No real idea what Australians think. Most people I have spoken to over the past 20 years don't give a shit about a republic and can't see what differe...
The word disposition is useful. For all our reading and thinking, I suspect all we ever do is embolden our dispositions. Although I am aware some peop...
As I have said several times, I encountered Watts decades ago and loved his roadshow of ideas. He considered himself an entertainer and many of us got...
Doesn't worry me what people think about him. I think of him these days as a talented performance artist and his private life was bad. I have read a l...
I'm not saying you are wrong. But how does someone outside that world, like me, tell the difference between the two? I know you keep raising science b...
Well, at some level it might be said that everyone is an incipient nihilist - could it not the case that people seek and grab hold of belief systems l...
Maybe we can explore this another time but, no. A person with a transcendent belief actually has to invent meaning and purpose in a way no different t...
I think you are right. And maybe there are many descriptions for the same thing. What is interesting is that some descriptions of things upset or trig...
My friend John, a Catholic priest with a mystical bent says that his Christian belief is one punctuated by terror and uncertainty and the knowledge th...
This is what I mean. The spiritual life and nihilism both invite equal acts of creative vision and personal transformation galvanized by uncertainty. ...
But I'm sure that's just how we choose to look at it. We seem to find excitement, connection and opportunity in creating meaning. This is all anyone c...
No. Australians seem pretty apathetic and we largely lost interest in the republic idea some years back. Don't know about that. Most Australians seem ...
Would an “independent” thinker be wiser than an academic/famous philosopher? In theory anyone can be wiser than someone else, right? In other words, w...
It's actually the 'no true scotsman fallacy' - it means you are redefining what something means (here religion) in order to provide your own exculpato...
No, it's not being used as a straw-man for dismissing religion. It's being provided as an enduring example of where religion goes wrong and makes the ...
Not so. Some would argue that truly religious is the opposite of fanatical. I can think of many very religious people (including preachers, priests an...
Don't forget that religious folk are far from certain what is moral and what is not moral. It is never an easy question unless you belong to the same ...
You may be forgetting that Christian organizations often exclude Christian values and bear no relationship to anything in the New Testament. For insta...
and (C) g/G created a world of suffering and loss in order to be worshipped. g/G is a vain dictator who should be scorned. Indeed. I would first want ...
This is not meaningful to me. I also don't recognize the notion of depth as a criterion of value - which seems to be a veiled synonym here for 'better...
Indeed, and in my role I work with Aboriginal community members in my city of 5 million people. Many describe the arrival of the white man and the per...
and perhaps If God didn't exist, the flawed world we encounter is exactly what you might imagine. Of course there are models of god or cosmic consciou...
In atheist circles, the old joke use to be that if God was a manufacture of cars he would have his ass sued off and business closed down for culpably ...
I only said they were showing (in that example), not that I could see your entire outfit. Here - But you knew that and this isn't about us. Maybe we c...
I'd hold the view that any discussion of capitalism, all the terms used and their relationships to each other and how they are understood systemically...
Bible versus again, Frank? I can't see how one can construct observations on economics without the perspectives and values from political discourse. :...
Course not. :wink: You'll note that I said this subject becomes like debating the meaning of Bible versus. For me your car example only hints at the s...
Well, you know what they say, truth doesn't have a 'use by' date. I'm sure Street will clarify anything you throw at him. I can't comment at any depth...
Interesting, I frequently don't understand the point (or content) of threads here but this one seems clear to me - how best to understand the principl...
Thanks Marvin. My fault, I was just making some general, ill-educated comments without clearly addressing your point. I understand your reference to c...
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