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Do something creative
Doesnt matter what it is
It will grow your connection to humanity, your own as well as others'
Stop destroying things, i dont care what your reason for destroying was
It doesnt matter
Start today
Create things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Reason
The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists, atheists, secularists, and freethinkers.
en.wikipedia.orgNational Day of Reason - Wikipedia
Thank you #LouisePenny for clarifying for the rest of us. We fight #fascism on moral grounds, not political ones. I know most people don't want to get into messy issues like morals and ethics but desperate times call for desperate measures. We, as a nation, must clarify our understanding of morality if we are to repair the Canadian social fabric.
"I don't see this as political, really. I see this as moral. I see it as ethical, which has no boundaries. ...this is a moral wound, and it's up to us now to stand up and do something."
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/louise-penny-cancels-us-book-tour-1.7479566
CBCAuthor Louise Penny says she didn't think twice before cancelling U.S. book-tour dates | CBC RadioThe novelist first announced the decision last week in a social media post. She says the choice isn’t a political one, but a moral one.
Is religion the only foundation for morality?
#DanMcClellan #Culture #Epistemology #Science #Rhetoric #Humanism #Religion #Christofascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVN-DTiuwKc
I call it a huge mistake, this human race.
I see humans but not enough humanity (in practice).
It will continue to devolve. 
It did, in Nazi Germany.
It has, in history, and it will again.
Fight this asinine garbage, because it disrupts scientific progress. If, for no other reason, like saving human being lives, across the planet, then fight it for the disruption in our ability to actually learn more. To educate ourselves, and our children.
The price of eggs is the abusive reduction of your empathy.
Fight it, now.
That was aggressive. I never made the claim you said I made. I have had experiences that were religious, plenty of times. I just understand that upon rational introspection, and with the knowledge that magic doesn't exist, in the real world, those experiences weren't magical, and that I would be mistaken to alter my life, my behavior towards others, and my entire world-view, as if it was real. Which is what religions, as far as my deep, historical, research has demonstrated, to me, always do.
I've further come to understand how the human mind is a flawed pattern-seeking machine. Math and science simply record those patterns, for all humans, in a way that doesn't rely on personal interpretations, which you, me, and every other human being will cling to, because they feel most correct.
The hubris may actually be on the side of the religious experience of an individual human, being important to anyone, other than that human being.
You start with, "A religion that..."
There is not a single definition of a religion, that I have been exposed to, that doesn't do exactly what you go on to criticize them, all, of doing.
What, in your words, is a religion for? Just to exist, contrary to the science that you go on to laud, and give credit for expanding human beings' understating of the universe?
It seems logical to claim that all religions impede our understanding, by rejecting a method, based in study, reason, and the humane applications of this incomplete wisdom, in favor of a claims of wisdom, that are magical, complete, and that accept only another human beings' testimony, opinion and bias, as evidence, and that have been, historically, used as tools of oppression, hatred, and murder.
For thousands of years.
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Great.
Nuclear destruction was traumatic for my generation.
AI destruction is what I have to explain to my children, and their children.
I'm sensing a pattern.
And it is the love of money.
Our fight is deeper, and it has to be factual, logical, and fun.
If I confess my #humanism and conviction in the #Beatitudes, and some people interpret that as wicked vices, they are telling you everything you need to know.
I felt loopy today, so I checked my instruments before FAWM begins.They seem OK and almost in tune. Now I can go and wash my hair :)
Happy FAWM to all who take part and all the best to folks in Germany who go to the annual demonstrations for Democracy, Humanity and against RightExtremism in next days!
Lack of education and the conservative attack on any non-parochial education explains a lot. Ignorance and lack of questioning leads to authoritarianism; it is all about power and controlling people's minds by teaching them not to think. Interesting article attached.
#BoostingIsSharing
https://bigthink.com/thinking/a-c-grayling-we-dont-need-to-bring-back-religion-we-need-to-bring-back-education/
Big ThinkA.C. Grayling: We don't need to bring back religion, we need to bring back educationThe "New Theism" movement argues that our institutions and our morals are degenerating under godlessness. This philosopher disagrees.
A lot of horrible US government stances and policy reversals were issued this week. In Better Worlds Theory, I focus on the people who are harmed more than on the cults of the perpetrators.
Today’s reflection on some of the people harmed also includes a reflection on identifying how trauma at this overtly cruel moment lives in each of us. Give yourself some grace for moving through unconscionable times as imperfectly as we all do.
Better Worlds Theory · Coping with the Latest US Government Attacks on Human Beings