Tom Storm

Not sure what you mean by the 'whole area of religious thinking' not sure such an area exists. Maybe you mean the common or general discourse on relig...

People often get lost in comparative religion and see what they want to see. Given that the subject is crammed with vagueness and deepities and unveri...

Jung was a 'psychologist' whose interest in myth ran away with him. His collective unconscious idea has rarely been taken seriously except by artists ...

Well, Socrates isn't God, so the analogy is not apropos. We are not talking about a man's ideas. We are talking about the intrinsic moral position inh...

Is there any evidence that Jung was anything more than a crank? There is absolutely no evidence for any of his ideas (which I studied formally some ye...

Dostoevsky always had this the wrong way around. It should be: "With God anything is permissible." If you want to build systemic human rights violatio...

What is another dimension and how does art lead you there?

Don't see how they are not the same. Remember moral behaviour for God is simply that which pleases him. The fist step is belief. Tick. Not believing h...

It's a problem of epistemology so it covers the waterfront.

Of course there are. But atheism specifically means just one thing, hence the name a theism - Greek: "without God". Any other beliefs are a separate m...

Not many believers have read much scripture and often traditions don't come form this source. Actually it is pretty common for a Christian, Jew or Mus...

No. All an atheist is is a person who doesn't believe there are sufficient reason to believe in any form of God. There are atheists who believe in ast...

Untrue - Islamic State, just one example, demonstrate that religions - which all have their fundamentalist expressions - cab be ethically repulsive. A...

Ancient does not refer to a specific timeframe. Generally it means the distant past - which can encompass a very wide period. Words like 'ancient' are...

Atheism isn't a belief system as such. Atheism has one idea. That no good reasons have been provided to believe in God. Atheism is not a school of tho...

Nice. Most nuanced atheists would argue that there are no reasonable grounds for accepting the proposition that a God exists. They would not say there...

This is one of those airy quotes that you can interpret however you want. I'm usually weary of quotes that reduce a whole disciple to a maxim. They us...

This idea does interest me - can you provide any examples where a robust egoist system has been achieved or close to being achieved?

Know thy limitations is the same thing a know thyself.

I'd love to see this theorem stated somewhere. My understanding of Camus' solution is:life has no transcendent meaning but you can create your own mea...

This would seem to be true. But I have met too many nihilists who enjoy life. I have rarely met anyone for whom nothing matters, even those who say th...

I don't think this is new. All technologies do is provide new ways to do old things. You have expressed at least two distinct ideas. First, that every...

That is sometimes true. But it depends on the cherry picking. If you are only picking that which you think you understand and you are banishing that w...

I wouldn't know.

Nihilism has hard and soft variants. In philosophy I always understood nihilism to refer to the idea that there is no transcendent meaning or purpose ...

Indeed. Say what you want about Buddhism. The opposite is also true.

I can't really reply to you as there are so many ideas going on and many of them I don't follow or don't see reasons for. I will ask you what do you m...

Are you saying that the way out of nihilism is to select a 'lie' to put your hope in. Fake it until you make it? If you are a true nihilist then the i...

I would have thought that much was obvious. Believers cherry pick what they want to accept in all religions. My point is you have to start with what t...

All that atheism is is the rejection of the proposition that a God exists. It says nothing about a person's other beliefs. Many people who call themse...

Some of us are taught the wrong things. All religions are encrusted in a separate folklore which does not come from any holy books. I think your first...

Just bear in mind that it is easy to jump to conclusions. Confession is not a significant part of all Catholic practice these days and is diminishing....

I'm not sure I follow your thoughts. I had no idea Camus was back in fashion. I doubt that many people actually square off to nihilism, but some peopl...

That's not very accurate, is it? If you are saying that you are more likely to have a happy life if you live somewhere where there are resources, then...

I've made that joke a thousand times. Actually if nothing matters then everything matters. As I already said:

Those two quotes from Augustine and Heidegger describe Jordan Peterson's entire project. What they don't do is identify if there is substance behind a...

Politicians and businessmen commit the same sins, around here. I can't generally tell them apart.

There's no question that the pursuit of the dollar often leads to a multitude of sins. Corporations have a long history of trying to get away with une...

I don't know what your experience is, but it's generally not a matter of resources, instead, a matter of priority. If you're saying that people can be...

In my experience also, very few people have the available resources to do this.

I have lived in several homes around cities where the neighbors are concerned and upright citizens. Where they are considerate and mindful of how they...

The thing to remember is that people from all religions often find religions comforting, from the Parsi to the Muslim. Psychological help via Buddhism...

I don't see how your conclusions follow from your ideas, sorry. I am a Hobbsian. No one lives without perversity to my knowledge. How would you even d...

Beauty and truth are words we use to describe particular things. Discussing the words truth or beauty in isolation, (in themselves so to speak), is us...

A few other disadvantages of organized religion could include: - justification for prejudice -Justification for bigotry -justification for violent beh...

[reply="Darkneos;502771" I've always found the idea that 'the only meaning there is is the one we chose to make' to be liberating and an aphrodisiac f...

I'm not aware of anyone saying Camus 'solved' nihilism. Only that his version of existentialism is one potential approach if you are of the view that ...

Not sure I follow this. Can you express this via an example in action even if theoretical.

For me David Lynch often makes mainstream 'surrealist' movies full of self indulgent devices and visual non-sequiturs. I have often found his work to ...