We live in a Social Imagination. There is no other existence for man. There is no other way or means to imagine life, the created universe and even aliens if you want. Given that, the social imagination has rules, never doubt that either. The main rule is this - agreement. If we do not have agreement as to who and what something is and is not... it is not real for us and or is not yet real to us until we agree.
From this truth, I and you can argue with every single scientist on the face of the earth. We can argue every single science, every single world view, every single idea, and every belief regarding what is really the truth and what is not. Now, you can argue that being a Christian is not excluded from such. I never said it wasn't. In order for any argument to be legitimate, there has to be an absolute truth.
Another rule in the social imagination is that our social imagination is based on an absolute truth. And, that it is an information reality. We experience 'information' (which comes from somewhere or someone absolutely); and, it is that absolute information that we desire the most and want to share as it 'truly' matters whether agreed on or not agreed on; though, absolutes are always agreed on.
The fact that we can agree on anything (absolute truths; i.e. the sun is a star) through shared information as to what is and what is not is an incredible example of the social imagination at work... having an absolute truth with an absolute source for the 'best' agreeable information to share and even to enjoy.
The ability to agree about 'best' agreeable information follows the main rule which is that the social imagination is an agreement reality. In every single man/woman is the desire for agreement reality with the absolute truth.
Is there any other kind of reality? No. That would be only darkness. But aren't there other kinds of information out there that we could agree with? Yes and no. Yes, other information as the distorted absolute truth that we could possibly agree with. No, because, there cannot exist absolute truth we could not agree with. However, there is information that we may disagree with because of that built in desire to agree with is the distorted absolute truth. Again, there can be no absolute truth 'information' that comes to us from the absolute source that we can't agree with.
The most important feature of an information reality is that the information that is agreed on is always coming from the source of the absolute truth which it is... truth that stands the test of time such as the sun is a star. All information that is all absolute true information has an absolute source from which it comes from which means that it could not be coming from within the users, it comes from outside of the users of that truth. An absolute stands alone, immovable and untouchable; in the sense that the users of it could never be equal to it.
We can imagine that whenever absolute truth is ever disagreed on it is a distorted version of the absolute truth and distortion is caused by false distance which either rises up on its own or has been put between us and the source from which absolute truth comes.
We don't have to understand the source of the absolute truth, nor its complexity. We just need to embrace it. Man's greatest desire is for the presence of the absolute truth to exist and to share that knowledge. That gives us joy, peace and hope; because, it is the expression of a harmonic relationship with the absolute truth (source of absolute information) is our salvation...
Having said that, we always find answers to our questions regarding our existence... discovering the created universe. Our greatest desire is to experience the absolute truth through agreement reality which is the social imagination... our true agreement reality our true social imagination is to have agreement with the absolute truth and its source!
Now, you might ask...Can we agree with a lie in the social imagination? Yes, we can. And, many do so out the desire to agree with the absolute truth... but the lie is put before them and they overlook the absolute truth that was always there. Why is a lie put before them? Why does a lie exist? Its exists because of doubt... doubting the absolute truth.
*The social imagination which is our information reality has its absolute source who is God (Father/Son/Holy Spirit), the Creator of heaven and earth,of all things seen and unseen.
He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together ~ Colossians 1:17.
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God who is the Word ~ Jesus Christ Father/Son/Holy Spirit is the source of all our imagination. Can you live in any other imagination? Yes, that which is of the devil = that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray ~ Rev. 12:9. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work ~ 1 John 3:8.
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