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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7839802" data-attributes="member: 996">It's a natural part of the world, in that paradigm.&nbsp; Everyone has chi in traditional Chinese medicine, just as everyone had humors in medieval western medicine, and everyone has adenosine phosphates in modern molecular biology.&nbsp; None of those things were actually regarded as supernatural, because they're all describing the natural processes of the human body.&nbsp; Some with models that just didn't prove out as at all effective in making predictions or prescribing treatments.Conflating Qi with magic is just a product of the distorted lens of orientalism.If you find a video of someone shooting six-foot jets of flame from their fingers in a 120-degree arc (because I find it easier to remember the 1e version than the 5e version I happened to read just the other day), I expect it'll've been done with CGI (or, possibly, a little more low-tech and a lot more dangerous, some careful camera angles and off-label use of a propane tank).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7839802, member: 996"] It's a natural part of the world, in that paradigm. Everyone has chi in traditional Chinese medicine, just as everyone had humors in medieval western medicine, and everyone has adenosine phosphates in modern molecular biology. None of those things were actually regarded as supernatural, because they're all describing the natural processes of the human body. Some with models that just didn't prove out as at all effective in making predictions or prescribing treatments. Conflating Qi with magic is just a product of the distorted lens of orientalism. If you find a video of someone shooting six-foot jets of flame from their fingers in a 120-degree arc (because I find it easier to remember the 1e version than the 5e version [I]I happened to read just the other day[/I]), I expect it'll've been done with CGI (or, possibly, a little more low-tech and a lot more dangerous, some careful camera angles and off-label use of a propane tank). [/QUOTE]

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