cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/887096
I mean anything like cursed or lucky objects, ghosts, etc?
Figured it's the spooky season and I don't know too many people irl to talk to about the supernatural without discovering q-level brainworms.
I'll comment in the thread with my answer.
I get bullied a lot on hexbear.lib for this opinion but yes.
I generally follow a Jungian idea of magic. Are these archetypes just part of the human mind or are they some sort of eternal structure that existed before humanity and will exist long afterward? I think the question is meaningless. Look up at the sky, does Apollo drive the sun across the sky, or is it a product of nuclear fusion sending electromagnetic radiation to the Earth? Science would rightfully say the latter. But is the fact that it can be explained by a careful physical dance of atoms make the sun any less of a god?
It still brings warmth, light, and allows all life to exist on this earth. Does the fact that its not some human intelligence make it any less worthy of worship? Why does reincarnation necessitate an eternal soul? Every idea and experience that makes up me will eventually re-form into a different human, perhaps it already has and I'm just the nth such combination.
There is still just as much magic and god in the world as there was 6000 years ago. People just think that because it's not some conscious human-level intelligence its no longer divine.