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serryjw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:33 PM Original message |
What is a Humanist? |
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mr_hat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. Humanists are more reviled by the religious right, liberals > |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
2. The way the World has been going since November 2000, my |
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EST (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's hard to be a humanist without being a liberal. |
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Emit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Agreed. n/t |
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benburch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. A Humanist... |
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serryjw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Thanks everyone |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 03:38 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. firewood.... |
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Che_Nuevara (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
6. Liberal is political; humanist is philosophical. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
7. I used to think you could be religious & humanist. You just had to |
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Caoimhe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Most idealogues reject the "live and let live" |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 02:09 AM Response to Reply #7 |
28. religious humanists and christian humanists have been around for centuries |
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EST (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 02:51 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. The first time I was accused |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 03:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. I don't know religious people like that. But then I live in Canada. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 03:24 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Thank you. I knew that religious could be humanist. Cause I've |
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Che_Nuevara (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:13 AM Response to Reply #7 |
30. There is also a segment called "religious humanists". |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 03:25 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. There we go. Like the person above said humanist is philosophy |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
8. What's an Alienist? |
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benburch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Archaic term for psychiatric physician. nt |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Could someone have been both an Alienist and a Humanist? |
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benburch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. I'd say yes. nt |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Suppose you had been working as a Machinist for over ten years. |
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benburch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:48 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Sounds like a good debate topic. nt |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
9. Handiest summary definition of 'humanist' I ever heard was by |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
10. Humanists have been debating their definition forever. |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
13. Solly Mack, aka Me, myself and I, is a humanist |
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Lefty48197 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. It meant "not one of us" to the Reaganites. |
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Caoimhe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. yes |
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Caoimhe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
16. I had a Humanist wedding |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. I am curious? Did someone say they were different? |
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greendog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
22. From the Honorary President of the American Humanist Association |
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benburch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Which is why Christians hate us so. |
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izzybeans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
24. It's a pesky philosophy that postulates such radical conditions as |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-16-06 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
26. It's possible for them to be opposed to each other |
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serryjw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 01:37 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I think I am too cynical to be a humanist |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 03:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. "Goodness" and "worth" aren't the same, though... |
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serryjw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 11:11 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I could agree with that |
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