Tom Storm

I don't see any problem with this. Management and leadership are often very different skills to those held by the worker. The fist example is hypocris...

Yes, the tradition is important. The hard part is determining which parts to privilege and study. Just getting up to speed would take more than a life...

I suspect there has been a crisis in philosophy since day one... It's hard to avoid this definition, isn't it? One issue, of course, is that the notio...

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Just a quick question - concepts like 'fair' and 'just' are human notions grounded in our values. Do you hold that these categories are not intrinsic ...

Yes, this is a common approach in American Christianity. Everything is good because God is good. The end. Interestingly, a recent conversation with a ...

You raise interesting points. For me humans use or exploit any number of fictions and stories to set their values and give direction their choices. Wh...

I thought that was the point. Maybe I missed something. The idea in the OP that Hoffman’s work is self-refuting. Yes, I think that’s fair.

Alvin Plantinga's rather fun argument called the evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN). If it comes up with apologists a lot these days. Her...

:rofl: Words to live by.

Rome was fantastic and so was True Detective. Yet to see Westworld. Will try to do so. Fuck yeah! - Al Swearingen

I laughed a lot when I read this. I hear you.

Who can account for personal taste? I love Deadwood (it's very funny too) but I find Shakespeare and the Greeks tedious, and have not enjoyed most of ...

Donald Hoffman and I intend to do just that. :wink:

Do you understand the true natural of reality and all that is naturally real? Let's hear about it... Ring-a-ding-ding,

I think Deadwood works well as entertainment and at a deeper level. But it is violent and pessimistic. In that way, it is not much different to other ...

Yes, that seems to be right. Do you see a way out of this?

Well it is a bus, as far as basic human experience is concerned. But is the common sense answer the right one, or the only one? Given the metaphysics ...

This is an interesting point. A pragmatist might argue that this amounts to a definition of truth anyway- that which is useful for certain purposes (R...

I can't recall, does Hoffman hold a 'consciousnesses only' ontology. Looks like it from the above.

I seem to recall that Hoffman uses the terms icon and image too. I may have been unwise to write 'simulation' - Hoffman is not a simulation theory guy...

Yes, I think many have accused Hoffman of a self-refuting contradiction. As I say he addresses this, but I don't recall exactly what he says.

Hoffman often addresses this criticism directly in interviews I have seen. He says something like his theory can be measured by its practical utility ...

Yes, I think this is the case.

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My point was far more modest than all this. I was essentially saying (in relation to the OP) that it may be useful to recognize that we make mistakes ...

How do you define forgiveness and can you describe why it is important?

Could well be.

As I say, I am not a big fan of the term forgiveness. In relation to the OP I would suggest that the issue is more likely to be one of needing a new w...

Depends what you did and why. I'm not a big fan of 'forgiveness' as such - it often has a Christian flavour to it. I'm more of a fan of contextualisin...

Because with great subtlety and majestic darkness it explores fate, human suffering, moral dilemmas, loss and characters with fatal flaws. Personal ta...

I was wondering what tragedy looked like outside of the classical canon. Despite receiving a somewhat classical education (Shakespeare/Marlowe/Sophocl...

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Ha! I can do it (and did for years) but now I can’t be fucked. The few times I cook, it has to be quick and super easy.

Would you consider Deadwood as an example of a modern tragedy?

Not sure about that. From what I see, being a slob is often efficacious, hence it's popularity. That notwithstanding, I'll never cook rice again.

I never shake hands with anyone.

I feel like slob. I buy precooked basmati rice in a sealed plastic pouch. The stuff without flavours and spices. I heat it in a non-stick frypan with ...

I was simply making the throwaway point that contemplating the priesthood does not in itself mean much.

At least two. I have read the Monk biography. So did Stalin. (The latter actually made it to the seminary but was booted out)

You have a poet's way with language. :pray:

Isn't the problem here that later Witt had a different approach and framed morality in the context of language games? My understanding is that latter ...

Scientism and materialism don't seem very popular on this site and I would be hard pressed to recall members here who identify this way. Can you name ...

All of which have more to do with 'entertainment' than death itself. I think you're right about attempting to view it at a distance. Nice frame.

In some ways modern Westerners fear death more because it is no longer something we see around us in daily life. Death has become medicalized and abst...

The only part of this that qualifies as mysogyny is the last bit pertaining to women. The first part is ethnocentrism. The quote is a layer cake of bi...

Yes. Even if it's just for the curiosity factor. I read the Arthur Waley translation from the 1940's. There may be better versions.

Yes, I enjoyed them in the 1980's. Made in the late 1970's. Ended up reading the original stories. They are similar. I could never work out why the mo...

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I don't know but can physics be undertaken without the logical axioms - identity, non-contradiction and excluded middle?