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Define imagination.

  • 14-12-2005 6:14pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭


    Define imagination.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,201 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    1.
    1. The formation of a mental image of something that is neither perceived as real nor present to the senses.
    2. The mental image so formed.
    3. The ability or tendency to form such images.
    2. The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind; resourcefulness: handled the problems with great imagination.
    3. A traditional or widely held belief or opinion.
    4. Archaic.
    1. An unrealistic idea or notion; a fancy.
    2. A plan or scheme.
    How's that!? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Buy a dictionary!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    I know this sounds corny but i am looking for an imaginative definition of imagination, for an essay,
    something inspiring,

    thanks for your help though.,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    Like

    Imagination is the ability to..........



    (and then phrases like see the extraordinary in the ordinaer

    etc)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Sandals wrote:
    I know this sounds corny but i am looking for an imaginatice definition of imagination, for an essay,
    something inspiring,

    eh... could you define 'imaginatice' for me?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭muffin_man


    Imagination is a lot like beer googles! You imagine something much different than the reality of the minger!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    eh... could you define 'imaginatice' for me?

    sorry I edited it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,201 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Still spelled wrong! :o

    - affix an 'e' to the end there, bub!

    PS - define 'bub'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Hey, how about you do your essay yourself?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    basquille wrote:
    Still spelled wrong! :o

    - affix an 'e' to the end there, bub!

    PS - define 'bub'

    sorru, I edited it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭muffin_man


    I never imagined this thread turning out the way it has!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    It's still wrong... is 'imaginative' the word you're looking for?

    I don't think you can beat this though:
    Willy Wonka:
    [Spoken]
    Hold your breath
    Make a wish
    Count to three

    [Sung]
    Come with me
    And you'll be
    In a world of
    Pure imagination
    Take a look
    And you'll see
    Into your imagination

    We'll begin
    With a spin
    Traveling in
    The world of my creation
    What we'll see
    Will defy
    Explanation

    If you want to view paradise
    Simply look around and view it
    Anything you want to, do it
    Wanta change the world?
    There's nothing
    To it

    There is no
    Life I know
    To compare with
    Pure imagination
    Living there
    You'll be free
    If you truly wish to be

    If you want to view paradise
    Simply look around and view it
    Anything you want to, do it
    Wanta change the world?
    There's nothing
    To it

    There is no
    Life I know
    To compare with
    Pure imagination
    Living there
    You'll be free
    If you truly
    Wish to be


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    Can anyone just throw me some one liners which can throw in,
    I have some written out but don't want to type them out, incase I get falsely accused of plagarising Sandals.(Did that ever happen to anyone by the way?)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭ronbyrne2005


    imagination is the ability to create unique intangiable views solutions concepts or interpretations to ideas problems perceptions or thoughts.

    imagination is the ability to create in ones mind unique or original or brilliant views solutions or interpretations to real life concerns

    just made these up now,not great im afraid


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    fantastic thank you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭Mr Jinx


    imagine what after hours woulld be like without all sandals pointless threads :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,989 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    Why don't you just make something up ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    Mr Jinx wrote:
    imagine what after hours woulld be like without all sandals pointless threads :D

    Hey,Nonsense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Mr Jinx wrote:
    imagine what after hours woulld be like without all sandals pointless threads :D

    Don't tempt me..... :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Sandals wrote:
    Define imagination.

    1. Something that escapes Sandals in his thread creations


    :v:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    1. Something that escapes Sandals in his thread creations


    :v:

    Hey,Nonsense.

    That is well, well out of order, I really do take offense to that, I do believe that I try my best and do indeed capture my own imagination when coming up with new threads,
    I had hoped that my threads brought something new and vibrant to boards, I reaaly feel sh*t that you said that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭solicitous


    Sandals wrote:
    Like
    Imagination is the ability to..........
    (and then phrases like see the extraordinary in the ordinaer
    etc)


    Imagination is the ability to create mental images of things that may not exist in real life

    To be imaginative is having or showing a lot of creative mental ability.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭solicitous


    Sandals wrote:
    Hey,Nonsense.

    That is well, well out of order, I really do take offense to that, I do believe that I try my best and do indeed capture my own imagination when coming up with new threads,
    I had hoped that my threads brought something new and vibrant to boards, I reaaly feel sh*t that you said that.

    well, well out of order - try well out of order, or no need for that.
    Offense - offence*

    purrrrleaase buy a dictionary and thesauraus, failing that type words out using word and use the language tools! :rolleyes: ;)


  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Sandals wrote:
    I had hoped that my threads brought something new and vibrant to boards, I reaaly feel sh*t that you said that.

    ;-(
    Cry me a river.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    Thats it I quit boards, I'm out.


  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭solicitous


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sandals
    I had hoped that my threads brought something new and vibrant to boards, I reaaly feel sh*t that you said that.

    ;-(

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Justin Timberlake
    Cry me a river.


    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭solicitous


    Sandals wrote:
    Thats it I quit boards, I'm out.

    now theres rally rally no need to take offense*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭Laplandman


    Everybody knows that there is no such thing as imagination.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Sandals wrote:
    Thats it I quit boards, I'm out.
    blackadder3_1.jpg
    Oh, Hurrah!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20 scuba sally


    Sorry but what class is this for?


  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Sorry but what class is this for?
    Haha, somebody's lecturer just showed up :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Somnus


    Imagination is whatever you make it


  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,774 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    I'd love to see Sandals and NubileInfantry go at it in the Thunderdome. Imagine how hilarious it would be.


  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sandals is still online. :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Doc_Savage


    imagination is the abitlty to embrace letting go of reality....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Something fictional creation by the human mind that can reflect, but not be completely restricted to, the exploration of ideas based on what the mind has learned through its life time.

    (c) sinecurea 11.25pm, 14/12/05.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭vector


    Imagination is funny
    It makes a cloudy day sunny
    It makes a bee think of honey

    Imagination is crazy
    Your whole perspective gets hazy
    It starts you asking a daisy what to do

    Imagination is silly
    You go around willy-nilly
    What to do What to do


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20 scuba sally


    CuLT wrote:
    Haha, somebody's lecturer just showed up :p

    No not at all I really am baffled as to why a question like that would be asked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    the question was,
    should Managers forget traditional business strategy and use their imagination.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20 scuba sally


    oohhhhh.....Sure why not, imagination is always good. Get away from the norm. But can you define what imagination is?????;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    yes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20 scuba sally


    Good Shtuff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭fade


    Sandals wrote:
    Define imagination.

    jesus christ, who let you out in here?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Edwardius


    fade wrote:
    jesus christ, who let you out in here?

    Sandals, if starting infantile threads with the sole intention of receiving replies makes you feel better about yourself, I'd consider two things:

    -asking your parents why they never hugged you as a child
    -councelling

    Good day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Sandals


    Dead Ed wrote:
    Sandals, if starting infantile threads with the sole intention of receiving replies makes you feel better about yourself, I'd consider two things:

    -asking your parents why they never hugged you as a child
    -councelling

    Good day.


    Why in the name of god is this an infantile thread?
    seriousely what is wrong with it?, it has helped me a lot.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Imagination is, in general, the power or process of producing mental images and ideas. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 48 sweety4uall


    Sandals wrote:
    I know this sounds corny but i am looking for an imaginative definition of imagination, for an essay,
    something inspiring,

    thanks for your help though.,
    imagination puts a pause on reality.god knows there are times when we all welcome that pause.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    . . . . deep !!

    Social constructionists believe that to imagine is to recall what we have learned from our surroundings and experiences. So if you were reared in a sweet-shop for example you might imagine what it would be like to be buried in a coffin made of toffee rather than what would I get if I cross a rose with a daffodil! It's thought that we are incapable of true random imagination, try to imagine something that you have absolutely no knowledge or experience of in any sense . . it's not impossible but it is very difficult you often find you're forcing yourself to "imagine" something totally bizarre but still connected with what you are familiar with.

    ZEN


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Imagination is Pighead and Sandals on a beach sucking each others big toes whilst creating poems for their anti boards.ie protest rally.

    Sandals chants reads
    My name is Sandals and my threads are fcuking great
    Show me some more love,i'm sick of all this hate

    Pigheads chants reads
    Who needs boards,its full of pimps and hoes
    I'd much rather be here sucking Sandals toes.


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