Philosophy Now Forum

Trixie: Since you're clearly a heterophenomenalist (which, in my view, is just another incarnation of nihilism), I don't think we have any real room for dialog. But just one more thing: I think that most people that find themselves espousing your viewpoint generally do it as a result of trauma or so...

P.S. Trixie, about your other topic, I still think morality is important too.

HexHammer: How many people do you know that are absolutely convinced of a viewpoint during virtually all of their waking moments? I ask because I want to counter your examples. All of the people you described besides the cat lady probably oscillate somewhere on a spectrum of thought about the situat...

OK Trixie, I'll give it a shot. Also because my perspective has shifted my original post, and I think that the current state of my thinking may be "therapeutic", maybe for both of us. :) Oh, and I'll just add that sometimes it's true that family, friends, and mental health professionals ju...

Hi Trixie and Bill, Trixie, you mentioned in your second post that you're feeling extremely down. Before engaging in any philosophical talk, I think it's important to say that you should seek help, if you haven't done so already. I know how life can get us really down sometimes, but hopefully you ha...

Hi Bill, I'm definitely not claiming that we have no agency. I'm trying to show just about the exact opposite: short of imposing on the free will of another person, we have unlimited capabilities. Since we *are* the universe, we can, through intention, create whatever we want, as long as it doesn't ...

Hi everyone, I've been thinking a lot recently about the following statement, which is bandied about a lot in so-called New Age circles, namely, that we create our own reality. And I think I've found a proof of this statement which is as rigorous as possible. I don't claim that it's absolute truth, ...

Hi All, I moved to Lima, Peru about a year ago. Full disclosure: I consider myself an anarcho-syndicalist, and I firmly believe in the power of democracy to effect change, whether it be in government or in the workplace. In fact, I suspect that workplace democracy, if widespread, would lead to momen...