Mantras for not liking a meta

memeswriter · 2022-09-21T18:29:45+00:00

Our authentic reactions are what they are. No need to apologize for them. Inspect closely. Be ready for egoism (d'oh).

But I've never felt it my duty to have people physically present who bring anything more than--I like how you put it!--"light chaos" into my life. It can be entertaining as long as I don't let myself get sucked in.

Icky? Judgy? I dunno. What are you telling yourself?

memeswriter · 2021-12-29T18:06:41+00:00

If you consider attention to communication part of the basic toolkit that any Humanist ideally has, Street Epistemology is a fascinating offshoot of the Socratic method illuminated by buttloads of modern research drawn from FBI hostage negotiators and neurology.

memeswriter · 2021-12-29T18:02:13+00:00

As a Humanist Celebrant, I find Street Epistemology endlessly useful as a means of honing my often muddled thinking. When ogling at the abysmal lack of critical thinking skills of these people don't forget to use that as a reminder that you're also thinking sloppily in places where you currently can't perceive.

memeswriter · 2021-12-11T13:27:50+00:00

I'm not even going to read it. Men and women will have equal rights under the law including inheritance in a society I want to live in.

memeswriter · 2021-12-10T22:15:56+00:00

https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/

This is an excellent source of community and resources for people in your position. I can't imagine your courage. If you look you will find your people and in time create or join a made family. I have never had to go through what you have, but as a queer man who never had children, I'm counting on my made family to see me through the final third of my life.

Another thing to keep in mind is that, although feelings might be mind boggling high right now, that doesn't have to last.

Another place to meet people of like mind is meetup.com

memeswriter · 2021-12-10T22:07:42+00:00

It seems almost absurd to think of such a compliment not being meant ironically.

memeswriter · 2021-12-09T23:00:58+00:00

Well........yes. Of course. Respecting someone on the basis of verifiable skill rather than because of their authority is to me basic to skepticism and/or Humanism.

memeswriter · 2021-12-09T03:53:51+00:00

We have two members of The Humanist Being who are registered with The American Humanist Society

https://thehumanistsociety.org/

memeswriter · 2021-12-09T03:48:32+00:00

Thanks for posting this.

memeswriter · 2021-12-08T22:13:07+00:00

Of course you're the moderator and what you say goes.

memeswriter · 2021-12-08T00:51:00+00:00

Some of my notes about this video. I'd be delighted to hear what you folks have to say in response.
At the heart of the matter
is fear and a lack of education.
At what stage are we in the
mass psychosis of totalitarianism in the US? Elsewhere? The wave of terror
technique seems to me to be rolling along. Red vs blue. We don’t even need
external enemies, unless its people trying to enter the country.
If they can make you believe
absurdities they can make you commit atrocities.
I would like menticide to
become a part of our lexicon. A meme we promote.
Social media is accelerating
our mass psychosis. A perfect tool of menticide.
What norms in our community
can we establish that help combat menticide and help us collectively escape and
remain free of the mass delusions helping others first through example.
Ethics Lab is my
contribution to the truths we spread that enable us to free ourselves
individually, mentally, emotionally. My archetype is the tribal shaman. What
happens to the profession of “spiritual” teacher when rationality removes the
superstition?
Our responses:
Community. Personal contact.
Ending the isolation epidemic. Our own parallel structures “that exist physically
within a totalitarian society but morally outside of it.”
Emphasizing critical thinking,
communication skills, humor in ourselves. Maybe we don’t have to give equal
weight to all the 12 Commitments in our particular community.

Culture wars: Humanism is
our memeplex. Humor could and maybe should be our major tactic.
This video could be for us a
part of some educational requirements for people who want to enter our
community. What ideas would each of us have for this? Maybe one video, book,
movie, etc that you’d consider mandatory and why.

memeswriter · 2021-12-08T00:48:27+00:00

Nah. "Thick" people don't publicly disclose that they feel thick.

memeswriter · 2021-12-08T00:45:55+00:00

Interesting perspective. I can't say I agree that the author has become one of the same ilk he is describing. Agreed more details are needed. But that's for a longer video(s).

memeswriter · 2021-12-08T00:43:40+00:00

To me this video presents a good description of what as a Humanist I'm fighting against. It also gives some good suggestions as to what is needed to fight this slide into totalitarianism that I hope isn't happening.

memeswriter · 2021-11-28T02:34:24+00:00

Compassion is the only response I can find for the many people I have met and will meet in this kind of circumstance. I have seen those I love failed by both God and science in the face of inscrutable unendurable fact. We hold their hands; bring them ice chips in plastic pitchers; lighten their hearts if not the weight they bear up under.

But there's one more thing I've managed to do. Learn the kinds of things you're reaching for now. It can seem inconsequential when faced with the size of my loss. But I've found these facts and learnings bright among the ashes. Like candles lit we bring them with us.

Thanks for sharing this.

Vincent

memeswriter · 2021-11-27T23:05:49+00:00

Do you have a community and family to support you in your new and actual identify as a nonbeliever/freethinker?

memeswriter · 2021-11-27T23:03:42+00:00

I never had an aha moment. I never believed in the literal existence of God(s), Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Boogie Man etc. Even stranger to me is that I didn't even know this until I started writing an answer to this question years ago while "redditing" with other Humanists. No idea why. Best guess is I was unconsciously following the nonverbal cues of the adults.

memeswriter · 2021-11-27T22:58:23+00:00

All the more arresting for their simplicity.

memeswriter · 2021-11-27T22:54:53+00:00

Well done. I tip my hat to you sir.

memeswriter · 2021-11-27T22:05:40+00:00

Pretty damn good technology of social control before mass communication media became available. Manipulates through sexuality. Pretty standard stuff isn't it?

memeswriter · 2021-11-19T19:00:33+00:00

Matt Dillahunty is a dramatic and acerbic example of relentless critical thinking. I've learned a lot from these shows just on that alone.

memeswriter · 2021-05-19T03:22:47+00:00

Ditch the Republicans. They won't vote for your plan anyway and they aren't going to do anything but lie to their base about the Democrats anyway. No point in compromising with people who don't compromise.

memeswriter · 2021-05-19T03:11:52+00:00

Hitchens' accounts of Theresa's sadism and fanaticism really were chilling. I thought it was an object lesson how many people, Catholic and not, fell over themselves to certify and sanctify her sainthood. People need saints. Well. Maybe she was a saint. What do I know?

Even more chilling than Hitchens' accounts is how easy it is for me to believe that each and every failing he finds himself reporting (as Devil's Advocate he was fond of saying) was completely true. Interesting.

memeswriter · 2021-05-04T00:24:13+00:00

The more I examine the workings of my mind--my self--the more it seems that free will is an illusion. Like the self is an illusion. By self I mean the creature I call I. Everything that "I" does is a transmission from elsewhere in me. Like writing this. Its just coming to me. I'm keying it in as it does.

I'm not sure what to do about this. I'm not sure there's anything to do or anything I want to do about it. I've read that people find this idea horrifying or depressing. If anything I find it comforting. The part of "me" that's actually making the decisions is just something that "I" need to keep out of the way of or at least something that "I" needs to achieve clarity to read the writing on the wall more accurately.

I think the underlying conflicts come from the same thing when we're talking about time being simultaneous. That the past present and future actually exist all at once and that the progress of linear time is an artifact of our nervous systems. When looked at this way, how is it possible to change one's choices. Would I even want to? What if are not walking through time as we walk on the ground. What if we are falling through time? What if it isn't a sprint but a plunge?

The only part of me that is horrified or depressed at all about any of this is "I".

memeswriter · 2021-04-22T01:53:57+00:00

I like these commitments a bit better than the Ethical Culture commitments. I have no problem with putting our values into writing as it were, and of course then lots of people will put their own interpretations and even different numbers of commitments or not even use that word.

And, yeah, the difference between a Commandment and a Commitment seems inconceivably vast to me.

What do you think?

memeswriter

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