Jack Cummins

You suggest that at some point we wake up. This is not an established, so perhaps you could expand your point of view in a bit further detail.

Yes, I am undecided about the whole possibility of life after death, but think about it a lot. It is such a difficult question, but I think it one wor...

[reply="Pop;d9774" This debate could be seen as going back to the position of whether existence precedes essence l, as stressed by Sartre. It is hard ...

] I am glad that you are joining into the debate. I am inclined to think that the dissolution of the ego is central to the discussion but I do not thi...

Perhaps you could tell me more about parallel universes as a possibility beyond the mortality of the physical body.

Your discussion of being brain dead is interesting. Although, of course, this is the perspective of those who declare the person to be brain dead. Can...

You say that we are not conscious after death. I am unsure if you are meaning to say that we cease to exist at all. It may seem obvious that we do not...

Yes, sometimes it is hard to pay attention to the body as a being of consciousness in the material world. I have to admit that I sometimes become dish...

I like your writing and would like to believe that what you are saying is true. I do believe in the importance of waking up, whether in another life o...

I hope that you get back to me if you die before me. I hope that I can manage to log into the site if I am up to it.Despite wondering if I would have ...

I am concerned about the history of humanity and where we are going. I agree that ideologies are a problem in the sense that they are ideas involving ...

I do not believe in any one simplistic definition of human nature but incorporated ideas from psychoanalysis and other psychological traditions and se...

I think that the main reason why so many people are starting to become isolated is that there are so many people in certain areas, that is easy for ce...

Without going back to the beginning of the question of human nature, because it has been the whole thread discussion, I would say that the whole way w...

I think that part of the problem is that people do not really live in actual communities in all parts of the world, especially England. It also depend...

I do agree here that the whole question of finding value when confronting a challenge or in the face of adversity. And, yes, does one give up, or fant...

Unfortunately, the country I live in is failing to provide the basics for many. Perhaps, in the past the majority were in relative comfort but not now...

What you describe about community in your society is a sharp contrast to the one I am familiar with in England where there is a whole culture of mater...

I am afraid that I do not understand the logic of what you are saying. The only posts I have seen by you were in the thread on Kant's moral view, so i...

I was a little confused about the full basis of your argument . Can you explain in what way you believe that destructive elements of human nature will...

I think that what you are saying is very important because duration of suffering is particularly important. But I would say it applies to psychologica...

I do not see why you believe that we need to find a new specific moral law. We have had systems of rules in the past ranging from the Ten Commandments...

Reading through your comments made earlier today it seems that you are concerned about the destructive potential of human nature. There are many aspec...

I read your posts and I know that you come from the Phillipines, which I am sure is very different from England. I have known work colleagues from the...

In some respects I agree with you but I have seen the subcultural aspects of life. I have spent time in Camden, mixed with the downtrodden and walked ...

Yes, I am still thinking about your response and how it compares to my experience. It probably depends on where one lives in the world and also the so...

Perhaps I come from a different world to you because I have most certainly seen the darker side of 'normal'. And I really don't whether your view is t...

There are so many varieties of experiences of being alone. In the first you describe most people would ignore the red light as no one is likely to be ...

I think we need elegant writing in the future of philosophy.

I have read a bit of John Dewey and Henri Bergson. I downloaded Bergson's Creative Evolution onto my kindle and started reading it but now the book wo...

I think it is the gist of his philosophy. I have read La Nausea. I plan to read Being and Nothingness at some stage, but have not managed it yet. One ...

So are you suggest that when no one is looking 'we do what is most convenient.' I am interested in what you are saying because there are discrepancies...

I am definitely interested in the symbolic dimensions of philosophy, as I am influenced by the ideas of Carl Jung. Generally, I would say that I am sp...

I realise that my question does overlap in some ways with the questions in the thread about science straying too far into philosophy. However, I devel...

Thank you for your replies and I see that you both see the arts and sciences as a two converging threads. However, the main angle I was coming from wa...

Thanks and yes an IPad may be an answer at some point, but I really I want to make art and write but it does seem everything has to be done online now...

Thank you and peace to you. I had better go and make peace with my mum too. I am staying with her at the moment and she gets so fed up with me reading...

No, I do accept your references and it is funny really. That is because I have about 1000 books on my Kindle(including fiction). I also have so many p...

I can assure you that I was not the originator of the Bad Arguments thread at all. I am not dismissing your reference and will bear try to read it at ...

I do appreciate that you gave a link to many references but what you did in giving me a link is exactly the way I described in the bad arguments threa...

Thanks for your link to wikipedia but I do think that wikipedia is only a basic discussion and I was hoping that this site is able to go a bit deeper ...

Strictly speaking, I was not referring to the humanities when speaking of the arts, but art, literature and music. Of course, it is a whole spectrum w...

I am glad that someone on this site understands(and makes) black metal music. I enjoy this genre, including bands like Envy and Isis. Perhaps it is an...

Okay, I accept what you are saying and I do not consider myself as a scientist. Perhaps my question about the life spark is more relevant to some othe...

Reading through your discussion, it appears to me that the underlying question is what is the source of the spark of consciousness?

I think that some times people overuse links in arguments. I am not saying that they are not valid and worthwhile. However, if they are just included ...

In the way which you speak of ideology you could view ideology and the Kantian system of view. However, I would say that in a consideration of ethical...

I will stand by what I said in my previous comment about having found great moments reading and about freedom being a state of mind. But I am someone ...

Yes, I do see your point. I am have found some freedom amidst restrictions. When the weather is up to it I have spent some great moments reading and w...

You may be living in a different part of the world, England, but currently I feel that I have barely any freedom left. I know that it is lockdown and ...