User blog comment:PaulLevesque555/Gajah Mada/@comment-28209103-20190216054924/@comment-28209103-20190216091523

Nah, Magic is BS. it's just that the idea is severely different from the popular understanding of magic.. It range from simple thing like telekinesis, into something like deification (This one I never personally encounter, just from hearsay or rather legend.)

But yes precognition is part of it,, do you know the saying "Rejeki sudah ada yang ngatur"? that's actually a simplification of the word of a "sage" Simply put for people like my uncle and those guys they know roughly how much they can gain by doing X and how much they can gain by doing Y.

It's a perversion by people to make it as if fate is real, no it's not. The saying are just for people who know the result before doing the act.

But outside that there's plenty of other things they can do,, however it's not mundane like making fire or freezing people. You probable have heard bout invulnerability, those are extremely, absolutely low level technique and even then it's mostly useless nowadays.

Broader scope of magic are used by ancient people to survive against the harsh nature and people. It's basically meant for combat it carry almost no use in modern world. The result bought by magic are usually mundane and can be done by modern weaponry easily.

The other part is something intangible, like making people like you more or making your word more compelling for others.. stuff that can easily be called superstition.

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Other interseting fact or rather cultural fact you might not know, every nobility carry 2 Kriss, one is just dagger, but if they draw the second one it may not be sheathed until the enemy is slain. the second one is the 'real deal", obviously the real deal housed something inside it.

Kriss is a weapon of nobility and not used on war, it's very presence itself have lot of meaning in the culture. For example putting Kriss in front of your belt means you're asking for a fight, it doesn't matter how civil you act that act itself is a war declaration.

Y'know Javanese are probably the most talented liar on this planet, like smiling and shit. but if you carry your kriss that way you're asking for blood no matter how much fake smile you give. The reason I call them the most talented liar is because they live in world of superficiality, superficial smile, superficial word, superficial act.

There's lot of fact bout Kriss people didn't know and even more that I didn't even know, I just took care of my uncle kriss collection one time and I know that I need to moonbathe some of them regularly and I need to recite some mantra before I can wash some of them...

Oh and one time I got pranked by one of the kriss resident, it appears in front of me as a tiger and I fled for my life..

When I was younger I think it's a good idea to understand this things but as I get to know them a bit more I realized they are nothing like what I imagined.. as most thing in the world, things are way more interesting in fiction than in reality.

If only flying is as easy as taking some broom and recite the magic word... but nah, you need to pay penance for I dunno how many decade to do those shit... No thank you, just give me one airline ticket please.