Tom Storm

I'm Australian and value our 'compulsory voting'. To me it's not a tyranny - it's just a reminder that we have responsibilities as well as freedoms. B...

Yep. Music is like language - what counts as dramatic, peaceful or lyrical in music is generally understood by the intersubjective community from whic...

Which in my view is a difference so big you could park a planet on it. :smile: I think making a distinction between understanding philosophy and havin...

Yeah... some of us have been caught up and fighting in this protracted conflict for some decades. :pray:

Interesting. What do you mean by the progression of consciousness through time? Do you mean the evolution of human cognitive capacity across history, ...

Today's what's in the fridge at my place. A tube of condensed milk; four bottles of assorted chilli sauce; a broken alarm clock and $1000 cash in a pl...

That's for sure.

Nothing specific - I'm thinking more of the phenomenological disposition (especially how it might relate to self and identity) as you might see it. I ...

Do you have any views about what a phenomenological approach to this model might be? In the light of the process of being and becoming and how we are ...

This is strange. I told you I don't know what the sentence means. I was very clear. I would have thought that this is your que to elaborate and maybe ...

You'll note, I wasn't the only one who did not understand your cryptic comment. What does the expression 'find out what life is' mean? Please clarify....

No, I wasn't thinking you moved the goalposts - that sounds pejorative. I think the conversation kind of evolved. I thought we were talking about eyes...

No worries. I like hearing different views to mine. :pray:

Ok, thanks for clarifying this. I think contact between humans is a different phenomenon. We seem to have moved from eyes which can be described as be...

I guess I reject this idea. Sounds like we believe in different things. :smile:

I know that's what you're suggesting. Of course not. You make it sound like mysticism. But my question is why do you think your experience transcends ...

It's precisely the lack of this 'self-evidence' that makes me hold the opposite view. People do not share views on beauty in art, or in people. Sure t...

I hear you. Personally, I don't recognize 'perfection' as anything more than a word employed in various contexts. I am not aware of any example of per...

I understand and I wasn't disparaging your model, which seems sound. Am curious about what philosophy (especially phenomenology) might reveal about go...

Unless you are a Platonist, isn't beauty just a term used to deal with personal taste and/or intersubjective value systems? I have virtually no use fo...

What does this sentence mean?

I haven't heard personal growth or change mentioned in such terms. Transformation and healing seems to come through connection to country and mob. (In...

I think this is an important point. I've worked in the area of mental ill health and substance misuse for many years. In my experience (which is just ...

Was the moderator Jordan B Peterson?

No it's not. Breathing is completely unavoidable. Philosophy is avoidable. Odd comparison. I would have thought that this is my point - such a descrip...

Oops, typo, yes I did. I think this is right. I also think one needs to believe for this to 'work'.

Nicely worded. Thanks.

I just call it the ineffable. But I generally agree with you. For some believers I suspect there is a recognition of transcendence that sits above and...

You make 'the spiritual' sound like 'the emotional'. (that's not intended as an adverse criticism, just an observation).

Can you briefly explain what this means?

Nice.

I guess much of the debate here has been getting stuck in this bog. Is this from Rouse's paper, 'Beyond Realism and Antirealism ---At Last?' These are...

Is this done by playing with language, by conceptional framing, or by looking the other way? :razz:

Thanks for clarifying.

That's it in a nutshell. In my experience, the people keenest on gnosis seem to be theosophists and Jungians who have already determined a pecking ord...

Sounds reasonable.

:up:

Yep. I noticed that the website of the American Cancer Society has: I do think a positive attitude, if not forced, can help make cancer easier to deal...

Nice work.

I doubt it and have asked this question for many years. Humans are meaning making creatures who love and collaborate peaceably, no matter how antisoci...

I'm interested in a lot of things. Doesn't mean I have a clear use for them. And I am really fascinated by what others believe and why.

Got ya.

Thanks. Sure, but I find it hard to see what difference this makes to a life lived. Speaking personally, it would make no difference to who I am and w...

I guess I don't understand why he would say this. How does Huxley arrive at what seems to be an assumption that there is a path to follow and a purpos...

Yes. That was careless of me. I see this too.

As per this article on his profile page. https://aeon.co/essays/the-blind-spot-of-science-is-the-neglect-of-lived-experience

I agree. It seems to me that idealism or not - people's embedded values tend to persist above and beyond their ontological assumptions.

For me this raises a notable question. When is someone actually living with the decisions they make? I know in practical terms, and from a panoptic ov...

Is the mind-projection fallacy similar to the 'blind spot' so often evoked by @"Wayfarer"?

How does one do Gnosis and can you provide an example of it in action?