Message from administrator: (2008-07-11) Dear all five of you - i am actively working on rewriting this site (from quixote to django if you care) and moving it to another server, and hope to complete those tasks this month. I'll post an update when testing or downtime is imminent. Fyi, -dchud

Tag (boringhumanistvision)

Friday, 2008-06-13

14:15 by LionKimbro - Accepting Vulnerability
 
"When I think about what “modernity” implies an expression from Max Weber is called to mind – living in “the iron cage of rationality”. To me this speaks of an arid, disenchanted world, and I see Turner as encouraging us to search for and bring back the magical and wonderful to (re)enchant the world."

Saturday, 2008-06-07

Sunday, 2008-05-25

19:25 by LionKimbro - Atheism and Depression, Anxiety, and Worry - What Can an Atheist (Or Anyone Else) Do About Depression, Anxiety, and Worry
 
"Does this impossibility of religious faith mean that atheists are excluded from life's most marvelous, wonderful, delightful feeling? I'm afraid that I must answer, it does."

Wednesday, 2008-05-07

11:16 by LionKimbro - How to Educate an Atheist
 
Sure, Secular Humanists have access to the transcendent... ...when they simply steal from religion.

Tuesday, 2008-05-06

19:47 by LionKimbro - In Defense of Eupraxophy [pdf]
 
"Humanism must address itself to the heart and the passions; it must have some relevance to practice and conduct; and it must have some effect upon how we live. I submit that broadly conceived the freethought movement has failed in that direction. ...we must not give up on Marx's basic insight that humanism only has meaning if it is related to practice."

Wednesday, 2008-04-23

23:39 by LionKimbro - Some Varieties of Secular Humanist Experience: Review of Books by Crick and Kurtz
 
"The dignity and value of that life come from the way we actively respond to our fate, acting as autonomous rational moral agents..." <cough> <cough> scuse me...

Monday, 2007-09-03

04:09 by LionKimbro - Shattering the Sacred Myths - Troubled Times
 
"...to give faith to those who do not yet believe, that our world may be progressing towards a ... rational future."

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