Was there a question? Language is never the thing it describes so it is not surprising that language can be mastered and words mustered that never mak...
"Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other G...
I think this is a profound reading. And in a similar vein please explain Jesus - is it not the case that God sacrificed himself to himself to save us ...
I don't know of anything that is 'supernatural'. How would we even identify this attribute? I am only aware of claims people make about entities or ph...
Power has many definitions. I'm not interested in all variations. I was feeding back a few thoughts about leadership and those in an elevated position...
Acton was referring to government power, but it's an observation others have made. I don't need to explain to anyone here the uses and abuses of power...
I have no doubt that Lord Acton's quote is mostly accurate - the actual quote is 'power tends to corrupt' (the tends is important and makes the quote)...
I like the idea of this but I can't yet see how it would work. Sorry. Can you perhaps, using some brief dot points and a given work, step it out for u...
Sorry man, it all seems empty of content. Taking a dump/painting = same thing. It adds nothing to our understanding of art. Probably the artist's proj...
You're right. I was just providing trauma as a potential example. But I do think people's life experiences and childhoods (awful or otherwise) play a ...
Untrue. For years I have worked with prisoners and people with vast anti-social behaviors. A fit of rage may be suppressed. What you say only applies ...
No, the unconscious may well direct artistic choices and the artist may have little or no capacity to access what the work is expressing. Certainly th...
As you probably know, Paul Tillich, one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the 20th century, used this term 'ground of being' to describe g...
Agree. I suspect this is what's behind the growing minimalism movement (which like anything else has also been hijacked by posers). I've been practici...
Ah, so there's our problem. I don't see that as an excuse. I see that as someone practicing a faith. We need to be comfortable in the realization that...
I agree with you. But it doesn't change my point. I'm not trying to describe religion in all its panoply of great and terrible - just the fact that pe...
Yep - I'm not saying I'm correct, just that this seems to work. It's always interesting how discussions of art generally end up in good versus bad. Ge...
I think that is limited account of how religions work. The point is that people of good faith and good intentions often do dreadful things because the...
I guess we're back to that familiar aphorism - "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." I personally am comfortable with this even thoug...
No offence intended but I thought the punchline - after the aspirant saw the lovely animal in that golden light - was going to be, "Damn, I've wasted ...
The thought of this amuses me as it's a fairly lightweight composition. I much prefer Rach 2 - still lightweight but it's far more efficacious I find ...
I kind of get what you are saying. I generally take the view that absolute certainty may not be possible - that aside can't we apportion confidence ab...
If it is a falsehood is it then not the case that we think we 'know' X is the case, when it isn't? My understanding is that we can only know true thin...
Sure. I have met living therapists who are less engaged than a computer and no one seems to notice they aren't really there either... I don't think it...
I fear this is a fairly wise quote. I think of the good citizens of a suburb near me who are Christians and good family people but are willing to cond...
Does it not depend on the nature of the proposition you are accepting as true? How does one justify, in any way, the belief that the world is run by a...
I think wisdom and intelligence are synonyms. Are there any uses of the word wisdom where intelligence can't also be used? Sometimes there's snobbery ...
Perhaps I don't understand your point. Humans are essentially clever animals and we use language and technology to help manipulate our environment. I'...
Goodness... Sorry but his sounds like vague and confused thinking. You still have unfinished work in explaining why consciousness and self-organizatio...
I'm from Australia so blandly secular is the default in general, even if we currently have our first evangelical Prime Minister. Our politics was alwa...
What you say is true but I wonder is there a difference in the foundational nature of government and religion? Is religion not founded on and galvaniz...
Well Plato will tell you we all live in a cave. It's a key narrative in philosophy. That aside is being hostile really a way to engage with a topic? C...
This has been answered a few times both directly and indirectly. If it's on display as art it's art. You are being invited to consider something as an...
Cool. Yep - both are examples of consciousness and self-organization - which is why I said these criteria are close to meaningless. Unless one is a sl...
I have never understood what the word 'pure' adds to the word evil. Would we talk of pure good versus good? I think the word is added to underline it ...
What I can say for certain is that people hold versions of who they think they are based on stories and interpretations which often do not resemble th...
The way I've generally heard this was that you need to lose any current preconceptions of yourself in order to find your true self. I think it holds u...
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