Tom Storm

Yes, I think your intuitions are reasonable. I’m not sure if there’s a single truth to be had here, most phenomena are the product of a confluence of ...

Got ya. Perhaps we need to consider Trump as a maverick and a new way of inhabiting the role. He's simply behaving like any other grubby mainstream me...

I'm not quite sure what your plans for this OP were. I've never taken much interest in lying or in bullshit. From what I see, the world is primarily a...

Totally agree with this. Often expressed as, 'You're either lying or a troll..."

I guess we disagree on this. I wasn’t just talking about religion; also beliefs, lifestyles, and choices. I know so many people who drifted from socia...

I have no background in philosophy; I’m here to see what I might have missed and to find out what others think. This is fascinating in itself. Philoso...

Again, different cultures have different attributes. Health care in Australia is mostly free and accessible to everyone. It’s not perfect, but the hom...

I’ve never found a book of philosophy that’s assisted me with any real-world issue, to be honest. But philosophy is not my go to. I’ve read a bit of C...

Like I've been saying all along: it's different here. You would be unlucky to be arrested for that or other behaviours of putative disrespect.

Interesting. I'm not sure I believe in human nature, but I’m open to changing. I can see how Rorty’s notion of solidarity is a tempting alternative, a...

Ha! I'm not sure why that's there. People seem to love or hate The Moral Landscape. Got it. I’ve never been overly preoccupied by the is-ought problem...

Are they the only two ways? David Bentley Hart is disparaging of perennialism and proudly announces himself a syncretist. That’s not always the best p...

I agree for the most part. But who counts as an expert on the transcendent?

Good point, it's not just me, it may be "we".

I realised I didn’t properly respond to this. I suppose what I’m saying is that if Vervaeke were my mechanic and told me my brake pads were worn out, ...

I think he’s mostly right on this one. I like his framing of this traditional problem, and I agree that we’re often just reinforcing our own comfort, ...

I probably agree with Taylor on transcendence and have made similar points myself. We mostly settle on beliefs because they are emotionally satisfying...

No. I can see the appeal but I don't personally feel a need for it. I don’t personally find Vervaeke or Jordan Peterson (who has a similar approach) s...

I’d say that’s an exaggeration of my position, and the wording you’ve used is full of judgments I wouldn’t normally make. I wasn’t referring to “petti...

Thank you, that's an interesting take. Appreciated.

Been on a 3 hour Vervaeke kick. Interview with him about his atheism which he prefers to call “non-theism”. On reflection I've been unfair to Vervaeke...

Sure, but a crippled bird still knows precisely where freedom lies.

It reminds me of the Stasi and East Germany.

Thanks for your thoughtful response. It’s my view that for the most part the “meaning crisis” is a case of too much freedom. For some, that freedom is...

And rightly so, I would have thought.

Well, Vervaeke argues that there is a burgeoning obsession with people looking to find meaning outside of the paradigm, so the answer must be yes. But...

And probably more dumb shit from me. Good. I would have to agree with much of this. But it sounds virtually impossible, these things can only happen g...

One issue for me is: what constitutes useful and useless, and how do we determine which is which? So isn’t our initial problem how we determine our va...

Fair enough. What do you think is going on for those who don't see this? Do you think this is a direct belief, or more of a practical outcome of other...

I’ve tried to read philosophy many times over the years, but whether it’s Nietzsche or Plato, I’ve never been able to make much sense of it or find it...

I’d be disappointed if you left. As you know, I greatly value your contributions. My pushback wasn’t meant to be hostile, and I apologise if that’s ho...

Fair points and and this is probably right. Perhaps we will become victims of the too much meaning crisis...

This is the nub of it. I’m not convinced that consumerism or the instrumentalisation of knowledge wouldn’t still be dominant even if the West had rema...

I hear you. I think one of the glitches in all this is that once a problem is identified and agreed upon, people bring their worldviews to it as solut...

I’m not convinced that the idea that the world is meaningless is really the problem we face. One can hardly accuse MAGA of this, or China. Surely it i...

Isn’t this simply a factor of population growth and the successes and failures of technology and capitalism? We were always flawed; it’s just that our...

When has the world not appeared to be in some kind of crisis? That's the point, surely. You are talking about a Meaning Crisis and I've asked a few qu...

Hi - haven't see you around for a bit. You often seem to come back to this. And a very popular idea right now. Not to say this is wrong but I have som...

You've taken my simple point and jazzed it up and perhaps provided motivations I don't hold. I’d put it this way: I’m not concerned with discovering s...

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That's a neat summary of how David Bentley Hart might put it. I disagree with this, I’m not making the argument you think I am. I'm talking about whet...

I studied comparative religion for a time, but my point is salient: the world is full of claims about which we have inadequate or no knowledge. All we...

These days (to the chagrin of some traditionalists) the category is usually described as agnostic atheist. I don’t believe in God (that’s the belief p...

I think the placehodler 'God' does many different conceptual jobs for people depending on their orientation and values. It’s such a slippery notion it...

No. 1) Lower-status people = unemployed, homeless, First Nations, gig workers — ask tough questions of their bosses, or of police, or other authoritie...

Perhaps I misunderstand you, I'm interested in your idea of atheism; does it need tweaking? Apologies if I have you wrong. Some of what you write indi...

Trust is one of those words with multiple meanings shaped by different contexts. Trusting a plane to fly safely is different from trusting a relative ...

Good point and maybe my quesion was the problem. I guess I was asking it they believe that morality has a transcendent source.

Again, a well written thoughtful account. I see the attraction of this, but aren't there some presuppositions at work? Some hypotheticals. If you harm...

Yes, I think that’s the way ahead in so many avenues. We still have to live and get on, even in imperfect circumstances. I’m acutely weary of theory a...