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.

ahhh, i would differ on what 'nihilism' is. many MANY people say it is the denial of the reality of anything & everything. I can even find that in some dictionaries. But, nihilism is a philosophical field which has sat in the church's crosshairs almost as despised as satanism, and this has affected even supposedly officious definitions to a degree.

Nihilism is a denial of the 'provability of anything & everything'. Not a denial of it's existence. not an endorsement of it's existence. just a logically sound argument about the utter uncertainty of perception & world view & collective reality. If nihilism denied the existence of everything, totally, then nihilism wouldn't exist either, right? Which would be like saying "I don't think therefore I am not" which has a major paradoxical flaw. it would be a self defeating silliness. ideally nihilism is about talking about reality in hypothetical terms, rather than in "oh i know XYZ to be true". I mean, nihilists do eat, and such. even though the food *may* not exist (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

anyway, your approach struck me as using a nihilist style of logic to it. which is more a sort of "do you REALLY absolutely know that?" and ultimately you can never say yes to that sort of question, not if you're brutally and totally honest. So i think of it as sort of 'the nihilism cheat' in debate. but it cuts both ways, as you can't really know that someone's wrong just because they can't really know they're right. hehe.

I think it's a really healthy thing to ask oneself though, when forming ideas about how reality works, and such. keep that element of 'maybe' alive, so you don't get stuck in a paradigmatic trap (like my former religion, oy)

As of now, my paradigm does think that as individuals, its a bit much to claim that our idea of better is okay.

i don't disagree with that at all (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
but, just speculating with my own ideas rather than xeno's, do we *have* to be just finite individuals? or can we be more?
and if we were more... would we then actually have any desire to effect change?