This post made me think. A lot. After a while of contemplating this I decided to talk about it with a close friend. (ignore that third message she sent. my messages-times sometimes are screwed up, if you look at the times above the messages she actually sent that to me earlier that morning)Pielogist wrote:Yes, I was thinking and speaking abstractly. I'm deliberately being vague, firstly because I can't be specific: I don't know how. Sorry if I couldn't really explain myself: I've tried a lot of words, but I figured that 'magic' was the best. And secondly, I also think that life holds different values for everyone, and by being vague I could incorporate all those values of love, knowledge, happiness, etc. into the word, 'magic'.
I'm still working on a better definition, so it's not that I'm not trying to be more descriptive. I prefer to be concise, meaning I post the summary of my thoughts. I just don't want to spill my 'working' all over the place until I've gotten somewhere. And 'magic' is as far as I've gotten.
So maybe Pie, the reason you cannot think of the word is because there is a word in your mind that know what it is and everything, but there is simply no word in English to describe it. Which is why I'm saying that it would be cool if one day we invent translators to translate that stuff, like something that would allow people to speak brain-to-brain, that way everybody would be able to be able to say exactly what they're saying, with no fear of miscommunication between people!