Your religion is fiction

The concept of equality doesn't suggest that everyone is the same... it means that everyone deserves the same rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkXYsYfvyRI&feature=player_detailpage

and the point of the last two posts is.....?

Awen my dear... Awen!!!!

Yes, i can see that. I was refering to why youre postic pic after pic without comment or explanation

Is it fiction? Is it fake? Where is the line drawn between real and imaginary? On what grounds can we decide the difference?

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Brenna wrote: Yes, i can see that. I was refering to why youre postic pic after pic without comment or explanation

I apologize for that. I can see how it can be annoying. I will refrain from doing it in the future.

Streen wrote: Where is the line drawn between real and imaginary? On what grounds can we decide the difference?

We have a world to share. That's the one reality that actually bears consequences to ourselves and our fellow primates. It is this reality that matters now, be it real in the end or not. So let's be concerned with this reality and let's not be too disregarding of it in favour of realities that don't affect our lives. Let's live think and act and work while we're still alive and while we aren't dreaming and let's be concerned with dream worlds and death only when we dream or once we die. Its not that fuzzy of a line. There is a method of telling truth from falsehood, reality from fantasy and fact from fiction. And the more and the better it is used, the better it makes our lives within the reality it is concerned with.

Sure, stories are sometimes nice models of some aspects of this reality and are a convenient way of teaching those aspects to the weak mind. It is only when fantasy is being intentionally presented as part of this reality rather than a different one (fantasy), that it becomes harmful to the listener and her fellow people once interaction begins.

On what grounds can we decide the difference?

I don't know about "we" but I'm OK with a little fiction and fantasy.

let's be concerned with dream worlds and death only when we dream or once we die.

Why wait? These are things we can reflect on now. I don't see any harm in that.

Sure, stories are sometimes nice models of some aspects of this reality and are a convenient way of teaching those aspects to the weak mind

Weak minded? I think that's insulting and an elitism statment.

It is only when fantasy is being intentionally presented as part of this reality rather than a different one (fantasy), that it becomes harmful to the listener and her fellow people once interaction begins.

You mean like politics?