Jack Cummins

I do not answer any of the questions which I have raised purely in terms of theism and atheism. I think that people who wrote the Bible wrote from spe...

Okay, maybe I am stuck in my thinking, but I am not sure that many other people are not stuck equally in their own perspectives. The question may be w...

I do agree that individuals' questions arise from their own personal lives and construction of meaning. I woke up earlier than usual on the last coupl...

I am sorry if you find my understanding of existence to be rather abstract, but I am coming from the position of being a living being, as I imagine th...

I am not really wondering about sickness. But, I do believe that so much lies behind the superficial, including causation. How would you explain the q...

But, I believe that you are missing the question of what lies behind it all. Of course, we may have sickness, as well as health, but I pointing more t...

Interesting, but I am left wondering beyond this. We have the claims of Darwin about evolution, and we exist as individuals, in the real world, but I ...

I agree that anything can happen, and life is full of the unexpected. I am sure that my question may be regarded as ridiculous, and may have been addr...

I don't live in the U.S, so I am afraid that I don't know what the education is like there. I barely know what the English one is like currently like ...

I do agree that understanding emotions is extremely important. I wonder if you are suggesting that I am not putting my emotions into this. You must re...

I can see what you are saying about standing poised on the shore, and, of all things I will admit that I never managed to swim and I hated even going ...

Thanks for your response, and I just hadn't replied because I answered ones from today. Your article link is useful because it is a study of the way t...

I didn't mean to evade the question, but I am really looking two days after reading your posts. Of course, it could be that it is a blindspot of mine,...

We are back with the question of opposites and the nature of continuum. I imagine that all the binary aspects remain as binaries, but in real life how...

I think that the main thing to remember is that even though the structure of the brain has a basis in neuroscience, it is only a model. Gilchrist is s...

I have juggled mixed messages. When I was about 18 or 19 I was reading Jung's ideas which were extremely esoteric and attending Christian youth meetin...

Thanks for your extremely interesting reply. The question of good and evil in relation to the right and left is extremely important, even though I don...

I am now replying to your response from a couple of days ago. I think that it interesting how one understands intellectualization in relation to reaso...

I don't understand why John Locke was writing threads because he didn't write any replies to anyone's comments. This meant that he was not really invo...

Okay, its play on Russell, and I will try and read his essay, but in the context of a thread on God the title does play with more. Also, even though I...

I don't really consider myself as a theist, atheist or agnostic because I find all the labels to be b a little bit inadequate and restrictive. However...

I do plan to answer the couple of replies on this thread but not immediately. This is because I am in bed sick with a sore throat. I don't think it is...

I wasn't aware that it went that far and I understood the thread was simply closed due to inactivity over the weekend. I can see that the a moderator ...

To you or anyone else who replies, I will have to write a fuller response tomorrow. That is because I didn't go to bed last night because I lost my ke...

I tend to rationalise my own experiences a lot, but I have worked on this as far as possible, reading about emotional intelligence. I am also poor at ...

But, it may be that Amen has not even logged onto a computer today, because people aren't on 24 hour call 7 days a week and have other things which th...

I believe that we need to try to incorporate the four functions which Jung describes: feeling, reasoning, sensation and intuition. Most people have a ...

That's interesting because I always got on better at drawing and writing and am extremely poor at most practical tasks. No one ever looked into this a...

I think about the question of good art and bad art a lot. There may be certain standards, even ones deemed as professional, but it is extremely hard t...

If only it was simulation. As it is, I phone home to my mother and update her each evening, tidy up my bed, wash, stop looking at my phone before goin...

But, I don't play video games, or even have a way of playing them and I feel that I am on a quest daily, in real life interaction, this site, finding ...

I do agree that the idea of loneliness, depression, and extreme suffering can be seen as potential grounds for suicide, but this may come in the conte...

This is an interesting new slant on the mind and body problem. Do we love a person for their mind or their body, and how do we separate the two? What ...

If the death of God was really established as an ultimate truth, I am sure that you would have been able to talk about it in the main philosophy secti...

I can see problems with the idea of God that you are describing, and that is if there is a God, and this being is a person, it would mean in a wider a...

I believe that your idea of a creative arc does make sense, but the only thing which I believe that it misses is the way in which life circumstances p...

I think that some people believe that 'the new age' has passed, but, at the same time, I do believe that many people are becoming more conscious of so...

I think that you are really talking more about the ideals for civilisation because if, for example, you are talking about free health care, but with n...

I thought that Apollodorus is in England, and, as far I can see in England, accent is low down on the scale of importance, but I am in London, where p...

I am so fed up with various people going on about the "debate' between Proof and Amen in various threads, and creating links to it over and over again...

I think that the idea of the shamanic journey is so interesting. The shaman is the archetypal healer, who voyages to the lower and upper world. What I...

Welcome to the forum, and I am sure you will get replies which are more optimistic. Your question does give scope to think about what works and what d...

I wonder if the reason why you can't find a list of attributes for the best possible civilisation is because it depends on the attributes of the speci...

The writer who I believe may be useful for you to read is Simon Weil. I understand that she wrote about social concerns, oppression, liberty, love, an...

I have experienced many out of body experiences, and that makes it difficult to generalise. I am probably not in the position of thinking purely about...

I think that the idea of of hallucinogenic trips is important. One of my 2 LSD trips included me looking into the mirror and seeing the wall around me...

The Oedipus complex is a complex and questionable idea. It has a basis in the mythical ideas of 'Oedipus Rex', but it is so hard to know on what level...

I have definitely had what appeared to be out of body experiences on a number of occasions, most often on the borderline of sleep. I can remember one ...

I think that Klein's discussion of the processes of projective identification, as well as her idea of the depressive and schizoid position are importa...

I am just following up the discussion about 'Totem and Taboo' briefly. I read the book a long time ago on a religious studies module. My understanding...