Tom Storm

Interesting. So what is an example of intuition operating in this way?

Woody Allen made a career out of this idea. Many people at some point come to the conclusion that nothing matters, that life is meaningless and that i...

You're such a tease... :razz:

Everything is in the mind, Miller, so the point holds. :cool:

There seem to have been a few threads on this idea. I think there are several correct answers to this depending on your perspective and age. Personall...

I really dislike Marvel superhero films - I find them inadequately imagined festivals of CGI clichés. But I am also troubled by their nascent Fascist,...

Yes, people change beliefs, but usually for reasons. I don't think it is choice. Is Buddhism a belief about human nature? I wonder how meaningful this...

OK. Interesting. I have no idea what beliefs suit people. I generally hold that people don't choose their beliefs. But they might be influenced in som...

Apart from the fallacy here - there's an assumption made that we can measure this accurately. Do you have a source for this?

Pretty much what I thought you might argue. :wink: But this is your 'puny subjective value system' against a god who knows all things. How could you p...

Isn't that how it's meant to be read?

Thanks for your frankness. People's experiences can vary greatly and, at the risk of entering phenomenology via the wrong thread, we all see the world...

OK. I don't find this resonates with me. This takes a particular slant on human behavior I don't hold.

So they are the same motivationally but one is preferable to the other? So is the way to assess the merits of an act then found in the virtue of the p...

Agree. It's interesting too how we bring who we are to our observation of things. Each object we look at is also poured full of our history and our pe...

I would argue this should be at the foundation of all thinking about the issue.

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"I like to Watch" Peter Sellers: Being There.

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This is a very common view. Used to be called cynicism (in the non-philosophical sense). What do you consider to be good evidence for this? Is there a...

That's certainly what I have seen over a couple of decades involved in various groups and associations. Whether there is a path to higher consciousnes...

My high school teacher showed us this a few decades ago. I remember it well.

Ah, Dickheads on Facebook, the new Salem witch trials...

You've expressed this is a marvelously adroit fashion. Thanks.

I don't drink anymore, but I still have Muddy Waters. Right now - Electric Mud; song; Tom Cat. Some salacious blues helps to remind me that being is a...

Back to that blind spot :party:

God's a he? That might explain the poor attention to detail...

I appreciate you trying to hone this argument but I don't think this is sound premise either. Would it not be better stated as "If god is just and omn...

I'm very attached to my rotting teeth - God can keep their filthy hands off them, if you please.

Amen to that.

I have heard no reason to hold a belief in any kind of deity, so arguably this entire argument can be swept away. But I like arguments and I don't see...

Knees are one thing. How about teeth? How many millions throughout history have died prematurely because of their bad and rotting teeth? If you think ...

I've seen a range of WFH folk who are not privileged; they are call centre workers and other low status IT type roles. Sometimes the home they are in ...

You know your American iconoclasts... :ok: I had a Vidal fixation in the 1980's and 90's. I've studied his work for decades, read most of the essays &...

I hear you. I wonder if any of this matters to a life lived. Physicists also tell us that reality is a series of fields with blobs of discrete energy ...

So all you seem to be saying is we should all be given the right to kill ourselves whenever we choose to by state sanction. The interesting thing for ...

Gore Vidal: "There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a...

What is your evidence of an 'ultimate reality'?

Not sure I follow - can you expand? People don't require the right to make use of suicide and they do so all the time. Or people can fritter away an e...

As someone who has provided suicide intervention counselling over the years I can make a few observations from a particular perspective. The person wh...

Agree totally. I've often wondered about it. Another aspect of this is how often in ordinary life no decisions they make are based on any kind of phil...

I like this. Is it possible to push it any further? I'm thinking along the lines that people have a responsibility to construct their own meaning rath...

I hear you and largely agree. But my question came out of the debate earlier around interpretations of Heidegger as a man who appeared to make choices...

I haven't said if it is possible or not I asked how it is done.

Ok, thanks for clarifying. I think there's merit in what you say. I was asking Joshs how does one come to an understanding of another person using the...

Can you expand, not sure I understand your point.

Some fascinating ideas Joshs. I imagine there might be endless possible readings of a given person in the context of sociological, historical and psyc...

I'd be interested in how such views are compatible with Heidegger's work on being (and no I am not trying to be a dick) I am always curious how comple...

Well, I was talking about how Trump may see this, not really any reference to Putin's actual work (whatever this may really be). T likely just sees P ...

Perhaps you are over-thinking this. I don't think Trump's fascination for Putin is anything more than one inflated roid-ridden bodybuilder admiring an...