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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-08-19 06:30 pm

[ SECRET POST #4609 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4609 ⌋

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Re: Do You Believe in Magic?

(Anonymous) 2019-08-20 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
NAYRT, but much as I sometimes wish that magic/the supernatural/etc existed, I can’t just decide to believe in it because I wish it were true. But I honestly can’t make a connection between “doesn’t believe in magic/religion/etc” and “the only thing to life was to eat, breathe, sleep, and reproduce.”

Just because I don’t believe in (or understand how other people believe in, tbh) magic/religion, doesn’t mean I hold no beliefs or values about life in general or humanity specifically, or that I’m miserable because I believe that if humans want fo be more than machines for turning food into shit and making more humans, it’s up to us to make our lives mean more than that.

Helping other people and living things, treating them with kindness and compassion, taking good care of the environment, making beautiful and interesting things/stories, and leaving the world a better place than if we’d never existed seem like awesome reasons to exist to me, without needing religion or magic to explain them.

And belief in and stories of religion and magic are some of the awesome things people make and do, but not believing in those stories doesn’t make me miserable. I don’t think that belief or lack of belief in the supernatural is necessarily a logic thing. I didn’t arrive at my non-belief by a process of reasoned debate with myself or others. I’ve envied others their sincere belief in magic and/or religion, but I don’t think I’m, idk, better or more logical, or more or less inclined to misery, than people with those beliefs.

If other people use their beliefs, in religion or magic or the lack thereof, as a bludgeon to hurt people that don’t share them, or make the world suck more in general, that’s not cool. But assholes and miserable people can’t all lay claim to one specific set of beliefs, in magic, religion, logic, or whatever else.