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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (16092)	12/12/2003 12:40:49 AM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"The rationalist culture of the post 19th century has done its best to kill imagination. To the pure materialist, imagination is just day-dreaming and an un-necessary barrier to achieving." I find this premise untrue in a self-serving way. In fact, the cornucopia of inventions, whether material (automobiles, railroads, electric light, airplanes, motion pictures) artistic (cubism, dance forms, music forms) political (Communistic rule, Fascism, plus so many others) architectural....literature....on and on.. ...these all show a HUGE blossoming of imagination post 19th century. Europe and America shared a fantastic synergy of imaginative thinking among a larger population that ever shared thoughts and ideas, beyond ALL previous ages and places, aided and abetted by rapid and inexpensive communication. Never have I read or heard one credible person EVER refer to imagination in such marginalizing terms like "day dreaming" and "unnecessary barrier". Never! Until you. Who are you kidding? I found your descriptions of "pathworking" to be quite similar to many religious indoctrination stories, with the techniques of group pressure and disconnected terminology and fabricated fantasy realms. These "realms" you describe sound like the constricting constructs of puppetmasters, dancing desperate seekers of mental relief (who contribute no "imagination" themselves) through their fantasy theatres.