Are we 'Wizards'?

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In the fall of 2007, I visited an international gathering of my "extended-family" group in Marseilles, France. Sometime after that event, an American friend reported being asked by some of the group (who had never met me before, thus did not know me) "What's with that guy, anyway?". My friend responded "You just have to understand that John's a Wizard!"

IIRC, that was before I had ever read the Harry Potter series.

Genetically, I view myself as a "mud-blood"! I feel as though I have a dominant "scholar's gene" (asperger's), and a major recessive "warrior's gene". My father was a phys ed major, U.S. Marine, D.C. Police Officer, definitely "warrior" occupations, and I seem to be mirror-opposite; when I was talking to his brother about my spirituality, he said "You're a lot like your father; he, too, seemed to have that quality of "reaching beyond").

I have some non-scholarly type interests, such as making things (wood-working, making scratch-built or kit scale models), although the two types (scholar/Craftsman-Worker) do seem to blend in. Making some scratch-built miniature leads to a thirst for all related historic and technical information about its antecedents. I sometimes think of these interests as related to "sub-dominant genes".

I was interested in performing entertainment-magic once upon a time, when I was a young man, but nowadays I'm more interested in the life-stories of the greats in that field.

Anyone else ever been referred to as a 'Wizard'?

Regards, John

No, I've never been called a wizard.

In your case, do you think they just meant highly intelligent?

No, I haven't but I love the analogy!

I've been called a wizard before, also an Aes Sedai, and a selkie, and an elf.

That was the statement by my friend to them; he has known me since the early 1970's, and spontaneously came up with an allegorical description. He knows I'm highly intelligent, they had never met me before, and since it was a large group (may 50 to 100, some arriving at different times) I did not tend to meet up with anyone new; I naturally gravitated to those I knew well, and felt more comfortable with.

Thanks for asking,

Regards, John

interesting funny how i haven't heard of this before (I guess I've been spending too much time in my little closet under some stairs )
May I interest you in a red vine?

I've not been called a wizard but I have been called a hobbit.

From Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1939):

Wiz'ard (wis'erd) n. [ME, wysard, fr. wys, wis, wise + ard.] 1. Obs A sage. 2. A sorcerer. 3. Colloq A very clever or skillful person. -- adj. 1. Possessed of magical influence. 2. Enchanting. -- wiz'ard-ly, adj.

I was looking at my Tarbell Course in Magic, Lesson 1, subheading MAGICIANS IN THE BIBLE.

Under the paragraph
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MAGI OR WISE MEN OF THE EAST " ... These men lived in Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, and India. It seems that these men had gained more education than the masses and consequently were admired for their knowledge.
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"The Magi were commonly called Sun Worshipers and Fire Worshipers. In reality they were light worshipers , for they knew that life expressed itself in light, and that which was not of life and light was of the darkness. Magic originally meant "The true interpretation of the laws of life." They referred to the soul of man as the "I AM PRESENCE', the God within, the individualized focus of God, "The light of God that never fails."
...
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Magi/Magic, Wizard/Wise Man, etc.

John

No, but I have been compared to Yoda, and called an elf.

I think it might be cool to be called a wizard.

I want to be a wizard and go to hogwarts.
AVPM and AVPS are totaly awsome.

For Halloween my sister and I thought about going as the brother and sister from Hellboy 2.

Yes we are expecto petronus!! ! "waves his wand"

Sometimes it's hard to communicate with new people, which you don't know. But I don't feel alien with close friends.

Well you could have some fun with that one...
Seriously, of all the things to be called, 'wizard', doesn't sound to bad - seems like a light hearted way to view your differences

well.. I have been likened to a Jedi.. and a mad scientist who I think as wizards in a way..

Yes. My friend called me such in a D&D related podcast, no less.