"If the people are so stupid that they are substituting comic book super heroes for gods then I ask again, why do they imitate and try to be super her...
"and so they retreat to the idyllic past, but here the image of the past is itself distorted, projected as a kind of utopia from which mankind has dep...
" I am being open about my interests." Are you saying open, Jack, in the sense that you are not hiding anything? Or open from the sense of being open ...
"Your reality. With so many millions of people throughout the world worshiping gods who are the creators of everything not many view their god as a si...
"but the movies are only a very small part of that." How many times in history do we overlook this kind of propaganda by dismissing it as of little or...
"God on the other hand can be asked for help any time you want to, and occasionally it comes." This is my point. God protects us and we call him when ...
"But what if the truth is not to your liking, what then?" What does that have to do with it??? The truth is the truth. Emotion, bias etc are immateria...
" The philosopher needs to be a visionary, not a romantic dreamer, not a shamanic traveller, finding radical healing solutions". The philosopher needs...
I think you replied to the wrong person because it was me who wrote the comment. "It is fine if you wish to hold onto conventional categories of man a...
"Your comment about gender seems really fundamentalist in saying God created humans as Adam and Eve, a primary binary construction. How about a gender...
"On the gender front people are becoming more aware of the entire spectrum. There have been steps backwards in easier gender recognition for transgend...
The fact that lots of people watch these superheroes does in no way negate the need for religion, more over it proves the need for them. People need s...
Not much analysis necessary. I doubt that they are watching these movies looking for a god substitute anyway. Are you being philosophical in your anal...
I doubt if the audience being targeted are going to critically analyse the differences between Gods and super heroes. To this audience the super heroe...
Banno : Those that think so have a lower income, less education, tend to the political right and are older than those who do not. Quite a generalisati...
Jack Cummins: I find writers such as Nietsche, Sartre and Camus very helpful in enabling me to make sense of life.Is this not an advantage of the beli...
Jack Cummins: So, are you saying that the existential understanding of reality is not helpful? I'm not seeing it as an understanding of reality, but a...
Jack Cummins Fides et Ratio - Pope John Paul's encyclical justifies how philosophy and theology are compatible. Catholics are good at the rules, aka t...
Hippyhead:The original author of the story knew nothing of the industrial revolution, nuclear weapons, climate change etc of course. But my guess is t...
What is there to torture yourself about? Intellectual laziness? Anyone overcome by fear of committing the unpardonable sin has surely not done so. The...
TheMadFool : I haven't quite worked out how something the size and weight of the planet earth is able to suspend itself in space the way it does. I ha...
coolguy8472: If you go down that road then why not have a policy of giving votes according to the level of one's IQ. The whole point of democracy is t...
Isabel Hu : St.Augustine suggested that evil is the absence of good and that once good returns the evil disappears. It doesn't go elsewhere, it just s...
The whole concept of justice/rules/regulations is a human one created by free will. If there were no free will then there would be no need for rules a...
Jack Cummins ; " I simply wish to ask the question of what is the purpose of philosophy?" Without philosophy we descend into a biased truth, a truth t...
The interesting thing about Christ's parables is that they are put together to attract a certain thinking process. If you just take the parable at fac...
KerimF : "As, in many other languages, a word may sound differently in different writings. Here, I mean by rules, the ones which are imposed on others...
TheMadFool : "Rules and free-will can't coexist. Either one precludes/negates the other" Surely they can. Just because you are following rules doesn't...
These rules and regulations are in place to enable people to use their free will to do God's will. You have the free will to ignore them, of course. C...
Max Planck said: “there is a metaphysical reality behind everything that human experience shows to be real.” Doesn't ontology free you from the shackl...
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