Tom Storm

Glad to hear this. I tried several times and gave up. My mum (from Amsterdam) was an admirer of Spinoza and I felt like I should give him a go. But sh...

That's an inadequate response from where I am sitting. I know or have known survivors of the Holocaust; sex slavery; Rawanda; MS; Islamic fundamentali...

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I think it all went to shit when Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and shut down the press, arrested editors and banned journalists during t...

You can be wrong about things but believe them to be true. A lie detector can only determine if you think you are right.

It was 3.43 am on February 27th 1990.

Perhaps attach this to a posts about the rise of Hitler. If you put it here people may think you are a misinformed paranoiac.

I'm not experiencing any coercion or repression here in Australia. But some people who don't like responding to a public health emergency may consider...

People have been festering about this question for decades. It's only been the last years with our beloved technologies that surveillance has become s...

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Any of those. I hear what you are saying about 'major" but I don't think it needs a genius to throw out the symptoms they keep hearing about - surely ...

Errr.... no. Whilst this is true it misses the salient point that the following symptoms have been hysterically conveyed to the population for a year....

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:ok: I think the ready eruption of conspiracy theories is one of the many shadow sides of religion and totally see Q-Anon fitting into the cadences of...

Yes. Of course folk like Nietzsche and sophisticated Christians like David Bentley Hart would argue that those individual rights are simply the ghostl...

Yep. Unlike America, God is almost totally absent from Australian cultural life. There are small pockets of 'faith' within conservative politics. But ...

I certainly hope this is possible and will happen. I remain a non-believer but it would make me sleep easier at night knowing that Abrahamic religions...

I used to like goats.

Of course, but how does this relate to your question about reality being subjective?

Shouldn't that be -If all (perception and understanding of) reality is subjective then the burden of proof is no longer relevant?

Broad brushstrokes. It was a far more emotional incident and I don't feel comfortable saying much more than that.

Someone who worked with Jung for 25 years was very close to my family and I heard this story in much greater detail from someone who heard if directly...

I guess Jung is an expansionist.

No question and I'm not sure many take Freud's theories seriously except Freudian psychoanalysts. My hermeneutics of suspicion say there is a great de...

I can't see why Jung wouldn't be included in this too. I guess his are the hermeneutics of faith.

I understand that, I was asking Banno why not.

I think Freud saw himself in this tradition and along with the influence of Schopenhauer and Goethe probably fancied himself as a poet and literary cr...

Jung, likes to take accepted ideas and twist them. It's a nice touch bringing us an idea of God who also has an evil dimension. This certainly explain...

What kind of category mistake is 'reality is subjective?'

I see this same phenomenon in the activities of doctors, lawyers, builders, architects, police... I think it is a broad based human characteristic. Po...

Thank you for that explanation. I relate to much of it and agree for the most part. However, over the years I have found most philosophy laborious and...

I thought he was a wizard, like Freud.

This is my position too. But I understand how fear works and there is no doubt that most people would like more time to see how the vaccines pan out.

Is Jung a priest?

Interesting. Can you expand on this a little?

Not wanting to be offensive, but it sometimes sounds to me like you will elevate almost anyone if they share the same 'enemies' as you. If a particula...

To not know the symptoms of COVID in the current era suggests something more than mere ignorance but I am not certain what it is. I don't think the de...

It's interesting you say this. I think Catholicism may be more diverse. I attended an elective on Myths and Symbols (A Jungian Perspective) taught by ...

Can you provide an example of the kind of winner and situation you mean?

Yes, although there is an element of 'fake it till you make it'. Meaning can have a funny way of arriving when you are not expecting it. Sometimes it ...

I've spent many years managing and delivering services for people experiencing addiction and mental ill health, along with complex trauma and a host o...

Nice quote. Or as Jordan Peterson might frame it - 'first clean up your room.'

Not sure this is relevant but I am always surprised by how significantly people get in their own way. They are free, yet think they are trapped. They ...

You make this sound like a bad thing... I have dismissed him for me - I am genuinely interested in what others get from him as I am with many ideas. I...

I'm not sure it matters much who venerates him. The question is: Are Jung's ideas more than one man's subjective experiment? The fact that some people...

Jung doesn't really give us much to go on except speculative interpretations. Jung was essentially a mystic (a description he rejected) who coveted th...

Yep, I can drive stick although it has been 2 or 3 years. Most cars here were manual (as we call them) and then automatics started to predominate from...

Yes, I remember it well a few years later here in Australia. At our place it sat alongside the Female Eunuch, An Invitation to Sociology and Future Sh...

There's some truth to this but I was asking more about your idea about people's 'inability to see the obvious.' I don't think we can see without think...

: I think that's fair and far better expressed than my version.