Tom Storm

Over the decades I've met many writers who have never written anything... :wink:

Worth noting that Paglia is a strong atheist. The problem is people hear atheism and think Dawkins when they might well be closer to Nietzsche.. :gasp...

Not a terrible attempt at doing a reading of my OP. But I did mention there I was a half-arsed secular humanist. It might pay you to speculate what th...

:up: Indeed and there is a ripper on this by Nietzsche which I can't find at the moment.

I agree with the sentiment for the most part but am not crazy about the term 'true morality'. Where's your evidence? This seems to be simply a presupp...

I've always thought that for the most part we are drawn to philosophy and ideas through emotional needs. We don't select using reason, for instance, u...

I didn't say you said it. All I did was walk through my take on this idea.

My reading of the argument, with which I largely agree, is that you need to get past the fairy tales and see how the beliefs are used in practice and ...

Of course none of us can guess at Madonna's motivations, but this all seems to be the typical trajectory of a restless showbiz type who constantly pla...

I can see some uses for this. The issue is it could be used to describe both enlightenment and The Enlightenment and I am trying to find words to dist...

No Interesting perspective.

Is that a recommendation or a question?

Thanks. Yes, spiritual can be problematic. As you say there are so few simple words that can be used as an alternative in a plain English discussion o...

Do you think the 'spiritual' use of the word enlightenment is useful? It seems to me a theme here has been those who think of it as knowledge (in the ...

Not sure but it reminds me of Nietzsche's famous final line from On The Genealogy of Morality - "Man would rather will nothingness than not will."

Trump/Putin for 2024! :yikes:

That feeling has always filled me with a kind of dread. :wink: Yes, that is worth mentioning.

Sure. I originally did the OP because I wanted to understand better the options available under that famous rubric, given the dispirit traditions one ...

Ok. I'll sit with that for a bit.

I wasn't using the term journey literally. :wink: If you wake up from a clueless state you are still clueless. That's my point about a brief 'journey'...

He just hurt his foot. If idealism is true then of course things 'appear' to look and feel solid. That's the point.

A not unpopular view - "The mind of God is music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace.' Michio Kaku

With a few small adjustments, that could be one of Nietzsche's. :up:

That sounds like a very brief journey to enlightenment then. "I am ignorant without philosophy; I wonder if there is something new up on Netflix..."

Cool. I'm here to see what I may have missed. I am mainly interested in values and morality.

Fucking Europeans and their continental bullshit! :wink:

I don't have a problem with this since I am not a philosopher, but I wonder if it counts as philosophy. When you think about the impressive jargon and...

No idea - just responding to the other guy. Well, perhaps that the acme of pragmatism is to know that the low road is more likely to be the one people...

I think his broader point is about self-awareness. As Peterson and may others have mused, everyone tends to think of themselves as hypothetically oppo...

Exactly right!

I generally give ten percent. And yes, it is important to research where you are sending your money to ensure you are not giving to an admin heavy, bl...

That's the most elegantly written version of 'your model is flawed' I've read for a while. Nicely put. Some random reactions - I come from the reverse...

I never said it was 'good'. In fact there are many people that think ethical positions all fall under a form of reciprocal altruism. If you play nice ...

Do we? You need to examine this. There are actually many moral codes and perspectives operating at once in most cultures. And what is 'frowned upon' b...

Gosh Baker, those comments sound bitter. What observances? Of course you can twist anything to make it sound strange, but let me twist this back for y...

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Bastards.

I've recently been told that all the crows I thought I had been looking at over the years here in Australia were actually ravens... I've been living a...

I think this is the nub of it. There are no different cultural interpretations I know of where murdering or thieving or lying are considered cool. Whe...

They used humans as integration aids.

True. There are no guarantees in life, period. I think the GR mainly applies to the self as a guiding principle - I don't think anyone sees it as a ma...

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Agent, Thought I explained this in my post. If it is unclear, forget it. :razz: I'm just suggesting that there is a spirit of interpretation - an inte...

My understanding of the golden rule is not to read it in concrete terms. It is not saying that you need to assume people share your preferences exactl...

It's never gone away. One of the biggest debates in the Western world is the marketisation of everything from art to education, health services to pri...

Not really a new idea, from his New York base, the Australian art critic, essayist and writer Robert Hughes wrote and made documentaries about this ve...

Do you think time and space exist outside of our use of these terms - they are ideas which help us makes sense of the world according to our lived exp...

What world do you live in? :razz: But yes, I never argued that across time people have not also done (and still do) good things.

Hi Joshs - I appreciate your replies. Yes, I already suggested this to A as a point of difference. I think this provides a bit more substance to the m...

What people want is rarely what they want. :scream: It's not hard to understand - many artists do mainstream, compromised work for the money and expos...