First, Bergson's speculations here are not conceived by
him as imaginary That is, they are understood by him in terms of the actual chemicals, energies, physical principles without which life could not exist.
Not exact matches
Instead of pursuing our dreams
as young people, we
're often just trying to avoid
imaginary pitfalls or conform to a predictable, mythological career path.
I go so far
as to make sure that hitting the delete button on the last trashable inbox message
is my last action, and then I immediately close my laptop (while
imaginary victory music plays in my mind) and I walk away.
As a general rule, day traders should be proficient at paper trading (e.g. trading with imaginary capital) before committing real capital, as well as have a sufficient level of risk capital that they can afford to lose before tradin
As a general rule, day traders should
be proficient at paper trading (e.g. trading with
imaginary capital) before committing real capital,
as well as have a sufficient level of risk capital that they can afford to lose before tradin
as well
as have a sufficient level of risk capital that they can afford to lose before tradin
as have a sufficient level of risk capital that they can afford to lose before trading.
And —
as a side note — I suspect there can
be a hint of professional conceit when it comes to touting the power of personas: too much can
be built on «
imaginary» prospects or customers that
are simply words on paper.
Interesting that you think that magic super invisobuddy
is «reality» and that accepting the real world
as it
is without any
imaginary supernatural forces
is «lies.»
@Chuckles I
was not
being hostile, but
am just trying to point out that you
are basically willing to conflate any similar cognitive errors such
as we have
as humans
as being significant in any way in religious terms, should it happen that we encounter some alien species that also has idiots who think
imaginary stuff
is real.
@Mark Yelka «
imaginary God»
is simply an expression of faith, just
as «there
is no god but God»
is an expression of faith.
It would
be equally unfair to use your belief that God
is imaginary,» Using your god
as the starting point makes your argument circular, hence worthless.
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.
You said, «My point
was that in referring to God
as an
imaginary friend, you
are assuming God doesn't exist.»
Believing in something does not make it real and most of the adults I know have stopped believing in
imaginary friends (we
are just
as productive and happy
as someone who uses those
imaginary friends to get them through the day).
I have more thought on Community — such
as the distinction between the truths that can
be learned from Jeff's real life in contradistinction to Abed's
imaginary life — but I'll leave that for another post.
But, the answer
is the same
as why Thor, Zeus, and Ra
are absent: god
is imaginary.
Religious people may believe people
are «better» with god, but
as the statistics clearly demonstrate, that belief
is as unsupportable
as their belief in their
imaginary gods.
Rousseau knew well enough that mankind could never return to this
imaginary condition, but, because the frustration of wants
was absent from it, he imagined it
as a kind of Golden Age.
Colin
is obviously a critical thinker who
is far to intelligent to
be judged by the likes of people who believe in a
imaginary god and
as $ backwards religious book that promotes hate and bigotry.
I agree with L.Nielsen
's sentiment that you
are «almost there» — close to realising that this
is the only life you have and that all your effort should
be directed at living it well for it
's own sake, close to realising that you
are strong enough
as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you
are a good human
being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears
are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an
imaginary creator.
That
's why their minds
are focused on what real and important to them
as they approach death, instead of some
imaginary sky daddy that their subconscious never really bought into.
Moby Schtick Who cares about this moron idiot «god» fellow that
's as imaginary as he
is invisible and undetectable.
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?
It often seems
as the «share» the details of this relationship that Jesus
is more like a child's
imaginary friend who
is always on their side when any conflict occurs with others rather than the Jesus who loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.
When science
is wrong they make corrections, when religion
is wrong they blame another
imaginary friend better known to you
as satan.
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.
God
is as imaginary as the 2 other people you hear voices from!
But
as I've explained before, if your
imaginary friend
is both omniscient and omnipotent, it
's impossible to exist.
Have
as much fun as you like As long as you find Te imaginary friend in the sky before you die your be just fin
as much fun
as you like As long as you find Te imaginary friend in the sky before you die your be just fin
as you like
As long as you find Te imaginary friend in the sky before you die your be just fin
As long
as you find Te imaginary friend in the sky before you die your be just fin
as you find Te
imaginary friend in the sky before you die your
be just fine.
Science
is indifferent about your inability to distinguish real from
imaginary (
as you seem to agree).
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.
Praying to God should not
be difficult to anyone who had a similarly
imaginary friend
as a child.
The religious have gotten a pass for far to long on their myth
being passed off
as fact by the rest of us who don't believe in
imaginary creatures.
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.
Nowadays, though no one doubts that the dramatic detail of the Flight of Helen, the Wrath of Achilles, and the rest,
is imaginary, the poems
are treated
as valuable sources of evidence for the history of Greece and neighbouring lands shortly before 1000 BC Even our own Arthurian legends, I observe,
are now treated seriously by quite serious historians, when they
are seeking for light upon the dark age of Britain.
The porous self stems from the social
imaginary of an enchanted world; its primary trait
is an openness toward the world
as a causal matrix filled with other humans, spirits, demons, and cosmic forces that produce meaning.
There
is no god and prayers
are merely delusional internal dialogues with your
imaginary god
as you imagine him / her / it to
be and not to a supernatural creature that
is real.
I
'm rather certain that we
're not
as concerned with your
imaginary friend
as you'd like to think we
are.
Indeed it
is hard not to mock de Botton's own thesis, or indeed the numerous photographs which illustrate it, such
as one of an
imaginary «Department for Relationships» or of a «Psychotherapeutic Travel Agency [which] would align mental disorders with the parts of the planet best able
Believing in
imaginary beings leads to killing,
as evidenced by all the bloodshed we have seen in our collective history.
In the real world, any object that provides no evidence for its existence
is classified
as imaginary.
As far as any can show, spiritual is the same as imaginar
As far
as any can show, spiritual is the same as imaginar
as any can show, spiritual
is the same
as imaginar
as imaginary.
religion
is a form of control people
are generally stupid people love old lies
as much
as new ones lots of money can
be made from religion religion, since all based on
imaginary creatures to explain the unexplainable of the time,
is all a money making scheme!
The fact that your deity «chooses» certain people should
be enough to let anyone see that such a god
is as petulant
as the leader of a high school clique, and thus
imaginary
God
is dumb — he can not speak — he can not DO anything — he can not write — why
am I referring to a mythological concept
as a «he» — god
is,
was, and will bee — completely
IMAGINARY — god is imaginar
IMAGINARY — god
is imaginaryimaginary dot com
''... logic isn't your strong suit,
as evidenced by your belief in
imaginary beings.»
But, of course, that
's not surprising since logic isn't your strong suit,
as evidenced by your belief in
imaginary beings.
In fact, I studied Physics and I
am inclined to think that we all want to believe in the big bang becasue it
is simple and it conjures up all kinds of
imaginary causes such
as a creative old man with a long white beard floating out in vast void in need of excitement.
«
As far as anyone can show, ALL gods are imaginary» -------------- If a creator God did not exist, then nothing would exis
As far
as anyone can show, ALL gods are imaginary» -------------- If a creator God did not exist, then nothing would exis
as anyone can show, ALL gods
are imaginary» -------------- If a creator God did not exist, then nothing would exist.
Indeed, a real object
is not necessary for some intentional objects, such
as our consciousness of a unicorn or other
imaginary entities.
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As far as any can show, god is imaginary, so if you imagine your god can not be understood, fin
As far
as any can show, god is imaginary, so if you imagine your god can not be understood, fin
as any can show, god
is imaginary, so if you imagine your god can not
be understood, fine.