Nopers - I’m claiming that we-who-notice-that-magic-has-meant-more-than-stage-magic-for-a-hell-of-a-lot-longer-than-a-century are well within our rights for thinking that persons who use the redundant affectation ‘magick’ are, as a general rule, a load of twits - regardless of how long twits have existed. I did not, however, say that the word “magick” *did not mean * “magic-not-in-the-sense-of-stage-magic”. Nor did I say that we should pass constitutional amendments to stop them from using the word.
FYI, the OED places magick with a “k” much earlier than Crowley. Crowley did popularize it. In most cases I can find it has an “e” on the end, so I guess if you want to be technical…he probably still didn’t invent it.
shrugs Millions of people use it that way it’s an accepted usage. You can get all red in the face about the Woo if you want, as is your right and likely your pleasure, but that won’t change the fact that it’s a stable and accepted usage and has been for as long as many of the conventions we use in English that were not really in place until the Victorian era.
Wait… a hot Wiccan? Is that not an oxymoron? I would tend to start listening to what she has to say lest you be whisked away to the cornfield. Based on her power of illusion it is obvious that her MagiQ is strong. <D&R>
Unless of course you mean “hot” as in “on fire” because I have heard of that.
I’m going to start using the term, “Majique” until it pisses people off so much that they start arguing that Magick is an acceptable spelling but not Majique.
Nah, I was more trying to make a joke than annoyed/angry. I feel no need to mock you until you jump all over my shit, then - BAM! I’ll unleash all my Wiccan insults at once!
Hey, whatever gets the hot redhead into bed right?
I once convinced a girl that if she didn’t sleep with me I would fade from existance. She saw me fading even. She even loved when I told that story at parties.
Since it got serious, there’s a subtle but important difference.
There are many religions I don’t think are true but accept are valid. That is, they are both internally consistent, theoretically could be accurate within a historical frame, and reveal sincere truths about the universe. Buddism, Islam, Judaism after Christ.
Wicca just isn’t so. it was deliberately started not even as a religion, but basically as a silly neopagan rite for kicks. It has the same validity as the Thule society’s nonsense. It’s the difference between something which is rational but wrong and that which fails to even acheive potential validity. I also have trouble with Mormonism and Scientology, or for that matter young-Earth Creationism but that’s for another thread.
Ah well, I tried to date the redheaded one (she was the one I think was playing with it because of her daddy issues). She wouldn’t go out on a date with anyone at all until another suiter tricked her into it. Oh well. Can’t win 'em all.
