2023-03-13 15:53:38 <KipIngram   > You know, it's easy enough to see how belief in magic took hold in ancient cultures.  I just saw a video that described an ancient potion and spell that were said to ward off insects.  Guess what?  It looks like the potion was at least to some extent a natural form of insecticide.
2023-03-13 15:53:43 <KipIngram   > So... it WORKED.
2023-03-13 15:53:52 <KipIngram   > And beliefs were reinforced.
2023-03-13 15:54:11 <KipIngram   > It's pretty interesting how blurry the line between "magic" and "science" were back then.
2023-03-13 15:54:21 <thrig       > here, have this sugar pill to treat your disease
2023-03-13 15:54:39 <thrig       > (except you have to lie to them and omit the "sugar pill" bit)
2023-03-13 15:54:52 <KipIngram   > I'm reading a fictional book right now called "The Son of the Black Sword," and that theme is in there too - this culture is very harsh on people who "use magic," but some of the things they consider magic are like, explosives.
2023-03-13 15:55:04 <KipIngram   > basically technology, and they're just too primitive to understand it.
2023-03-13 15:55:29 <KipIngram   > Yeah, placebo effect would have played right into that too.
2023-03-13 18:48:10 <KipIngram   > Well, apparently I live in a strange place.  My wife just saw a "neighborhood" story on some community website that a couple of miles from here a guy was running around naked in the street slapping car windows.
2023-03-13 18:48:24 <KipIngram   > I'm... so happy I managed to miss that.
2023-03-13 18:48:35 <thrig       > maybe they came from the tenderloin
2023-03-13 19:10:22 <KipIngram   > I guess I should be happy that people come in such a diversity.
2023-03-13 19:10:29 <KipIngram   > How boring it would be otherwise.