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Why do we talk about the characters as if they were real? But then, why not?
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Thaes on 18 May 2008, 23:42 ---Who says they aren´t real? On some level, everything´s real.
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My sweetie had a high school boyfriend who argued just that point in some detail.
(They went to a Catholic school, so theological reasoning came naturally). He started from the position that everything that exists is in the mind of God, and since God is the creator then being in the mind of God necessarily means something exists. God is omniscient, therefore knows everything authors come up with as soon as they come up with it, therefore all creative works appear in the mind of God, therefore they exist. He used this line of reasoning to prove that Narnia, Barsoon, and all the other realms of imagination were no more fictional than we are.
Surgoshan:
I've spotted the flaw in that argument; who else can see it?
Barmymoo:
GOD CAN
Surgoshan:
Wear that dress tonight? Put on the red light? Walk the streets for money, He don't care if it's wrong or if it's right?
Pumpkin Eater:
Have their mind made up? Put away their makeup? Tell you once, and not tell you again?
It's a bad way?
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