Quote: "Magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else would reasonably expect."
The skills/knowledge of experts seem mysterious when you don't have the skills/knowledge they have but at the end of the day the skills/knowledge can be learned.
Mantra I made up: "People who want to hate will find a reason to do so, and people who want to love will find a reason to do so."
Not always true (sometimes it is a bad idea to love in ALL the ways available to you), but the idea that you somehow get to be a hateful person because reality demands it (or that you have to believe something dubious or otherwise become a hateful person) is far more often wrong than right.
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