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Jack Cummins

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Imagination is an important factor in navigating the processes of flow. One suggestion which I have come across by a few authors is that of living one...
September 13, 2025 at 17:46
it is true that the past is more fixed than the unknown of the future. I am aware of the idea in neurolinguist programming that the past can be remade...
September 13, 2025 at 09:49
In some ways, the idea of living in the moment is a best-selling idea because many would like to do so but cannot. Part of the problem is that the pre...
September 13, 2025 at 09:36
I haven't read the book the book by Ram Dass but maybe the album 'Be Here Now', by Oasis was named after it (the album was released on a critical day,...
September 13, 2025 at 09:25
It is hard to know how much is about splitting the past and future, or how much is holding on to the consequences of what has happened and likely occu...
September 13, 2025 at 09:07
I wonder to what extent fear of the future is fear of death. Psychoanalytic thinkers have spoken of the idea of the 'nameless dread', which may be so ...
September 12, 2025 at 22:18
Having written this thread, I am wondering how this issue relates to the nature of evolution of consciousness. For some lifeforms the survival instinc...
September 12, 2025 at 21:11
It could be seen that way, but if analytical aspects of philosophy are viewed above experience, including the sensory, philosophy could be seen as obs...
September 12, 2025 at 19:30
The difference between self-help and philosophy may be about the analytic concepts of philosophy and the pragmatic aspects of life. This is most obvio...
September 12, 2025 at 19:26
I am not sure to what extent the problem which I raise fits into the philosophy of time, or as an aspect of how one lives and living wisdom. I have re...
September 12, 2025 at 18:43
Pantheism is so different from most forms of theism, because it emphasises immanence and processes. The 'God' is not 'out there' as a supreme judge, b...
September 12, 2025 at 16:52
It does seem that the idea of 'God' is often accompanied by ideas of divine justice, especially the idea of punishment for wrongdoing in the afterlife...
September 12, 2025 at 16:46
Thank you for your concern and friends tell me that I need to find somewhere else to live. It is not easy to find accommodation though and I have move...
September 10, 2025 at 18:14
I am not, therefore I don't think.
September 10, 2025 at 13:01
I guess that my reference to brutality and violence is because it has come so much more real for me. I have been attacked 3 times in the last year and...
September 09, 2025 at 04:53
The discussion bounces because there are so many possible choices in values. It is also hard to know how useful it is to lament the loss of human valu...
September 09, 2025 at 04:43
Exactly, that was my initial starting point. Every detail counts significantly in the whole. Even on this forum, every member plays an important part ...
September 09, 2025 at 04:36
I have come across British people who have been to Australia and loved it for that reason. In many ways, individuals' experience of how significant th...
September 09, 2025 at 00:32
The Christian value upon each person as special and beloved by God was problematic insofar as it led to exploitation of other beings, mainly animals. ...
September 08, 2025 at 21:04
Grandiosity may well spring from low self worth, with the need for pretence of one's importance. It can often swing into the sense of 'failure' and a ...
September 08, 2025 at 20:47
The culture of individualism gave rise to an inflated sense of the worth of the self, even grandiosity. It came with an emphasis on personal expectati...
September 08, 2025 at 14:16
I like your full consideration of your own personal significance. Each person exists for oneself and others. There is the question of one's own inner ...
September 06, 2025 at 12:17
Of course, from the standpoint of one's own ego consciousness, if one does not exist it would not matter. But if Wayfarer had not existed it might mak...
September 06, 2025 at 11:35
Yes, conceptualizing a world without oneself is a cognitive problem. It is possible to imagine a world after one's death, but that in itself is fantas...
September 06, 2025 at 08:02
I am inclined to see time as cyclical, so both past and present are about about dynamic patterns. In that respect, it is potentiality and actuality, a...
September 06, 2025 at 07:50
I am glad that someone else has thought about this question. While it is speculative reflection, it is not completely abstract. It is true that no one...
September 05, 2025 at 23:54
I guess that I am just imagining oneself as negative space, which is only fantasised projection in the sense of removing oneself from pathways of caus...
September 05, 2025 at 23:44
Seeing oneself at the centre of everything, or as having a peripheral role can be a shifting aspect of perspective. There can be extremes of inflation...
September 05, 2025 at 23:28
The ripples of desires and actions are complex. I have come across suggestions like it can be useful to determine the significance of a life event if ...
September 05, 2025 at 23:13
It may be dark.rumination to wonder about what could have been different, with regret. I probably started out conceiving of my own existence during ch...
September 05, 2025 at 23:03
Generally, there has been so much harm done by religious beliefs although some find great comfort in them. It is not just religious wars but religious...
September 04, 2025 at 06:21
I wonder what Spinoza, and many of us philosophers would have made of quantum physics. I won't deliberate on this because it comes down to models of '...
September 03, 2025 at 16:35
Telepathy, like premonitions, is an interesting phenomena. There are science explanations but they only show the hardwiring. They may point to the way...
September 03, 2025 at 09:17
Language may not capture the full nature of the divine or numinous experience. The silence of meditation experiences may capture this, as does those w...
September 03, 2025 at 09:05
Epicurus is correct to see the gods as representing moral ideals. This is the foundation of mythic reality. Within Christianity, for example, the 'imi...
September 01, 2025 at 17:22
Yes, in thinking of the idea of God, it is worth considering what that would entail. When I was a teenager (Catholic) I conceived of it as the Trinity...
September 01, 2025 at 16:59
In the two scenarios which you describe it is possible that there is no difference. So, it may be that the idea of an afterlife, which often is associ...
August 31, 2025 at 15:00
Obviously, I am sure that many people in philosophy circles would scorn the process superstition. For those who pray, it is to whichever God one belie...
August 31, 2025 at 14:52
Whether one's ideas about reality are 'delusions' or not is culture dependent. The standard idea of delusion is if one's ideas are not shared by other...
August 31, 2025 at 09:04
Yes, who is or what is your god? That is a good question if the capital G of God is removed. It doesn't matter if it is nature or a higher, transcende...
August 31, 2025 at 08:47
The idea of God as the first cause is one amongst many others. This is so different from the idea of a personal relationship with God which is held by...
August 31, 2025 at 05:57
I do agree with you that the idea of 'God' varies in meaning, or meaninglessness, from person to person. The definitive arguments for or against the e...
August 31, 2025 at 05:52
I updated the thread title. It was a thread I started some time ago in the past, which resurfaced. I have updated the title to reflect the direction i...
August 29, 2025 at 21:10
I am aware that the angle which you come from is a slightly different one of asking how important the question is. This may really be the central one ...
August 29, 2025 at 20:55
The question of separation from 'God' is interesting and I also can relate to Eastern metaphysics. For example, Buddhism doesn't speak of a specific d...
August 29, 2025 at 18:35
It is interesting that Bohm's model may be nearer to Spinoza's model than to that of Plato. I do struggle with reading Spinoza and it is possible that...
August 29, 2025 at 17:58
I agree with both mind/matter as essential and wonder about how this totally may be 'God', Human beings could be conceived as cells of consciousness, ...
August 29, 2025 at 17:44
With the question of God (or gods) as a Being, that is where the idea of the supernatural realm comes in. Some religious thinkers even posit the idea ...
August 28, 2025 at 16:05
I am trying to square the circle for myself of the issue of non-duality with Platonism. That is why I am in the midst of reading Murdoch's interpretat...
August 28, 2025 at 15:32
Fuererbach's 'projections' raise the question as to whether God created man in his own image or vice versa. Ultimately, this is a matter of speculatio...
August 27, 2025 at 07:36