Yes, I was feeling/thinking parallel things. I had a realization that I can't express well (I tried it on Waka), which went something like this: We make up stories in which there's magic, and magic is used for, or has effect on, important things--but this is happening in real life. But I get tangled up making that sentence, because it either looks like suddenly I too am a believer (and as for my belief state, let's just say it's one huge Heizenberg Uncertainty, or that I can believe contradictory things at once: everyday skeptical me would not believe this sort of thing, but everyday me also does believe the things that friends or people I respect tell me, and this falls in the latter category) OR (remember that's only part one of this giant statement) it seems somehow condescending to the belief in question--even the fact of calling it magic. So, yeah, I want then to correct the statement, because I feel no condescension, just a kind of awe and respect. And then that in turn makes me ponder all kinds of things in news reporting, and in how we call some things religious beliefs and other things superstitions and other things stories.