Tom Storm

Certainly. I am on the forum for precisely this reason. To me philsophy primarily seems to be a creative way for us to manage anxiety. Do you really a...

That's funny. There don't appear to be any limits on interpretation and believers will make things fit and create frantic workarounds to ensure that t...

I don't think that works. The God part will provide. But is it really worth our time analysing an entire myth like this when thousands, perhaps millio...

Heaps of interpretations for this. The one I was taught was he was quoting from Psalm 22. It's just another element in the stories writers introduced ...

Nice. That actually helps me to make sense of the Mishima.

I guess it can only mean something based on language and zoological classification. Which is fine for me. If there is a realm where cowness is found.....

Ok. I guess you'd have to read it to make sense of it.

Can you makes sense of this one for me? Those quotes sound like Nietzsche.

Interesting. How is order an intricate process of self-development?

Hmm... to me it sounds like you have added the notion of 'like' here to find a way out of subjectivism. How can it be that some people find ostensibly...

I think that's an interesting idea.

I think this idea isn't hard to understand. What does one make of a more complex and overt example of suffering wherein an innocent is the victim and ...

Sure, fine with that. Not entirely sure I'm following this one. That might be on me. A cow can be demonstrated via a clear zoological example, can't i...

Fair enough. In my place I'm a minimalist and I don't own any kitchen appliances - no kettles, toasters, mixers, microwaves, rice cookers, etc. I have...

That is gloriously phrased.

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How is that an advantage to the old way of cooking pasta? I choose how much I want, bung it in a pot and it cooks in 8-10 minutes? Does it use less wa...

Yes, but my point is that beauty may be the product of both. It's not an either/or. Take a painting we agree upon as beautiful. There's the intrinsic ...

Personally I don't really have a problem with infinite regress. :wink: Isn't this false dilemma fallacy? Might beauty not be the product of both subje...

Missionary work has a history of very unkind and brutal acts. Taking children from their parents (in Australia), forcing religious conversions to Chri...

Nicely done. Let's hope the people will soon get to run tours from the glass shark tank. A supplementary questions comes to mind. Who or what replaces...

Not necessarily that. I studied philosophy at University in the 1980's. The head of the philosophy department once said to me, "You are not here to le...

Do you think this might be about how the subject is taught and how institutions work, rather than philosophy itself?

Cool, thanks for that. Is it correct to consider B&N to be a sort of Heidegger-lite? I like the essential notion of existentialism; that humans have i...

Do people still read Sartre and take him seriously? I recall Camus and Sartre being fashionable in Australia just after the war; mixed into a kind of ...

Thanks.

What are a couple of examples of what philosophy has taught you about life?

:rofl: Yep.

Yes, I think this is right. I hope he tries it and gets an electoral excoriation. Yep. Doubt it. I can't see a lot of energy getting behind Dutton. Wh...

There is also something about focused, concentrated language in poetry. Personally I have no interest in poetry but I do like music which does for me ...

Hmm, not the ones I have met. But it's only been a few. (edited) On reflection you are probably right. I think Dutton lacks the barnstorming showbiz p...

Some of our remarkable encounters with people are via their books. I have not had that experince with philosophy but I have via essayists and novel wr...

Abbott seems consumed by Jordan Petersonesque ideology and Western Civilization style chauvinism. I met him for work a few years ago and he was presen...

How far do you think Dutton will go emulating Trump-style politics as we head towards the election and how do you think it will play where it matters?...

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I'm not really a graph guy.

WTF? I am never 100% sure of anything and I don't use percentages to qualify any ideas i hold. Bear in mind Billabong has been a popular brand of spor...

Fairly sure.

I don't know what the 'same status' means here. I would imagine most younger people (under 40) do not know what a billabong is and apart from appearin...

Well, I can't l say I am familiar with Patterson's work so there is that. At the time he was writing, the remote parts of Australia were also called t...

No idea.

:up: This is a view of area where my parents built their home. But I don't call it the bush - it's too close to suburbia and cities, despite its lushn...

Most people I know are not just disinterested in philosophy; many are mildly hostile about it, seeing it as pointless wankery which never arrives anyw...

I had pretty much the same experience - growing up in the Dandenong ranges and off to places like Broken Hill for road trips. I still can't tell the d...

Do we know what steps Luigi took and what, if anything, happened? I think there's a view amongst many people that the corporate fat cats are fucking o...

Nice!

Would it not depend on the issue? If it's about bike lanes, then never. What do you have in mind?

I'm not a philosopher, but it strikes me that the word philosophy is an umbrella term for a wide range of enterprises - some of these would, as per De...

Not sure I understand your ideas here. Memory doesn't represent what happened to us or how we felt. The self is like mercury. What we think we experie...

I don’t know the difference between the bush and the outback. I use them interchangeably if I have to use them. But generally I talk about going to ‘t...