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I know too much to not believe in witches and black magic. (media.scored.co)
posted 13 days ago by EJGeneric on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +42Score on mirror )
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HEXEN on scored.co
13 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Alchemy is powerful stuff.

My lvl 60 orc in Skyrim is no joke.
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zk3hf9dB on scored.co
12 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
There is a guy on youtube reading old alchemy books and trying their recipes and explaining what's really going on.

Alchemy was actually fairly advanced chemistry. A lot of the concepts translate almost 1-1 with modern chemistry.

The thing is, though, most people in the ancient and medieval world had no access to good information on alchemy. And the texts we do have are obviously not giving the truth in straight terms. They were trying to obscure certain things from the general public and other alchemists.
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TakenusernameA on scored.co
11 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
There was also a whole lot of actual witchcraft going on among the Alchemists, considering their end goal was attaining eternal life without consulting God about it first (or considering that eternal life on planet where its very easy to get sick and feel miserable for years at a time might not be the most enjoyable past-time). Alchemy was heavily tied up with (((Gnosticism))), the pre-cursor to (((Kabbala))).
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zk3hf9dB on scored.co
11 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
SOME of the alchemists were bordering on witchcraft.

MOST were simply trying to understand the true nature of the world. They were isolating compounds and creating repeatable results.

You cannot deny the people who wasted their lives trying to find pure essences laid the groundwork for modern chemistry.
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