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The class exchange defines imagination not as a positive possession but as something generated by human lack, finite life, and gaps in knowledge.
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"Okay. This might be pushing the point here, but if God is perfect and there's nothing that we have that he doesn't have, then..."
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"Oh, yeah. Maybe because God is invincible because God can live forever, but life is limited so people have imagination because if you're limited,..."
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"Yes. Go on. So imagination isn't a skill, something you have, it's something that you lack, so if you already know everything, there's nothing..."
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"Yeah. Because our lives are limited, we want to transcend to higher realms or higher consciousness, that's why we imagine."
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A source-grounded reading of Dante's Paradise as a school for intuition: heaven is not a ranked hotel but a measure of receptivity, vows test free will beyond institutional obedience, memory may belong to the...
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