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Possibly?
I made a dumb joke about guns not being common in the UK (to handle a break out of a flock of now multiplying chickens) ... some days ago.
More recently I confronted a very aggressive person insisting that everyone who does not believe in magic does so because they tautalogically (sp?) just define it as impossible... but then they themselves refuse to actually define what they mean by magic, provided ahistorical descriptions of magic and religious persecution, and meandered from different contextual definitions of magic (wonder and whimsy worldview vs real effectual practices vs only effectual in practitioners minds).
But the downvotes on this started days after the first thing and I think 4 to 6 hours after the second thing?
I dunno. My money would be on the magical person, as I have found that tumblr-brained people have a tendency toward delysional magic thinking, and manipulation by both twisting words by flipping and flopping between their different definitions, as well as having multiple alt accounts and/or a small number of highly devoted followers.
But I don't know.
I suppose I apologize to the Nordic gods for however I brought misfortune upon their realm.
Yeah I looked at your comments and saw that thread, where the person was claiming that computers functioned by spirits being summoned from rocks and other nonsense.
The sheer ridiculousness of it forced me to hop in and take a look, and I sure did get a good laugh out of that. Had to leave my two cents and go. I'd be more inclined to believe it's that weirdo too.
I mean, for fucks sake, the state is magic? Money is magic? The placebo effect is magic?
This person* probably thinks the wind is magic.
Edit: also you were close! Tautologically, one 'o' off.
Edit 2: if they respond to you again, hit em with the God of the gaps fallacy.
Edit 3: * I editted this because I've spoken to this person a little more. I don't think they're dumb, I think they just have a very unique perspective.
I think I am done with that person.
They are a self admitted antirealist solipsist.
Reality is not a valid concept for them.
Not jokingly, as an insult, but literally.
To this person I suppose that we are all some kind of demonic entities of inner self doubt manifesting to challenge them in their grand, all encompassing existence.