Tom Storm

Is it also a hangover from Platonism?

This may well be accurate. But there's an assumption that seeing the world with clarity matters. What's the goal? You've already hinted that madness c...

In Australia (in addition to this) it means a fuckwit or douche canoe.

This sounds a little passive aggressive - did you intend it this way? I was brought up in the Baptist tradition so I think I understand. You seem to l...

Everything is metaphysics - so it's quite safe to ignore the subject and just go about your business - work, shopping, taking the kids to school, payi...

I am close to some Catholics, including a few priests and nuns and some of the hierarchy in my country. My understanding it that many Catholics though...

Thanks. It's a clever reworking of the song and lacks the breezy piety of the original. I prefer this, if we must have an anthem: https://www.youtube....

Thanks for your thoughts. The process of religion as we know it perishing has been fairly gradual, but I couldn't help but notice last night watching ...

So what? You don't think putting god/s into the hands of your 'ethically-challenged humans' hasn't also been a magnificent scourge - from holy wars to...

I know what it is. You don't think history is tendentious and subject to publishing fads? Interesting. I thought I was clear - I am not much intereste...

Welcome back. Missed you. :pray:

I’m not a theorist or system builder. You can find anything you want about the 'true' story of Islam or Christianity, etc, in a myriad of (often contr...

I only just saw this. Perfectly articulated... and I thought I was the only one... :flower:

I spent quite a few years in the company of theosophists, Buddhists, Gnostics, and assorted New Age devotees. What struck me was the complete lack of ...

This would be an interesting discussion but should it be here and clog up the science/religion success thread? And I should say it is good when we can...

Aren't you assuming it is rational to start from religion? And don't you need to separate crude religion from spirituality? Or theism from religion? W...

I didn't say fanaticism is on the rise, although that well may be the case as I suspect reasonable people tend to leave organised religions and the on...

interesting. I would say it's the other way around - materialistic religion (most instantiations of religion) and spiritualistic science (how science ...

I'm really only interested in what we do to each other here and now. :wink:

I have never considered that there is much to the idea of good or evil. There are behaviours which harm the flourishing of conscious creatures and we ...

Now, now, that's not a quality response. Arguing is tedious and I don't think there has been any arguing in this thread. I only undertake questioning ...

Ok, sounds reasonable, but it also tells us that personal experience of god is no pathway to reliable knowledge. We need to use reason and judgement t...

How do we determine that the sincere personal experience of one believer is right, while the experience of another is wrong. Is there a process?

You seem to be answering a different question to the one I asked. Incidentally, the Catholics I know have generally regarded the Pope as a reactionary...

Forget atheism, I'm trying to understand how you can claim you know god is male and that in your words - God answers prayers as he wants, not as faith...

Include Stalin if you wish. My point, which you seem to ignore, is that people are certain about all kinds of fabricated ideas. So my question asked e...

You're aware, I'd assume, that there are schools of philosophy which remain skeptical about capital T truth. Are the chances of humans uncovering Trut...

I'm not really in the truth business - except in a pragmatic sense. How do you know what you said below? You seem to know an awful lot about a god - h...

sounds like exactly what someone would say if they had no way to relate to god/s but felt they needed to double down on certainty.

How do you know this? No offence but your examples sound exactly like what someone would say if there were no gods and no way to demonstrate them. Pra...

Nicely put.

Thanks for clarifying.

Thanks for clarifying. Oh ok - never heard of this before. P.S. - I just watched several interviews with him about the matter. Not sure what it gives ...

Surely the quote by Bohr implies idealism, ie everything is consciousness. That’s certainly what Mr Wayfarer seemed to think. Penrose is a Mathematica...

Far as I know it goes back to the very foundations of QM - Niels Bohr was a kind of idealist and often seen as a mystic (certainly by Einstein) and of...

There are a number of Christian apologists who make a similar point - they argue that the atheist's value system is essentially one of Christianity (P...

I was being sarcastic in an unhelpful way. Sorry. When I enjoy content I tend to value it more, regardless of its actual merit. I am not a philosopher...

I answered that already in the next part. For heaven’s sake man , read carefully- how are you going to break open Heidegger with such scant regard for...

Interesting. I find myself asking how do we even recognise high quality given the divergent levels of understanding and education between members? Not...

I don't think I'm making a private language argument. Some people will comprehend the nuances, especially if those people inhabit the same time and cu...

I seem to have answered your question before you asked it. What does that mean? :wink:

At some level I think there is. As a second job I have worked as a journalist. I tired hard to write pellucid prose. My meaning seemed clear. But no.....

Amen, Brother! Isn't it staggering that the Bible wants to micromanage human behaviour to the point where you can't eat shellfish or wear mixed fabric...

As I understand it, Baptists leave interpretations and matters of faith to each individual church, so they vary wildly. In America they tend to be blu...

A notable quote.

We're all out of our depth. :wink: I'm arguing that time amounts to culture and history. Think how US political culture was understood in 1935 and how...

I think the 'disingenuous caricatures of atheism' is as useful to the polemical mystifiers as the tediously proffered notion that atheism inevitably l...

No, that's good and thanks. I'm trying to find my way around here with no formal background in the subject. I guess it is a post-modern position with ...

Yep. I wish this was better understood by theists and sci-fi mystics who seem to think atheism is some kind of immutable worldview.

Yes, I included history - which I put down as time.