Dear Curmudgeon's Agony Aunt.
I feel devastated. I just learnt that someone, well, a being really, is dead. The New Different Time Zone Bill went to 2041 and saw God's grave.
"Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone. Tout suffocant et blême, quand sonne l'heure, Je me souviens des jours anciens et je pleure; Et je m'en vais au vent mauvais oui m'emporte deçà, delà, pareil à la feuille morte."What am I to do?
- Robert
Dear Robert.
Well, get you Google Boy. I thought you studied Geography and Religious Sycophantry at school, not languages.
Look, grieving is OK - it's normal - up to a point. Grieving over the reported demise of an imaginary being though is akin to those 'trekkie' nutters grieving over a Star Trek character getting wiped out on that abysmal television series.
Get over it, or, better still, go find yourself another imaginary character to idolise.
To imagine is to represent without aiming at things as they actually, presently, and subjectively are. One can use imagination to represent possibilities other than the actual, to represent times other than the present, and to represent perspectives other than one’s own. Unlike perceiving and believing, imagining something does not require one to consider that something to be the case. Unlike desiring or anticipating, imagining something does not require one to wish or expect that something to be the case.
- Stanford Encyclopaedia
There are plenty of them out there and while some have lost followers (usually when the follower gets to the age of about six AND GROWS SOME ) most haven't yet had old Friedrich Nietzsche come out and actually declare them dead.
I'd, like your brother, suggest that you check out The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus.
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I'll rise to the fly!
ReplyDeleteBreaking it down to a few words you are saying that Jesus, his Father and the Holy Ghost are imaginary.
Do you agree Peter.
Peter nods.
Lets start at the beginning again.
Everybody agrees that the term imaginary can apply to Fairies and Father Christmas, Eater Bunny is still out there.
Peter nods and says he knows Easter bunny exists because the chocolate eggs are always there on Easter Sunday.
Jesus does not fall into this category because he is an historical figure.
Peter says I did not realize that.
And Jesus has witnesses to his miracles and ultimate resurrection that proved he is the second person of the trinity.
Peter says that he needs to confess his sins and go to mass.
In answer to your questions:
Delete1. Yes, I agree.
2. Not sure - I'm worried about that 'Eater' Bunny though. It sounds like something from The Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
3. Yes, I agree Jesus was a historical figure.
4. No, there is no fact about the miracles. This was fabrication made up many years later.
5. There was no resurrection. The body of Jesus was stolen. For what purpose no-one knows but there is a suggestion that the family did this and then made up a silly explanation that became known as the Ascension.
6. I don't accept that illogical jump from a missing body to proof of a fantastical trinity.
7. If there is a hell it will freeze over before I go to confession and mass.