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MineralMan

(146,286 posts)

2. Imagine, Imagination, and Imaginary All Have the Same Root.

Reply to yallerdawg (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 10:39 AM

Feb 2018

The "image of truth" is not necessarily the actual truth, any more than the image in your bathroom mirror is actually you.

That said, the author of that looks like someone with whom I could have an interesting conversation.

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Facts, Truth and Meaning [View all] yallerdawg Feb 2018 OP

Yeah we understand edhopper Feb 2018 #1

"...the author embraces without question?" yallerdawg Feb 2018 #3

And today edhopper Feb 2018 #8

Once you start on the path, everything changes: yallerdawg Feb 2018 #9

So she KNOWS it edhopper Feb 2018 #10

She wrote a book or two on this subject. yallerdawg Feb 2018 #11

and so edhopper Feb 2018 #12

"Writing books" is not her basis of belief. yallerdawg Feb 2018 #13

apologies edhopper Feb 2018 #14

Imagine, Imagination, and Imaginary All Have the Same Root. MineralMan Feb 2018 #2

"At some point, we have to say to the skeptic... yallerdawg Feb 2018 #4

Agreed. guillaumeb Feb 2018 #5

C.S. Lewis made an observation that may elude some folks: yallerdawg Feb 2018 #6

It is a part of the popular meme of "fear based religion" that assumes and requires fear as the guillaumeb Feb 2018 #7