Tom Storm

The word god is so bloody vague. Do you think that in neophyte philosophical discussions such as these it should be clearly spelt out what kind of the...

Manly pride? Interesting. I note that celibacy is often used throughout religious and mystical traditions as evidence of serious spiritual devotion. I...

Well, it is often used to describe talented or beautiful people. We had a football player called 'God'. I heard a woman describe a particular movie st...

Agree totally.

God

Interesting. This is not my area so forgive my clumsy wording. Is it not the case that through an introspective approach phenomenology enhances our ap...

MBTI is a huge money spinner for CCP, the company which owns it. Research studies have never establish MBTI is anything more than an ice breaking exer...

Although it seems to me that there must be a time when something which calls itself X may not actually be X. It just depends on how we decide where th...

Both potentially.

Goodness, talk about a radical rethink of his position. Well expressed. I guess it is not hard to see how phenomenology might be difficult to 'read' i...

That's a little gem. I remember discovering Armstrong back when her History of God came out. She makes a consistent case from the role of compassion i...

In your view did Searle fail to understand phenomenology or did he have a particularly tendentious reading of the source material?

If you think like that no wonder death is on your mind. You sound like Woody Allen. I am not haunted by death and I have worked alongside palliative c...

As an old man Gandhi used to lie in bed with naked young women who were decades younger than him. This, apparently was a celibacy test and an attempt ...

This is certainly what popular culture often thinks philosophy is. One of the great platitudes you hear is all religion and all philosophy is simply h...

Hey, leave qualia out of this... :razz:

Nicely succinct clarification.

Ok. I imagine changing the human diet en masse would make a substantial difference to the world's resources and industrial economies. But so would bro...

I'm not aware that people hate vegans.

:ok: Some of the communities I have been working with this year only have a 30% (approx) vaccination rate compared to 93% of the general population. T...

I've always thought that a large part of philosophy is a speculative and imaginative activity in order to challenge assumptions. This even includes ba...

I'm not the best person to talk to as logic doesn't engage me. The logical absolutes are tautologies. No one denies that we can say that God either ex...

Ok. Unknown?

What are you trying to get to in all this? I don't do math or logic, sorry. But I am curious what you have in mind. Pascal's Wager is nuts. What if yo...

:up: Agree TC. It's been really engaging and I have learned new things.

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Thanks for your response. I'm interested in the descriptions of contemplative prayer as per Rohr's accounts - where there are no words, no request is ...

I'm wondering if you explored the similarities between contemplative prayer and meditation and if you have any observations on this.

You seem to have missed the point. If it can be established that Christianity originally was not about suffering or punishment in the way you describe...

I'm no expert but there are earlier Christians traditions of universalism - all people will be saved and no one burned. Hell being a more recent idea ...

Yes. Wiki is essentially a mail drop box service. And conveniently overlooked during the appallingly named War on Terror.

Maybe she worked out you were not someone to con? :smile:

I think you need to be young in The Summer of Love for him to hit home.

Well no. She thought I was an old dude in need of a seat. Compassion was rarely so excoriating. :razz:

I had The Way of Zen and Psychotherapy East and West. Watts was an influence on me for a few years. I have to have real books - I need the low-tech br...

Things have changed. Here's a teaching story from me. :yikes: I was standing in a busy train on a hot day in Melbourne. A beautiful woman in her late ...

I need to find that Zen book.

Where on earth do you live? I stand up for anyone who looks like they need a seat regardless of gender. I would not stand for someone just because the...

:up: Nice chatting to you.

I'm not a philosopher, so this question probably has a correct answer unknown to me. I don't think the default is false - it has to do with the nature...

Playing to some of his base and shitting off ScoMo is surely his intent.

I haven't found it hard to decide that I don't believe in gods and I have a high degree of confidence that the idea is false (based primarily on a fam...

Personally I have partaken in 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 at various times. Sexual deviancy is meaningless - in many parts of the world many natural acts are cl...

Indeed; a sample of entrenched vintage sexism. Belongs to the same category as those who, in asking about the health of someone's wife, say, 'How's th...

Yes, however I'm no expert on atheism. Atheism is not a philosophy and it has no doctrines. Some atheists believe in the supernatural, for instance. A...

You've missed the point. You keep skipping ahead. A responsible atheist does not say there is no god. S/he says there is no good reason to believe in ...

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I read her piece on philosophical plumbing Very clear.

Ok, good, I understand what you are saying. Can I ask what is the principle which underpins the perspective you use here to select 'real world' experi...

I imagine some of us would become so bored that philosophy could develop a new urgency.