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Aug. 11th, 2004 01:00 amIs it abnormal for humans to do more amazing things when they aren't paying attention than when they are?
Everyone has a superpower, some people more than one. Al Johnston could catch more yellow lights in five blocks than I would on a drive to Deep Ellum. Green lights and red lights just didn't like him, but yellow lights gave it up for him like they were his personal bitches.
I can drain batteries and kill induction fields. Makes it hard to wear a watch.
What can you do, puny human?
I've noticed that people all seem to unrecognizedly do impossible things, and the truly, deeply strange part about all this should-be-humanly-impossible shit is that nobody seems to notice.
Okay, now I'm as pagan as the next gal, but I'm not talking about craftwork. This is some magic more basic and understated than the rule of intent. Some fundamental thing about who we are causes us each to warp the world around us in some way that causes different things to be possible to different people. It's not even anything we do, it's a function of what we are. The laws of probability are highly personal, despite what sounds like logic. We just don't have the variables to cover the way the inverse square law of the presence of Al-ness causes traffic lights to go to yellow, or any way of feild-testing any theories on exactly how that works. But I'd love to know.
I speculate that humans emit a lot more electromagnetic energy than scientists really want to fess up to. Nobody wants to think that at some frequency, their bodies glow. But they do. Borrow someones infrared goggles and check it out - that's light. You glow. You can't see it, but you are emitting energy and if you can do it at one wavelength, why not another? And if certain frequencies affect physical matter in odd ways, that's no so unpredictable. But finding who emits on what wavelength, under what conditions, and in what phase is going to be a whole lot of work, as well as cataloging what kinds of systems are affected by that radiation and what the effects are, as well as how people emitting out of phase compete and negate each other, and all variations on the kinds of EM field theory and waveform mathematics that college professors give you strange looks for wanting to talk about. Looks that say, "Are you TRIPPING?"
And the above paragraph? That's for if it has anything to do with EM radiation AT ALL. Which ain't necessarily so.
Gotta love the world.
Everyone has a superpower, some people more than one. Al Johnston could catch more yellow lights in five blocks than I would on a drive to Deep Ellum. Green lights and red lights just didn't like him, but yellow lights gave it up for him like they were his personal bitches.
I can drain batteries and kill induction fields. Makes it hard to wear a watch.
What can you do, puny human?
I've noticed that people all seem to unrecognizedly do impossible things, and the truly, deeply strange part about all this should-be-humanly-impossible shit is that nobody seems to notice.
Okay, now I'm as pagan as the next gal, but I'm not talking about craftwork. This is some magic more basic and understated than the rule of intent. Some fundamental thing about who we are causes us each to warp the world around us in some way that causes different things to be possible to different people. It's not even anything we do, it's a function of what we are. The laws of probability are highly personal, despite what sounds like logic. We just don't have the variables to cover the way the inverse square law of the presence of Al-ness causes traffic lights to go to yellow, or any way of feild-testing any theories on exactly how that works. But I'd love to know.
I speculate that humans emit a lot more electromagnetic energy than scientists really want to fess up to. Nobody wants to think that at some frequency, their bodies glow. But they do. Borrow someones infrared goggles and check it out - that's light. You glow. You can't see it, but you are emitting energy and if you can do it at one wavelength, why not another? And if certain frequencies affect physical matter in odd ways, that's no so unpredictable. But finding who emits on what wavelength, under what conditions, and in what phase is going to be a whole lot of work, as well as cataloging what kinds of systems are affected by that radiation and what the effects are, as well as how people emitting out of phase compete and negate each other, and all variations on the kinds of EM field theory and waveform mathematics that college professors give you strange looks for wanting to talk about. Looks that say, "Are you TRIPPING?"
And the above paragraph? That's for if it has anything to do with EM radiation AT ALL. Which ain't necessarily so.
Gotta love the world.
