Essentially agree. What’s interesting to me is that people are forever trying to build fences around art - demarcating what counts as art and what doe...
A friend's sister was a jazz singer here in Australia. One Christmas, about twenty years ago, we were listening to some of her recordings. My friend s...
Fair point. Plato believed in transcendentals (the forms in his language) and thought there was an ideal form of love (along with beauty and goodness)...
I have no issue with that. I was quoting my dad who was echoing you on opera. I think the invention of the mic ushered in unparalleled vocal nuance an...
You're right, it is subjective, my father enjoyed opera and thought the range and texture of singing was so much more refined and relatable than the '...
Ha! Yes, this and people like Ike Turner. How about you start with what you already began? You said this, explain: Why? Why? Explain. For instance, ho...
Can you provide some key indicators or is thsi just how it 'feels' to you personally? To say Mahler is the opposite of rock means your idea of a “big ...
I think this is true for music and the visual arts. Yes, ugliness may reside in something being unfamiliar but how do we compare this to something tha...
Nice. And generous. I have no expertise, just curiosity. I think this is all very reasonable and nicely put. I like the word "adrift" and perhaps I sh...
Yes, and it's clear that currently immensely popular thinkers like Jordan Peterson, Iain McGilchrist, and John Vervaeke hold views along these lines. ...
Fair point. Given this is a discussion forum, we are bound to speculate, not just about metaphysics but also about what kinds of situations or emotion...
Seems a sour reaction. I'm not concerned if you're not upset, or are. Is it an unintended ad hom? Ok then. I also think it may sometimes be correct. I...
Oh, and this... why not? I believe some people are drawn to atheism because they feel a sense of disconnection from the world. Perhaps they haven't ex...
Well it's not my original thinking. I got this from a Catholic Priest friend of mine and it sounded reasonable. I can't do much about your seemingly s...
I think Wayfarer may be right about this but conversely there's also many a theist who is afraid that perhaps there's nothing to this God caper. Havin...
This site seems to contain a lot of strong voices advocating theism or views related to higher consciousness or transcendence. I'm not sure how many a...
Well, it is the depth of that relationship that is the issue. Delicious, revolting, warm and cold are also experiences 'governing our lives' in your w...
I was thinking about this one and it occurred to me that atheists (like me) also test ideas and arguments to see how they hold up. I don't believe we ...
I'm in my fifties and so far absolute categories of 'good' and 'beauty' have never really come up or mattered. It strikes me that these adjectives are...
Sure - I take worldview to include the quotidian and to be the source of our day-to-day choices and actions. Don't know. There's probably many explana...
It's not so hard; surely you know these religious folk too. They're the ones who often call the worshippers of other faiths idolaters. They are rigid,...
There’s also a lot of religious bigotry towards atheism. Religious privilege around the world makes it dangerous to be an atheist in some countries, e...
I think it's my favourite novel, and every time I read it, it's a different, richer, more elegiac book. For me, the story's enchantment lies in how it...
I think the expression is richer than that. It suggests that providing the press (those ravenous, dumb birds) justifications and prevarications is ana...
I've spent much of my life trying to reconcile theory with practice, in the world of psychosocial services, and I think I agree with him. But this wou...
Well it would seem to me that if philosophy is to be useful it must be able to do this. Not that this is something I spend any time on, but those with...
I read this and all I can think of saying is: can you give me some specifics, some details, so I know what you mean? For me big pictures can be amorph...
Some examples of faith are likely irrational. I provided examples earlier, such as the belief that black people or women are inferior. I've heard such...
Yes that's very important. Nice. I believe that not all intuition is equal. For example, when I interview people for jobs, I often have a strong sense...
Extraordinary - the banalities of Albo and the excesses of Trump have brought us to this. I can only imagine that Albo will waste the opportunity and ...
I never said they were. But in my experience with unhappy people, which is extensive, as I work in mental health and addiction - people often forget o...
True, I was riffing off the theme. For me personally, when I take the time to consider my psychological state and then reflect on how comfortable I am...
That's certainly true for many of us in the West. We have quality food, decent medicine, clean water, sewage systems, electricity, access to books, th...
Well, that would certainly provide some incentive. Yes, I find the idea of death as 'the end' oddly attractive and tidy. The Buddhist idea of afterlif...
Yes, I think we live in a world where people follow the same inferences, but end up in differnt places. I imagine that culture and foundational axioms...
Yes. I consider our understanding of the world to be tentative, the best we can do with what we know and how we know it. Yes, but not necessarily in t...
Hmm. Not sayign you are wrong, but I probably wouldn't share that view. Sure we can navigate the world pragmatically, but claiming true comprehension ...
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