Your tooth fairy not mine

If any argument, discussion, debate that arises about the tooth fairy is simply an exercise of imagination, any point of view is no different from another if the discussion is about the tooth fairy’s relative essentialness to reality. Mistakenly identifying any other topic that is not equally unimportant as no different can cause major issues and dangerous consequences.

@kellyjay said
If any argument, discussion, debate that arises about the tooth fairy is simply an exercise of imagination, any point of view is no different from another if the discussion is about the tooth fairy’s relative essentialness to reality. Mistakenly identifying any other topic that is not equally unimportant as no different can cause major issues and dangerous consequences.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I'm sure that makes sense to you Kelly.

To me, all things created by mankind's imagination sit in the same pot and share the same irrelevance to all the important questions.

@kellyjay said
If any argument, discussion, debate that arises about the tooth fairy is simply an exercise of imagination, any point of view is no different from another if the discussion is about the tooth fairy’s relative essentialness to reality. Mistakenly identifying any other topic that is not equally unimportant as no different can cause major issues and dangerous consequences.

@kellyjay said
not all possible explanations should be ignored out of hand if they are the most reasonable in comparison

@kellyjay said
That is what I am saying if is just an imaginary anything all things being considered are equal in who cares. Comparing what we know to be true within reality, to with possibilities that we also know can be true and exist, means not all possible explanations should be ignored out of hand if they are the most reasonable in comparison, to what we know cannot explain with reas ...[text shortened]... ssness comes to mind, in which makes the most sense while speaking to information driving processes.

@kellyjay said
That is what I am saying if is just an imaginary anything all things being considered are equal in who cares. Comparing what we know to be true within reality, to with possibilities that we also know can be true and exist, means not all possible explanations should be ignored out of hand if they are the most reasonable in comparison, to what we know cannot explain with reas ...[text shortened]... ssness comes to mind, in which makes the most sense while speaking to information driving processes.

@moonbus said
Nobody was ever burnt at the stake for not believing in the tooth fairy.

@mchill said
If any argument, discussion, debate that arises about the tooth fairy is simply an exercise of imagination


You've ruined day. I don't want to "adult" anymore now. I'm going to make a blanket fort, crawl in it and eat a cookie! 😠

@kellyjay said
We know about the tooth fairies and Santa's beginnings, some here have even talked to little kids about them as well as if they were real. No adult comes to believe in either of those later in life and has life-altering experiences where they turn from wicked lives to lives where righteousness matters. The equalization of these putting, them equally real as Jesus, is not j ...[text shortened]... re does not require our approval or even our belief to be who He is, truth is not dependent upon us.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
By repeatedly saying 'ignored out of hand' (despite me clearly saying to you that not all atheists have done that) do you somehow think that will make it true?

I fully appreciate it suits your agenda to believe all non believers have made no effort to understand your religion (or others) but that simply isn't true. I have put significant study into Christianity and have most certainly not 'ignored out of hand' its beliefs.

@kellyjay said
There is hardly anything that "all anyone does that" is not the point. If you have reasons to reject evidence, that then flows from reason that is one thing; however, if it's to reject a prior then the rejects come first, then reasons are not required. Rejecting evidence or questions calling them unimportant because of an already-held belief system without examination is b ...[text shortened]... ason with someone who holds a view that is not built on reason only a stance due to presuppositions.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Is it just your particular God that should be taken seriously and set apart from other human imaginings? What about Shiva or Zeus? What about Allah or Horus?

@moonbus said
Nobody was ever burnt at the stake for not believing in the tooth fairy. All imaginary things aren't equal.

@kellyjay said
All imaginary things are equal, they are simply imaginary nothing of substance. Human nature can take something imaginary or quite real and do incredibly good or evil with whatever they want and feel. That doesn’t alter the truth about the object of their reasoning it has more to do with people, Charles Mason took a song from the Beatles White album and thought he was gett ...[text shortened]... . You are linking human evil with something else as the cause instead of just looking at the people.