Jack Cummins

Yes, I am not against capitalism in itself and can see the value of the ideas of Adam Smith. But, as you say, it is a problem if not regulated and mat...

Do you think that the pandemic will have any impact on capitalism? I have wondered if it will make an even greater divide between the wealthy and the ...

I have read your reply a few times. I have done some more reading of Kant on knowledge and morals, but I have not read his writings on aesthetics at a...

I agree that greed and stupidity are problems and probably a lot of people don't have the motivation to overcome them. Do you have any ideas on how th...

I agree with you that we need science to come up with answers. We also probably need wisdom. With conspiracy theories, if taken concretely they lead u...

I am not making any judgements about your mental state but about the tone of the writing. But I don't really feel that we should continue this convers...

I don't see the relevance of the question. Most of the people on this site are more anonymous than I am. We are not meant to have disclose our persona...

You see you project straight back. When I interact with you, I come away so frustrated. You seem to write with such a tone of passive aggression. I th...

You write very good thread questions and I think that you should take pride in that. But, I think that you need to look into yourself more rather than...

What do you propose as a better tool than philosophy? I would certainly say that we need other disciplines but surely philosophy is one which can lead...

Okay, you have written three paragraphs but reading through them, that is what appears to be the subtle underlying message. I am also answering the ti...

If you really think philosophy is such a waste of time why do you keep writing posts? As it is, I think that many people do regard philosophy as a was...

I am not sure that we do know what to do exactly, but you make some good points. As far as the pandemic is concerned, even if people follow guidelines...

I am not opposed to the thread as it obviously has given rise to a lot of opinions that could not be expressed anywhere else. I can see deeper convers...

Okay, I will say no more and just log into the threads of interest to me.

I do see that there are other threads and I am busy reading and writing on these. It just seems that in the last few days since the one particular one...

What the problem is though is that some people engage in meaningful political discussions and others just are attacking each other. But another proble...

Actually, on this occasion I agree with you completely. It will just become another thread dominated mostly by people attacking one other, but it is b...

I think that the whole state of crisis is of concern, not just the US. Please don't take this as a personal criticism, because it applies to many thre...

I am in no position to criticise you or certainly not the published authors which inspired you. What I would say is that I think the use of jargon if ...

I have edited my title because the thread began with the pandemic and has looked at that on a general level of impacting on our lives and the personal...

I agree with what you are saying and it makes more sense than the theoretical beginning of your thread. I think you could probably blend theory and re...

I found it amusing that you googled the philosophy of disasters and found my name. However, in a way I am not that surprised but that is why I try to ...

I find that the opposite happens to me. If I try to meditate, I start off with many distractions, ranging from worries to distractions from noise or b...

I just think you are being too theoretical. You need to back up what you are saying with reference to the experiences of life in order for the argumen...

I have no training in music but I gravitated towards record shops at about 8 years old and would have loved to work in one. I do believe that music is...

I am glad that you have found the forum. I have read some but not all of Plato. Apart from being boring, life would be entirely different without Plat...

I would love to discuss mindfulness but your post is so theoretical. Are you opposing mindfulness, because it is extremely hard to make sense of what ...

Yes, life is too stressful. Even though I am so relieved that my mum was negative for Covid_19 I have not recovered really from all the anxiety of yes...

I also believe that we cannot know for certain what lies within the meanings we see within the works of the arts, whether it is really there or in our...

Yes, we are surfacing on another thread and I am in agreement against nuclear weapons. Perhaps more miracles are what we need on this site.

We are now shifting suggestions into the arena of life which is a new interesting take on your thread. I am not a big fan of parks but right now I wou...

I realise that you are only making suggestions and I am probably getting wound up not with you really but because life is so difficult with lockdown r...

The reason why your thread is making me extremely anxious is that I am so grateful for this site and fear it will cease to exist or be altered too muc...

I am sorry to say that your thread is making me feel really angry. You are making assumptions that everyone wants this forum to be article dominated. ...

I think that you make a really good point in saying how the pandemic is a situation in which we are all affected. I think on that level it can raise a...

I think that we have to take responsibility for what we write rather than leave it to the mods. Surely we don't want them to have to keep intervening ...

I just saw an article on my phone saying that scientists have noticed that the world is spinning faster than it has ever done in 50 years in 2021. The...

I am writing a joint reply because it seems most appropriate because I just had a scare that my mother had Covid_19. I got a phone call this evening, ...

I started reading this today and it seems to follow on in some ways to the thread on is art creative and I was in agreement with you on the qualitativ...

From my point of view, you are starting a very interesting discussion about the ideas of Victor Frankl. I have not read him as much as I wish. What I ...

I know that you wish to end the conversation but I do think that there is some quality discussion on the site and you have not found it such junk as t...

I am not saying that I don't want to see quality material but that in having to submit work it would destroy all the spontaneity and probably drive ma...

I am certainly not wishing to dismiss the inner world and wrote a thread on it less than a fortnight ago. However, I did feel that a lot of people obj...

I I think that the suggestions you make would be the worst possibility, mainly the idea of dividing it into accepted articles and conversations. This ...

The other issue is that, in some ways, the self can be seen as illusory, in the sense that the Buddhists describe, as not being static, but a viewpoin...

Arthur Janov claims that the experience prior to birth is anything but basic in his book, 'The Primal Scream'. I think that in early childhood I was a...

I think what you are talking about really is what is called the ego by psychologists, and is the conscious entity which makes decisions. It could be c...

The whole question is at what point does consciousness first emerge. Is it a spark which arises at conception and flickers out eventually at death. A ...

I ended my dialogue with you yesterday evening because I had to phone my landlord because the electric socket on the wall was making noises. However, ...