Tom Storm

I hear you. Brute facts.

AKA - atheism leads to nihilism? Them's fighting words. :wink:

It seems this way to me intuitively. Did it have a good cover? What do you make of the criticism that if words are metaphors we risk slipping into sol...

This is a fascinating and seemingly endless debate. If you had to summarise where the others are going wrong in their conception of ineffable what is ...

You make a lot of sense. The best sci-fi book I ever saw was Lord Valentine's Castle. On the cover it had a castle and the words 'spectacularly readab...

I don't think use of marijuana is ipso facto hedonistic, if by this you mean sensually self-indulgent. I think a lot of people use to it to help make ...

The Baden - sounds like the name of a formerly grand art deco hotel which fell on hard times in the 1960's and is now a crumbling and stercoraceous cr...

:up: Interesting perspective. I'm not sure I am any closer to believing that will is the key ingredient in people's success. The fact that some people...

Is Star Wars sci-fi? I thought it was a shallow adaptation of Joseph Campbell myth studies, with a sword and sorcery overlay, dressed up with little r...

Plenty of respected thinkers don't believe we have free will. I have no commitments either way, since I am not qualified to make that call. But even S...

No question How many of them were Star Wars fans? Maybe this is the cause. I wanted to make it a quick and very non-committal 'OK' so we could move al...

My example was just one potential explanation. My main point is that when we use the term will, it's more like an umbrella term to describe a range of...

Ok.

Rather than will, what it often takes is the realisation of something you were not aware of. For instance, understanding that being sexually abused wa...

I know. Sad. As if the films themselves aren't piss-poor enough.

I read someone describing this impulse as a definitive Generation X and Baby Boomer retail motivation. Buying collectibles and old shit from their chi...

Cool. It's fine that we disagree. I'l watch this with some interest. :pray:

So perhaps you are not open to thoughts, only agreement. Ok. My point is that what you are calling will might well be a conflation of complex psycholo...

I'm not denying that people try things. But what is 'will' in this? What you describe may be a multifactorial psychological process rather than this p...

Not sure what 'will' might be and I doubt it is rational. It sounds more like a literary, poetic term for a range of other factors in people's behavio...

Yep. There's an entire fetish going in talking about how shit everything is today and how great it was when men were men and everyone knew their place...

I've seen about 25 of them. Many I don't remember well and some I didn't care for. But a few of my favourites are there.

Nice.

Beware of older folk who talk about the good old days. Politics was always shit. I found the 1980's dispiriting. I was in my 20's when Reagan and That...

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I think he may have lacked irony...

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I have no view on that. Only on creation.

I were a god I would not make a creation in the first place.

Not sure. But since nature is so cruel and so poorly designed, I'd probably try to fix it and remove the diseases and design flaws and weaknesses and ...

Homelessness and housing insecurity are prominent issues in Australia too. Rents are high and properties are difficult to obtain. There are some prote...

I don't know anything about it, can you define it for me?

I think it's when you apply irony with a sledge hammer.

Best of luck, Jack. Tough times. :pray:

The people I am referring to were unaware that their practices were in direct contrast to their values. In other words, sincere and unintentional iron...

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I often found it ironic how those I knew in Buddhist, mediation circles would talk about shedding attachments and getting closer to enlightenment whil...

Not to mention Barnaby and Sir Les' contribution to dick cheese...

I don't fully understand it but I think irony in philosophy might be the gap between our metaphysical system building and reality. All our systems bei...

Isn't her song famously about irony, without any examples of irony? Ironic... I don't know the song, just that observation.

I was taught (falsely perhaps) that in America the only people to understand irony and use it well in humour and art are the Jews. There is definitely...

Sorry to hear that. I did have some conversations with them and in private back when I first joined.

Wow. That sounds interesting, but perhaps this is not the thread for such a provocative statement. I hear you and it is a fascinating matter - to me a...

Aren't there 'fine people' on both sides? (sorry)

Good point.

Hmmm. I actually think it is possible to ask questions just to get other's perspectives based on their experiences. :razz: Can I do epoché is not the ...

An interesting and nuanced response. I tend to find myself thinking there is no such thing as phenomenology - there are phenomenologies - which would ...

Thanks Joshs, I'll have a read. Appreciated.

Ironically ineffable seems to have fecund interpretations. One obvious and fun one is the notion that there are facts or truths residing in some Plato...

Is 'meaningless' quite right? I've never been a big Truth guy (things work or they don't) but in life human beings create truths together which help b...