Legion
November 20, 2006
I finished Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion. Excellent read. Witty, lucid and insightful, he really describes how superstitious thinking does a number on culture at both the personal and institutional level.
One interesting aside from his book, he talks about how most people had "invisible friends" in childhood. He posited, randomly, without a heck of a lot of validation, that atheists didn't have such childhood friends, hence had nothing to transfer cultural myths onto when they hit adulthood. I bring it up because, recalling my childhood, I didn't have imaginary friends either.
I had imaginary armies
Vast, sweeping hordes of jackbooted, helmeted monstrosities that swept out of the alien Northlands, trampling all resistance underfoot. These hordes were met on vine-strangled fields, in decrepit cities, or on abandoned, alien moons by small, brave hearted bands of gallant defenders, marshalling inferior forces and second rate equipment into bold, last ditch efforts to defeat the demonic death dealers and save civilization from the darkness and despair that would descend in defeat.
You think that means something?
Posted by Jody at November 20, 2006 12:09 PM
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I didn't have imaginary friends when I was a child. I was too busy with my nose in a book reading about other people's imaginary friends.
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at November 26, 2006 03:14 AM
Depends,,which side did you empathize with? me it was the Faceless hordes!Then I discovered Tolkien and switched sides, now I feared the Monsters of the ID,yeah my only imaginary friend was a tiger but he was no Hobbes, he had to go in the closet at night so he wouldn't eat me while I slept! Too much imagination gave me dark circles under my eyes when I was 10!
Posted by: ddhsd at December 12, 2006 03:43 PM
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