Tom Storm

What do you consider a classical education and at what age?

Of course. Like so many things. Depends on the recording - I'm not a connoisseur.

Yes. I would have thought human emotional connection to sound and beat helped to build our original impulses. Not hard to see how sounds of nature, bi...

I am in agreement but what do you think the 'fruits' would actually look like? How do you demonstrate this?

Approaching a philosopher through a single context free quote like it's a bumper sticker is probably not ideal. In the context of the Tractatus the qu...

I can see that you think that and you argue it well. I guess I can't quite get on board but I am happy to keep mulling over it. Nor do I. It's a conte...

I think that's a sound summary. The naturalists I know mostly don't think that the sensory domain is necessarily a true refection of the world, just t...

And public servants...

That's pretty funny. :clap:

“My daily activities are not unusual, I’m just naturally in harmony with them. Grasping nothing, discarding nothing. In every place there’s no hindran...

I think that's a fair assessment.

I don't want to put words into Wayfarer's mouth but isn't one of his opinions that the post enlightenment worldview, especially that of the current, p...

I don't know - give it another 20 years, I suspect the endless and insufferable Marvel movie franchise will spawn a world faith and provide us with a ...

I keep my ego in a leather pouch on my belt.

I don't disagree with you - I am not in the enlightenment business - but a revelatory understanding of all which is true is part of the tradition - wh...

Interesting. I have not read about enlightenment traditions for decades. Is it not meant to include an awakening or illumination simultaneously with e...

I think this is a useful point - false modesty and the frailties of human decision making are often used as a kind of cover for crass dogmatism.

I know of no good reason to accept the proposition that any Gods exist. None of the classical arguments are effective. The only thing we have ever hea...

There is no real distinction between a cult and religion. When a religion or group is called a cult it is usually because it is smaller, controls the ...

I tend to agree with the late Australian critic Clive James - there ought to be prestigious literary award going for the person who doesn't write a no...

I've known hundreds of folk at the pointy end of mental ill health (schizophrenia, bipolar, schizo-affective disorder, folie à deux - you name it) I n...

I can say to the extent that I understand your point, I have not had this experience.

It does sound like the opening of a 20th century novel. :razz:

We know that humans develop and evolve stories to help make life easier. We are meaning making apes. An afterlife is one way to deal with death - to m...

That's an important point so often sidestepped.

I am only aware of one self and it appears to be integrated. I have no idea what a 'true self' might be - does this assume a false self? I am aware of...

From what I have seen, many believers don't really follow the commandments and probably don't know what they are.

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Agree. Of course there is also the issue of what the composer was trying to 'say' with the music. Much classical orchestral music (for instance) is in...

Totally agree.

Yes. The eternal search for truth, beauty, goodness. I agree. I've read a number of biographies of Hitler (whatever that's worth) and it does appear c...

Yes, it is exactly the same in any Western country as it is in Afghanistan.

I tired reading your attachment (lots of interesting ideas) - for me it requires editing and cutting so that it is making clear statements or proposin...

My problem with this is you haven't described just what it is in these philosophies that would be of use. What specific ideas would help and how? What...

I know its very popular to think so but what evidence do you have that society is more violent or dangerous and getting more so? Hatred is certainly b...

I can't think of something that is more successfully hidden in many people than the self. Hence the aphorism, ???? ???????. A classic Delphic maxim - ...

A low IQ will often come with poor understanding of self and others and very little capacity to conceptualise abstracts or systems. This immediately r...

Thanks for clarifying your views.

But if University is free then perhaps that part won't matter? I'm trying to establish if you think there is something about poor or 'not rich' people...

I think you lost me here. What socio-economic requirements are needed and how does that process work?

Good summary. Agree.

This!

What I have worked out: it's not always easy to say something meaningful.

That's a funny line.

That's interesting and a lesser understood part of a libertarians' worldview (if that's what yours is). Do you have a view regarding what help might l...

As a kid I often use to think that words were like falsifications of thoughts - inchoate blocks used to construct a shared notion of experience - a no...

No question, it's a construct - I am simply reporting on the words commonly used by people when describing their process to me. A common theme reporte...

Yes, I think living in the moment is critical for happiness more generally. I don't follow Zen but I've seen over the years that even very successful ...

I wonder though it that's too literal and concrete an understanding of living in the moment. If one gets too obsessive about details the bigger pictur...

I am highly amused by your seemingly endless attempts to denigrate or undermine Nietzsche. This last one I have to say is particularly delicious - phi...