Tom Storm

Thanks. I'll mull over this a while.

I'm sure a range of morally questionable activities are also this.

I think just about everyone holds a view like this. But is it not the case that determining which things are not worth engaging with is one of the mor...

Thanks Joshs. I'm sure you are right.

I didn't think it was strange. Putin is precisely the kind of charismatic, unconstrained 'strong man' Trump would see himself as aspiring to be. Since...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ycirYfmcY

So how does examining 'being' accomplish so much? Can you provide an applied example?

Interesting. I'm still trying to understand why it matters at all what anyone's understanding of being is. What can it do for us?

No interest in getting into a debate on this, that's for a different type of site. But the lesson here is that one man's conspiracy is another's load ...

Nuh. I know all about Prouty and that terrible Oliver Kidney-Stone movie.

I tend to accept the Oswald verdict. But the idea of a conspiracy is so intrenched regarding JFK that it has almost become an accepted 'fact'.

Thanks, my view of Heidegger is entirely personal and no reflection on the work (whatever it is). What is it you go to these thinkers for?

Thanks. I find H unreadable so I'll never know...

Do you think Heidegger uses being in a more useful way?

What do you think?

Fair enough, I wasn't thinking about meditation. Not something I have done myself for decades.

Quick question. Seems to me there is a lot of pop-Buddhism around these days. People often have a kind of romanticized, redacted, 'self-help' form of ...

As a human being living a finite life in what appears to be an entropic universe, the idea of eternity seems incoherent to me for the same reasons tha...

Why can't it be both? :razz:

I'll take a stab at this. Immutability is not a necessary component of happiness from where I sit. Do I disparage an amazing meal because it gets fini...

Good point. I like to think of death as like sleep only deeper and less refreshing.

Musical jubilation - sounds good. I've noticed you often advocate/celebrate some fine music yourself as, perhaps, a kind of remedy for the Sisyphian r...

That resonates with me too. Of course there are places and situations on earth right now where pessimism may seem more apt.

Does human nature exist and if it did could it refute anything? The solution to most wallowing. Many of the pessimists I have met have been comfortabl...

:up: Thanks AP. It's been an interesting ride so far.

I would have thought it is almost impossible not to hold a metaphysical position. Surely, whenever you take a view about the nature of reality, you ar...

Interesting and thanks for the reference. (I read most of Hesse back in the 1980's.) Yes, I wonder if we can look within at all too. I also wonder if ...

Is that what I said? My point was I am not interested in reflecting upon my own consciousness. I can't see how this approach could lead to much more t...

Science? I guess there I can see how it might be of use. Science is an expression of physicalism (for the most part) and (is/ought problem aside) we c...

Yep, I get that - but I ask what it might contribute towards an ordinary life and decisions? How is it of use?

Interesting question. I'm interested in how phenomenology understands intersubjectivity and how a shared knowledge system such as science works alongs...

I'm pretty sure there is a companion video of Deepak Chopra faking enlightenment in the same way.

Aren't the presuppositions of science (which go into making such a statement) comprised of metaphysical positions - e.g., that reality is a state of a...

This is confused. Emotional regulation and affect more generally are key indicators of mental health. Many mental illnesses - depression, schizo-affec...

You seem unduly sensitive to this. Try not to be defensive and aggressive in return. No need to re-write anything: this is a forum. You made a point, ...

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Psychoanalysis refers to a particular therapeutic intervention. What you mean is a psychological or psychiatric assessment. These can be notoriously u...

Just taking this at random demonstrates to me the innate difficulty of actually making these sorts of statements coherent. It wasn't just Nazi's who c...

Psychoanalysis? Involved in the events? What does this mean? No. Sounds like you have already made up your mind that this is a thing. It's certainly f...

But the point is, you can't tell from such a change what is responsible for that change. So many things have altered since 1990, how would you establi...

A hot mess.

I'm not sure you could demonstrate a causal connection between the two. This is a very old style claim. Innovations in technology are generally said t...

Hey, it's no biggie. Thanks for considering. In relation to your thought experiment. "The correct answer to what is the capital of France is Paris" Th...

Probably not, but I'm not a philosopher. Why this question? This is not intended as a criticism or animadversion, but what's the point of elevating ut...

Susan Haack (a prominent philosopher of science) suggests strongly that there is no scientific method as such. I'm paraphrasing, but for her there are...

Well, that's 16 nails in the coffin for Californian New Age practices... :razz:

Generally an atheist will do precisely this whenever a new variation of a deity is raised. But it is one idea they are rejecting; a god - even if ther...

I think this is largely a matter of personal taste. The fact that philosophy continues to recycle the same questions and answers on an almost endless ...

Sounds like at least one definition of philosophy. :joke:

Symbols are generally located within a cultural context and vary across cultures. In the Western tradition in art Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Sy...