# Humanism **URL:** https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/c/humanism/9.md?page=2 [Latest](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/categories.md) **Page:** 3 --- ## [We should boycott the Qatar world cup](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/we-should-boycott-the-qatar-world-cup/9853)
**Author:** [@morgankane01](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/morgankane01)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/we-should-boycott-the-qatar-world-cup/9853 "2022-09-18T16:35:47Z")
2 immediate reasons: the anti-environmental character of the event the conditions under which the workers were used, underpaid and killed. \[Football fans: should we boycott the 2022 World Cup in Qatar?\] \[2022 FIFA Wo… --- ## [Daniel Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained” and Beyond](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/daniel-dennett-s-consciousness-explained-and-beyond/9802)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2022, 5:47am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/daniel-dennett-s-consciousness-explained-and-beyond/9802 "2022-09-06T05:47:40Z")
This has been revised, see #11 :v:t2: A Student’s Resource Dr. Dennett’s book “Consciousness Explained” (1991) is a fascinating look at consciousness from a natural sciences respecting philosophical perspectiv… --- ## [Give peace a chance ? Let's institute an empire!](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/give-peace-a-chance-lets-institute-an-empire/9780)
**Author:** [@morgankane01](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/morgankane01)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/give-peace-a-chance-lets-institute-an-empire/9780 "2022-09-05T13:16:10Z")
In the life of Brian: “What have the Roman’s ever done for us?” After some game of question and answers : “All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fre… --- ## [Humanist Trilogy](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/humanist-trilogy/9547)
**Author:** [@pointpath](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/pointpath)\ **Replies:** 133\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/humanist-trilogy/9547 "2022-08-28T01:09:06Z")
--- ## [The question: Are "time, space, motion absolute?"](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-question-are-time-space-motion-absolute/9788)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-question-are-time-space-motion-absolute/9788 "2022-08-17T02:55:02Z")
Came across a curious short video that helped catalyze some evolving observations toward philosophy and philosophers. Prior to that I read Dennett’s explanation of colors so was primed. #12 Qualia, and #12- 2 Why are … --- ## [Secular Winter Solstice Music](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/secular-winter-solstice-music/9572)
**Author:** [@archstanton](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/archstanton)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/secular-winter-solstice-music/9572 "2022-08-06T04:58:27Z")
Or… Christmas Music without a Christ :wink: Is there a list compiled somewhere of secular music for that time of year when a lot of holidays are celebrated? I’d be even more interested in piano scores that I can legall… --- ## [Things are getting better](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/things-are-getting-better/9690)
**Author:** [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/things-are-getting-better/9690 "2022-07-19T02:42:53Z")
NYT had one of these recently, so i thought I’d throw one up for discussion. One thing being worse, democracies are getting less democratic, so, is that temporary? It could be related to how these measures are about p… --- ## [Yourcenar and children education](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/yourcenar-and-children-education/9214)
**Author:** [@morgankane01](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/morgankane01)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/yourcenar-and-children-education/9214 "2022-07-15T02:11:05Z")
Than can be talked about, but it is a good beginning, I do believe. “I condemn the ignorance that currently reigns in democracies as well as in totalitarian regimes. This ignorance is so strong, often so total, that one… --- ## [Who (the hell) Am I?](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/who-the-hell-am-i/8516)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/who-the-hell-am-i/8516 "2022-07-03T21:31:43Z")
I’m in one of those moods, spent my second day with a little one who’s just past his first 100 Holy Days. Splendid little chap. Those eyes! I met his big brother at two weeks old when his eyes were first focusing and … --- ## [Confronting the myth that over-population is no problem](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/confronting-the-myth-that-over-population-is-no-problem/8770)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/confronting-the-myth-that-over-population-is-no-problem/8770 "2022-06-09T19:47:03Z")
Recently I was made aware of a whole poop load of videos and articles dismissing the crisis of humanity’s Population Explosion. Demanding evident that over population is a bad thing and touting all the wonders of ballis… --- ## [What Sorts of Things Exist, and How? - dialogue with Paul Mealing](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/what-sorts-of-things-exist-and-how-dialogue-with-paul-mealing/8658)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/what-sorts-of-things-exist-and-how-dialogue-with-paul-mealing/8658 "2022-06-09T10:46:33Z")
Since I’m always interested in trying to stir up some discussion, I thought I’d share this and see if anyone wanted to weight in, either here, or at Paul Mealing’s website. The terms, ‘things’ and ‘exist’, seem self-… --- ## [Sacred Places and Sacred Spaces](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/sacred-places-and-sacred-spaces/8905)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/sacred-places-and-sacred-spaces/8905 "2022-05-25T00:18:51Z")
Though it’s way past my bed time, only four hours last night, Nana’s returned home, I’ll follow in a couple weeks, so I was alone with this little half year old bundle of energy all work day long, till parents got off. … --- ## [Tops Friendly Market](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/tops-friendly-market/9471)
**Author:** [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/tops-friendly-market/9471 "2022-05-15T21:44:21Z")
One of my guilty pleasures is watching Meet the Press. Today they opened with the shooting in Buffalo, NY. They went through the usual list of locals, mayors, experts, etc. and it was all the same, that something must be… --- ## [First scan of a dying human brain shows life flashes before eyes](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/first-scan-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-life-flashes-before-eyes/9391)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/first-scan-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-life-flashes-before-eyes/9391 "2022-04-26T04:22:26Z")
First scan of a dying human brain shows life flashes before eyes Interesting video, makes plenty of sense, and makes no grand claims. ThePrint Doctors studying a patient’s brain during a seizure ended up … --- ## [Is there science denialism in the Humanist expectation that religion will subside?](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/is-there-science-denialism-in-the-humanist-expectation-that-religion-will-subside/9202)
**Author:** [@eupraxsophy100](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/eupraxsophy100)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/is-there-science-denialism-in-the-humanist-expectation-that-religion-will-subside/9202 "2022-04-13T04:02:22Z")
Here is the thesis about which I am seeking thoughtful comments: I believe that a fair, broad, deep, and objective reading of the scientific literature of psychology, sociology, and anthropology reveals that religion as… --- ## [The tragedy of climate change science? The broken science-society contract? Seriously?!?](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-tragedy-of-climate-change-science-the-broken-science-society-contract-seriously/8944)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-tragedy-of-climate-change-science-the-broken-science-society-contract-seriously/8944 "2022-04-10T19:02:32Z")
After another fascinating (and rewarding) graveyard shift :wink: I found a timely link to a new article at …and Then There’s Physics another discussion forum that I like to check in with, for peeks into a sliver of clim… --- ## [Secular Humanism in the Post-Enlightenment Age](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/secular-humanism-in-the-post-enlightenment-age/9285)
**Author:** [@Avid\_Reader](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/Avid_Reader)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/secular-humanism-in-the-post-enlightenment-age/9285 "2022-03-27T19:08:49Z")
Read Laurence Mailaender’s article “Secular Humanism in the Post-Enlightenment Age” and let’s discuss! You can find it here Secular Humanism in the Post-Enlightenment Age | Free Inquiry We thought that we didn’t need k… --- ## [Does the Humanist/Rationalist/Secularist/Atheist movement repeat the Utopianism of the old Communist Movement?](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/does-the-humanist-rationalist-secularist-atheist-movement-repeat-the-utopianism-of-the-old-communist-movement/9277)
**Author:** [@eupraxsophy100](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/eupraxsophy100)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/does-the-humanist-rationalist-secularist-atheist-movement-repeat-the-utopianism-of-the-old-communist-movement/9277 "2022-03-26T12:56:12Z")
The Communists led so many people to believe and expect that as soon as the Capitalist class was eliminated, a utopia would break out. It seemed like a good theory. If I’d been alive back in the early days of the Marxis… --- ## [CFI's progress in 2021: Fundraising with a false depiction of things?](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/cfis-progress-in-2021-fundraising-with-a-false-depiction-of-things/9267)
**Author:** [@eupraxsophy100](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/eupraxsophy100)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/cfis-progress-in-2021-fundraising-with-a-false-depiction-of-things/9267 "2022-03-26T00:47:14Z")
I recently got an email from CFI with this subject title: “Flooding the Zone with Light: The Story of CFI’s Progress in 2021.” The email ended with a request for a financial donation. Reading the email, one might think… --- ## [Humanism must evolve or die](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/humanism-must-evolve-or-die/9145)
**Author:** [@pointpath](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/pointpath)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/humanism-must-evolve-or-die/9145 "2022-03-17T17:59:55Z")
Many of us know that humans are the most advanced species of primates and Biblical creationism never happened as a real event. I lost interest in the dogma of God early in my life, I’ve been retired as a computer profe… --- ## ["the arc of the moral universe is long but \*\*it bends toward justice\*\* ."](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-arc-of-the-moral-universe-is-long-but-it-bends-toward-justice/8992)
**Author:** [@jufa](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/jufa)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-arc-of-the-moral-universe-is-long-but-it-bends-toward-justice/8992 "2022-02-06T20:24:33Z")
There will always be a theme for ignorance to ban freedom of speech and unjust thoughts to cause an individual to turn against their own conscience and soul to maintain the elite attitude: “if I am not better than a ???,… --- ## ["A Word to the wise should be sufficient," - Julius Fann, Jr](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/a-word-to-the-wise-should-be-sufficient-julius-fann-jr/8982)
**Author:** [@jufa](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/jufa)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/a-word-to-the-wise-should-be-sufficient-julius-fann-jr/8982 "2022-02-03T18:15:21Z")
Understanding is the realized birth, oozing from the invisible void of the womb of life as the continuum of movement giving all forms a placement of kind. Never was there a teaching, display, or demonstration of selfish … --- ## [Desmond Tutu is dead](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/desmond-tutu-is-dead/8745)
**Author:** [@morgankane01](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/morgankane01)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/desmond-tutu-is-dead/8745 "2022-01-08T12:47:51Z")
If the forum rules had allowed me, i would have typed only one word : Respect ! --- ## [What is humanism?](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/what-is-humanism/8773)
**Author:** [@morgankane01](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/morgankane01)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/what-is-humanism/8773 "2022-01-02T20:02:37Z")
I am conscious that many exchanges have taken place, about humanism, implying a definition. But being rather new on the forum, i would like to know what this notion covers for you ? The word has several meanings. I … --- ## [A little Scroogey today](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/a-little-scroogey-today/8732)
**Author:** [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/a-little-scroogey-today/8732 "2021-12-26T03:57:37Z")
I’m at the end of my first full year of retirement and looking forward to the day after the family Christmas. I think I’ve come to where I’m less interested in people. I like humans, just not a bunch of them in a room at… --- ## [Sam Harris Podcast #207](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/sam-harris-podcast-207/7382)
**Author:** [@timb](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/timb)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/sam-harris-podcast-207/7382 "2021-11-23T18:38:34Z")
I got maybe a 1/2 of the way thru. (It is over 1 hour and52 min. long.) So far, I agree with most of his points (he makes a lot of points), and I disagree with some. The latter is more interesting to me. The 1st I dis… --- ## [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/braiding-sweetgrass/8143)
**Author:** [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/braiding-sweetgrass/8143 "2021-11-15T17:33:57Z")
I’ve mentioned this book by Robin Kimmerer a couple times, but thought I’d start a thread here. It covers religion and science, so I put it in Humanism. She blends her knowledge of botany with her Native Potawatomi tradi… --- ## [Then there's the God v Science question.](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/then-theres-the-god-v-science-question/6236)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev3](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev3)\ **Replies:** 133\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/then-theres-the-god-v-science-question/6236 "2021-11-03T11:42:47Z")
Moving right along. Looking for lively discussion. --- ## [The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/8460)
**Author:** [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/8460 "2021-10-09T13:15:46Z")
If only we had enough interested people around here to have an actual discuss about some of these matters. Such as this horror happening to America these days. How can trump’s sociopathic movement be confronted if no o… --- ## [All men are created equal,](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/all-men-are-created-equal/7977)
**Author:** [@morgankane01](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/morgankane01)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/all-men-are-created-equal/7977 "2021-09-11T07:46:54Z")
Some declarations: 1776 : US déclaration of independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among thes… [Previous page](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/c/humanism/9.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/c/humanism/9.md?page=3)