try to scientifically explain the force. Stupid medichlorines or whatever... Leave it unexplained! It's not magic if it's explained!
And um, if Robert's universe never calls it magic and it is fully explained by scientific law, then um, how exactly is that magic at all? No thanks, leave that to those stories, but not ALL of them should be like that if you ask me.
So, when the gods and Kefka were destroyed, magic can and should be gone forever, and physically impossible for any mortal to ever bring back. Perhaps someone could be obsessed with bringing it back and go about something else. It would be "pseudomagic" or something, but it would be understood by all that it wasn't REAL magic, just something that has similar effects, I dunno...
But anyway, Weltall moved on and so will I.
Magic, I really don't think it NEEDS any more explanation than it is magic. It works by using MP. Some authors like going into fully detailed explanations for how it works, but I really do NOT want ALL stories with magic to have explanations. It's just not magic unless it's simply magic :D. In FF6's case, magic is just a magical force with no real explanation. What is it? Well, as far as I can tell, "true magic" in most people's minds is being able to literally break the laws of physics. Not just find out a new way the laws of physics work, but have an established method by which the universe works, and totally contradict it at random in a way that can't be explained due to the fact that most of the time the universe can't possibly behave like that. For example, casting a cure spell that causes flowers to randomly sprout from the ground which somehow cures you, even though actually GROWING flowers around you would produce no beneficial effect, ever. Anyway, from what I can tell magic is a secondary set of laws that preempts the normal physical universe's laws, and also contradicts them.
Oh yeah, I really wish Star Wars didn't try to scientifically explain the force. Stupid medichlorines or whatever... Leave it unexplained! It's not magic if it's explained!
And um, if Robert's universe never calls it magic and it is fully explained by scientific law, then um, how exactly is that magic at all? No thanks, leave that to those stories, but not ALL of them should be like that if you ask me.
So, when the gods and Kefka were destroyed, magic can and should be gone forever, and physically impossible for any mortal to ever bring back. Perhaps someone could be obsessed with bringing it back and go about something else. It would be "pseudomagic" or something, but it would be understood by all that it wasn't REAL magic, just something that has similar effects, I dunno...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)