Tom Storm

I think this is often the case and yes, we do tend to idealise people and institutions out of all proportion. A certain path to bitterness and cynicis...

That's a useful series of questions. I'm seeing your broader point. Going back to Gendlin, what is the difference between anger as an emotion or felt ...

I'll mull over this. I've never really taken the idea of blame very seriously. Do animals get angry and does blame play a role?

I think anger satisfies an emotional need and I believe many of us seethe in hatreds and bigotries already and we are always on the look out for event...

I was just making an observation based on Josh's OP feel free to ignore it.

Yes, I think a key attribute of anger and blame is that if can feel so righteous and satisfying and can provide purpose and structure to people's live...

I wasn't asking for a thesis, just one or two points towards evidence of your observation. :wink: You might even cite or quote someone else who has do...

We're going around in circles. Maybe you just have a need for the the Jesus story to be true and it suits you dismiss Islam and Hinduism and their mir...

Maybe. Although for Schopenhauer the English translation could also be 'energy'. The problem with 'mind' however is that it brings baggage. In the cas...

No, it's just that I don't accept your over-aching premise that there needs to be an equal and opposite tradition to any given religious stories. In m...

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You miss (or perhaps avoid) the point. It isn't just atheists who think the Jesus story is a myth. Many theists consider the tales to be bunk. An appe...

But if we take the view that brain is simply what mind looks when seen form a certain perspective, then are we are faced with a chicken and egg questi...

Interesting - Bernardo Kastrup calls it Mind at Large. Inspired, it seems by "Will" from Schopenhauer.

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You realise that many theists think Jesus died on the cross, or may not even have lived. Islam and Judaism for one view the Christian Jesus story as w...

Sounds like a riff off Jordan B Peterson to me. What's the evidence for this idea?

Thanks for this. It's not quite what I expected, but I guess I'm not sure what I did expect. :wink:

No need for an apology - we're just shooting the breeze. I don't think it is subtle. It was directly addressing your point about harm. I think the pro...

Fair enough. So for a phenomenologist Kant's metaphysics and idealism in general is of no particular value?

Whether there is a right or wrong way to live will likely depend on 2 things. 1) on whether you believe there is a foundational or transcendent purpos...

It's not in the least strange, it's just that you aren't following. People use heroin (or whatever problematic behaviour you wish to include in your e...

Then you've missed my point about the functionality of drug use.

Yes. It all depends on what you value as 'good' from a risk assessment perspective. Getting high versus risk of overdoes. Pure heroin, by the way, is ...

Sure. Collaboration with what? The noumenal or the cat? :wink: How would a phenomenologist describe the nature of a person's experience of a cat?

I think he's saying that your understanding of the cat is constructed by mind, not the thing itself...

Not sure exactly what your point is, but it sounds a little like Alvin Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology wherein God is seen as a properly basic belie...

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Sure. There's too much dogma everywhere. It's worth identifying when we see it, whether it be religious or secular.

Religions borrow from philosophy. Christianity had an entire worldview based upon Neo-Platonism. Some people would regard religious figures like the B...

I also think that a person's ability to harm themselves and screw up all relationships is not unusual amongst people of high intelligence.

Same answer as above. If the result is bad and you didn't see it coming, who knows? We need an example of what specifically you are thinking of. All I...

I would have thought this was obvious. If you are aiming for a bad result and you achieve this then you were successful. There's nothing in the notion...

If you are intending a bad outcome then that is a good outcome. :cool: Gore Vidal once defined an intellectual as anyone who can understand an abstrac...

I don't have a definition of intelligence but I generally think of it as 'skill solving problems and using information'. What do you think intelligenc...

There is good literature on the benefits of mindfulness in treating borderline personality disorder (which is very challenging to work with) and I hav...

Yes, that's a key question many people come to ask.

You were fine and I was just teasing out the nuances of 'mental midget'. I guess the conventional wisdom is that people are divided into low IQ (at so...

I wasn't trying to insult you and I am sorry if that's how I came across. I work in the area of mental health, suicidality and substance misuse so I a...

What do you mean by something primitive? You asked: Who I suggested: What All I was saying is that the concept needs to be understood or elucidated be...

Nice.

Indeed. Generally people are always looking for gizmos and gadgets to make life more sparkling or to solve their perceived problems. Beliefs and metho...

Intelligence is a question that many consider controversial. Maybe because it is a subject generally understood and explored through psychologists who...

Here too I'm afraid. :wink:

There's plenty on how this is currently understood if you consult google. My initial response would be shifting the question from 'how do we know if s...

I understand, Jack. There's obviously fear, bigotry and transphobia playing out there and a lot of misrepresentation and distraction. Personally I mad...

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It's ugly and bigoted. Yes. People on philosophy sites tend to think of religion in its more sophisticated guises. The monstrous things it is still do...

As I said I have made my comment. Take it however you want.

Maybe you could drop the patronizing expressions like "Do you understand that?"