The Bahummiest of Humbugs

[blue_eyed_obsession]

Sender: Seto Kaiba
Subject: Regarding Christmas

I'll never understand what all the fascination is with one day that was arbitrarily chosen to be significant.

Don't hand me those lines about it being a time to show "good will" and "appreciation" for your fellow man. If people truly believed those ideals were important they wouldn't need to adhere to a schedule to be reminded to extend that gratitude, nor would it lead to the near-riots at limited time sales. Nothing says "Peace on Earth" quite like elbowing someone else out of the way so you can grab the last product off the shelf for yourself.

It's all a marketing ploy.

Believe me, I should know... I wonder what the sales figures look like this year.

Comments

[blue_eyed_obsession]

[Baffling, isn't it?]

I know the term is used to cover a broad spectrum of anomalies but my definition can't be all that different from yours.

[Still, he'd humor the guy]

The power to manipulate the environment around you, influence events, summon objects or creatures via supernatural forces ignoring the natural laws.

[herewardbound]

Surely. Surely not.

An... interesting position to hold, but I suppose you wouldn't be the first. I suppose any phenomenon, no matter how apparently esoteric, is part of the functioning of the world and therefore has an explanation- even if our current model of natural laws doesn't account for it.

[blue_eyed_obsession]

That's what I've been saying this entire time.

[At least someone seems capable of understanding Kaiba's position on this subject, even if his own opinion on the subject differs.]

Realistically, Magic is just one of those topics I should avoid here. Most people are only too willing to believe in that nonsense and it always becomes a thing.

[herewardbound]

I had to be sure. I've certainly interacted with enough people who insisted that perfectly mundane things happening right in front of them were impossible, let alone things that our current model of the universe doesn't account for. But no, that's a fairly reasonable position to take. Even for events that, on the surface, appear to be entirely chaotic, at the macro level form patterns that we'd never observe over human timeframes. It stands to reason that anything we'd call magic has to operate by some predictable ruleset.