Tom Storm

Nice one.

Could be, I forget.

I only wear black. But I do wear a black t-shirt with a black v-neck. I like to take risks.

No. Boorish is my thing.

Yeah, with a couple of friends I use it for guys who have taken too much trouble over their outfit. We generally accuse them of getting their stuff fr...

Thanks again. I've not heard it put like this before, it's helpful. I need to source an expanded account.

Agree

I'm personally unsure of this, although this would seem to be a common sense view. Does the world have any kind of coherence at all without us providi...

Thanks. Good quotes. I guess it is this I need to unpack or develop a more robust view of. I've grappled with universals several times over the years....

I'm going to have to ponder on this one. Part of me feels as if you may be able to apply to reason that which you are applying to the apparent physica...

Nice. It is cool and I have been dancing with it in this way too. Incidentally, I thought you had held a view that rationality was a transcendental ph...

Fair points. I was not wanting to highlight CBT per say but rather the possibility that emotions come about through presuppositions - they relate to s...

I've probably said it already, but that's a very clear and useful essay. :up:

Got ya. Nice. Thanks.

I find this fairly persuasive. We seem to apprehend and understand our world subject to frames of reference and emersion (for want of a better word) i...

A tantalizing vignette. Can you provide a couple of examples of the type of thing you mean by 'deception' and then how we might understand this decept...

I understand something of Nietzsche's theory of resentment. I found the way your sentences were structured hard to follow. Sounds like you have someth...

I wonder however if this thinking is putting the cart before the horse. What if some people don’t control their emotions but rather they understand th...

Thanks for making the effort to clarify but I'm afraid I can't make sense of your response.

I thought so. I read all his big books a couple of times each 30 years ago, I remember his tone and approach but not much more.

Do you have a reference for anything by Russell placing universals in the context of his philosophical naturalism?

:up: I think we are in agreement more than we apart. I know what you mean. I would still be looking for environmental factors to account for this. But...

I'm not in a position to demonstrate whether this is accurate or not. I can say it doesn't match my experince. What I have often seen is families of o...

Maybe but these sorts of thread can become quite poisonous and political. I suspect that this is unhelpful language or framing as it leads with the ve...

My suspicion is is you dig far enough such a reaction is likely to be a consequence of a personality disorder which will itself be the product of sign...

Maybe - although I'm not sure what emotional reactivity is - if you are referring to difficulties with emotional regulation, that is generally the res...

I did not say there was no contribution from the individual only that people are a product of their environment. I have worked with a lot of prisoners...

Can you reframe what you said in more direct language?

Ok. So your question is what makes some people behave honestly? We could also ask what you mean by ‘honest’ but maybe we’ve got enough. My tentative a...

No - my question is what is a mindset? How are you using this word? Is it personality or worldview or a habitual disposition?

I still don't know what you mean by mindset. Do you mean worldview or value system?

No, that's the Tassie Tiger. The Tassie Devil is fine, although facial tumor disease has been a threat.

Not sure I understand this part - what's a mindset? Do you mean a personality? Who knows? The question is a bit vague. Criminals can be very honest wi...

Sure. I guess I was suggesting that the world we inhabit is one where these precognitions are given. But I get your point. I was looking for a stronge...

Thanks.

I'm not sure how this is done in a practical sense. Is your following para the explanation? So we inhabit a series of contingent 'domains' which we ca...

I'm not a big fan of compulsory parties, so most New Years I am in bed by 10.30pm. I don't think I have ever been on the streets during a New Year thi...

Well done. I gave up 17 years ago, after various attempts. Harder to give up than booze (which I also gave up around 10 years ago). Life is no better ...

I have no memory of that date as it seemed to roll by like any other New Year. I was 34 and I can't readily remember where I was living at the time. I...

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Melbourne, Australia.

Good guess. Your instincts remain sound.

What makes you think I am not a serial killer?

I think what you say is fair. I guess all I am proposing in response is that it's one thing to hold that birth and death are merely stages in eternity...

It didn't really come across. Do you mean this? I was thrown off when you then said this: Wasn't sure where this left things.

What impact does such a belief have for you, as someone with an interest in idealism and Buddhism? Surely there are versions of karma that would be un...

Indeed. Well I attempted to address that above with - Which was my way of saying that it is one thing to think there is an eternal dimension to being ...

Do you always resort to second rate abuse when you can't answer a question? :wink: Indeed, which is why I didn't say 'stop researching'. So well done ...

I imagine serial killers take pains over someone, even if they eventually treat that someone as a something. And the pain they take, eventually become...

Antisemitism is just a word. The usage refers to hatred of, or bigotry against, Jews. I wonder why you are so obsessed with a word? Most people unders...