I have often wondered about this and have written here that temperament and aesthetics probably inform people's choices. I'm fairly certain people wit...
No worries - the idea of dreams being a bowel movement is not intended as a negative insight. This 'dumping of images and themes' may be necessary for...
That's an unpleasant comment. I hope I am better than this TC. The idea of dreams as a kind of bowel movement is not uncommon and was certainly an ide...
Nice try. I'll go one more but we need to move on. Your point was that Nazi's were only possible because they removed the Judeo Christian tradition fr...
I don't see how you can argue that when the Nazi's drew on centuries of Christianity's antisemitism even Martin Luther's well known fulminations again...
Only if you derive an ought from an is. I'm talking about Bible believing literalist Christians and infallible word of God Koran believing Muslims. Pl...
Dawkins has made many different comments on ethics over the years. He generally does not recommend Darwinism when it comes to ethics. Usually a simple...
The arguments presented are actually pretty much those of Bertrand Russell as I stated above. Untrue. If you talk to the counsellors at Recovering Fro...
No one has time. I know that basic atheist arguments have helped a lot of people so I don't think we can write these guys off, even if you and others ...
Now you see, that's not accurate is it? Heading into straw man land, even. You only have to talk to support workers at Recovering form Religion to kno...
The 'New Atheists' themselves didn't like that definition but it suited a very marketable media proposition. So well in fact that we are still talking...
When people talk about money or happiness, flights of fancy may ensue. Everyone seems to know that happiness does not come from wealth and that a rewa...
No worries I thought your response was funny. Many of them became 'The Man' in the end. I was being flip with my counter reformation comment which is ...
But counterculture was also a commercial venture that made a lot of people rich whilst they played at being hippies. One of the nastiest things about ...
I don't think there is a conspiracy either way here. Having some strong personal connections to media (TV, radio and on-line news) the one thing all p...
People need a sense of what is real and where to find out reliable information. Bear in mind, I am not saying there is a coordinated conspiracy to fee...
Not sure that's an irony these days. One of secular humanism's primary drawcards is as a place to find morality given the continued demonstrations of ...
Sorry to be a pain but paragraphs would help make your thoughts readable. Or were you going for a dreamlike stream of consciousness effect.... Edit - ...
I think this can be the only reasonable understanding. People seem to want to peddle the notion of consciousness as briefly inhabiting our body then, ...
I don't think this is accurate. When Christianity was a prevailing myth there were anti-Semitic conspiracies, witch trials, shunning, torture, religio...
Nah. Conspiracies and tales of woe often ran side by side with Christianity through the ages. In fact, even today you will see that there are many Chr...
I agree with this. Have I misunderstood you? I was saying it is explaining 'a mystery with a another mystery' if you use God as an explanation. The fa...
People have never left behind the world of superstition and magical thinking. This is an evergreen pursuit. We talk about this era of science, but how...
Yes, very much. I suspect that explaining reason via God is just another God of the gaps idea - no different than explaining why there is 'something r...
The general argument seems to be that reason and the foundations of logic can only be possible if there is a god or higher consciousness as the guaran...
This is a common view but is it accurate? Firstly, reason is popular because humans have learned from experience that it actually provides practical r...
People have always found reasons to despair even in alleged times of cultural meaning (not that there ever was such an era). Mental illness is a separ...
I don't think there is any particular peak in despair or loss of meaning - but it's something the media like to create and whip up anxiety about. It h...
How would you measure this? Seems to me a lot of marketing, popular culture and Youtube posturing is energetically selling this idea. Probably aligned...
I was being flip. The idea of the 'fair go' is a key Australian myth. That all Aussies get the same opportunities and understanding. But many people d...
It's not an unfamiliar idea. I can't really engage with it however as I don't accept the proposition that a God existed/exists. I also don't feel any ...
The time to believe something is when there is good evidence for it. However, this just kicks the debate down the road into the what-counts-as-evidenc...
All this is reasonable. A last thread holding the notion of a soul in place for many people is the ostensibly mysterious nature of consciousness, firs...
I agree. I am not a philosopher but Searle's routine involves defending realism. I would not be able to repeat it even if he told it to me himself. I ...
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