Jack Cummins

Of course sexuality is the missing part of this discussion because it is the biggest shadow of religion. When I was struggling with ideas of an unpard...

Perhaps, as Jung argued the picture of God, as portrayed in the Biblical Jahweh story, has a wrathful side. This is in contrast to the forgiveness of ...

I think that the whole whole historical development of Christianity drew upon fear. In particular, the canon of teachings put together by the early Ch...

I replied to you but wrote it in response to your comment in the thread about resurrection accidentally.

I meant to send this response to the thread I started on the unpardonable sin and I accidentally sent it to this one instead. That was after I decided...

I I think my own fear really falls into the scope of the psychology of religion than theology. The only theology I have read was about the problem of ...

I don't think I have a big fear of committing sins now, but I managed to convince myself that I had committed the sin during the night before starting...

I agree that Hinduism does think that there is planning for the soul but I am not sure that the idea of soul debt is exactly the same as a soul contra...

I don't know if this is relevant to your debate but junk DNA may be a missing link. There is a body of scientific thought that while only 2 strands we...

As no one replied I will say that I think the idea of a soul contract is not really a part of mainstream religion but more of an idea associated with ...

You wrote this 5 hours ago and no one has responded but, possibly out of my depths as usual, I am daring to speak. Your debate is one which embraces t...

I think that there are plenty of books on the new age fringe about consciousness and out of body states. But there is little connection between that a...

Yes, I have been meandering around the shopping centre thinking the answer I wrote what I really really believe. It came from the repudiation of near ...

I am not sure that the fact that bodily age and mental age do not match is an argument in favour of dualism. This is because it only suggests that the...

I personally have read Blavatsky and Alice Bailey and other esoteric writers, especially Rudolph Steiner. I think these views have a lot to contribute...

Yes, I do agree with you that philosophy can be seen as a 'zero start' for examination of truth, even if this creates many problems. I suppose this is...

I sent my reply to Pinprick whereas you started the discussion. I am writing from London, so drug culture may be different in other places. But what w...

What I would like to see would be legal availability of psychedelics. But there would probably need to be the right environment. I am definitely not t...

I don't really consider myself a real academic but find your discussion of quantum physics as a challenge to logical possibilities as an extremely int...

I am most certainly prepared to read the antinatalist philosophy. I am prepared to read all views because reading is the one thing I find easier to do...

I can appreciate a bit of doom and gloom. If you saw my CD collection. I embrace Joy Division, Nirvana and even a bit of Slipknot, not forgetting Korn...

I frequently beat myself up feeling useless at times. When I had a job I used to compare myself with higher achievers and I probably have a problem of...

I am replying to your question as to whether there is a consensus to the highest ideals and aspirations. I don't think that there is an actual consens...

I think you are being rather concrete in your thinking. Perhaps you think that the idea of philosophy being a game undervalued the tasks of the philos...

Perhaps life is like a jigsaw puzzle but not a static one, because the overall picture changes too sometimes as well. You begin with edges, building u...

I do believe that there are many unanswered questions in philosophy. But I am struggling, with the bombardment of academic questions and those about t...

I definitely agree that philosophy is not supportive therapy. It is love of wisdom, but why does that only "partly depend on finding the truth''?

Actually, the reason I did engage in discussions with the people with views that human beings would be best not existing was because I wished to under...

Yes, you are quite right. It is best to ignore some threads if the discussion doesn't seem helpful. I did not make any response to the one on murder b...

I am not sure what you are saying at all. I think discussion about limits, extremes and desires are worth discussing if that is what you mean.

So, you have procreated and I have not but you are the one recommending procreation. I find life difficult struggle with depression daily and you say ...

I just noticed a typing error in my comment it should have read that you(or I ) will NOT bring children into the world. I just thought I had better cl...

Basically, it seems that you are saying that you think it is better if the human race does not exist. If you really believe this you entitled to your ...

I do not agree with your basic logic. You say that once a person is living that there is a drive to keep on living and this makes sense, with referenc...

I think a key issue that you are pointing to is the need to see the self as an interior viewpoint rather and this leads to fluidity in self perception...

Surely, your complex 4 step argument is simply saying that each one of us has to realise our subjective identity and viewpoint in a world of others wi...

Of course you are entitled to any viewpoint which you wish to have but I do have one true memory which might be useful for you to reflect upon. I used...

I know that you say that Shopenhauer1 is saying that life is not worth starting rather than living but the logic of this is not rational. Any belief t...

I am not really seeing the point you are making about not bringing people into the world because who is going to stop them. Surely you are not wanting...

So, you think the best solution is to avoid bringing new human beings into the world. I have never brought another human into the world personally but...

Worry can create sleepless nights and misery. But of course it is better to be conscious of sources of misery than in denial or manic flight. It would...

You say that we have agency to prevent pain but this is not a straightforward. Yes, certainly through choices we make now, such as one's made by gover...

Surely, it doesn't have to be a definite yes or know. Some people fall apart amidst pain and suffering whereas others learn and are transformed. There...

Actually, I responded to Frank and I think what you have said is along the same line as my reply. This is fairly possible because I am influenced by t...

I am not sure that I actually meant that change is the death of something. My basic point was that we face the darkness within our own consciousness a...

Yes, my life has always been a bit blurry between fact and fiction, but it is a bit hard to explain on a website. I had 3 friends die tragic deaths in...

Perhaps the apocalypse has already happened in various ways, and we are already entering a post-apocalyptic era. The post apocalyptic is the stuff of ...

Why is there lack of available time? What is more important?;We have all day and nights, unless we choose to sleep and be so immersed in the mundane. ...

Yes, we need to get beyond justifying our life choices as that of a superman. Surely philosophy is about engaging with the large questions of reality ...

You say that you don't want to get into this debate, but why? Are you afraid of the negative or positive possibilities of exploration?