Agree. People seem to want to identify the really real. It’s surely a kind of god surrogate. Yes. This may be boring but I think the issue is I have k...
That's one way of looking at it. That's another. I think it's objectively true that I am typing this answer. Whatever ontological/metaphysical matters...
So far this sounds like a fairly commonplace observation. When I've heard this argument proposed, generally people talk about selves rather than ident...
I'd say you need a better example than alchemy - which is not relevant today. If this problem still exists then you shouldn't have a problem finding g...
Hasn't this been the case for at least a century? The primary difference being how those 'archetypes' are distributed to target audiences? I don't kno...
Yes. But I wonder also whether the quest to identify the 'really real' might not just be a secular replacement for god. I have sympathy for this frame...
I would think so. I remember my grandmother saying that culture no longer made sense to her—she was a fundamentalist Christian born in the 1890s. The ...
It would really help if you gave a recent example and stepped it through. You mention getting 'hung up on details'. The devil is in the details. Isn't...
Sounds like you had an emotional reaction. I have felt that way about peeling paint on a mental fence when lit by a setting sun. Does it mean anything...
Is this the core of your argument? What is the nature of your frustration here? Just because two approaches attend to the same matters does not mean t...
Some random reactions. Atheism only refers to a disbelief in one thing. Gods. Some atheists believe in ghosts, astrology or even Bigfoot. Additionally...
No, the data is not generally relevant to the practice of suicide intervention. It's also understood that the data on suicide isn't accurate. Deaths b...
Yes. However it seems to me this principle seems to operate in almost any arcane 'knowledge' area, whether it's Platonists, Scientologists or QAnon. I...
Yes, to me it has the same rhythms as the second coming. The alien rapture is nigh - we can read all the signs…. If. I guess there’s the potential tha...
I have spent 35 years working with people who have experiences of complex trauma and abuse, some were tortured in prisons overseas, some were, as chil...
I think this is the correct assessment. I followed Greenstreet fairly closely a few years ago when I was bored. Agree. There's a religious element to ...
Not always. Don't forget people who have degenerative illnesses who would prefer to die than continue to experience suffering. Also people who have ex...
:up: Bad syntax on my part - I meant often amongst those who contemplate suicide. Of course we'll never know how many alleged 'accidental' deaths - cr...
I think it's often the case that people find that there are fewer reasons for living than there are reasons for dying. Sometimes those people choose s...
The issue for me is the term "the Government" what does that really mean? Does this suggest a single, monolithic, united and coherent group who has co...
Nicely put. I remember Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about what it might be like for an advanced alien to talk to us. It might be a lot like when we tal...
Never thought that one a particularly useful paradox. If aliens have sufficiently advanced technology to get here from Christ knows how many light yea...
Sure - there's many ways to do a risk matrix. I imagine that the main concern (if true) would be are they the product of a foreign power or a homegrow...
My sense is perhaps this: In the current world of risk management and security, and risk mitigation matrixes, committees and organizations investigate...
No, I am saying this is a candidate explanation. I don't have a firm grasp on what is happening, who is seeing what and what is real and what is media...
[ That's what people say, of course. But somehow no one ever provides good reasons, right? :razz: That would be a bad argument and I apologize for laz...
Not sure but I expect it has a lot to do with people's fear and expectations about the future - AI, technology, politics, etc. I think Jung saw UFO's ...
Interesting question. Our Liberal party has been a Tory party. The name an accident of history. Our Liberals are more aligned with and sympathetic to ...
Yes... I noted also that Fraser thought Hawke/Keating were too 'right-wing' and pro-business when they floated the dollar and deregulated the labour m...
I think history may have demonstrated that moral facts don't exist and societies can turn to killing people indiscriminately fairly quickly. Particula...
I don't think we've had a Liberal Party in Australia in some years. Old school conservatives and 'wets' were overtaken by radical free marketeers and ...
It's aliens. Late in the year 2025, Donald Trump, through manifest incompetence, started a nuclear war that destroyed much of the earth. Aliens have a...
Of course the person known as Buddha did not write and never directly contributed anything to what we know today as Buddhism. The writings came centur...
No. I don't think things are as simple as this. But it tells me a lot about why this model appeals to you. You appear to be an absolutist. Curious tha...
Which is an idea I personally find quite lovely. To me this is meaningful. We have one life, make it work. Meaning is a human term which is the produc...
Indeed, although I don’t much like cathedrals. They are striking rather than beautiful. I think ideas can also seem ugly or beautiful. For instance, t...
Good response, thanks. Indeed, binary or dualistic thinking like this is certainly responsible for many unnecessarily conflicts. I have often thought ...
I think we may be going around in circles. I believe I have dealt with your objections sufficiently - as you no doubt feel you have with mine. :wink: ...
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