verywide.net » Humanism http://verywide.net/blog Just trying to catch butterflies, fish, lunatics, and stars, metaphorically speaking. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Wheresoever We May Roam http://verywide.net/blog/2009/08/15/wheresoever-we-may-roam/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/08/15/wheresoever-we-may-roam/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=395 Consider the warmth of the body in the chill of the night. Self-contained, a furnace; heat, the presence of life. We glow in the infrared. Our coupling makes us glow the brighter, and we appear to merge with one another. The backdrop for this is the cold eternity of interstellar space. This backdrop is the [...]

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]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2009/06/21/iran/feed/ 1 Walter Kaufmann ist mein Held http://verywide.net/blog/2009/05/24/kaufmann-and-rembrandt/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/05/24/kaufmann-and-rembrandt/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 00:30:35 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=346 It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. – Walter Kaufmann

In my late teens and for too long after I had some odd beliefs. They are irrelevant now, and here, [...]

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One removes one’s shoes before entering, for here no artificial sole shall tread. The bare feet shall feel only the grass, [...]

]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2009/03/10/humanitarium/feed/ 6 The 33rd Humanist Symposium http://verywide.net/blog/2009/03/01/the-33rd-humanist-symposium/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/03/01/the-33rd-humanist-symposium/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:00:25 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=169 “Many persons have no idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”—Helen Keller

Mission Statement: [The] purpose of the Humanist Symposium is not primarily to criticize religious beliefs or debunk the latest superstition, but to offer and discuss a positive alternative to belief systems based on [...]

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