what is 'self' exactly... how do we make sense of this at all in a way which is useful and meaningful for us in life? Personally, I've always enjoyed ...
Which books have had the most profound impact on you? In no particular order: The Sickness Unto Death - Søren Kierkegaard Meditations - Marcus Aureliu...
"it's worth a try" Fair. I'm all for trying too. Trying with one or both eyes open is better than trying blind though. What could go right for humanit...
Why would it? What is meaningfulness or beauty, and why would the inevitability of death add that to life? It's a matter of perspective. We view these...
No. Why not? If so, that is another problem to be fixed. We’re talking about transforming the whole human experience for the better, not just prolongi...
Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence: What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live mu...
I wonder if cheating death is the answer though. Either by prolonging life expectancy further, or by extending life indefinitely. There a many argumen...
Society instructs us that if we peer deep inside our hearts that we will eventually find what makes us happy...There seems to be a strong correlation ...
But I don't think magic tricks and insence would do the trick with our enlightened, rational and technocratic civilization still being around I agree....
My own additional thought is that consumer materialism may be collapsing, so what will come next, philosophically, politically and culturally? Where c...
In any case there is no control of our direction, we ride a huge wild wave without any meaningful way to influence its course. An interesting take. We...
there is little chance of complacency because trends and developments are so rapid. There are just so many voices and it is probably not a case of a d...
Your homiletic position is all about virtue. I care about results. Fair. We can only really assess these results (and the success or failure of the in...
Many of them became 'The Man' in the end I suppose that's the thing with counter culture, you rage against the machine until you end up raging with it...
If they are hopeless and despairing enough, they might blow up the factory, office, or the store--and then where would we be? Or, they might buy into ...
Yes, I think having the ability and courage to challenge the status quo is essential to growth. Complacency is what leads to stagnation. I think philo...
Agreed. I suppose the sense of cultural decline depends on what part of the culture you're looking at. Although, I sometimes wonder about the very rea...
Do they have a purpose and meaning? Maybe. I suppose that comes down to us, trying to interpret them and then creating meaning where there may be none...
Some would argue (Steven Pinker, a primary example) that the world is safer, healthier and happier today than ever before in history. I'm unfamiliar w...
Society is always in decline, always being renewed. Culture rises and falls like waves on the shore. How's the cultural climate? You can't tell in the...
It needs to be said that much of the famous Renaissance and Baroque artwork that the video's creator describes were commissioned by the church or weal...
An interesting take, I too have often wondered about a kind of intellectual stagnation in the contemporary West. It will be interesting to see how thi...
An interesting idea. I've also often pondered this. Our death being the death of the physical body, however, all our molecules, particles and spirit r...
Ok. So. Firstly, I think we are still in the collapse of Christianity as the prevailing worldview (at least from a Western perspective). Essentially, ...
Sorry Jack. I will reply, I always do! I'm just in between shifts at the moment and I work a rotating roster. I've been replying to lots of comments (...
You have provided nothing of the sort. As 180 proof has further demonstrated, all you have done is shown your ability to use discursive reason and lan...
Could very well be the case. I guess as a very rudimentary starting point, perspectives here on the topic would be interesting to read, especially if ...
Let's go back a bit... There are imperatives of reason. A demonstration is itself an appeal to one. For instance, it is an imperative of reason that a...
I think most spiritual paths lead to a cessation of effort, surrender. Indeed. Personally though, I feel this position untenable. The hard or brutal f...
To find out what is right and what is wrong - so, what we are bid do, and what we are bid not do - one uses one's faculty of reason, the mechanism whe...
Personally, I see philosophy and science as going hand in hand. It's the very questions of metaphysical and epistemological importance that then drive...
moral standards are set by God - that is, for an act to be right is for it to be an act God wills us to perform, and for something to be morally good ...
I do think the "feeling alone" or "abandoned" is more a misperception, or an "illness" or a failure to appreciate, a lack of gratitude, amazement, won...
The experiment is self-destructive and from the perspective of us bits, very possibly a failure. If God's bits are capable of becoming God then this i...
what about those of us who find the world wonderful and who enjoy the company of our fellow humans. Who aren't in despair. Who recognize suffering for...
Well, to be fair, this was more stream of consciousness flow from the idea posited in God Debris as per my OP. I don't think my thoughts here are fles...
Define morally perfect, or objective morals. What standard are you measuring man to exactly? What makes us depraved? Are we all depraved? How? Why? Yo...
@"Kenosha Kid" I see what you mean. Poor choice of words in my previous reply to you. Then, I should try to clarify, whether you're a deist, atheist, ...
@"Bartricks" So, let's see if I can align myself here to what you're thinking. Basically, following this idea, our lives are a punishment for a "crime...
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