(September 13, 2016 at 10:18 am)Stimbo Wrote:My pet fantasy??? How many freaking times must I repost the scores of bible verse that say faith is not man made and a gift from God? The modern "pet fantasy" is that it means self generated confidence when the text clearly says it is not. That was not the mind set they were working with.(September 12, 2016 at 8:26 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: 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.
YOU guys are overlaying YOUR paradigm of what you think can and can't be, occluding their paradigm. And YOU see YOUR reflection in what you project on them.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
