Tom Storm

I get where you are coming from and I often wondered if this might lead anywhere myself but I suspect there are too many divergent and contradictory i...

Well I know you believe that, but I have no reason to. I'm not in the secret, suppressed knowledge business.

I hear you. I think part of the problem is scientists often use the term god ironically. It's irresistible, especially for an atheist. People also cal...

I don't know what you mean by religious knowledge. What does this mean? I had no idea scientists were even talking to god let alone trying to defeat i...

The actual question is probably 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' Not 'Did something come from nothing?' I don't think humans can answer t...

Has science ever been able to describe what nothing 'is'? But it wouldn't surprise me if there is some range of views when it comes to this kind of co...

I have no reason to ask 'who' or use the word 'created' for anything. I think you may be right about eternity but this may be beyond human understandi...

I don't think science (or anyone) can determined if there was ever nothing. The 'something from nothing' trope seems unique to religious worldviews.

So Nietzsche is not only a proto-postmodernist, and a nascent existentialist, he's also a progenitor of the New Age movement. :wink:

Cool - @"Banno" said someone like you would show up... he's now a prophet.

And Jesus (in Mathew 4 1-11) is tempted by Satan. 'Kid, I'll give you anything if you worship me...' Very strange story given Jesus is God... what wou...

Yep. I guess it was useful in as much as I learned at university many years ago that we discover things a posteriori (by observation) or a priori (by ...

I am not convinced either, but they use reason, that's the point which most atheists deny. The more highbrow of them are serious academics - Alvin Pla...

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Even if that were true (and I am no Jung enthusiast) it has no impact on the quote.

An incel.

Would the Freddy fans say that this is because you're enslaved by modernist foundationalism? A friend of my mums was a close colleague of Carl Jung's ...

You could leave out the Jagger bit...

Sure, but can't you say the same about any human activity at all? Almost any thought system, activity or profession has its share of toxic, dictatoria...

You say potato, I say comiconomenclaturist?

You make it sound like a bad thing... :razz: I wanted to ask you earlier what you thought of Nietzsche.

Nothing substantive to say other than you've set out the OP very well. :wink: Personally I don't value intuitions highly - I have known too many peopl...

I'm not sure I understand why FN says it is worth the trouble to seek self-overcoming and new value systems. I wonder too if there is a foundational c...

I think the modernist themes of your article are already familiar and not unlike much comment or journalism written in the mid 20th century. Where are...

Thanks - it just seems the obvious question to pose. Personally I am not a spear carrier for 'foundations'.

I don't generally listen to music with lyrics and I dislike the aesthetics of rock music, which I have never listened to except under sufferance. But ...

I have limited interest in Nietzsche, but this accords with my understanding. My only question is why bother with this overcoming (and endless change)...

I understand and you are correct, but my point addressed the gospels and the events/myths that inspired a religion, not the actual religion.

Sure, but whatever claims Paul makes, he was not an eyewitness and didn't write the gospels.

I get it and within this hints of idealism.

Nice analogy.

Sure, if you count religious activity as activism. But they would say the were doing apologetics, activism generally being secular. I hear you - lots ...

If you can get back to us with a good brief summary of this matter, please do. Some years ago I spent time with this but, not being an academic, found...

I think this is essentially the nub of it. I don't understand why people would seek to examine miracle stories rationally or scientifically. If Yahweh...

Nice and very useful. Where's that Derrida extract from, Joshs?

I generally take the view that this is in the eye of the beholder. But in general if a religion is making claims about the nature of reality (on ontol...

I think people often point this out. But for me their work is better understood as activism. Which could be about race or poverty, or in their case th...

How would you describe Rorty's project - post-modernism? Care to speculate on why he misread or deliberately reconstructed Derrida in this way?

Elric who wrote the OP was banned a week ago. Some tweaks to your ideas. Firstly there is no 'true atheism' - this is as erroneous as claiming there i...

And since we are made in God's image, God must be fair.... Sorry, just thought I'd offer a glib and bullshit argument to fit in with some of the other...

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Just out of interest, what do you think Joshs has missed?

Digression - isn't it the case that Rorty is controversially a part of the pragmatist tradition? I know he is described as a neo-pragmatist, but isn't...

Rejection (already a value laden term) is complex and could be understood from multiple perspectives. Which version you settle upon may say a lot abou...

That's inaccurate. There are no known eyewitness accounts of Jesus. We know the gospels were written decades after the dates for Jesus (Mark being the...

Whilst simultaneously appreciating the appalling nature of such thought systems, perhaps?

He's been banned. Gone.

The problem is Randians often come across as evangelists, with glib talk and ready made phrases that resemble the approach of Christian apologists sha...

What is objective reality?