Thank you for your reply!

Because, if you read, part of faith includes taking action ;)

Posting it was taking action. Asking for donations when you claim you can materialize anything for yourself comes off as not really believing your own claims to me and since it felt a bit hypocritical, I decided to reply.

Of course, in the end, I'm by no means condemning asking for support form your followers or anything, it's more of me having a negative opinion of the type of sentiment you have expressed in the post itself.

Ok...please prove this to me.

This is not how proof works. On the surface level, you have failed to notice that I'm not making an assertion of truth, but talking about what seems to be the case.

Going a bit more into the substance of what we're talking about here, you cannot definitively prove a negative, but also, I have no burden of proof here as I'm not the one making an unsubstantiated assertion. You are the one that made a claim that magic is real and it works in a specific way. You are the one that made this bold assertion without bothering to provide even a single shred of evidence for it, let alone proving it in any meaningful way. When you have not provided any substantiation for your claims, it is perfectly reasonable for me to reject them. I don't have to disprove them, I can just point out that they are not supported by evidence, so it's too early for them to be believable or convincing.

To give you another example of how this works by reversing the places. If I told you that if you attempted to use this type of magic Zeus would be angry and would punish you with bad luck, than I would be making an assertion without any substantiation. In this case you wouldn't have the burden to prove me that Zeus doesn't exist and that he doesn't hate this type of woo, you can just reject my claim as unsubstantiated and unconvincing. This is the way to properly apply the null hypothesis which is basically the idea that one shouldn't assert or believe something as factual before it has been shown to actually be factual. Don't think this is reasonable?

So as the one making the specific positive assertion and the one talking about proof, what's your proof for what you are claiming in your post?

Do you understand my definition of magic?

Yep, I understand it. It's a very popular concept. I also reject it and don't think it should be regarded with fondness.

Did you even read this post?

Yep.

I want to know why you be-lie-ve what you do.

It depends on what you mean by believe what I do here. Generally speaking, I don't have unconditional faith in my abilities or my chances of success. This is not a bad thing because it helps me avoid unnecessary and unreasonable risks (hopefully :P). If you mean having some confidence in yourself, I get that from past achievements and from trying to evaluate my own abilities as objectively as I can (probably not too objectively of course). But depending on the endeavor, I have different levels of confidence. If the task at hand requires something I know I'm good at or something that I have done successfully numerous times, it's higher. If the tasks requires something I'm not familiar with and when it involves significant risk or danger, I don't try to boost my confidence artificially, but try to evaluate the risks, dangers and possible rewards. Going with blind belief into situations like this is dangerous and this is one of the reasons I see the ideas you've expressed in your post as not only unsubstantiated and unreasonable, but also as harmful.