OK, it’s a new year. I’ve mentioned it in past blogs that in this new year I’ll be putting a new focus on being more positive and less criticizing and mean. Which means I’ll be posting a lot less regarding the stupidity credulity uncritical people who believe religion unquestioningly and paranormal and other woowoo.
Which will be very painful for me. I may need to read less news and blogs that compel me to speak out against that stuff. But, that wouldn’t be very character building to avoid what would make me a better person. =/
So, if you want vitriol and angst with your skepticism and critical social analysis, you might want to read these blogs:
Good place to start.
So, in addition to losing more weight as well, I plan on focusing in my life on some of the more neglected tenants of the Secular Humanist affirmations, notably these:
- We cultivate the arts of negotiation and compromise as a means of resolving differences and achieving mutual understanding.
- We are concerned with securing justice and fairness in society and with eliminating discrimination and intolerance.
- We believe in supporting the disadvantaged and the handicapped so that they will be able to help themselves.
- We want to protect and enhance the earth, to preserve it for future generations, and to avoid inflicting needless suffering on other species.
- We believe in enjoying life here and now and in developing our creative talents to their fullest.
- We believe in the cultivation of moral excellence.
- We respect the right to privacy. Mature adults should be allowed to fulfill their aspirations, to express their sexual preferences, to exercise reproductive freedom, to have access to comprehensive and informed health-care, and to die with dignity.
- We believe in the common moral decencies: altruism, integrity, honesty, truthfulness, responsibility. Humanist ethics is amenable to critical, rational guidance. There are normative standards that we discover together. Moral principles are tested by their consequences.
- We are deeply concerned with the moral education of our children. We want to nourish reason and compassion.
- We are engaged by the arts no less than by the sciences.
- We are citizens of the universe and are excited by discoveries still to be made in the cosmos.
- We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guilt or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness, and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.
- We believe in the fullest realization of the best and noblest that we are capable of as human beings.
So, here I go, being a more positive and less antagonistic person….
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