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unrestrained id said:

I was at my local supermarket about an hour ago getting some wrapping paper for a gift and happened to pay attention to the piped in muzak and the little ads they play with them. One ad was in regards to this machine that you dump your loose change in for money. The ad said something to the effect of 'you drop in your coins and it magically turns your change into cash'. It really irked the hell out of me. A fucking machine that changes your coins isn't supernatural!



I don't want to get all witchy here, but Magick isn't supernatural either. It involves applying your will to natural forces that already exist.

And then there's the fun kind that you see in night clubs and circuses, which are really slights of hand and they're fun!

Then the commercial language you describe, and that's just shorthand for the process happens quickly and out of view. So don't get yer knickers in a knot over it!


"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.