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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (39110)	11/27/2001 5:50:53 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

There is an important difference. Imagined could represent the passing thoughts of something non-existant but entertaining or comforting to think about. It could also represent a bridge between our faculty to think of things beyond our grasp and those very things which actually exist. The former if implied toward ones belief system would cause offense. It should be noted that believers do this to one another. Abraham began by mocking the worship of the traditional idols of his tribe. Since his mockery of idol worship employed rational criticism and sarcasm it was especially offensive to those he addressed. Initially none but his nephew Lot (and much later me) accepted his view. Invisible is actually the common termonology used for Gin and Angels in my religion. They are considered creations that interact in the Universe but invisible to human detection. The God of Abraham does not fit easily into the invisible category since invisible implies a specific form that cannot be seen and the scriptural characteristics of the God of Abraham identify something that defies limiting physical descriptors. I think it is the context of the "Imaginary friend" and the source of comment which provides the concern of mocking more than the actual term itself.