Tom Storm

V is pointing to N's ideas which clearly stand against organised views like Nazism. The date isn't relevant. Remember N said Christianity failed becau...

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Very true. People also live beholden to the shadows of their parents and schooling and peer groups and often fail to take adventures elsewhere for fea...

Got you. It seems the culture wars have bread a generation of internecine suspicions that lend themselves so easily to a grand conspiracy behind all h...

My fault? If it is, sorry.

This. The Nazi's made use of Christianity's centuries of anti-semitism including Martin Luther's fulminations against Jews. It's likely Nietzsche woul...

Sure, I wasn't making any comment about your need for classification. My own belief is that reflective thought is also often a product of people's emo...

You were serious? I thought you were having a quiet mock there yourself so I had a riff on it. The people who post here seem to be from a very broad r...

I didn't say they were exactly the same, just that they are both examples of things you don't choose. But you may be onto something, A- it may not be ...

I think you are largely right. Plus people often require a reason to change outlooks. It's not something you generally do without a trigger. I don't t...

My understanding is it is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation under a subsidiary of the Fabianism and post-modern Marxist funny handshake collecti...

I'm not quite sure what a goal is in this context. I sometimes make plans; I rarely set goals. Are they the same?

Or he's an atheist. We all know that if there is no God, anything is permitted.

We're going to need a bigger boot.

You must be if you have time for philosophy on this site.

Maybe. For me it seems - and this is loose - to be the case that the left split and privileged a cultural left over the reformist left and it's clear,...

It has to start somewhere. Pretty hard to rear young without empathy.

I always thought empathy was the initial impulse behind ethics.

I can't talk to the statistical comparison. In your view is there a connection between atheism and mass murder or are mass murderers more likely to be...

Who are the élite?

Hey, I don't care much for Nietzsche, I think of him as a didactic humorist with a mean line in oxymora. I think he got Christianity wrong too.

That made me laugh out loud. After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave - a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; b...

That is a pretty good argument.

This is going to be fascinating...

Maybe for some. I have sometimes advised on government policy to both political parties and it is clear that off the record Labor guys will tell you t...

Yes, the use of the word 'higher' attached to so many things is curious too. I used to kick around with a lot of folk into yoga, Buddhism, spiritualit...

But Thatcher did not tell the voters what they wanted to hear. What is fascinating is how neoliberalism has made people vote against their own interes...

Do say more.

No one is looking for slogans - did I even mention that word? Nor did I say I can't find useful paragraphs elsewhere. What I said was, I bet you would...

That is one of the more enticing paragraphs I have read here.

You see my problem? The Thatcher position is much easier to articulate and is elegant to read and hear. Yours is jagged and defensive. 'Complete BS' i...

Could you put up a succinct paragraph in ordinary language against this proposition of Thatcher and Hayek's?

Of course, if he was experiencing psychosis and/or suicidal ideation, or other significant distress from mental ill health. Seems to me that you have ...

:up: Agree A. Thanks.

Perhaps it does sound like more of the same to you. To me it sounds far less absurd than the incongruous four word slogan she has become known for by ...

I prefer to think of it as a red herring.

So was I. It can work and treatment has probably (for all the mistakes) provided more happiness to people than philosophy or pondering moral facts eve...

I've read it. So what? As I said there are many examples of clinical bad practice and I am not fan of the medical model - but you can make similar cla...

The full Thatcher quote is actually more interesting than the simple phrase that always gets clipped. I think we have gone through a period when too m...

He would probably agree. He was a barnstorming polemicist. But he did have the occasional insight.

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“Our plan for Australia’s energy future is squarely focused on bringing down prices, keeping the lights on and reducing our emissions and these interc...

I don't know why I think of this anecdote. 1977 - Kerry Packer rings an adviser/friend: "Idi Amin has invited me to go elephant shooting with him in U...

Try Ménière's disease... the God beliefs will fall right out of you as you tip over...

Quick digression with apology. I am always curious that people want to work so hard to incorporate a version of God into their world. Why? Why not wai...

I don't really know what 'ownership' exactly means. Is it used as a synonym for entitled? From a perspective of realpolitik, my intuition is that owne...

One shouldn't generalize about atheists, just as one shouldn't generalize about theists. It's an astonishingly broad category of people. There are cru...

I hear you. I meant objective subject to a chosen criterion. The hazards of that word... Yep. I guess you could argue the same about a beautiful art w...

That wiff of Plato is pretty much why I asked. I need to be shown how you arrive at a moral fact if you don't hold some kind of Platonist account. Wel...

Do you believe that if there are moral facts they can only come from a transcendent source (what's the term I need here?)? Does Plato's theory of form...