Mythology
 

Where is the line between real and fake. I would say right between your eyes. Get hit in the head hard enough you come up an English Accent. Get God in your Head Your No longer Insane. But Who Says Who's God If there is No Authority, then there is No God. JESUS is the Authority. The FATHER is the Authority. The Holy Spirit is the Authority.

Yeah, fuck yeah!

Or maybe not, fuck that!

Or who knows--maybe so, maybe not?

Wtf with the English accent?

There's a few medical cases where patients with head injuries seemed to speak with a foreign accent afterwards. Sometimes it's because they spoke that foreign language growing up, and they've damaged the part of their brain that mastered their new accent and regressed back to an earlier mental state; sometimes it's because they've just acquired a certain speech impediment that happens to sound like a Dutch accent or whatever... I dimly recall that there was a case of this sort of thing floating around the news recently, I imagine that's where he got the reference.

"Where is the line between real and fake."
 

Or: how does one know what is real and what is fiction?

Here's one test: ask yourself if the thing you're wondering about continues on if all humans cease to be.

If you answer 'yes, that thing I'm wonderin' about will be around even if all humans are not' then what you have is 'real'.

If you answer 'no, that thing I'm wonderin' about will not be around if all humans are not' then what you have is 'fictional'.

Examples of real stuff: trees, water, dirt, air, etc.

Examples of fictional stuff: any religion, any politics, any philosophy, any morality, any ethic, etc.

hq, you're confusing fictional with abstract or intangible.

there was that ex cheerleader wingnut.... i saw a clip of her faking an english accent and calling it a symptom of something. damned if i can remember her name. Tony will know. he was all pissed off about it.

and the Kids Make the Rules so erase old rules and let the kids make new ones the game just keeps repeating until the kids grow up....

you're confusing fictional with abstract or intangible
 

How so?

I have got to stop clicking JB's threads...

God is not physically real. God is spiritually true. And truth is in the eye of the Authority. And the Authority is us.

Jesus and Nothing But Jesus
Jesus and Nothing But Jesus

Love the Lord Love the Lord
Let the Lord Love you

"God is spiritually true."

What does 'that' mean?

Is Santa Claus 'spiritually true'?

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"truth is in the eye of the Authority"

No. Truth is what is real and requires no 'authority' to validate it.

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"Jesus and Nothing But Jesus"

Ishkabibble.

Agreed.

It means whatever you want it to mean, which makes it your truth, and truth is in the eye of the beholder (authority).

Depends on what you believe. The real Saint Nicholas died on December 6, 343 A.D., but the idea of Santa Claus is alive and well in the hearts and minds of anyone who still believe, especially young children.

Rly? What about his Father?

I find it interesting that the believers are always praising Jesus, but not his Father. What's that about?

Praise the Lord, we say that a lot also.

"It means whatever you want it to mean..."

Which is to say: it means nuthin'.

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"truth is in the eye of the beholder"

If 'truth' is what is 'in accord with fact or reality', then -- no -- it is not in the eye of the beholder.

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"the idea of Santa Claus is alive and well"

HA!

No, the fiction of Santa Claus (entertaining and sometimes useful) is promulgated as tradition and convention.

*Santa Claus, the eternal gift giver who owns flying deer and delvers presents to the world in a single night, is not alive, is not well, is not real.

Believing in a fiction can be great...it can get one through a sea of crap...it can make a dark night pass more easily...in the end, though, the fiction is still fiction.


*shrug*






*when a seven year old believes in Santa, this can be charming and sweet...it can also be a useful tool to help the kid bridge between fiction and reality...

Believe what you wish, Henry. It's not my concern.

Touche'.

If you read the bible when paul came to repentance he resolved to know jesus and nothing but jesus... because he already knew the rest...

The Bible = Religous Dogma. I don't need some book most likely written by some random monk in order to believe in God..or His son.

What does a term for a politically unstable country whose economy is largely dependent on the export of a single limited-resource product have to do with anything here.

"It's not my concern."

Good answer, John.

Now, where have I heard 'that' before?