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Has Science and Reason Taken Away Some of the "Mysticisim" of the world for you?

Don't get me wrong, I love science, I love logic, and facts. However, when I was a kid, I was enthralled with history and mythology. Mummies curses, witchcraft/wizardry, the Greek Pantheon, Norse Mythology etc. As a kid, into my early teens this stuff added "magic"and "mysticism" to the world for me. The world seemed exciting with so many supernatural possibilities. Enter science disproving all of it, and removing the "whimsy" from the world. Sort of like when a kid finds out Santa and the Easter Bunny aren't real. While I've found that science can be exciting in many ways (I was also always into science), it's not the same type of mystery and whimsy that something like the Greek Pantheon, Egyptian curses, and yes even Santa Claus brings. Now when I watch a movie like "The Mummy" my head just starts disproving it with science and facts I've learned. Bleh... anyone else experience this?
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GeraldVeritasSeeker · 18-21, M
Yes, this is precisely the case. Ever since the so called 'Enlightenment' we have lived in a rather sterile and joyless devoid of mystery.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@GeraldVeritasSeeker You must be joking! There’s nothing joyful about merely making up stuff and then acting as if our fiction is somehow true.

From the microscopic to the cosmological, the discoveries of science show us an astounding, absolutely mind-boggling, elegantly beautiful, and exciting, natural world... far beyond the pedestrian, limited, imaginings of humans.
redredred · M
@GeraldVeritasSeeker You don’t think Black Holes, Magnetars and Quantum entanglement provide mystery? Wow!
@GeraldVeritasSeeker "Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic."

Tim Minchin
GeraldVeritasSeeker · 18-21, M
@newjaninev2 please, look at the great art a theistic dispotion has historically produced. Life would be rather stale without the works that believers once produced.
GeraldVeritasSeeker · 18-21, M
@redredred for all I know, they might not even exist