PHIL 3310. Exploring the philosophical, ethical, spiritual, existential, social, and personal implications of a godless universe, and supporting their study at Middle Tennessee State University & beyond.
Good job! I really enjoyed your report. I loved the poem, and as a secularist I liked those final lines about coming together as humans and not waiting for miracles. I think that has a lot of relevance to our world especially right now. I also agree that there are lots of things humanists and religious people can agree on, and at the end of the day we are all people so we are more similar than we are different. The vast majority of us want to be happy and believe in being good to others. We may disagree on what brings about happiness and what goodness is, but we often share the same goal without realizing it. I hope that made sense.
I enjoyed listening to how you came from a point of celebration in similarities instead of your differences. Im glad that you could find someone whom you relate to so well. I agree that we are all humans and a desire to do the right thing should be what marks us as people and not what our theistic viewpoint. Good job!
I think you made a great point about not waiting, and to go do the things you would have waited for. It's great that you can find a sense of commonality with people of radically different views. There is a lot we could choose to agree on if we let ourselves.
Indeed. The search for common ground used to be considered noble in our culture, lately it just seems to be treated as a sign of weakness and lack of conviction. Conviction used to be considered a warning sign of possible excess dogmatism, at least in matters not immunized as "faith"...
Carl Sagan used to say that an extraterrestrial observer would see us as one species, and would not register our differences at all. Maybe we need to try and see ourselves through ET's eyes (or whatever ET "sees" with).
Poetry is a great portal into the world we all share, despite our differences. TO the extent that a self-described humanist can relate to any part of the experience of a Muslim (etc.) and vice versa, it shows that we don't live in "completely different worlds" after all. For further exploration:
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Good job! I really enjoyed your report. I loved the poem, and as a secularist I liked those final lines about coming together as humans and not waiting for miracles. I think that has a lot of relevance to our world especially right now. I also agree that there are lots of things humanists and religious people can agree on, and at the end of the day we are all people so we are more similar than we are different. The vast majority of us want to be happy and believe in being good to others. We may disagree on what brings about happiness and what goodness is, but we often share the same goal without realizing it. I hope that made sense.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed listening to how you came from a point of celebration in similarities instead of your differences. Im glad that you could find someone whom you relate to so well. I agree that we are all humans and a desire to do the right thing should be what marks us as people and not what our theistic viewpoint. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI think you made a great point about not waiting, and to go do the things you would have waited for. It's great that you can find a sense of commonality with people of radically different views. There is a lot we could choose to agree on if we let ourselves.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. The search for common ground used to be considered noble in our culture, lately it just seems to be treated as a sign of weakness and lack of conviction. Conviction used to be considered a warning sign of possible excess dogmatism, at least in matters not immunized as "faith"...
DeleteCarl Sagan used to say that an extraterrestrial observer would see us as one species, and would not register our differences at all. Maybe we need to try and see ourselves through ET's eyes (or whatever ET "sees" with).
Poetry is a great portal into the world we all share, despite our differences. TO the extent that a self-described humanist can relate to any part of the experience of a Muslim (etc.) and vice versa, it shows that we don't live in "completely different worlds" after all. For further exploration:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/humanist
https://thehumanist.com/arts-entertainment/poetry/
https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2016/03/25/the-microcosm-poetry-and-humanism/
And on the lighter side of humanism, there's Billy Collins... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/billy-collins
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