For anyone who is not already predisposed to believing that
the imaginary is real, if his attention is called to the distinction between reality and imagination and he is explicitly reminded that the imaginary is not real, he's not likely to accept claims about imaginary things as truth.
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.
Not exact matches
«Making sure that the results
are real and not
imaginary is the # 1 challenge of our time.»
Basically, the state
is agreeing with the contention of sites like DraftKings and FanDuel that their users employ skill when creating
imaginary teams consisting of
real professional athletes while wagering on the strength of those athletes» individual performances.
Putting things in perspective means looking at what
is truly
real and what
is a problem that
is imaginary or rather built up in your mind.
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 trading.
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.
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.
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.
Giving the dying man an
imaginary drink of water because you think it
is real doesn't really help anything at all except, perhaps, for your own ego.
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.
For me, becoming an atheist
was like unplugging myself from the Matrix to see
real truth, and everyone else who has not unplugged
are still sleeping in their pods in some
imaginary dream.
For his
imaginary Jesus
is different from Chads
imaginary Jesus, and indeed, there
are 2 billion versions of Jesus on the planet, most of whom look at all the others and say «you
are not a
real Christian!»
In my experience,
real things
are distinguishable form illusions, misperceptions,
imaginary things and the like — they leave evidence.
How does one tell
real invisible
beings from the
imaginary ones anyhow.
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.
Science
is indifferent about your inability to distinguish
real from
imaginary (as you seem to agree).
Step away from the bible and prove via evidence that your
imaginary friend
is real and that one of the other numerous gods
are not.
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.
Alcoholism deals with something that
is real, not
imaginary.
This
is because he does not actually exist but
is only your imagination and why your prayers do not do anything but make you feel like you did something
real instead of
imaginary.
Yes, the word of the pope supersedes the word of god because the pope
is real and god
is imaginary.
We happily admire an
imaginary world more readily than we admire what
is called «reality» (especially when we can not do much to change or improve that «
real world»).
In the
real world, any object that provides no evidence for its existence
is classified as
imaginary.
A hero among
imaginary dragons
is still a hero; a boy who keeps his brother and sisters safe, sailing unexpectedly at night across a
real sea,
is a hero whose courage and resourcefulness ought to move us.
And when we give our imaginations over to the stories of
imaginary characters, especially ones who
are seemingly unlike anyone we would ever dream of meeting in
real life, we engage in a similar process.
Your
imaginary friend isn't any more
real than dragons, whether they originate from neverbeenhappieratheist's butt or not.
Your
imaginary friend doesn't exist and your experiences
are nothing of importance in the
real world... so which asylum did you wish to
be booked in to?
Indeed, a
real object
is not necessary for some intentional objects, such as our consciousness of a unicorn or other
imaginary entities.
But you
are not alone imagining
real relationships with
imaginary people in your head.
How I
am on here
is NOT how I
am in
real life... so don't go pasing judgement - your
imaginary friend calls that a sin!
Fractals suggest that a Fourth Dimension in Nature
is the
Real One while the Conventional Three Dimensions X, Y an Z
are imaginary.
just because colon cites god as inspiration doesn't mean all of a sudden your
imaginary friend
is real.
In addition to stating their own views, actors
are likely to engage in
real or
imaginary dialogue with their competitors, attempt to debunk or neutralize competing ideas, or use them as illustrations of wrong - headed or unworkable proposals.
But god
is no more or less
real than a childs
imaginary playmate.
It
is a state that
is more
imaginary than heaven itself and we see this life as more
real than heaven sometimes because we experience this life as a dream that only lasts a minute or two, but at the time it seems
real.
God in one sense
is Spirit and everyone knows spirit
is not
imaginary but a
real force.
If it turns out that the Christian god
is in fact
imaginary, then by virtue of this fact it
is not
real, and therefore it does not actually exist.
Premise 3: If the god of Christianity
is imaginary, then it
is not
real and therefore does not actually exist.
Much better to
be involved sports (something
real) than religion (something based on
imaginary beings).
Like Henry James in The Turn of the Screw (
were those ghosts
real or
imaginary?)
Until we figure out that the only
real truth out there
is that we
are all equally human and treat each other as we would want to
be treated as a fellow human
being, we will continue to stupidly hate and kill over myths and stories and eventually utterly destroy ourselves over who has the better
imaginary friend.
america
is waking up to the
real truth, a belief in humans instead of faith in an
imaginary god that does nothing.
If you come in and yank me out of bed for an
IMAGINARY fire, for which there
is not even a whiff of proof, I
'm gonna
be real cranky with you.
Yeah, «faith» must
be concerned with
imaginary beings and places, which can't
be proven, for it to
be called
real «faith».
I meant «
imaginary» in the sense of something created by humans who then think it
's real, not in the sense of not existing.
In this struggle, the major conflict
is with the unchecked individualism of civil society, or the «system of needs,» both
real and
imaginary.17 This dialectical process has in Hegel's modern world surpassed the stage of revolution, which in the shape of the French Revolution
was itself a necessary moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurred.
The comfort and security that the
imaginary friend gives the child
is very
real, but the friend
is not.