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09-15-2004, 12:47 PM
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Imagination and Fantasy
Are imagination and fantasy important to our well-being? Do atheists discount imagination and fantasy? Are imagination and fantasy important to our society and culture?
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#2
09-15-2004, 01:13 PM
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ya, in history, our imagination and fantasy were the only things to explain how we came to be, how things are they way they are and what is to become of us.
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"Pies para qué los quiero, Si tengo alas pa´ volar" ~Frida Kahlo.
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09-15-2004, 05:14 PM
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09-15-2004, 08:19 PM
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BAM, jiggah! Nice one, Mister Emu.
I think that imagination is incredibly important to our well-being and society...how do you think the wheel/plane/lightbulb/chair with the little thingys nailed to the legs so it wouldn't fall backwards when you lean back (thank you, Simpsons  ) came to be? Those are all products of imagination which was then applied to reality. As far as fantasy goes, I enjoy the Harry Potter books just as well as the next person, and it can be fun to escape inside your own mind and meditate or whatever. The problem comes in when you start trying to replace reality with fantasy.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ~Socrates
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09-15-2004, 09:32 PM
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Who decides where the line is drawn between reality and fantasy?
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09-15-2004, 10:08 PM
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I agree, imagination and fantasy are very important to us as individuals, and our society and culture.
Mister Emu-- Quote:
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09-15-2004, 10:11 PM
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My imagination and fantasy world are very important to me.
Don't know about the rest of y'all.
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Matthew 7:12, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
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#8
09-15-2004, 11:08 PM
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Imagination invents, fantasy rests the mind and prepares it for invention.
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09-15-2004, 11:25 PM
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Ah....the imagination. If no one had any imagination I think this world would be such a dreary place.
 Think of all the novels, and poems, and paintings that wouldn't even exist if no one had any imagination! Imagination is what enhances, beautifies, and even creates ( in one sense ). Imagination, for me personally, has been a wonderful 'escape mechanism' in very difficult periods of my life. To sit down and write a story of my own, my own little world to escape to, when in my real life things are crumbling to bits, has been an enormous outlet. But, unfortunately, like most things, if used in the wrong way, it can do a lot of damage as well. There does still need to be a balance. So, actually, what I said above can be turned around, I'll admit. Imagination also can produce much ugliness, and much evil. It all depends on how we use it. An important key is to control our imagination, and not let it control us.
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~Saint Augustine~
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#10
09-20-2004, 02:16 AM
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Imagination/fantasy is vital to any healthy individual. Without it, all is black and white...with static...lots of static.
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