I don't know how so many can miss the simple point of the comment, but you also missed it by a major mile. I might need to edit it for easier assimilation.

What you say is true, but it is not the thrust of the comment.

@evidentialist Also, partly true. A good Imaginary has the right to be called also reasonable, a (part of a) good Rational.

@evidentialist in which case it seems I am missing the point would you care to expand?

@girlwithsmiles -- The context was involving people following various religions who draw their comfort from the fictions fed to them. If I get a few more bewildered folks, I might just edit the comment.

@evidentialist ah, I see, yes. Imagination or irrational belief I guess, but I stand by my comment, there’s a scene about it in the movie, ‘the invention of lying’, where the protagonist tells his mother there’s a god and the idea gives her and many others comfort about death. Of course irrational beliefs can have a whole lot of negative results too, as can immersing yourself in certain fictions. But I’m happy to accept you disagree, diversity makes the world an interesting place.

The comment is extracted from a much longer and more complete line of thought on the subject of living in a fiction. Something like quotes taken out of context.

Sciarts, especially after 1900, need more morality and detoxification.
#moralevolutionfirst #terraprotectivitybeforeproductivity #allterriansallprotectivegods #peacenotwar #pandetoxification

Yes, but that is known fiction and not something upon which entire empires rise and fall, eh?

@evidentialist So is the Bible but that work of fiction has killed millions.

@uncle-ernie -- And it was the thing that drove the comment.