(September 12, 2016 at 8:26 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(September 12, 2016 at 7:38 pm)Stimbo Wrote: "Don't be silly, Superman doesn't exist outside of fiction. So what weakens him is irrelevant to our reality."Oh to hell with it, Stimbo, let's just remake everything in our own image and pat ourselves on the solipsist back.
That's your response? Either your pet fantasy is imaginary or everything is? No middle ground, no shades of grey, only one or zero?
(September 12, 2016 at 8:26 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: What's a fun-house without a hall of mirrors?
And here we have it, folks. Smoke and mirrors.
Look, I'm not advocating abandoning fantasies, even cherished ones. I love escapism, I can watch the X-Files or a Bond film and pretend, for a while, that the world is a more magical place than we generally experience. All I'm suggesting is recognising fantasy from fact and not eschewing the latter to live in the former. Certainly don't try to insist that others do the same.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'