Tom Storm

That's a juicy morsel for us. Can you elaborate a little?

Kill us? How so? Is the idea of an 'ultimate reality' a human construct based on innate desire to create meaning? Or is there something;'out there' fo...

This, it seems to me, is the question most philosophical discussions eventually come down to. Can we gain access to ultimate reality (God/idealism/con...

:up: I'd like to see some development of philosophical ideas between members here. I'm no philosopher and am here out of a late interest in philosophy...

That's exactly the right approach, I think, if you are going to ask such a question.

Average, whenever we talk it seems to me you don't engage with the points I make and go off on an unconnected tangents. Since this doesn't happen with...

[ Sure, but what does it mean to say a person lived a flawless life? If it only means succeeding in what they chose to succeed in - this is problemati...

It's an astonishing work.

Hmm. Are you really asking this or just taking the piss? Most qualities you name have to be understood in relation to something, that's how it works. ...

See my first answer when I asked about flawlessness. Same thing.

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You're fine. No probs. :wink:

Thanks for clarifying.

I'm just having a bit of fun, man. It's my opinion that human beings are imperfect - all problems with induction aside. This is a presupposition I hol...

All human beings we have seen are imperfect, therefore all human beings are imperfect. Yep. I think human being is a synonym for imperfection, set asi...

I think this is self evident. When was the last time you met a perfect human being?

My take on this is that the question isn't answerable and isn't entirely coherent. What does flawless mean? Flawlessness can only be measured in relat...

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Interesting essay. Quick reaction from a non philosopher. So often in philosophy argument seems to come down to the view that we require transcendenta...

I'd be interested to hear a bit more about your ideas. Those are claims. They may well be true. but perhaps you could show us more about how they work...

Thanks for clarifying. Glad you are ok. What are you thinking here?

I should claim an exemption from this as I do not count myself a philosopher. But I'd like to understand better what you are saying. The tone of the O...

I think that's how music is meant to work. But I find Shostakovich or Mahler do that just fine for me.

An intriguing idea, I like it. I think on reflection I find the sound ugly and the posturing of the artists irritating.

Interesting. I've rarely been able to take even 2 minutes of rock music without my brain turning into porridge. Can't do pop music in general. I know ...

Well I can see that 2 of the 3 fit pretty well. I myself am a crank, but I was a newbie. You seem to like jumping to conclusions, I though that was a ...

Actually, no, that's not what I meant. I thought it might be useful as a newbie for you to see how these kinds of debates played out here, given the a...

I hear you. I sometimes wonder how we can know if something is unknowable in perpetuity?

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Welcome. As compared to who? Can you connect this to an example to illustrate your point in action? So you'll be defending the Christian/Catholic idea...

Food for thought. It's certainly not my subject, so I defer to your reading on this. It seems to me that there are a number of things that remain uncl...

I'm just responding to dogmatism. I'm not saying you are wrong just that it seems odd that you have succeeded in solving one of the great mysteries of...

I guess a Nobel Prize awaits you. It's not about alternatives. As I said that approach seems to be a fallacy from incredulity. "We don't know" is a pe...

I agree, I was just satirizing one of the views out there.

I think the problem with idealism in general is that it is an incomplete model - there's a reason it hasn't reemerged (yet) as the default setting for...

Indeed. Some of my gay friends at school were 'camp' before they were 10. Pretty sure they had not been into any clubs or bars and certainly they had ...

Isn't this just a classic fallacy from incredulity? We can't imagine any other way.... therefore X... The absence of an alternative explanation doesn'...

I hear what you are saying about nothing, but what's it all mean, what's your conclusion?

You're partly on the money here I think but I'm somewhat struck by this as I have never thought the idea of a god was coherent, unless you opt for a P...

Agree with you on all counts.

Kastrup argues that Jung was an idealist and that the collective unconscious (Jung I think describes it as a primordial reservoir we all draw from) is...

I was simply restating the questions Kastrup himself has said are the key questions we need to resolve if we are going to fully apprehend the idea of ...

I understand that - it wasn't clear what your perspective was.

It's that old chestnut that people are drawn to religions because of the fear of death and/or meaninglessness. About ten years ago I asked a Catholic ...

Now that makes a bit more sense, thanks. Personally, I think many people (and I know quite a few) live without philosophy or religion with no ill effe...

Whoa there, Partner! You don't need to come on so strong. :wink: If you are having trouble expressing yourself succinctly, you can just ask questions ...

Yes, and the idea of ridding ourselves of blame seems to me to be almost impossible to accomplish, even if it's the right thing to do. We struggle to ...

Exactly. That's what I mean. The sorts of questions these expressions of idealism raise for me are: If everything is mind then why can't we change the...

Indeed. Or is transcendence another way to fill gaps in incomplete ideas?

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