(June 12, 2011 at 4:45 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Since we're talking about imagination, one thing to know is that, what we create comes from our imagination, but not everything in our imagination exists or can in actuality. On the other hand, some entities do actually exist in reality while they are not in our imagination or in our minds. This later part is important for atheists to remember because in general they limit existence to their imaginations as in nothing that they cannot imagine can exist. Existence can be one of many things such as - existence in the mind, existence on the tongue, existence in writing, and existence in actuality. So, anything can exist in the first three categories but not in actuality. And this is part of the human imagination. But, of course, the most important one is the actual existence.
I hear you; most people once imagine the world was flat for 1500 years just because the bible told them so. The Viking lived in North America for 20 years a 1000 years ago until the Inuit kick them off. Sure Columbus came over and brought us more Christianity and slavery, looks like we skip out more important detail of human healthy existence. The pattern is human abuse things first, and then we suffering change it. Imagining when we think ahead for new ways of thinking and solution rather than falling back into the dwelling of ancient spiritual hard time.
Lead with imagination shortly followed by skepticism and science Or
Lead by heart shortly followed by mind.
