Tom Storm

Sorry quick recap. When we are talking through Hume's problems of induction are we saying in summary (I'm looking for the right wording here) that the...

Ok, so it sounds like you are saying authenticity matters and people who are original thinkers are better people than those who slavishly follow other...

I don't recall having seen either of them in a movie or TV show. Isn't Will Smith a kind of Bruce Willis B--movie type but with a functional memory?

Hmmm. How does this make any substantive difference? Does it matter whose views they are if the person is fixed? Why use the word 'enslaved'? A homage...

Only if that's how you construct your worldview - in terms of power relations. Personally I see reliance as an issue of mutual trust and positive rega...

Not sure I agree with some of your conclusions. My bigger question is, how is this model useful? So this is a chronological 'life journey' process alo...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12679/does-just-war-exist

You've just summarised my whole point in a vivid sentence. :victory:

The Orwell essay is famous and it was certainly compulsory at my high school and later at university in the 1980's. There is a criticism that Orwell's...

Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk - Tom Waits, Heartattack and Vine

I'm six two and 190 pounds, have a buzz cut and I used to hang out in bars. I've had a number of first punches thrown at me - not all of them connecte...

Fair enough and I hear you. Thanks.

Not sure what point you are making there DG.

Isn't physicalism a metaphysical claim?

I think some of your instincts are probably correct. But I would say that solutions may be as a diverse as the human race itself. Christianity is but ...

Then I guess your speculation that the world is a worse place now or that civilisation is evil is some sense is unlikely to be relevant to the project...

This is certainly a popular view. Personally I have seen no good evidence to think humans are more violent or cruel than in earlier times.

You wouldn't understand unless you're a sensitive - it's an ineffable-mystical-Kabbalistic-orphic-speculatively-gnostic truth. To paraphrase Dr Jung, ...

Yeah - it's life changing.

Yeah... and I keep thinking to myself, if cause is this fuckin' elusive, why even get to god?

...and a partridge in a pear tree.

Do you imagine Yalom is mistaken in his understanding of Heidegger, or is he being somewhat deceptive in order to add some kind of prestige to his mod...

It's fine - you also wire their jaws shut.

Hmm. what about the supernatural status of the market in the beliefs of neoliberalism? :razz:

Depends who you talk to.

What happens in vagus, stays in vagus.

I know IY. Not sure if this is a response to my comments. This?

That's a useful and nicely written summary. It fascinates me that such an apparently simple concept could be a kind of trick of usage.

You seem to be seeing this as a self-improvement narrative. I wonder if that's what the OP was getting at.

I tried breathing deeply through my girlfriend's diaphragm and I nearly choked. I find it works better as a yarmulke.

I'd first need to be convinced that the two modes exist and that they are compartmentalised in precisely this way. From my own subjective experience, ...

I agree and it seems clear to me that we are generally socialized to view the world as a vast realm of cause and effect. It's part of our 'commons sen...

First cause of life - I should have said.

I was not talking about the cause of natural selection, I was talking about the fact that people always assume evolution is the secular person's first...

With evolution the question is usually but what caused life? The evolutionary process is a piece of piss next to that question. Most people assume evo...

As I understand it evolution was never about cause, it's about natural selection. Abiogenesis is about cause (or the lack thereof).

Can you make this coherent? There is no consistent pattern, so how would one demonstrate god cared equally for each? Sometimes cancer kills a 2 year-o...

Very nice. I've generally found that 'cause' is one of those words so beloved of apologists and their cosmological arguments. I rarely see it elsewher...

Wash your proverbial mouth out! What would political and religious discourse be without prejudicial and unhelpful notions of evil all over the place? ...

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I have nothing against your impulses, I'm just always curious when people say they have arrived at any clarity in ...

Not at all. This was one of SJC's memorable contributions - the proposed separation of the religious from the scientific.

Will this see us revisiting the old non-overlapping magisteria as advocated by Stephen Jay Gould?

Why are they standing in the queue, then?

I suspect what you've written here says more about what you find interesting and not so much about Nietzsche. Personally I don't find the issues you r...

The New Atheist show was a marketing/publishing phenomenon, not a philosophical movement. Words have usage not intrinsic meaning. Most atheists use th...

How could spirituality and science be describing the same thing? What is spirituality?

Do we take a happiness poll seriously? That aside, looks like this one tells us happiness comes from a solid welfare safety net and political stabilit...

You need to make the case that this true. You seem to be appealing to a form of common sense - that this must be how people would feel about the world...

Nice and succinct.

Sure it's a cliché, but I didn't establish it as one - that was done by every thinker or apologist from Nietzsche to Jordan Peterson. It's a very comm...