OK, it seems I'm probably picked the worst possible pagan board to do this on, since it appears that no one but me has posted anything here in the past 16 years, but what the hey, I'll cast my slice of bread upon the waters anyway.
I'm not actually here to agitate, I'm actually here to ask a favor. As some of you may have discerned from my nick, I'm a Christian. (No, I'm not here to preach to you, you've heard it all before if you weren't persuaded then, you wouldn't be now.) I participate on a Christian discussion board where a lot of the brethren are frightened of what they believe to be the "powers" of pagans and satanists and folks of similar persuasions. Then there are others (or whom I am one) who believe that pagans and satanists and witches and what-have-you don't have any more power to do anything at all than anyone else, that spells, curses, hoodoos, mojos, incantations, or whatever they're called, are meaningless mumbo-jumbo acheiving precisely nothing.
So here's the deal. I'd like to see if I can one or more of you to volunteer for an experiment. The idea is to decide what sort of thing can supposedly be accomplished by "magic" or "magick" or "majick" or whatever it's properly called these days, and see if on of you pagans can do it while we observe.
Our assumption is that no one need to be in any given place for this stuff to work, and that a proper "spell" will work equally as well if the person casting it is a block away or half-way around the world. So the test can, it seems, be done anywhere that's easily observable by everyone involved.
I think it's necessary to agree that whatever test we agree upon, it has to be harmless to everyone and everything involved. If it involves growing hair on the Golden Gate Bridge, for instance, the hair needs to go away after a time, and it shouldn't obstruct traffic. It could involve making Ted Kennedy sing "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General" during a pres conference, but not making him stick his hand in a light socket. Y'all get the idea. You don't want to do any harm because it'll make pagans look bad, we don't want to do any harm because it might make Christians look bad for having instigated the whole thing.
To be perfectly candid, I don't expect y'all to be able to do anything at all, but that remains to be seen, doesn't it?
If this is, as it appears, not the best place to post this, please feel free to drop me a line at basilisk@volcanomail.com and let me know a better place to make this offer.
Best to all,
The Calvinist
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