reply="god must be atheist;467296"] I think there are many other techniques. For expressing anger I have found metal, nu metal and emo harcore music h...
Yes, I believe that psychotherapy is very useful in the process of self understanding. I do believe that it is essential for self development as well ...
The main thing I would say is that I don't believe that any tutor or professor could get away with calling a female student 'a castrating bitch' altho...
I can see Freud's weakness but enjoy reading his writings, so I dare'nt think how some may psychoanalyse me. Actually, I discovered a Primer in Freudi...
Yes, the split between Freud and Jung is interesting. Apparently, it began when the two of them were eating a meal. Freud choked on a fishbone and acc...
I I would demolish the sages and say that perhaps our words which can guide the future. Perhaps we are amateurs but the world that we have known is cr...
Ultimately, I agree with you. Many of us have been driven around the bend with people who have imposed their systems the so called name of truth. Here...
Yes, I do agree ultimately. I do not consider myself as popular, but as a bit of an outsider. If anything it is about survival. We live in a world of ...
I do take on board your expression of Freud's sexism and the ideas of Eastern philosophy and I would welcome this kind of viewpoint as this was part o...
I do not disagree and think that Freud and Jung drew upon the ideas of their time, but point to them as exponents of ideas about the unconscious. I ce...
I think that Joseph Campbell is a long lost prophet but possibly too obscure for many on this site to understand. I chose Freud as a pioneer because I...
I am a bit surprised to hear that you are are checking for signs of dementia because my imaginary picture of you was an extremely young person, probab...
I am sorry if I did appear to have reacted to the book you read a bit prematurely. I believe I saw in WH Smith's at some point. When I come across a p...
Yes, I am glad to meet you on this site. I see that you have started a few conversations.I decided to dive in and write one on Freud. The only thing i...
I disagree with the last comment you made. I think some people are put off by threads which leave a lot of scope for discussion but if anything I beli...
I have just seen thalt I made an error. It was two other writers and not you who included videos. So I apologise for that. Actually, I do believe that...
I think that you are going to a ridiculous extreme in suggesting that we should be 'largely dismissing" the accounts of those who have the near death ...
I do agree that the quest for truth is a goal rather than a static end to be achieved. I dare'nt think what the one truth to end all others would be i...
I think that you are entirely correct in saying that repeated negative experiences and tragedy can disintegrate the will and this is the source of men...
This post is interesting but I think it is probably an old one resurrected. It managed to get me thinking. It seems to me that the problem with the id...
I am not sure that knowledge applies to the external world alone because there is so much which can be gained about inner reality within the work of g...
At least you are honest about it. I have not died but probably take an interest because I have had out of body experiences and probably my interest be...
I am a bit disappointed that you have not engaged in any discussion about the philosophy of near death experiences when it appeared that you wished to...
I have not read Cicero but take your point about possible undertaking of training in thinking. I think that the book you refer to is part of the genre...
Your references are useful and I may try to read them if I can at some point. I think the subject has probably a very extensive body of literature fro...
I am personally inclined to suspend judgement based on the whole issue that the altered states of consciousness may be derived from chemical states in...
I do not see why you think it is the case that the thinking processes will result in us arriving at the same conclusions. I think the more we think th...
Replying to you as a poster what you were proposing is far more interesting. I might try something new starting from the mind and body problem and loo...
I don't see the logic of what you are saying by saying that anyone who created us had the ability to ensure that thought processes led to the same con...
To some extent I see what you are saying. That is why I am waiting to see what happens. The only problem is that the originator of the thread, as far ...
I really was hoping that you were going to write a serious discussion on the philosophy near death experiences, so I might be tempted to do so because...
I think that a near death experiences is a very good idea because it is clear topic for debate, central to the whole mind and body problem, but it nee...
I am writing at 3am, unable to sleep as often, and I think that comfort is fine if you have it but I am not sure that it is a real goal in philosophy....
It is hard engaging in deep conversations without without engaging with people in fleshand blood, almost a soliptist reality at times. I get a bit upt...
I only found this response today because sometimes my messages don't show up immediately to forgo on my phone. Sometimes I get them immediately and an...
It is difficult because all of us have our own opinions about what should be said or not. I think that the main issue is of respect for others opinion...
I think that you have to embark on this adventure to find out. I have no clear answers and I am a fellow traveller but I do believe that the personal ...
I was certainly not trying to connect you in a pedantic way. I struggle with writing on my mobile phone. Anything I write, is to be taken in the spiri...
I don't claim to be any expert but I am inclined to think that the solution to your quest might be about looking within oneself rather than to the lar...
I like the comment about us but what I was playing with our toys but I knocked my phone while I was writing. I play daily with my books and music and ...
I do see what you are saying because philosophy has become more of a closed academic profession. I am not part of the academia so I feel able to open ...
I think that I may have replied to you in another thread, saying about premonitions, but that was why I wrote the Towee of Babel thread even if it was...
I am interested in your remarks about clairvoyant because as a teenager I had lots of premonitions. Some of them were premonitions of people's deaths ...
I am not sure that it is that simple because the ancient civilisation were perhaps different from ours. Life may be more than the satisfaction of surv...
I am drawn to mystical ideas. I think it could be productive for creating fantastic art and literature. I love the art of Alex Grey and in a many resp...
While it is true that we are influenced so much by the past I think that it is easy to become a victim of it. The experience we have do affect us so m...
I used to believe in unconditional love, thinking that Carl Rogers philosophy on the subject was a wonderful basis for psychotherapy interventions and...
Your concern that philosophy is about deep, mysterious questions which remain unanswered points to the way in which even published philosophers often ...
Comments