What Do You Use Magic For? Options

Magic: the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature

In it's definition magic has endless possibilities....

does it?

For some strange reason. when i am thinking up "Incantation" or "various other techniques" I have trouble thinking up what to do.

"what exactly is the problem i'm facing now? How do i solve it?" are questions i ask,

but magic doesn't seem to come up as an answer often.

and when it does, i use my trusty tarrot deck and i get BAD RESULTS
BAD BAD BAD RESULTS

so the magic i do always ends up being pure white magic since everything else seems it would go bad.

that's pretty limited if you ask me.

The more I seem to learn about and practice magic, the less I seem to apply it other than regular banishings and self development. Often I consider an experiment and ask myself, 'Do I really need to use magic for this?' and more often than not the answer is 'no'. It's a peculiar sensation. A world of limitless possibility; yet I find myself sitting there quite often like a fish in a pool with multiple routes to bigger, better and more fortunate places but concluding the algae right here is just fine.

The magic I seem to use most is not what I would consider magic actually, but divination.

My sentiments exactly!

From a personal perspective, how does an individual have the authority and will to claim an individual is capable of bettering an eternal cycle beyond our own understanding.

What's beyond our understanding? I re-read my post, and I don't quite understand what the context of your question is. Please elaborate.

I'm not sure if traditional taoism delves into the reincarnation/karma basis,

Correct! It doesn't! Because I'm not a traditional Taoist!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

but where is an individual able to define "the human condition" as an element of the past, present, and future, and still objectively act upon it.

Who said it's an element of past, present, and future? My paradigm works from the reverse. Rather than human condition being an element of past, present, and future, I work from the paradigm that past, present, and future are elements of the Human Condition!! Humans exist in time, yes, but we are more than just our past, present and future. The whole idea of (what I learned about Taoism) is that one does not fret about the parts, one is able to handle the whole, while understanding that the details have their parts to play in a synergistic fashion.

Try to meditate on this new spin, and you may be able to understand the rudimentary constituents of my general views. If you wish to detail this further, feel free to PM me.

Is it possible to be a purple thread in a rug and rightfully claim that the entire rug is purple?

I am not claiming that the rug is purple. I am claiming that we are all thread.

This post has been edited by Xenomancer: May 30 2010, 09:39 AM