Now THAT’S disordered.
People like the Penn and Teller pair wouldn’t exist if your belief was all it took to prove things true. Sadly for you, magic isn’t some force of will mumbo-jumbo or otherwise I’d be the first in line to exploit it and have it enhanced.
If you’re going to give me another exorcist story, best save your time. You call possesion and mentally cracked ritualism ‘magic’? The OP described using magic via force of will, the sheer power of thought. As some people have said, this is closer to the whole Law of Attraction fad and at best, all it teaches you is to look more on the bright side of things.
The Church also teaches us that not even prayer is substitute for getting off our lazy behinds and relying on the attributes of God’s image and likeness.
I believe magic can be attained through thoughts, but it’s time to confess your sins and move on.
Hrrrnngggh… thinks hard about conjuring fire in one hand and ice in the other Hm, nothing.
Now try masturbating vigorously while focusing on the penis. Keep it up and see what happens.Hrrrnngggh… thinks hard about conjuring fire in one hand and ice in the other Hm, nothing.
Just to say you tried but failed does not prove it can’t be done. If you tried to fly to the moon but failed, does that prove the moon landings never occurred?
It depends how you define power of thought. Your thoughts alone can’t do much but if you say they do nothing at all ever, then you are also saying prayer is useless.
Depends what you mean by summon. Just taking an unnatural interest in demons can be enough under conditions.
Don’t tell me you can’t see the difference between doing work and messing with demons.
I bet you have confessed those sins already and they are forgotten & forgiven. So please perish those thoughts.
We’re talking magic, not sex (which apparently seems to be a favorite subject of yours here).
Are you suggesting that man has the capacity to manipulate the physical world with thought? If so, we either lack the technology or you need to review your highschool science.
Thoughts can drive actions and perhaps feed certain behaviors but without anything like the latter, thoughts alone are useless. Just because I think of shooting a beam of lightning doesn’t mean I will. You’re complicating something that’s simple enough for a twelve-year-old to understand.
Your thoughts do not cause magic. Period.
For certain specific values of the meaning of those words, yes.
This has nothing to do with technology. Are you so materialistic as to believe that nothing can be without technology?
This is playing with semantics. It adds nothing to the actual argument.
So you are suggesting the power of prayer relies soley on psychology, conditioning and the imagination, rather than on real external forces that come into play in response to your prayer? That’s not a very Catholic point of view. Are you going to tell us that the miracles and the Resurrection were just science and technology as well?
I’m talking ‘magic’ here. Sex and cognition leads to some ‘magic’ behavior and inner urges.
This is not something you can do accidentally. Please go talk to your priest. He will set your mind at ease.
Like we pray to God for our needs and God helps us. Satanist will pray to the devil for their wants of Riches Power over people etc etc. Do you think the devil gives them their wants ?
Not possible. Especially not by accident. Again, magic in this sense isn’t a real thing: there are no mysterious forces you can manipulate with your thoughts.
I’m confused.
As someone else has already pointed out, we can commune with God through our thoughts. This is true even when we do not believe in God. All ‘magic’ can be reduced to trickery, but it’s really does cause problems when combined with other tools of the devil, such as classical conditioning.