Jonny Thomson
Staff Writer at Big Think
Sartre would hate bios. I write for @BigThink. My books are published by @headlinepg
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2 days ago |
bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson
A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. “Put yourself […] in the mind of a 3-, 4-, or 5-year-old,” Oliver Burkeman instructs me. “You just get up every day, and you have no say. I mean, of course, you get some say, but you know what I mean? Where you live, where you’re going — you know that the plans are just completely outside of your control.
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6 days ago |
bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson
A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. This article was first published on Big Think in October 2021. It was updated in June 2025. Each one of us will experience something in life that transforms who we are. A human life is one of adventure and tempering.
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1 week ago |
bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson
A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. I ignore a lot of charity fundraisers or canvassers. If I ever go to an event and I see a stand full of leaflets, manned by someone in a brightly colored vest and with an ingratiating grin, I avoid them with a wide berth. Phone out, head down, and “I’m far too terribly busy to talk to you about your charity today, I’m afraid.” I don’t think this is because I’m a bad person.
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2 weeks ago |
bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson
A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. A straw man is when you simplify or exaggerate somebody’s argument to make it easier to target, an opponent you can blow down with adversarial flair. For example, if an atheist says that Christianity is just worshipping “some bearded man in the sky,” well, that’s a straw man, because barely any Christian would accept that representation of their religion.
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2 weeks ago |
bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson
A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. “I think we’ve got much too narrow a picture of reality,” Rupert Sheldrake tells me in this week’s Mini Philosophy interview.
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