Jack Cummins

I think that your idea of 'forced' belief is interesting, because in some ways ideas can be enforced in childhood and later as a form of subconscious ...

You are suggesting that it is not possible to know a falsehood and I think that it is so much easier to know falsehoods than 'truth' itself. We can sa...

I think that your concept of faith as the emotional aspect of belief is important because human beings are not guided by reason alone, but by a comple...

I have been reading this thread a few days late and one aspect of discussion which I think is interesting is the question of delusions and illusions. ...

I thank everyone for the comments in the thread and I apologise that I haven't been able to engage in it in the last few days due to personal circumst...

I thank you and others for replying. I think that the 'personal meanings' aspect is an important area of questioning beliefs. There is a major differe...

I am writing this thread with a view to wider consideration of the nature of belief and how it figures In the scope of knowledge and ideas. I wish to ...

I am not sure that links to your views on my thread are particularly helpful, because' it goes beyond that, into the nature of what is considered to b...

I am afraid that I don't know how to edit my post on my phone. At the moment, I have some of the writing showing up as red and struggling with this, b...

Dear God, Please could you tell me to what extent YOUR own philosophy can be described by the language of religion or science? Thank you, Jack

Your questions do raise the question as to what extent are ideas related to autobiographical constructs? On this forum, it varies so much how much peo...

It's not so much that I don't wish to respond to your posts but some of it seems more about me as a person, which goes beyond philosophy. I will look ...

Okay, I won't force the issue. I only opened the thread with a view to discussion of Jung's idea of synchronicity, to know what people think about the...

But, do you think that everything can be proved or disproved through official 'experiments'. The main reason why I chose not to do a degree in psychol...

I think that your topic raises the whole area of what is going on as the unseen. Some believe that there is no God and others in a deity. I think that...

I think that the point about 'private conviction without corroborative issues'raises an interesting but slightly different discussion insofar as it is...

I have read your recent posts and I can see the problem of bias, in interpretation of synchronicity as one aspect of life, but I think that the issue ...

@"180 Proof" I am all in favour of scientific explanations and theories and do not think we should just make up beliefs. However, I think that even sc...

I agree that the relationship between science and metaphysics is complex. As a child I was so puzzled by so much, especially the nature of time and sc...

I think that there are various kinds of synchronicities, some more important than others. On a basic level, it is just simple patterns. I can give a v...

I definitely think that the foreshadowing of premonitions is connected to the nature of time and its direction of flow or arrow. When I first spent ti...

I think that sanity and madness are culturally constructed. I have read some of the writings of Foucault and even some RD Laing and antipsychiatry. I ...

I agree with you about the problematic nature of methodological naturalism. I think that some of the issues about chance and determinism and our perce...

I have been reading your ideas on chaos. I think that it is especially relevant to the idea of chance. As far as I am aware chaos theory is about a ba...

It is a kind of foreshadowing of meeting the person I know in a premonitionary way. The premonitions I had as a teenager were scary though, such as th...

I am not sure how Will Smith has become the focus in the thread. I see synchronicity as being more an aspect of the psycho-spiritual experience. My ow...

What I found was that it comes down to what is considered to be the 'true' self which may emerge when one loses oneself, or the false self. How much i...

I remember being told as a teenager that we need to lose ourselves to find ourselves, which seemed like empty rhetoric. I felt that the person who tol...

I am not entirely convinced by materialism but I thought that your answer was very good. Understanding and explaining human experiences is very comple...

Do you think that the perspective of materialism, or naturalism, is completely adequate for the explanation of the many varying aspects of human exper...

I am not sure about your interpretation of the idea of karma. It is an extremely complex topic and I feel that you are interpreting it is in the conte...

I have thought about the post which you wrote on the importance of attention and I believe that it is important but it is not just attention to the ou...

Thanks for your reply and links. I think that the connection between synchronicity and serependity is interesting, because it is about our own role in...

I know that we have discussed synchronicity on a number of occasions and, having started this thread I can see that people clearly view the matter dif...

I have been listening to the new album by The Manic Street Preachers 'Ultra Vivid Lament' and I think that it is the best album which I have heard for...

I am not sure how useful St Anslem's arguments are for us because we live with such different perspectives of the world. I think that part of the prob...

It is interesting to see you putting the question of God's existence down to logical equations because recently I have been thinking it is a matter of...

I know that you are definitely not trying to make a case for Christianity or Catholicism, but I come from the perspective of having been socialised wi...

You speak of romanticising and I wonder how much any system of belief involves this because we may fall in love with ideas and become attached to them...

I find that reading the accounts of the Celtic, North Americans to be so helpful as another way of 'seeing' in contrast to the ones which I was taught...

I think that your question is interesting and it involves the personal aspect of the mind and body problem . We are embodied beings, but personal iden...

I definitely believe that intuition has an important role in our construction of knowledge, as well as the widest scope of imagination for being able ...

I think that your reply about talking to others is interesting because it raises the question of how much is about self knowledge, and how much is abo...

Thanks for your reply and I do believe that you may be right that mind destroys information. There are so many complex questions which involve aspects...

I was a bit startled when a guest speaker on this site who was a transhumanist, David Pearce, spoke of people having head replacements. Also, we have ...

Good to hear you sing one of your poems.

I find that whether working or doing creative activities some days just flow so much better than others, with or without hemlock. It can be like being...

I am wondering how it varies from culture to culture as well as in different times. I was rather surprised by how mundane some of the discussion on th...

In a way, the metaphysical poets were trying to juxtapose 'the sublime and the mundane', but it was in a rather different way from contemporary modes ...

Thanks for your contributions to my thread and I will continue reading and thinking as deeply as I can.