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Deuteronomy 31:8 (NIV) -
The LORD Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
spoilers if you haven’t gotten to like s2 ep 9 or something in saiki k
why does no one talk about the foreshadowing from kuusuke. like in that one scene where he transformed a whole small ass village of elderly people into fkn CYBORGS just to ‘eliminate the target: kusuo saiki’ he was thinking about a cat tank.
THE SAME TANK HE USED TO TRY AND ‘ELIMINATE’ SAIKI HIMSELF IN THE END OF THE SEASON???3£:?2&;)29;)29()
foreshadowing goes crazy. i still don’t get why it’s a cat tank of all things (or animals) but oh well
"Do you hear, you who so rashly accuse the art of magic? It is an art acceptable to the immortal gods, full of all knowledge of worship and of prayer, full of piety and wisdom in things divine, full of honour and glory since the day when Zoroaster and Oromazes established it, high-priestess of the powers of heaven. Nay, it is one of the first elements of princely instruction, nor do they lightly admit any chance person to be a magician, any more than they would admit him to be a king. Plato -- if I may quote him again -- in another passage dealing with a certain Zalmoxis, a Thracian and also a master of this art has written that magical charms are merely beautiful words. If that is so, why should I be forbidden to learn the fair words of Zalmoxis or the priestly lore. of Zoroaster?"
~Apuleius, Apologia
"Is Witchcraft/Magic real?" Sure! Or no. Who cares? Ask more interesting questions.
"I don't think magic is real." Okay cool! I'm not talking about magic then. I'm talking about philosophy, or poetry, or history.
"I think magic is real." Awesome! Let's talk about ritual, and spells, and grimoires.
It's all the same stuff.
If the question you're trying to ask is "can ritual affect the physical world" that's a great question, I think so! Let's talk about it.
If the question you're trying to ask is "can a person shoot fireballs out of their eyes" the answer is probably not.
But if you ask "is magic real" you sound like the accusers of Apulleius, and their insistence on fish:
"You would have made out a far more plausible case by pretending that I made use of such things instead of fish, if only you had possessed the slightest erudition. For the belief in the use of these things is so widespread that you might have been believed. But of what use are fish save to be cooked and eaten at meals? In magic they seem to me to be absolutely useless."
~Apulleius
You do not know what I do. You do not know what I am. You do not know what you're asking me.
Oof… I’m going though a bit of a shift here. Moving from Twitter (yucky) to here, at least in part, I’m also on Bluesky too https://bsky.app/profile/kristirobo.bsky.social