Exploring the Social Imagination

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Agreement Reality is the Social Imagination...


How is one able to conclude that anything is real? Through the senses, right? Or perhaps one can know what is real by shear mathematical genius, or scientific method or even by philosophical discussion? 

Many still hold onto what is real through the experience of the senses; sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. But, even if we can agree that this is largely true, it is the brain/mind that determines what the senses are, what they can do for us as they serve in determining reality. And, what about the brain, isn't just the housing or apparatus for the mind and what is that. 

Most people consider that the brain and mind two different things. After all, what is meaning to one person is not the same meaning for another. And, there are those who follow Pavlov and Watson, Skinner and the like who say that man is no more than an overrated animal/dog. 

Most those 'experts' leave out the social imagination which is where reality truly exists. How/why? Well, there is no reality outside of agreement reality and that happens in the social imagination and no where else. You see, without agreement among us, there is no reality to even debate. We cannot even call the sun a star!

So, go on about so called facts, go on about your histories, your mathematics, your evolution process and I will tell you its all in the social imagination, its only what we agree on that matters. Even the intelligentsia in Greece would tell you that. For them, history is what you make up and the better it is as in fascinating, the more real it is/was. 

Yes, that is quite different from that of today's historians. You see, the Greeks loved their history stories, they studied it not for the knowledge of  facts. On the contrary, they liked their history to support claims on greatness and to that end liberally added ancient mighty kings and gods to their history. Homer's' Iliad and Odyssey are typical cases in point.

And, yes, we can say that that history goes to the victor and the sun is a star but only because we agree on it. Yes of course, some will be loudly claiming I am wrong... the sun is a star without me/you/them. Really? How do you/they know that? And, if they scream is science tells us so... well, that too is only agreement reality.

If we view social reality as an information reality and we should because there isn't any other reality; we can then say that nothing comes into our 'social' information reality (living in our mind as the social imagination) unless there is an absolute source for it.  And, that we must agree on because of the fact that we can agree on anything as information validates the existence of an absolute source of all information. Otherwise, there would be nothing to agree on as fixed... the sun is a star.

In terms of agreement reality - the social imagination, what matters is what compels us to agree. Yes, that is what matters most - what compels. As for the Christian, that would be God and His incarnate - the Creator of all things seen and unseen, in whose essence exists the indestructible truth. The only absolute source of all agreement reality can only contained within an absolute and at the same time incarnate being in whose essence there is no disagreement because there can be no disagreement. 

If you like, a facsimile would be an ultimate quantum computer that understands completely what it is  what is and what we are to it. It is in this sense, what most human beings desire and seek to agree on: an all knowing, compassionate and unconditional loving and merciful source of agreement reality.

Never doubt that we exist in the social imagination, agreement reality and what are we agreeing on? Because if you do, you will no longer exist in agreement reality in the social imagination. Which is in itself all information ever given. But not all information is pure. In a world that has entropy, it looses its purity as it travels around from person to person. So, there has to be an absolute source that can constantly upgrade it, reboot it. For if not, we loose our humanity, our social imagination, our agreement reality. 

That absolute 'information', cannot just exist in our social reality (social imagination) unless there is a cause to enter in and or re-deliver information and in that we agree (Christians) agree that it did enter in.  It is ever present among us. How do we know? The very one thing that tells us this is a fact is that we can agree on anything as a truth especially 'the' absolute truth of what it means to be human, what it means to agree on anything. This is truly supernatural.

Does it matter that all man/people agree on the same things or just some things and disagree on other things or everything? That's a good question. What matters is what compels them to agree in the first place. That is key. Agreement though an outcome of the larger social imagination, it all begins with each and every participant which can agree.

Soren Kierkegaard said that there is no absolute truth in the masses of mere men because real absolute truth exists only in the One created it. As with the game of telephone, who started the information chain holds the absolute truth of it and it weakens as it passing on down the line. And, yet, the holder of the information at the time it is passed believes it is true and agrees with it. Now, as it is passed along as true though even incorrect, its obvious fault is the rate of its decay as it is incorrect.. But, how can we know it is incorrect if we pass it along as if it is true? Because, those who pass it along, agreeing that it is true, pass on a small amount of doubt that it is the absolute truth.

So, the masses start to doubt even though one among them may not. And, those who hold onto the truth are persecuted for it. And, for them who are committed to the absolute truth, they are often rejected as even having received any truth. What is that they say about the absolute truth that scoffers don't like to agree with because they doubt? That there is an absolute source for truth outside of the game of telephone, a source so great that it is the source of all agreement, all social imagination.

2 Corinthians 6:16-17 ~ "And what agreement has the temple of God with idols" [false gods/false information]? None! For we/"you are the temple of the living God". As God has said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their/your God, And they/you shall be My people.” Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch"/use/spread "what is unclean" 'information', "And I will receive you.” I will give the command and save you! "Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me" ~ Psalm 71:3.
 

5 comments :

  1. How can there be disagreement? Those that are farthest from the absolute truth, disagree out of doubt/fear that what they want to agree on is not true even though they know it to be true. Yes, you can make the argument that Christ/God is not the truth. But, keep in mind that man cannot agree on anything or even 'agree including to disagree' outside of the existence of an absolute truth which is the absolute source of our being. And for those who insist on disagreeing on that... sad is their outcome!

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  2. What about history and the victor writing it? What victor we have in Jesus Christ, God incarnate to remind us of our source of absolute truth and the truth that we are eternal, created to be with the Creator forever. For those that still doubt/disagree... no man in the social imagination can imagine/agree on anything on his/her own... let alone make up an untruth. We can only imagine and agree on that which we know, come to know and or imagine to know. Because, there is only one source for the social imagination, agreement reality - The Creator of it who is Jesus Christ, God the Father/Son/Holy Spirit - He who is before all things and holds all things together COL 1:17

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  3. If those who oppose Jesus Christ think He is 'dark hole or social pitfall, opium for the masses' think again. If anything is a dark hole is a man without a Creator, an absolute truth of being and being as aspect of His being. According to scoffers, atheists, evolutionists, once you are dead, you're dead. That means you won't even remember being alive. Now some will argue that others will remember them. Really? The same applies to them. Once they are dead, they won't remember being alive and won't remember you and so on down a very dark hole. Oh, what about the history books? Well, they tend to get rewritten, the past is in secularist world is always up for grabs. So, any statue that you may think will be erected in your honor will likely be torn down. Those who have no hope in Jesus Christ are dead already. He died so that we may have eternal life... what must we do? Believe in the One who sent Him - God, the Creator or all things seen an unseen!

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  5. Jesus does not have to be 'historically' correct in any man's codified socio-cultural data packet of info... though He is. Most of what we call history is man-made. Jesus is the Great I am. His truth is the absolute verbal 'agreement' reality; the truth as it was in the beginning. He is the Word, the Word was with God and the Word is God! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ~ John 1:1.

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