Uninteresting in the context that nothing of that sort exists and everything can just be explained with a scientific explanation. Does it take away all interest/mystery from it all for anyone else? I wish all that shit did exist because it’d make things a whole lot more interesting.

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    If cryptids were real, youd probably think they were uninteresting too. The platypus for example, was thought to be fake by a lot of people right after they were discovered because they were so unusual. But now that you know that theyre real, they dont seem THAT interesting. Theyre a weird animal sure but not so weird that you doubt that they exist.

    And if magic were real youd probably think it was just as mundane as a lot of science is because you were accustomed to the world having magic in it and working in a particular way. Especially considering that a lot of science is far enough beyond your current understanding that it may as well be magic. i.e just as unpredictable.

    But I would argue that understanding things does not make them uninteresting. There are plenty of car guys that think cars are just the most fascinating things that have ever been made and they probably understand cars better than everyone on the planet except for the engineers that designed them. And beyond that, just because magic isn’t real does not mean that there aren’t things that we do not currently understand, it just means that there is nothing in principle that we cannot understand and thats inspiring and exciting. To me part of what makes the world interesting is that we are capable of solving the riddles of how things work and we can use that knowledge to create things that have never existed before.