If imaginaries are «symbolic elaborations of what we observe,» then contemporary art plays an important role in recognizing how we see ourselves and allows the viewer to experience the imaginary through artistic practice.
Not exact matches
If you
're curious about
Imaginary's LPs, Massenet and Brown say they come from both sides of the Atlantic and that they include billionaire mall owner Rick Caruso and Matches Fashion's co-founders and joint chairmen Tom and Ruth Chapman.
Or
if they
are factoring in costs I
am presuming it
is only trading costs (which
are fairly insignificant compared to the size of their
imaginary funds, again I
am guessing)?
If you people just want to worship your
imaginary god that
's fine, I would just like to live in the real world without
being told I
'm going to he'll for it.
If some of the Americans including the great Michael Moore believe that the 911 attacks
were a conspiracy, then I don't blame any of the guys here commenting that the Bible
is imaginary.
As for your feminist friends, they can't
be all that intelligent
if they hang around you AND choose to worship an
imaginary being.
Without such evidence there
is no logical reason to live as
if these unfounded
imaginary beings and myths exist.
Others would seek psychiatric help
if they
were seeing and hearing
imaginary things.
Even
if there
is a god, the odds that he / she / it
is anything like you think,
are pretty slim, hence he / she / it
is most likely
imaginary.
There
is no god, but
if you believe in
imaginary things yourself, then that
's just fine.
Think of how much could
be achieved
if we stopped arguing about, killing over, and hiding from responsibility in so many
imaginary friends.
The long and short of it
is yes,
if you have an
imaginary friend (or in this case god) that talks to you or worse tells you to do stuff, you
are clinically insane.
If you believe you
are servant to your
imaginary friend then it
is safe to as.sume you also believe in slavery.
And what
if the God who made everything, keeping all the planets and stars precisely in their orbits, and creating life anew every day,
is obviously not
imaginary?
To all you who dismiss Jesus as
imaginary and the Bible as mythology, I offer you a single question: can you accept the consequences
if you
're wrong?
If you
were to ever get a taste of Him then you would know that He
's not
imaginary.
Christian humanistic charity work
is greatly appreciated (not sure where your 95 percent figure comes from, though), but
are they so shallow that they would not help their fellow humans
if not for promises and / or threats from an
imaginary being?
If we
were talking about unicorns wouldn't it
be more reasonable to assume that the lack of evidence suggests that they
're imaginary, and not just really good at hiding?
If the bible
is the word of your
imaginary friend, then it
is easy to see that your
imaginary friend must therefore support slavery.
When people question why some of the rules don't make any sense, tell them that the
imaginary guy (god) that you made up to scare them
is so smart that you can not ever understand him, and
if you question him you
are going to that scary place that we actually can not ever deliver on (hell).
«to the ones do not believe in god when you in tragic situation who do you call on, 911 happen when a republican took whitehouse so you idiots a tragic have not happen yet so prayer does work and you with all the hate and jealousy you will reap what you sow» ok,
if this
is a serious post then my answer
is... in a tragic situation I certainly do nt turn to an
imaginary being in the sky because that would
be pointless.
If your
imaginary friend brings you comfort, you
are welcome to your own personal fiction, just as the others who believe just as strongly as you do but in a different god.
My life may not have meaning, but
if I try very hard, and do very well, it could have quite a lot of meaning, real meaning, that will
be felt here in the real world, not in a possible reward in a realm that can't
be proven to
be anything other than
imaginary.
I wonder
if one talks to an
imaginary spouse that they
are indeed their own wife or husband?
But as I've explained before,
if your
imaginary friend
is both omniscient and omnipotent, it
's impossible to exist.
If you
are an intelligent, rational human
being, all of the examples mentioned above show you that the God of the Bible
is imaginary.
I WILL always
be a militant Atheist
if it means I can keep nutbags from telling me how to live my life and what I can do not because it hurts another person but because their
imaginary sky man tells them they can't and as a result I can't either.
Now,
if you could show that every time that someone sincerely prayed to their
imaginary friend, the event prayed for actually occurred, you might
be on to something.
If your
imaginary friend
was so infallible as you seem to think it
was, it sure fucked up big time on these, and plenty of other predictions.
If you need
imaginary friends and faith to keep yourself centered than you
're not really living your life for you.
The biblical satan
was a fallen angel, not some goat - man adopted by the church to shame paganism,
is it cool
if i build a monument to my
imaginary friend too?
It must
be a lonely existence
if you need
imaginary friends.
You'd
be angry too
if every time you turned around some Christian, religious zealot
was shoving a cartoon book [i.e. Bible] down your throat along with all the other mysticism,
imaginary friends, etc. that you have to deal with on a daily basis.
If the thought leaving your
imaginary friends behind
is just too much, or makes you want to go p00py, then try Atheism Lite ™ (agnosticism) for a period of time to ease your way into a much more rewarding, peaceful life.
Obviously, I
'm not saying
if you stay in your room all day and commune with
imaginary characters then you will achieve the virtue of empathy.
If you can't live without
imaginary friends then you
're not moral to begin with.
If your teenage child still sets a place at the table for his imaghinary friend, and you know it
's an
imaginary friend, would you still continue to let him set a place?
«As far as anyone can show, ALL gods
are imaginary» --------------
If a creator God did not exist, then nothing would exist.
If your
imaginary friend would punish someone for using his brain, it
is not worthy of any worship.
2 As far as any can show, god
is imaginary, so
if you imagine your god can not
be understood, fine.
God, even
if one existed, currently
is indistinguishable from an
imaginary friend to the outside observer.
If we
were to take an
imaginary tour through church history and visit pious worshiping communities all the way back to the New Testament times, the overwhelming impression we would have would
be the awareness of the incredible diversity and infinite variety of styles and customs.
He died and he should
be in Heaven... that
is of course
if you believe in an
imaginary God.
I care about the life people like you
are attempting to force in to this world, you care about what appeases your god - big difference when you really don't care or consider the child only what your
imaginary friend god wants and yet your god cause abortions all the time... you care about a clump of cells, not the actual life of the child and that
's much worse than me supporting the rights of a woman to have control over her body, especially
if the clump of cells couldn't survive outside of the host.
If you truly believe that homosexual sex
is against the will of your
imaginary friend, you better not engage in it.
You'd think
if your
imaginary friend had
been proven to exist, the world would know and a Nobel Prize would have
been awarded to the person proving it... until that prize
is awarded and evidence outside of the buybull
is presented, there
is no justification for accepting it.
I think its bad for children to teach them that anything
imaginary is real
if you believe in it hard enough, that
's why Christianity
is like Santa clause for grown - ups.
If you want to get technical, he wasn't completely
imaginary.
If the only reason you do the right thing
is the fear of punishment or because an
imaginary sky wizard told you to, you
're not really that good a person.