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Personally, I discourage imaginary friends. I just dont think it is a healthy practice and maybe I have watched too many movies . . . but that is how I feel about it. Personal conviction. I think that parents have to make their own choices to raise up their children in the way they should go . . if we cause one of these little ones to sin . . . We must teach our children at an early age what is right and wrong and what pleases the Lord.
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As long as they don'tgo around beating up other kids for having different imaginary friends, they can do whatever the fuck they want.
Hell, you should be encouraging your child's imagination, not crushing it.
"Personally, I discourage imaginary friends. I just dont think it is a healthy practice and maybe I have watched too many movies . . . but that is how I feel about it."
But it's just fine to have one when you're an adult, apparently.
I agree, God is not an imaginary friend. If he were our friend "his word" would not threaten us with his wrath and the eternal torment of hell. However, please provide proof that "the Lord" is not an imaginary being.
In mentally healthy children imaginary friends are a normal part of development. In adults it is delusional.
Rather weirdly ironic that fundies try and crush the imagination. It's a good thing I hid my irony-o-meter.
Children's imaginary friends are just that. It is a sign that their imaginations are fertile and growing. Suppressing this expression of their minds is damaging and a sure sign of inept parenting.
The minds of children is the kingdom of heaven, according to a certain Jesus. It seem like fundies are assigning to the innocence of childhood the suppressed evil that lurks in the depths of their own minds. Talk about projecting one's own mental ill-health!
'Allow the little children to come to me for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them', someone once said.
Personally, I discourage imaginary friends.
Afraid of your God getting competition?
I just dont think it is a healthy practice
What you 'think' doesn't matter. Invisible friends are your body and mind's reaction to a lack of real friends to communicate with - we're pack animals, after all. Furthermore, they have several health benefits, one of which is a larger vocabulary.
Personal conviction. I think that parents have to make their own choices to raise up their children in the way they should go . . if we cause one of these little ones to sin . . . We must teach our children at an early age what is right and wrong and what pleases the Lord.
What the Fuck does invisible friends have to do with Sin?!
Imaginary friends don't bother me, as long as they are for children. Adults who follow quasi-religious cults, based on imaginary ideas not found in the Bible (like Rapture), those people bother me.
After a certain age, it's advised that kids drop their imaginary friends. Just like at a certain age they should stop thinking Santa is a real man. It's unhealthy for an adult to have imaginary friends. But they can believe that there's an invisible god living up in the heavens somewhere and that's just fine and dandy... Totally makes sense.
Apart from the easy 'invisible friend' shots there's also "if we cause one of these little ones to sin".
All of them are already sinners according to your religion: they are born with sin. And there's no difference in levels of sin, lying by telling your wife her ass doesn't look big in her favorite dress is just as bad as as committing genocide. So they're damned until they are able to telepathically accept Christ anyway. That isn't fair I know but hell, I didn't make the rules.
I heard they're coming out with a better irony meter soon. I think a good idea would be to test it on a comment like this and see if it survives.
OT: I used to have imaginary friends. Now I just call them "muses."
By the way, if Gawd didn't want us to have imaginary friends other than him, why the fuck did he give humans imagination in the first place?
'Tis a good thing I'd removed the power cell, placed in a Faraday Cage, then in a lead sarcophagus and put in a deep mine shaft, my best Irony Meter by Yaesu, prior to reading this quote from Ruptured Retards. Those things are expensive & a bitch to replace!
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