Tom Storm

Thanks. Not sure I can make much sense of the quotes but I appreciate the context above. Cheers.

Sure, but for me the problem no one can demonstrate what God believes or what God’s properties are, so any claims about god's relationship to evil or ...

For a non-philosopher, this is interesting to read. I find Nietzsche difficult to understand, not because the words are hard, but because the meanings...

Fair enough. The issue with personal revelation and experience is that, for others, it’s just hearsay. (Is that Hume?) Whoever it is, it sounds fair. ...

I’m inclined to think that people’s behavior has little bearing on the truth of their beliefs. We can do good things for bad reasons, and we can follo...

I wouldn’t think so. If you believe in divine command then killing apostates is good. What if there is a god and he’s a thug? Like the one described i...

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I tend to view Biblical literalism as a cartoonish account of God. I started a thread on this. If atheists confine themselves to attacking literalists...

I wonder if Nietzsche is the most misread of popular philosophers.

That's very interesting and certainly resonated with some of my thinking. Have you ever reflected on Nietzsche’s initial identification of Wagner as a...

I think this is right.

Sure. Although those film references are more Gen X than current. But I’ve always suspected that the antihero would eventually morph into a fully anti...

I had wood like that once. Oh, to be young again.

I’m an atheist, Paula. But I prefer to have an informed view of religions than the simple cartoon accounts of many atheists. I was brought up in the B...

The Baptists don’t have a central hierarchy and allow a range of views. The governance is congregational. There are also Literalists here. But fearful...

I grew up in the Baptist tradition which did not accept this doctrine and took issue with it. It also rejected the notion of hell. You'll find this in...

I can only provide a dull quotidian rant. Beauty and youth have never been something I’ve thought much about or focused on. But the frame you’ve prese...

Of course, many atheists today don’t formulate it like that, even if it’s a traditional account. For me, an atheist is simply someone who doesn’t beli...

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Sounds like the Kantian conundrum equivalent to the Many-Worlds or Copenhagen Interpretations in QM. :razz:

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If one were to put it this way: instead of consciousness arising from matter, matter arises within consciousness. In other words, reality is pure cons...

Light is all I've got. :wink:

Yep, I got the gist from 'checkboxes'.

:up: fair points well made. Yes, that's reasonable.

Yes, unless you have Kastrup's Mind-at-Large or Berkeley's God grouding all things. Although Mind-at-Large might be seen as almost solipsistic by some...

I’m still not entirely clear on the exact difference between Kant’s transcendental idealism and classical idealism. Kant isn’t really saying that ever...

It’s such a powerful tool when the right phrase or description is found to illustrate something complex like this.

Interesting. I think Kastrup’s notion that materialism is how consciousness appears when viewed across the dissociative divide, if that's the precise ...

Nicely put. I wonder what Kant would have made of Bernardo Kastrup’s formulation of idealism.

:up: No worries. You have no idea what oceans I have already crossed.

Sorry, I appreciate your efforts and good luck to you, but if I’m going to attempt something complex, it’ll be Heidegger. I have absolutely no idea wh...

Sorry, I don’t relate to this frame. I’m not saying it isn’t right in its own way but it just doesn’t come up in my framing of this matter. I tend to ...

Help me make the connection between what I said about philosophy and your response. Perhaps you could sketch out in a few dot points how this relates ...

Well, even I managed 10k and I have no almost knowledge of philosophy… I don’t doubt it. I’ve actually enlarged my views because of your very reasonab...

24,000 of them trying to explain the blind spot of science to physicalists... :razz:

Yes, that's a point I often make too. I hold progressive and conservative positions, depending on the issue. Conservatives have almost never concerned...

I'd be interested if it isn't too theoretical. I'm curious about this idea, but I feel uneasy about it. While it seems true that how we react is our r...

What do you take to be the meaning of that often proffered quote?

Everyone believes their version of 'truth' is on their side. The problem isn't so much religion as it is tribalism and dogma. I agree. A critical poin...

It would seem to me that a key role of philosophy is to transcend one’s limitations - cultural and self-created. To ask better questions and move beyo...

Can you demonstrate that? I doubt it’s accurate. I’m an atheist, but I don’t blame religion for everything that’s wrong or bad. Just look at Pol Pot, ...

This is a critical point so often overlooked,

:up: The cartoon is nice.

Clever dick... Out of interest, who do you prefer, Sartre or Camus. I was never able to get through Being and Nothingness.

The essence of good gardening.

I'm not certain on this. But as a supporter of diversity and inclusion in general terms, I’d say it’s as much a question of values as anything else, v...

Indeed. And by extension we would imagine that the values held by 'woke' activism would be strongest amongst this cohort.

My experince working with younger people is that they tend to be more values led - hence more radical and often more politically engaged. Isn't this m...

If that is intended to trivialise people’s position, then not exactly. But at a broader level, everything is about feelings, isn’t it? I tend to hold ...