Leave.....

And we shouldn't be afraid to say it out loud if we really understand universal ethical behavior....

I don't want to remember....

There's nothing more humbling than reading your old essays. I make myself sick...lol. I'm putting together a book using Amazon Createspace that will be available soon. Please don't buy it......lol

Get a hold of yourself....

I read an older humanist essay last night on Google Scholar, and basically this "humanist" was worried about the lack of emotion in humanist rational thinking. His idea was that somehow religion has captured this but humanism has not.
Emotion is something that you have, whether you want it or not. It is determined by the chemicals, and ordering of your body. What he is talking about, without actually identifying it, is contrived emotion. There's a certain masturbatory aspect of religion that finds delight in believing things that are highly highly improbable. I compare it to the way a gang jumps in its members. It basically says, "Hey, if you can believe these things really happened, even if all aspects of life tell you it is highly improbable, then you can be one of us!" It's the jump in aspect of SOME religions. Reality demands respect. Reality just IS. To defy it is masturbatory opportunism. The emotion this "humanist" claims is missing from the rationalist's life is contrived, imaginary emotion. It does add another dimension to life, but a dimension not unlike a drug high. Instead of thinking we are losing this imaginary emotion, we should think that it was never real life to begin with. You want to be certain about your life? At your center, allow reality to be, don't tell it how to look for you. That is the height of arrogance.

The essence of ethics....

It's an exhibition of incapability. So, you can't BE a good person? There has to be a credible threat to force you to be one? People like this are just lost. A person is quantified as one. We know we are part of a system larger than ourselves. We know taking the life of another is an arrogant breach of the expectations of men, and a choice to end something we didn't create, yet are a part of. Ethics stems from this, and it is determined. All over the world, every culture, and language and society in history has felt around this imposition. It's not created by religion, but is the essence of humanism.

Vatican clawing..

Pope Francis criticism stuns Vatican http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30577368

It seems no one escapes the corporate race to the bottom.

Objectivity, not optimism....

Yes, I worry consistently about it. I think "worry" is the right word, caused by a concerned awareness. In the corporate world we live in, it's far too easy to sell optimism when we should be objective...

Ethical intent....

Is there really two ways to live, one of honesty, integrity and ethical intent, and another of amoral opportunism? The way I feel is there is only one way to live. The other is denial, or a rationalization. How can one argue against integrity? Especially when one is not being watched.

Baby, with a side of kittens...

I'm gonna kill some kittens before I dine on my baby.

Pascal's a weasel....

So much better than Pascal's wager....

The beautiful truth....

Humanism is the beautiful truth.

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Bliss or stress, goof or truth.....

True, but it does seem more stressful than just accepting blindly. Sometimes I think humans are not physically capable of handling true reality.

This solidifies my anti-theistic tendencies.....

This is something that really solidifies my anti-theistic tendencies. I'm actually part of a small family, and that precious bit of communion I could have had was destroyed by a religion that polluted my mothers mind into believing somehow she is going somewhere better than me because of choices she has made. Even if the system she has become a part of condemns her son to eternal suffering, she would rather stand in heaven and say, "Sorry son, you had a choice.", rather than "Fu$k this God, I will take part in the suffering with my son! This is no system I would like to be a part of!"

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