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.

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.

What I'm really interested in is that in your former post, you worded yourself in a way that seemed to connote that as an individual, you (or an individual, really) is capable of bettering the condition. Given that we are experiencing this condition on a subjective level, how can an individual genuinely perceive what can better the human condition if we ourselves are incapable of truly and wholly grasping the full nature of the human condition? What makes your perspective of the human condition rightfully better than another in such a way that you can act out, and perhaps even override the idea of another's idea of improvement?

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.

I concede and agree with your point, but talking about the non-linear nature of time belongs in a completely different thread. That aside, the point of that sentence is that who are we as individuals to claim to understand any of it? To us, our subjective present is all that exists, and past and future are fluid aspects of that, but moreover that makes us even more of a disadvantageous position to act. By only being able to see through the personal lens, then as individuals we are incapable of seeing what's best called the 'objective world' in any real way to make utilitarian (since we are trying to better the world) decisions.

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

But, who are you to say that you are capable of understanding the rest of this alleged tapestry? And in such a way, who is an individual to have the audacity to claim anything we know nothing about?