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Posted in Existential, Humanity, Morality, Psychology, Therapy on Mar 4th, 2010
There is a lot of loss around. And I’m not just referring to people mourning the loss of a loved person. When someone is bereaved you would expect the mourning. It is natural and understandable. But apart from the loss of human beings, there are many other kinds of losses, and many people in [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Feb 4th, 2010
In 1968 the sociologist Peter Berger famously predicted that in the 21st century, religious believers would only be likely to be in small sects, huddled together to resist a worldwide secular culture. In 1710 Thomas Woolstan predicted that religion would be gone by 1900. And many other thinkers (Voltaire, Jefferson, Marx, Engels, Freud) have all anticipated [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 7th, 2010
There is a sick theme running through all of this - or at least a clear attempt to involve some form of mental illness, and an attempt to bring in the people in white coats - well, at least psychologists if not psychiatrists.
Hey, I really, really don’t want to jump on the bandwagon and pour [...]
Posted in Humanity, Humor, Humour, Religion on Dec 21st, 2009
You had to be there to feel the menace!
I wouldn’t have believed it possible. So much threat packed into such a small package.
It was at my supermarket last Saturday. Ok, I was slightly jaded having just completed a shop almost three times the size of normal (my wife has a large family coming to stay). [...]
Posted in Education, Humanity, Humour, Language on Dec 16th, 2009
I think that people are sometimes snobbish about language. For me, words and phrases are like clothes in a wardrobe. In terms of linguistic benefits, there are at least two possible results of having an education: you have more clothes in your wardrobe to choose from; and you may choose your garments with [...]
Who will win this year’s bad faith award?
The New Humanist’s annual vote to discover who people think deserves a bad faith award is still open. If you haven’t cast your vote yet, do pop along to the site and see if anyone merits your selection.
Last year Sarah Palin romped home to victory for her [...]
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Humanity on Nov 1st, 2009
The UK National Health Service (NHS), of course, like Mum’s cooking and apple pie, is wonderful. In times of crisis its nurses and doctors will deal gently and compassionately (if not always as speedily as you would like) in A&E, and will mend broken bones, replace hips, insert stents after heart attacks and perform countless other seeming miracles in [...]
If it is not women’s legs and bottoms (see Appropriateness), it is their breasts. Apparently some men, especially some religious men, just can’t leave them alone. It is bad enough that some women in the Sudan are being whipped for wearing trousers, now some in Somalia are being whipped for wearing bras.
According to press reports:
A HARDLINE Islamist [...]
Posted in Existential, Health, Humanity, Therapy on Oct 13th, 2009
I recently attended a two-day gathering of several hundred people. This large group could be divided into several sub-groups, with each sub-group thinking that they were the ones who were right, they had the real truth, they were the ‘pure and faithful ones’, they were the ones who could ‘really help’. You would think [...]
Posted in Humanity, Law, Morality, Time Wasting, Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2009
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