Philosophy Now Forum

While John the Baptist believed in him as the one true savior, Jesus’ nature and teachings nevertheless left John troubled by his apparently contradictory version of the Hebraic violent-conqueror messiah, with which John had been raised. Most perplexing may have been the Biblical Jesus’ revolutionar...

Can there be that many 'Christians' out there gullible enough to genuinely believe Donald Trump was somehow cheated out of an election win via consequential significant voter fraud? Most of the Capitol Hill rioters likely maintain(ed) that line as an excuse for their attempt to overturn Biden’s elec...

A Reddit.com site asked: “Should Child-Rearing Responsibilities Be Transferred to the Community in a Socialist Society?” __________ In the movie K-PAX , the visiting extraterrestrial ‘Prot’ says to the clinical psychiatrist interviewing him: “On K-PAX, everyone’s children’s wellbeing matters to ever...

I awoke from another very bad dream, a reincarnation nightmare / where having blessedly died I’m still bullied towards rebirth back into human form / despite my pleas I be allowed to rest in permanent peace. // My bed wet from sweat, I futilely try to convince my own autistic brain / I want to live...

The FAA basically rubber stamps the giant Boeing corporation’s new planes, including its flawed 737 Max product (and who-knows-what before and after it). The first 737 Max crash was Lion Air Flight 610 [October 29, 2018] and the second was Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 [March 10, 2019], together hor...

In January of 2017 a Vancouver dog-rescue organization cancelled a scheduled fundraiser preceding the big release of the then-new film A Dog’s Purpose , according to a Vancouver Sun story, after “the German shepherd star of the film was put under duress during one scene.” The founder of Thank Dog I ...

JODIE COMER TOLD TO STOP COMFORTING CRYING NEWBORNS MAKING HER NEW FILM By Celebretainment Jan 8, 2024 Jodie Comer was ordered to stop soothing crying babies during the making of her new film. The 30-year-old ‘Killing Eve’ actress, who has no children, plays a petrified mum who flees her London hom...

“Death is a continuation of my life without me...” ______ I awoke from another very bad dream, a reincarnation nightmare / where having died I’m yet again being forced to be reborn back into human form / despite my pleas I be allowed to rest in permanent peace. // My bed wet from sweat, I futilely ...

Upon learning of 10/7 I realized that the vicious attack [perhaps something like 9/11 and the Cheney-Bush administration’s devastating response immediately afterwards] would politically enable the Israeli-Netanyahu government to justify extreme emergency war measures then force through his/its ‘demo...

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 , the spirit of the deceased school headmaster Albus Dumbledore says to Harry, “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and, above all, those who live without love.” It’s a tragic fact that many chronically and pharmaceutically-untreatably depress...

A few decades ago I learned from two Latter Day Saints missionaries that their church’s doctrine teaches that the biblical ‘lake of fire’ meant for the truly wicked actually represents an eternal spiritual burning of guilt over one’s corporeal misdeeds. I believe our brain's structural/chemical flaw...

“The way a society functions is a reflection of the childrearing practices of that society. Today we reap what we have sown. Despite the well-documented critical nature of early life experiences, we dedicate few resources to this time of life. We do not educate our children about child development,...

Posted October 26 at its website, a Globe and Mail [Canadian newspaper] columnist wrote how during a recent concert at Vancouver’s Hollywood Theatre, “a band member said something about a free Palestine. This, according to attendee Hanah Van Borek, led to a few shouts from the audience: ‘Fuck the Je...

I believe Sigmund Freud postulated that due to the general stressful nature of human existence, i.e. anxiety (“stimuli”, I believe he called it), the ultimate aim/goal of our brain/mind is blissful death. Indeed, the Sigmund Freud character in the 2011 film A Dangerous Method, muttered upon having a...

The world is on fire, literally and figuratively. Collectively, we humans are hopelessly prone to the politics of scale and differences, both real and perceived, especially those involving color, nationality, race and religion. It's quite plausible that if the world’s population was somehow reduced ...