We had our monthly planning meeting for our freethinkers group today. We discussed, among other things, the need some people have for "spirituality," whatever that means. Ask for a definition of that term and you are likely to get as many variations as you have respondents.
It's a very ethereal subject, much like trying to nail a blob of jello to the wall. People like to claim it for themselves as a substitute for being religious. "Oh, I'm not religious -- I'm spiritual" is a common way of saying it. I just don't like the term because it's become an undefinable cop out. Theologically, spirit is often likened to wind or breath. It might make you feel good on a hot afternoon, but it lacks a bit in tangibility.
I try to avoid the term entirely. I'm a humanist atheist who relies on compassionate empathy and common sense ethics as my guide in life. That's basically a live and let live way of viewing the world and human relationships. I frankly don't care if you want to believe in a non-existent god or in the flying spaghetti monster. Knock yourself out and squander your resources supporting organizations and pompous blowhards if that's your fulfillment in life. It's when you contrive to force me to go along that the brawl is going to start!
So, I'm really not interested in sponsoring speakers on this subject because I view it as kind of "fluff fluff" philosophizing. Anyone who wants to devote time to such discussions are welcome to the activity as far as I'm concerned. For the most part, I'll just opt out.
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Monday, February 18, 2013
THE SPIRIT OF 1860 LIVES ON!
An email from the Secular Coalition For Arizona made the following statement which got me thinking:
"As a young man Abraham Lincoln rejected religion and questioned the existence of god. He said “The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.” Such a statement by a modern day politician would surely draw well-funded attack ads and probably bar him from election. Imagine the loss to our country if the radical religious minority of today were as powerful during Lincoln's times!
It wasn't always so. The non-believers and skeptics were in the majority when our country was founded. Hopefully, in a generation or so, the present trend will be reversed and we will return to our sound minded roots.
"As a young man Abraham Lincoln rejected religion and questioned the existence of god. He said “The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.” Such a statement by a modern day politician would surely draw well-funded attack ads and probably bar him from election. Imagine the loss to our country if the radical religious minority of today were as powerful during Lincoln's times!
Yet agnostics, atheists and those who choose not to affiliate with a religious organization now comprise one fifth of the population. In fact we outnumber evangelicals."
It's a sad state of affairs when the prevailing attitude of skepticism among our forefathers, especially those north of the Mason Dixon Line, has been superceded by an attitude of prostration to superstition and long discredited faith based blatherings by avaricious con-men and deluded non-thinkers who believe things because its their heritage or they just emotionally proclaim it because "it feels right" to them. (Yes, I know. I was once one of them to my everlasting chagrin and mystification.)
There's a great segment of our population which has never quite conceded the Civil War. They're absolutely convinced the wrong side won, and they are easily identified through catch phrases like "states rights." When I was in the Moose Lodge, there was an old fart who liked to say, "I have nothing against negroes; I think everybody should own a couple." I don't think he was really kidding.
Whether he was kidding or not. The Bible backs him up. "Exhort servants (slaves) to be obedient unto their own masters" (Titus 2:9). There are plenty of ordinances in the Old Testament regarding slaves. Herbert Arstrong is exemplary. He defended Old Testament slavery as a good thing for some people and clearly identified with British class distinctions.
Plenty of people would like to fight the Civil War all over again and the vast majority are hunkered down in the old south which is the deluded center of the "Bible Belt." They chafe that a "damn niger" is in the White House, but they're usually not going to admit it publicly.
All religions hide behind "good" platitudes and slogans which are defined as godly and some special revelation from a deity.
No they're not.
The same common sense beliefs and goals are to be found in humanism and atheism without the liturgical trappings. Yet, we are vilified as hedonists with no moral compass.
No they're not.
The same common sense beliefs and goals are to be found in humanism and atheism without the liturgical trappings. Yet, we are vilified as hedonists with no moral compass.
It wasn't always so. The non-believers and skeptics were in the majority when our country was founded. Hopefully, in a generation or so, the present trend will be reversed and we will return to our sound minded roots.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
MY "AFTERLIFE"
I spent some time on Armstrong Delusion website this morning. One comment by a follower of the site struck me, and like many other things I happen upon, serves as the inspiration behind this blog.
The commenter referred to the time after departure from the cult as their "afterlife."
There was a time when all of us cultists looked forward to a supernatural afterlife. In our cases, we, somewhat like the Mormons, looked forward to becoming actual sons of god. Herbert Armstrong enlarged the very real original "Elohym" god family of pre-monotheist Israel and Canaan into a growing family that would include resurrected and immortal sons of God -- us. We were to become brothers of Jesus. Somehow, "daughters" didn't get included in the mix. All, including females, were to magically become sons, from my recollection. (Patriachy in overdrive.)
Of course, I no longer anticipate any such thing and am not even sure some essence of us will suvive our inevitable deaths. There is compelling "anecdotal" evidence that something may, but so far, no measurable scientific evidence. So, that is one of the "agnostic" parts of my atheist stance. I don't know, and I'm humbly honest enough to admit the fact. Anyone who objects to my unorthodox atheism at the moment is free to cast whatever stones they may have handy.
Back to the current subject. What has traspired in my life after 1974-75 can certainly be describe as an "afterlife." In fact, several afterlives.
Starting out, I was still hung up on the Bible and faith. I even attended a Divine Science church for a while and delved deeply into reincarnation. I supported Ernest Martin's Foundation. I got myself ordained by an interfaith group so I could legally do wedding ceremonies and subsequently got several online ordinations, including one from an atheist group. I've ventured into pan-theism. For years, I identified myself as an agnostic. Within the last decade, I became a devout atheist with agnostic overtones.
Is my evolution over? For the most part, I think so. Atheism seems to be the end of the line.
I will never quit questioning and growing in knowledge and understanding. I'm painfully cognizant of the fact that I don't know everything or understand all that is to be understood. Nevertheless, I no longer quail in fear of some nebulous spiritual somebody who is going to wrathfully condemn me for not falling in line with one of the thousands (maybe millions) of "faiths" out there. What makes the superstitions of some remote stone age tribe any more relevant or factual than those espoused by the vatican, a plethora of protestants, some muslim faction, hindus, etc.?
We insist on growing in science and tehnology, but much of the world has become ossified in its views of ultimate reality, especially here in the US where religion has hijacked one very old political party. We humanists and atheists are fighting valiantly to change that situation, and we're making progress. Getting much more involved in that struggle has become an increasing part of my "afterlife" of the the last year or so.
The commenter referred to the time after departure from the cult as their "afterlife."
There was a time when all of us cultists looked forward to a supernatural afterlife. In our cases, we, somewhat like the Mormons, looked forward to becoming actual sons of god. Herbert Armstrong enlarged the very real original "Elohym" god family of pre-monotheist Israel and Canaan into a growing family that would include resurrected and immortal sons of God -- us. We were to become brothers of Jesus. Somehow, "daughters" didn't get included in the mix. All, including females, were to magically become sons, from my recollection. (Patriachy in overdrive.)
Of course, I no longer anticipate any such thing and am not even sure some essence of us will suvive our inevitable deaths. There is compelling "anecdotal" evidence that something may, but so far, no measurable scientific evidence. So, that is one of the "agnostic" parts of my atheist stance. I don't know, and I'm humbly honest enough to admit the fact. Anyone who objects to my unorthodox atheism at the moment is free to cast whatever stones they may have handy.
Back to the current subject. What has traspired in my life after 1974-75 can certainly be describe as an "afterlife." In fact, several afterlives.
Starting out, I was still hung up on the Bible and faith. I even attended a Divine Science church for a while and delved deeply into reincarnation. I supported Ernest Martin's Foundation. I got myself ordained by an interfaith group so I could legally do wedding ceremonies and subsequently got several online ordinations, including one from an atheist group. I've ventured into pan-theism. For years, I identified myself as an agnostic. Within the last decade, I became a devout atheist with agnostic overtones.
Is my evolution over? For the most part, I think so. Atheism seems to be the end of the line.
I will never quit questioning and growing in knowledge and understanding. I'm painfully cognizant of the fact that I don't know everything or understand all that is to be understood. Nevertheless, I no longer quail in fear of some nebulous spiritual somebody who is going to wrathfully condemn me for not falling in line with one of the thousands (maybe millions) of "faiths" out there. What makes the superstitions of some remote stone age tribe any more relevant or factual than those espoused by the vatican, a plethora of protestants, some muslim faction, hindus, etc.?
We insist on growing in science and tehnology, but much of the world has become ossified in its views of ultimate reality, especially here in the US where religion has hijacked one very old political party. We humanists and atheists are fighting valiantly to change that situation, and we're making progress. Getting much more involved in that struggle has become an increasing part of my "afterlife" of the the last year or so.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
IMAGINE
A couple days ago, I happened upon a Youtube video of a young Australian singer delivering a tear-inspiring rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. He and his brother are maimed Iraqi adoptees an Australian woman rescued from an iraqi ophanage. It was so moving, I linked to it on my Facebook page. If you go to this address, you will find out why I was so moved: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY37l4PDsao&feature=youtu.be
I had heard the song before but never really dwelt on the message. I've chosen to take those words and expand on them in my own personal way.
"Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try."
It's easy for me when I take a really deep view of the universe -- all of the expanse of it -- nearly fourteen billion years worth of continuing expansion and creation. I occupy only a fleeting dust mote and blink of time in that immensity of time and space in a run-of-the-mill galaxy among billions of other galaxies. It is the height of haughtiness to imagine this "third rock" from an average star as the center of everything and the chosen apple of a deity's eye in some "heaven" that only exists in human imaginations.
"No hell below us. Above us only sky."
Science tells me what's below my feet. A rather thin solid crust, then the mantle and core of a unique planet that is horribly hot inside and that heat is only glimpsed through the eruption of an occasional volcano. No souls are being tortured there at the behest of a vengeful cosmic ogre. The "sky" has expanded considerably during the last century with the advent of modern telescopes, especially those in space.
"Imagine all the people living for today."
Today is all we really have. The past is only memories that will fade away, except for the few that are recorded, and even those, like the records burned with the great library of Alexandria, can disappear at some point in the future. What is to come may get here or it may not. None of us have the guarantee that we'll survive until tomorrow. The probability may be great, but there's no guarantee. I'm doing my best to put these words into action.
"Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do."
It is rather hard for me to do that. I really don't think countries are ever going to completely disappear. If they do, it would be far in the future. I understand the sentiment, but don't expect the reality in my lifetime or in several lifetimes to come.
"Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too."
That would be wonderful, but before it could become reality, we would have to let go of politics as well as religion and just settle down to using hard reason and science to solve human problems. That won't happen until we advance far enough to eschew individual, cultural and national selfish motives.
"Imagine all the people living life in peace."
A wonderful dream and goal, but it isn't going to happen anytime soon. As long as cock sure people continue to say, "I'm right and anybody who thinks otherwise is wrong and should be suppressed, imprisoned or killed," the world isn't going to enjoy that kind of peace.
"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one."
Yes, I do dream and hope for progress. I'd like to see our own nation become as one more completely first of all. I'd like to see, "all for one, and one for all" be the true national slogan as it was during those wonderful years of unity during and shortly after World War II. Then, it could spread to encompass more of the world.
"Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world."
That dream is going to take a monumental change in human goals and aspirations. Pure capitalism will never achieve it and neither will pure socialism -- or any other exclusive "ism". It's going to take a change in basic human aspirations and attitudes and a wholesale application of the golden rule and humanistic values.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one."
We must keep the dream alive and strive to make it an eventual reality. It's been a long climb (the Magna Carta, the United States Constitution, civil wars, revolutions, The League of Nations, The United Nations, etc.) I know I won't live to see "the dream" fulfilled. Maybe no one will. Nevertheless, dreamers gave us our American republic and we continue to try to perfect it in spite of all the negative, hatefilled efforts to subvert it.
The dream we "imagine" makes the journey and the struggle worthwhile.
I had heard the song before but never really dwelt on the message. I've chosen to take those words and expand on them in my own personal way.
"Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try."
It's easy for me when I take a really deep view of the universe -- all of the expanse of it -- nearly fourteen billion years worth of continuing expansion and creation. I occupy only a fleeting dust mote and blink of time in that immensity of time and space in a run-of-the-mill galaxy among billions of other galaxies. It is the height of haughtiness to imagine this "third rock" from an average star as the center of everything and the chosen apple of a deity's eye in some "heaven" that only exists in human imaginations.
"No hell below us. Above us only sky."
Science tells me what's below my feet. A rather thin solid crust, then the mantle and core of a unique planet that is horribly hot inside and that heat is only glimpsed through the eruption of an occasional volcano. No souls are being tortured there at the behest of a vengeful cosmic ogre. The "sky" has expanded considerably during the last century with the advent of modern telescopes, especially those in space.
"Imagine all the people living for today."
Today is all we really have. The past is only memories that will fade away, except for the few that are recorded, and even those, like the records burned with the great library of Alexandria, can disappear at some point in the future. What is to come may get here or it may not. None of us have the guarantee that we'll survive until tomorrow. The probability may be great, but there's no guarantee. I'm doing my best to put these words into action.
"Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do."
It is rather hard for me to do that. I really don't think countries are ever going to completely disappear. If they do, it would be far in the future. I understand the sentiment, but don't expect the reality in my lifetime or in several lifetimes to come.
"Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too."
That would be wonderful, but before it could become reality, we would have to let go of politics as well as religion and just settle down to using hard reason and science to solve human problems. That won't happen until we advance far enough to eschew individual, cultural and national selfish motives.
"Imagine all the people living life in peace."
A wonderful dream and goal, but it isn't going to happen anytime soon. As long as cock sure people continue to say, "I'm right and anybody who thinks otherwise is wrong and should be suppressed, imprisoned or killed," the world isn't going to enjoy that kind of peace.
"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one."
Yes, I do dream and hope for progress. I'd like to see our own nation become as one more completely first of all. I'd like to see, "all for one, and one for all" be the true national slogan as it was during those wonderful years of unity during and shortly after World War II. Then, it could spread to encompass more of the world.
"Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world."
That dream is going to take a monumental change in human goals and aspirations. Pure capitalism will never achieve it and neither will pure socialism -- or any other exclusive "ism". It's going to take a change in basic human aspirations and attitudes and a wholesale application of the golden rule and humanistic values.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one."
We must keep the dream alive and strive to make it an eventual reality. It's been a long climb (the Magna Carta, the United States Constitution, civil wars, revolutions, The League of Nations, The United Nations, etc.) I know I won't live to see "the dream" fulfilled. Maybe no one will. Nevertheless, dreamers gave us our American republic and we continue to try to perfect it in spite of all the negative, hatefilled efforts to subvert it.
The dream we "imagine" makes the journey and the struggle worthwhile.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
WHY I SPEAK OUT
Throughout my life, I've become estranged from a lot of people over where I stand on life issues. When I left my WCG allegiances behind, the bulk of my former associates took off for the hills. When I left behind agnosticism and became a devout atheist, even more made themselves scarce.
A great many of those who saw through Herbert W. Armstrong's overall cultism, still hang with his ultra fundamentalist approach in other areas. He, like the Rethugs, hated labor unions, looked down on the average person as inferior and not worthy of a decent lifestyle and had a British-style class outlook.
Some (indeed many) former worldwiders are staunch creationists and rabid pro-life fanatics. One angrily told me that a woman does not have control over her own body and he's absolutely vehement about evolution. Humanism is a dirty word in his dictionary. He buys anything pseudo-scientists put out in their cross-fertilized, literarily-incestuous books, blogs and articles, pooh-poohing what real scientists with real credentials and years of painstaking research publish and state. We no longer communicate by his demand, and his pompous daughter consigned me to hell.
By getting involved in politics and fearlessly stating my flamingly liberal atheist/humanist outlook and opinions, I've lost even more former "friends." Somehow, they can't take that extra logical step and cast aside that ultra conservative mindset we all bought way back there. I'm a heretic in their eyes because I won't goose step to their theocratic fascist outlook.
That's OK. There's too much McCoy in my ancestry for me to compromise with what I see and not speak out. (Yes, my paternal great grandmother was Isabelle McCoy, straight from Virginia, and a more outspoken, activist personality would be hard to find.) I'm deeply grateful to have this blog and other avenues open to say what wells up from deep within and strains to be heard.
Our nation was not founded by shrinking violets who cowered in fear. They were willing to risk everything for the ideals they held dear. I'm at least not risking execution as a traitor to my king like they did. For now, anyway, no one can bring me up on charges for blasphemy or character defamation if I tell the truth as I see it. How long that will continue is something I really worry about if the Rethug cabal manages to pull this coup off.
I must say what I say because it's the reality I see. To do less would be a betrayal to myself and those who come after me.
To those who would angrily tell me to "shut up," I reply, "Never!"
A great many of those who saw through Herbert W. Armstrong's overall cultism, still hang with his ultra fundamentalist approach in other areas. He, like the Rethugs, hated labor unions, looked down on the average person as inferior and not worthy of a decent lifestyle and had a British-style class outlook.
Some (indeed many) former worldwiders are staunch creationists and rabid pro-life fanatics. One angrily told me that a woman does not have control over her own body and he's absolutely vehement about evolution. Humanism is a dirty word in his dictionary. He buys anything pseudo-scientists put out in their cross-fertilized, literarily-incestuous books, blogs and articles, pooh-poohing what real scientists with real credentials and years of painstaking research publish and state. We no longer communicate by his demand, and his pompous daughter consigned me to hell.
By getting involved in politics and fearlessly stating my flamingly liberal atheist/humanist outlook and opinions, I've lost even more former "friends." Somehow, they can't take that extra logical step and cast aside that ultra conservative mindset we all bought way back there. I'm a heretic in their eyes because I won't goose step to their theocratic fascist outlook.
That's OK. There's too much McCoy in my ancestry for me to compromise with what I see and not speak out. (Yes, my paternal great grandmother was Isabelle McCoy, straight from Virginia, and a more outspoken, activist personality would be hard to find.) I'm deeply grateful to have this blog and other avenues open to say what wells up from deep within and strains to be heard.
Our nation was not founded by shrinking violets who cowered in fear. They were willing to risk everything for the ideals they held dear. I'm at least not risking execution as a traitor to my king like they did. For now, anyway, no one can bring me up on charges for blasphemy or character defamation if I tell the truth as I see it. How long that will continue is something I really worry about if the Rethug cabal manages to pull this coup off.
I must say what I say because it's the reality I see. To do less would be a betrayal to myself and those who come after me.
To those who would angrily tell me to "shut up," I reply, "Never!"
Sunday, July 29, 2012
FREE AT LAST!
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
― Marcus Aurelius
I couldn't say it any better!
When I look back on my life, that's the way I started out thinking in my childhood and early teens. Then, I got caught by a mesmerizing cultic con man and all around sleaze ball by the name of Herbert W. Armstrong. His deceptive cultic system enslaved me for over twenty long years.
It's been a long journey back to basic sanity and clear thinking unencumbered by fairy tales, burdensome religious rigmarole and gospels. Today, I'm free of gods, free of dogma, free of financial slavery to religious machines -- FREE AT LAST -- TOTALLY!
I base my life on humanist ethics and morals. I find those far more of a reliable moral guide than what any religion offers. No longer are my attitudes guided by feelings of superiority toward any other human being. I recognize that we are all cousins somewhere along the genetic pathway and worthy of equal loving respect and concern.
When I was religious, I felt religiously superior to, and thus allienated from all others who were not "in the truth." The nonsense of British Israelism made me feel racially superior as well.
Humanism unites.
Religion and its dogmas divides.
I see that division everywhere. Even in our national politics.
There is a self-righteous haughtiness in politicians like Mitt Romney and Rick Santorium. It virtually exudes from their pores. It's the basis of a lot of their gaffs that give offense to a wide range of people who are different from them.
Today, I'm convinced there are no gods to be concerned about. I haven't made enough of a splash in the world to be long remembered, but that's OK. It's the fate of all my ancestors I'm aware of and the fate of the majority of human beings.
Marcus Aurelius made it into the history books. I currently have a fair presence on Google, but that likely won't last too long after my demise. I don't expect my name in any history books.
At least, the truth that Marcus Aurelius wrote stands. I can only echo it and see that a few more read and comprehend it.
― Marcus Aurelius
I couldn't say it any better!
When I look back on my life, that's the way I started out thinking in my childhood and early teens. Then, I got caught by a mesmerizing cultic con man and all around sleaze ball by the name of Herbert W. Armstrong. His deceptive cultic system enslaved me for over twenty long years.
It's been a long journey back to basic sanity and clear thinking unencumbered by fairy tales, burdensome religious rigmarole and gospels. Today, I'm free of gods, free of dogma, free of financial slavery to religious machines -- FREE AT LAST -- TOTALLY!
I base my life on humanist ethics and morals. I find those far more of a reliable moral guide than what any religion offers. No longer are my attitudes guided by feelings of superiority toward any other human being. I recognize that we are all cousins somewhere along the genetic pathway and worthy of equal loving respect and concern.
When I was religious, I felt religiously superior to, and thus allienated from all others who were not "in the truth." The nonsense of British Israelism made me feel racially superior as well.
Humanism unites.
Religion and its dogmas divides.
I see that division everywhere. Even in our national politics.
There is a self-righteous haughtiness in politicians like Mitt Romney and Rick Santorium. It virtually exudes from their pores. It's the basis of a lot of their gaffs that give offense to a wide range of people who are different from them.
Today, I'm convinced there are no gods to be concerned about. I haven't made enough of a splash in the world to be long remembered, but that's OK. It's the fate of all my ancestors I'm aware of and the fate of the majority of human beings.
Marcus Aurelius made it into the history books. I currently have a fair presence on Google, but that likely won't last too long after my demise. I don't expect my name in any history books.
At least, the truth that Marcus Aurelius wrote stands. I can only echo it and see that a few more read and comprehend it.
Monday, December 12, 2011
ANTI-THEISM ON THE MOVE
As a free-thinker, I'm tired of being marginalized and feeling like I'm relegated to a closet and the sidelines. As you may have noticed about a year ago now, I started lending my voice to the task of making clear and free thinking much more openly available. I started this blog.
I still had that isolated feeling here in Cottonwood, Arizona. There seemed to be few, if any, like minded people around. There was plenty of wooo, wooo in nearby Sedona. You could take your pick of any superstition that appealed to you from vortexes to psychic and aural readings.
Finding clear thinking science-minded fellow anti-theists seemed to be close to impossible. Through Meetup a few of us found each other and had our first meeting this afternoon at a nice home in Sedona. We'll hold a few more meetings to determine exactly where we want to go with our newly formed association. It's a start for Sedona and the Verde Valley.
I'm very encouraged to see more and more blogs by free thinkers and more and more determination on the part of us non-believers to no longer be the silent wall flowers off in the philosophical corners of the world. We're tired of being relegated to the back seats of society like negroes were relegated to the back seats of buses not too long ago. We're fed to the teeth with imbecilic myths having the limelight in society.
I've also found and have been reading an excellent book I found online at the Jovial Atheist website. Thomas Blaylock, Jr. is the author of this website and book. The book's title is: HONEST MAN'S PHILOSOPHY. It's a very thorough treatment of the subject of clear and honest thinking in every area of human existence. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in erradicating the myths of this world from their lives and minds. Go to this address: http://www.jovialatheist.com/hmpindex.html.
I still had that isolated feeling here in Cottonwood, Arizona. There seemed to be few, if any, like minded people around. There was plenty of wooo, wooo in nearby Sedona. You could take your pick of any superstition that appealed to you from vortexes to psychic and aural readings.
Finding clear thinking science-minded fellow anti-theists seemed to be close to impossible. Through Meetup a few of us found each other and had our first meeting this afternoon at a nice home in Sedona. We'll hold a few more meetings to determine exactly where we want to go with our newly formed association. It's a start for Sedona and the Verde Valley.
I'm very encouraged to see more and more blogs by free thinkers and more and more determination on the part of us non-believers to no longer be the silent wall flowers off in the philosophical corners of the world. We're tired of being relegated to the back seats of society like negroes were relegated to the back seats of buses not too long ago. We're fed to the teeth with imbecilic myths having the limelight in society.
I've also found and have been reading an excellent book I found online at the Jovial Atheist website. Thomas Blaylock, Jr. is the author of this website and book. The book's title is: HONEST MAN'S PHILOSOPHY. It's a very thorough treatment of the subject of clear and honest thinking in every area of human existence. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in erradicating the myths of this world from their lives and minds. Go to this address: http://www.jovialatheist.com/hmpindex.html.
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