Tom Storm

I undertand. Well, firstly the time to believe in that is when there is robust evidence of it. And what kind of pissweak god would leave morality to o...

Sure - I've eaten camel's hump, crocodile, goat's head soup, emu, lizard, snake, witchetty grub, kangaroo, ox tongue, the livers, hearts and lungs of ...

Exactly. It's a placeholder statement rather than an explanation. We could equally posit magic or the work of aliens (as some are now doing) as equiva...

I know we could all go read Austin, Searle, etc - but I have often thought it would be interesting to have some short essays posted on this site by me...

Nice.

Strewth! This is all beginning to read like footnotes to the ineffable thread... :razz:

Yes, it's fairly clear that theism has no explanatory power. It is functionally no different to saying 'the magic man did it' or 'because the magic ma...

Indeed. Thanks for that nicely worded overview.

I'm not sure what you mean by this but that's perhaps because I am not keen on the word 'perfect' and do not think it's a genuine category, more like ...

This is nice.

Yes, as far as a knowledge claim is concerned; but atheism addresses belief. you are unconvinced a god exists. Knowledge claims are of a different ord...

The atheists I know tend to argue that they have not yet encountered a version of god they are convinced by and they are open to reconsidering their v...

What does a quest to find a deeper reality mean? Are you referring to mysticism; meaning which transcends physicalism? I've kicked around with atheist...

Seems to me that theism and atheism generally loiter at the superficial and glib end of philosophy. Most atheists and theists are satisfied with easy ...

Sounds right. Do you think idealism is a coherent ontology, or is it largely a product of the limitations of direct realism and philosophical naturali...

I think he sets it out fairly well and with clarity. But I think it needs more than my brief, clumsy summary to gain a clear view of it. Idealism seem...

Could be. Kastrup describes his mind-at-large as a blind, striving and not metacognitive - this does resemble Will. He himself says Schopenhauer did m...

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This resembles a summary of philosopher Bernado Kastrup's idea of analytic idealism where all people are dissociated alters of mind at large (cosmic c...

Is this also mild term of abuse there?

We don't generally call people an ass down here these days (unless by ass you mean arse) but we do call people donkeys. 'You fuckin' donkey!' used to ...

Nothing much. There were fights over the Floyd cannon when I was young. I'm not a fan, so what I think doesn't matter. I can see that.

Did I?

Indeed but it seems important to @"frank" to think otherwise.

Now you're just being a comedian.

Indeed. But this means don't be a donkey.

I doubt it. Are you talking about what the editor may have changed? Ass was used to describe a donkey. Arse was used for bum.

They didn't 40 years ago.

It's English. Generally Australian English is English English. Hence we say lift (elevator) and boot (trunk) and behind him (at back of him), take awa...

I lot of Floyd fans I've known thought it was self-indulgent tosh.

Paragraphs please, it's very hard to read massive slabs of text.

It would also be an error to read nonsense as a synonym for ineffable?

Isn't phenomenology a collection of different ideas, with some shared approaches, themes and influences? I thought the original project of Husserl's w...

Bugger them, I'm more concerned about Australopithecus. :yikes:

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As far as I can tell, some of the great philosophical questions (afterlife, idealism, reincarnation, god..) would not make a difference to how I live....

I don't think anyone here has yet said he was interesting. But Lucas thought so. Of course. Escapism is part of it. But I'm saying that many writers/f...

Wow. A film lover? Do you still go to movies?

Firstly, you seem to have missed that this was parody. :wink: Nevertheless, don't forget that the leading Jungian/myth scholar who wrote the book whic...

You're not reading closely, U. I said what's not to like about this interpretation, not the film itself. How are you expected to understand Deleuze if...

Actually that's another way of looking at Star Wars (the first one) as a teenage rom com. The fact that Luke wants to fuck his sister just makes it de...

I think Lucas was sincere and it is not really a contradiction to what he has said over the years. It's as much a pirate movie as it is a sci-fi or sc...

Indeed. We can leave that task to Sam Harris. :razz:

Fair points. I guess some thinkers might locate morality within some kind of evolutionary framework. Obviously this can be problematic and still requi...

At last one of those in that list was a real man. :wink:

I'm not a philosopher but this seems reasonable. I'm interested to understand (in theory) how would a moral fact ever be identified? Would it need to ...

No. This is where it gets complicated. Can you demonstrate that Santa Clause is identical with those others? I would suggest to you that Santa Clause,...

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It would also help if you used paragraphs for readability.

Actually, I was referencing George Lucas who said at Sundance in 2015, "Star Wars really isn't a science-fiction film, it's a fantasy film and a space...