Tom Storm

It's hard to know what you are referring to since this is all quite vague - you seem to be saying you have unusually bad luck in life. What are you ho...

I hope too see the recent Dune too when I can sit still for longer than 15 minutes. :wink:

I see universal themes or themes from myth. I'm not especially interested in tracking it too strongly to Tao or Zoroastrian or Christian. The film see...

Yep. Zoroastrianism had a final judgement, with redemption for all. Salvation was a Persian concept, as I understand it. But Star Wars is cod-mytholog...

Actually, I always took that as the Zoroastrian contribution which takes light and darkness as a key theme. Later religions were influenced.

That's one reading. The farm boy is the son of Lucifer the fallen angel, in this instance. :wink: Lucas borrowed this trope - the callow youth who goe...

Sounds like you come at truth from a more spiritual or religious path - hence the role of transcendence in your formulation. Metanarratives like God o...

Could be. Doesn't mean the Nazi's didn't make consistent and effective use of Christianity in 'productive' ways, tapping into associated anti-Semitism...

That's an elegant little piece of AC's writing.

Sure. I would not argue Hitler is a Christian any more that I would argue Trump (a very different figure) is a Christian. But they both galvanized Chr...

I think Grayling quite rightly holds that sophisticated theologies like those held by David Bentley Hart are not a great concern to anyone in daily li...

You may be right. But there are some interesting associations in this space. Martin Luther wrote the following - and it does sound suspiciously like m...

I like this question. I suspect that Kastrup would say that consciousness manifests as a brain, in a skull, in a body, in a world when viewed across t...

I was thinking similarly re Heidegger. You could choose the AI guide of your preferences - the existentialist reading or the post-modern reading, say,...

American expressions of culture and religion fascinate me. ( I say that as an Australian).

I think ‘radical’ depends upon your foundational beliefs. It’s one of those words. The Bishop here disdainfully called them 'maverick' priests.

We spend a lot of time talking about radical priests - Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr - who are not always well liked by the church hierarchy and often i...

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:up: I've always had time for J Krishnamurti - the anthology Think on These Things was revelatory in my youth three decades ago. But of course now I'm...

Thanks. That's a sophisticated lens you are applying. I'll need to think it over. This reminds me of my friend John (who is a priest) who says 'Forget...

I'm not saying that you did. What do you mean by scientific mythos (and perhaps avoid fundamentalists like Dawkins in this)? I often think all languag...

I think that sounds fair enough. It can be aggravating to have people tell us that we can be the best we can if we just love ourselves and 'find stren...

I hear you. I just wondered what the difference might be in behaviours between literalism as reaction and how to live as direction. In the world I exp...

Do you have a view about what Christianity was like before this period of reaction against atheism? Was its concern with how people should live exerci...

Her chronological time is incidental, her faith came from a direct line going back to before the middle ages. :wink: Nevertheless she was unspoiled by...

Nicely put. :clap: I suspect that religion has increasingly appeared more fundamentalist and inadequate as education and human knowledge have expanded...

I wonder if this is a bit dogmatic? I don't think we can say it is impossible yet. I agree that there is no obvious answer at hand, but thinkers like ...

Yes, I think that's very interesting too but conceptually very complex. I think that's a helpful summary and I don't think I can do better as a provis...

Object permanence. My limited understanding of Berkeley is that things 'exist' when no one is looking because God is looking.

Berkeley has the mind of God to hold everything in place. Ditto Kastrup with mind-at-large. Kastrup devoted quite some time on this in one of his lect...

Probably only if you accept the somewhat outlandish idea that there is a mind-at-large which we are all 'offshoots' of. I'm not sure this is a better ...

How do you know that? Buggered if I know.

We even changed the name of a suburb near me to Carnegie in the hope of attracting more donations from the great man. They were built around the world...

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We have a bunch of them here too. Here's the one in my old suburb. https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/faed6d96-3703-4b4a-a6b2-ab790cae794e_...

I guess I'm getting too micro now because I struggle with the idea that raw data isn't already subjected to implicit ordering and categorisation befor...

But that just sounds like a magic spell - it seems to be declaring that purpose, sacredness and objective morality exist because god exists. Presto! C...

How do you feel about Kastrup's most extraordinary claim, that humans and all conscious creatures are dissociated alters of mind-at-large? I initially...

But wouldn't it be naive to think we have access to data that is unmediated or raw? Or are you saying that the raw material is like noumena - there is...

If data is built by us from our perspective, then doesn't this come from 'inside' us - our cognitive apparatus, our values, our language?

Outside? I thought perspective came from inside us. Dramatic language. I don't disagree but what does this leave us with? Obviously the best we can do...

I'd flip that, perhaps - where in the perspective is the objective data? Answer: who can say?

It's all in the perspective - the view from somewhere.

That's more like it. I hope this turns into a fruitful discussion. :wink:

I was saying whatever the story is meant to mean doesn't remotely matter.

I just asked my friend (a Catholic Priest) to explain the Trinity to me. After he stopped laughing he said that all three are dimensions of God which ...

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@"universeness" Here you go, Comrade. :wink:

I'm not sure why you'd be looking for reason in a religious model. The Trinity, as any Jesuit will tell you, is 'a mystery'. And yeah - I know what at...