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at moonrise
the ghost on the gallows
hangs in silhouette against a backdrop
of raw illusion Read on…
Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Swerve, a book review
Stephen Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE, How the World Became Modern, tells an important story and has won the National Book Award for non-fiction and a Pulitzer. The story is of particular interest and importance to atheists and secular humanists because it validates us as main-stream, primary players in the flow of Western Civilization and casts the Abrahamic religions as the major bump on the long road to modernity. Read on…
Historical Humanists- Aristippus
“The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.” Read on…
the incredible egg of nothingness
here we are
from amoeba to mankind
every living thing on earth
sparked into life Read on…
The State of the Eloquent Atheist
Curiosity got the better of me yesterday and I looked to see how this little web site was doing. The answer both surprised and impressed me. In our short life, we have had 214,039 visitors to our site. I’ll keep track and let you all know when we get to a quarter million. Read on…
Historical Humanists- Bagehot, Walter
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.”
“So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it unwise, and their conscience it is wrong.”
— Walter Bagehot Read on…
Everything Must Go
I keep falling asleep & waking
Up & falling asleep & sometimes
Dreaming & waking up & there
You lay next to that lamp we click Read on…
History: Science, Religion and Atheism
Throughout history science has come up with new theories and supported it with conclusive evidences. When people believed that the earth was flat and the earth was the centre of the universe, science disagreed, with evidence, but the general public were too scared to support those ideas, as the power of religion was greater then. Read on…
What is the Soul?
The Brahman is the Atman, the Atman is the Soul,
Said the big Sankara after long and hard meditation,
The Soul is the Spirit, the Essence and the Self (I),
That is living in all the living and the non-living alike. Read on…
Pascal’s wager against Theists
A lot of theists talk about Pascal’s wager, “if you (atheists) are wrong you will suffer for all eternity, but if we (theists) are wrong we would have lost nothing.”
This is an example how illogical your thinking is. You are so obsessed with god that you can’t even think straight when it comes to religious matters. Read on…