Tassels

[degringolade]

 

TGIF.  Might even be brave today and head out for some bevvies.  

I think that my current recherché into magic (for lack of a better term) doesn't at all lean toward using what I find to actually effect the world around me.  Nope, far from it, I think that the world has little need for and even less interest in my trying to effect outcome.  What I want out of the deal is simply a heads up on the way that shit is gonna roll.  This is mostly so that I can get out of the way.  

I think that doing stuff with magic leads to just as many bad outcomes as doing things with technology.  I think that one can do worse than remembering Clarke's Three Laws:

These also apply to magic.

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.

or as a quick re-write

1. When a distinguished but elderly magician 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 magic is indistinguishable from technology.