Tom Storm

The problem being that we don't know what (if any) events described were real. It might be as simple as a man preached and stories were told about him...

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Fair enough. It doesn't work for me either, but some folk around here may go for it. I don't see how we really have any alternative. Which is why I of...

Good to hear. I'm certainly unable to imagine it.

In the 1980's the tension in Australia was always education understood as a blunt tool to get you a job - well paid or otherwise. Education at some po...

Intriguing speculations, 180. This is interesting - So many humans try to be as gods, while the deity itself pursues the experience of not being a dei...

You ask some tough ones and well done. This comes up a lot. I think the gist of it is that unsophisticated accounts of god are the magic man in the sk...

Paul Hogan is 84. I remember when he was just a pedestrian TV comedian, before he sold out with that pedestrian mega hit, Crocodile Dundee.

Thanks. I'm sure we agree on a lot of things. But I am far from certain where I stand on much of this material. I'm just pointing out one dimension of...

I admire your old school confidence. I can only imagine it stems from your presuppositions which seem to privilege notions of transcendence and civili...

I'm not sure which members you are thinking of. But I do agree that these days there is significant self-loathing in the West - we are often self-desc...

I kind of agree, but how would you teach 'the good' in a world where there is no agreement on what the good is or if it is anything more than perspect...

Not quite on topic but if there is an afterlife, I hope it is marginally less tedious than ordinary life, with its multitude of dreadful rituals and s...

Nice work. I will never look at hamsters in the same way.

Not sure which of my comments you are responding to.

I think school's greatest contribution is probably socialization and development of 'people skills'. Learning how to deal with differences and to comm...

I tend to agree.

An atheist is always going to say 'no' to any given phenomenon, from the question of being to why there's something rather than nothing.

I think more sophisticated theology will sometimes look a lot like pantheism or even atheism to some. Bentley Hart is a Greek Orthodox Christian and a...

Having come from a family of apostates I am well familiar with this phenomenon. But I still think that when people leave religions, it is just as like...

Nicely put. I think that's a fair response to the argument from a more sophisticated theistic perspective. David Bentley Hart explores this in his ess...

Most people self-describe in this way. I was just talking to a man who said precisely this and that this is why is is a Muslim. Reason demonstrates th...

Remember the gospels are anonymous accounts, written many years, in some cases many decades after the supposed events. Most reputable biblical scholar...

Yes, we often joke about what a drag having to rustle up a lunch is. I can see us popping a pill in the car together then going about our business wit...

I don't generally eat meals with others as it happens. My partner and I maintain separate homes - I could never live with someone. Fortunately she fee...

He's great. His aphoristic excellence reminds me of a benign and less truculent Nietzsche.

I wouldn't disagree. I think everything humans do probably comes from the same source and impulses.

Who knows? What does the quote mean? I have no poetic imagination , so prose like this is just grey sludge to me.

I am not a big fan of eating. I eat a couple of meals a day and sometimes just one. I enjoy 'recreational' meals but mostly eating is drudgery for me....

Yes, I have read and heard a lot about N and tried to read several of his works (Kaufmann's mainly) - including Zarathustra, Human All to Human, On th...

A reading of him. Yep, ok.

What is it intrinsically about making a claim of understanding Nietzsche that you take issue with? Also, are they all necessarily liars? Or are some m...

That's an interesting comment. Can you say some more?

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It's a burden. He will only eat two varieties of natives grass. The pet store gets it in for me and I keep a a few days supply handy in my rooftop gre...

I fail at philosophy and fabulism. I'm a quotidian.

Love to, but who will feed my wombat?

The Formula One Grand Prix is in my city this weekend. The streets will be packed with inebriated race fans wearing $95 Ferrari baseball caps. My tram...

Could well be. It's unknown to me since I have no reading of Nietzsche. :wink: I suspect he's probably very interesting if you can get through him, wh...

Thanks. Yes, some Nietzscheans can be gauche and insufferable.

Nietzsche is not much to my taste, why do you dislike him?

Sure, but my hypothesis is what if their omniscience allows them to see that people are not ready for knowledge and that if it were made available, mu...

It seems interesting to me (at least superficially) that some people seem to participate in philosophy primarily to understand the history of philosop...

I suspect the Omni would keep their powers to themselves. They would know precisely the reactions of the human killer ape.

Yes, I have worked in the trauma space for many years - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was developed as a way to assist people with their response...

Ok. I can see that.

Sure, that goes for most things here. :wink: I'm still not sure why existentialism not, say, Stoicism (which might be of similar use). Or other more a...

Plenty of people have thought there was something wrong with this ( with very limited freedom present) hence unions and progressive parties and reform...

I hear you. I've been watching Braver on youtube but I work 50 plus hours a week, so I really don't have it in me to read anything except for the labe...

A couple of questions for you, if you don't mind? What would you say is the difference between someone who is influenced by existentialism and someone...