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[–] termaxima@programming.dev 28 points 12 hours ago (21 children)

You spot fake witches because they believe in magic instead of Magick. Being a witch is a spiritual practice, if curses actually worked the world would be very different (and way, way more fucked than it currently is)

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 23 points 17 hours ago

Nothing fails like prayer. Or magic, which is just a different flavor of prayer and vice versa.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 24 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

When I used to be New Age I believed that not believing in magic gave you a resistance to it because Quantum...

Accepting the truth that magic ain't real was tough

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 35 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I wouldn't ever do this because as soon as anything went wrong in my life I'd never be able to shake the question that it was super natural. I'm extremely skeptical and don't believe in any supernatural things, but I have a fear of developing superstitions. Also when I get really stressed about my life and feel like it is particularly unfair I start to feel like there is some sort of external source of my problems and it's malevolent. So, doing something like this would be a recipe for problems for me lol.

[–] Tonuka@feddit.org 10 points 14 hours ago

I have a fear of developing superstitions

Ngl that sounds like a good horror-comedy

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

There has to be a fancy name for this phobia.

Hmm, it seems "superstition" in Greek is "deisidaimonía", so maybe deisidaimophobia? Or we could go with Latin for the much more familiar "superstitio" for "superstitiophobia".

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[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

is skeptical and doesn't believe in the supernatural
has a fear of developing superstition

Sounds to me like you've been cursed, mate.

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[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 212 points 1 day ago (52 children)

Reminder that there used to be a $1,000,000 prize available for anyone who could display any sort of supernatural powers that remained unclaimed for 20 years. The challenge rules required that both parties agree upon the test setup, and several people actually tried to claim it and all failed. It astounds me that anyone still believes in this nonsense and that it seems to be becoming even more popular to believe in literal magic and other supernatural idiocy.

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