Tom Storm

In addition to my other comments, this to me does not follow. How would you demonstrate that ignoring the word leads to any particular outcome? Why wo...

I thought your third one was keep it to yourself?

There's a big difference between deny through ignorance and deny through knowledge? Tell me how they are the same.

Hmmm. Yes, I do think this is a fourth option. One can understand the message and spend time studying the word, but nonetheless work hard to deny its ...

As a non-philosopher, it often looks as if the thinkers people are drawn to seem to reflect their presuppositions. How often have you seen someone com...

Good question. Can it even be done? Or do we just move from one set of emotionally based presuppositions to another? Yes, I think philosophy, being di...

I don’t know if T is an asshole. Seems too mild an epithet, I think he’s more of a malignant grifter. But as I said, this assessment will always be su...

What I have noticed (and this is old school wisdom) if everyone around you appears to be an asshole... the odds are it is you that's the asshole. I th...

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Yes, I wonder if they got the idea from The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (1955), wherein Jesus imagines a normal life with Mary and ...

Well the father, the son and the Holy Ghost are all one God - Yaweh. Well, if I were Jesus, I would be more inclined to say, 'Fuck this, I'm going to ...

Yahweh is god of Old Testament - a tyrannical destroyer of lives and worlds. Jesus is, by some accounts, his son.

But isn't Yahweh expert at genocide and death? Didn't he destroy the world and even have his own son killed? Yahweh could do anything he wants to clea...

Yes. How could 'neutrality' even work? Our values, goals, and decisions are all shaped by affective orientations, driven by what pleases or satisfies ...

No. I'm saying it originates from us (which might be described as 'inside') like everything seemingly outside, we play a key role in its creation. I w...

Just a thought. I wonder if there are some human-centric assumptions inherent in this. If there is elegance in anything, it is surely because we have ...

Thanks.

:up: This may be somewhat dumb, but isn't it also the case that we (humans) are conducting the assessment here? Notions of 'intelligence' and 'reality...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpRgR-tZEpk

That's funny. But I'm not sure about Heidegger as 'basically a cop'.

Yes, I sometimes pick that one too.

Yes. My favourite, when it comes to explaining the universe is, 'I don't know'. Even if one takes the god hypothesis seriously, the problem with it is...

I don't consider it particular important to have a view of truth or reality. Apart from a basic correspondence pragmatically, truth is often elusive. ...

I think I have mostly answered this already, but essentially a psychiatrist is a medical doctor with further specialist knowledge - so has all the kno...

You'd have to read the book or get a good summary. It's a long and deep study. But if you are going to say this. Then you seem to be arguing that psyc...

In my experience that is actually the starting point for most assessments. The conventional wisdom is that self harm and substance misuse are adaptive...

This is a pretty conventional view these days and was a thesis articulated rather well by a famous psychiatrist called E Fuller Tory in his 1980's bes...

A psychiatric intervention is where a mental illness is suspected and then assessed and diagnosed and provided with treatment options under the clinal...

That's for sure. Yes, I think this summaries the matter appropriately. In some instances there may well be alternatives for the psychiatric approach. ...

Partly right. But also has the appropriate qualifications and capacity to undertake diagnosis (which is far from straight forward) and the expertise t...

So you left out that part of the answer in your summary - Your question probably should have been, 'what does treatment and support the management, lo...

Are you trying to make my point for me? :wink: Not the most useful question - rhetorical and disingenuous I assume, given the kool-aid smear? Wouldn't...

I tend to find people are mostly friendly and helpful. Drivers less so. I have no real expectations of people and make no pronouncements about human n...

Thanks but I would prefer a Mahler symphony.

This itself seems to be a typical American answer. :wink: I referred to socialism not communism and perhaps like many Americans, you don't apprehend a...

I find myself in agreement with some of your points. Some random reactions. Maybe a little more American than how I would frame it, but I see your poi...

But that's a key issue with religion. It's innate subjectivity and relativism. I also grew up in the Protestant tradition. Baptist. We were taught tha...

That seems intuitively true.

Left-right confusion is surprisingly common. I have known three otherwise smart adults who can't tell the difference and need constant prompting. Acco...

:up: Interesting about the word 'unbearable'. A fine thing Kundera said, and I am paraphrasing - You build a utopia and pretty soon you're going to ne...

I don't think I fully understand what this is supposed to mean. I do agree that nostalgia is often unbearable (cloying and tawdry) but what is unbeara...

Psychiatry isn't psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a very old fashioned approach, practiced by a handful of boutique, middle-class therapists. For the...

Brigitte Bardot is still living; she was making movies seven decades ago.

What is it? Not available in my country.

I don't know how I'd feel if it were for real, but it gives me enormous peace of mind to imagine all people gone and only me to potter about in an emp...

Many are quite happy doing a bullshit job as long as it is engaging and provides community connection. In Graeber's seminal book on this, the key prob...

Thanks. All very interesting.

Please clarify. Not sure to what you are referring.

Interesting comments. Indeed. Would you say this is an advance in human thinking or is this too value laden?

I got ya. Nicely put. Nevertheless I think I tend to sympathise with Rorty on this to some extent, but I totally see how for many his take would be an...