Dans toute société démocratique et éthique, il est impératif que chaque citoyen puisse jouir de ses droits inaliénables

Je m'adresse au Premier ministre Gabriel Attal pour qu'il garantisse une justice sociale et équitable pour tous

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Injustement licencié par le maire de Saint-Martin-Boulogne

Je dénonce le silence complice du gouvernement

Je réclame réparation

Commune de Saint-Martin-Boulogne au-dessus des lois

j'ai été employé illégalement par l'état français

Injustice sous Influence : Dénonciation d'un Système Corrompu

Victime de Harcèlement et d'Abus d'État

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La République et la Démocratie en Péril : La Menace d'une Justice Corrompue

Dans l'enceinte sacrée de la justice, où les principes de la démocratie et de l'égalité sont censés régner en maîtres, une ombre sinistre se profile. Une ombre faite de partialité, de corruption et de manipulation politique, gangrenant les fondements mêmes de notre système judiciaire. Cette sombre réalité nous confronte à un danger imminent : la déchéance de la République et de la démocratie.

#justice #droithumain #humanité #sosviolance #harcèlement #intimidationetmenace #droitsdelhomme #snews #france3 #laVoixDuNord

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Justice corrompu maire de Saint-Martin-Boulogne hors-la-loi

Justicecorrompu

Abus de pouvoir

SDF

S.D.F à cause d'un maire socialiste

Emploi illégal et séquestration par un représentant de l’État

Je demande justice et réparation pour les préjudices que j'ai subis.

Face à cette série d'abus et d'atteintes à mes droits fondamentaux, je ne peux rester silencieux. Je demande que le gouvernement assume sa responsabilité dans cette affaire .

Je dénonce une justice non équitable corrompue par un parti politique socialité qui détourne la justice afin de servir des représenter de l'état déviant. #justice #droithumain #humanité #sosviolance #harcèlement #intimidationetmenace #droitsdelhomme

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Emploi illégal, séquestration et intimidation - mairie de Saint-Martin-Boulogne

gouvernement socialiste

Abus de pouvoir

Emploi illégal

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I’m the creator of a British South Asian Male Podcast and I want to platform South Asian atheists/agnostics/humanists.

Made a video in fact Why I am an agnostic atheist and a humanist and why it matters. https://youtu.be/OIIa3UJCMhU

Posted it before on another account

https://amun-bains.medium.com/why-i-am-a-humanist-and-an-agnostic-atheist-and-why-it-matters-024329e165a8

that’s a condensed version in written form which is quicker to consume. i explain why i’m a humanist and link it to desis.

Sub if you’re cool

We are always portrayed in the media as religious people. that's false. Also sadly in our communities and certainly in south asia itself being a humanist/atheist can be seriously dangerous so we must speak out and create a global movement.

Everyone else has a platform except us. Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs … everyone. Never us.

25% of Brit Asians and 18% of Indians were not religious. Is the media reflecting that? No.

I created a subreddit for desi atheists r/desiatheists

Anyone interested in appearing?

contact here or on X (see Youtube for my name on X) should my reddit account not be available

Hello, I invite you to join this newly created discord community where we share the unconditional love and joy of life and the message of nonduality. Here you could find friends who might be in a similar predicament as you!

Server invite: https://discord.gg/sangha-1186306502663876628

I am also open to any questions regarding nonduality or enlightenment, so feel free to message me on discord about anything!

- No drugs, no cigarettes, etc
- respect and culture
- overall good, friendly community
- geolocation based

Kind of secular alternative to church communities.

What do you think of this idea?

Hi y'all,

I've officiated a few weddings (BS online ordination that my state doesn't even recognize) and it's something I deeply enjoy doing. I'm also a trained death doula. I like facilitating major life events. Anyway, my own wedding is coming up, and we're having it performed by a Humanist Celebrant, who inspired me to look into the process. My question is this - while I don't subscribe to any particular religion (and harbor a fair amount of disdain for most organized religious institutions), I can't honestly say I don't have any belief at all in the "supernatural," and would describe myself as a spiritual person. I know that a requirement of celebrant endorsement is professed belief in the tenents of Humanism. Would maintaining this unclassed spirituality disqualify me from honestly attaining celebrant endorsement?

Thanks!

In his new book “Christian Atheism,” Zizek writes: “The question is: humanism presents itself as universal, all-encompassing, but this universality is already grounded in an exclusion. It is not just that humanism imposes a Western standard of being-human which reduces subaltern Others to a lower level of humanity; Humanism is based on the exclusion of a large group of humans… as non-Human…” p.27

Why Zizek feels the need to engage in this distortion of Humanism is… perhaps, because he wants to insinuate a contrast of superiority for Christianity?

Here Zizek is thinking of Humanism as being synonymous with Christian fundamentalism as well as Westernism. This is a problem. None of this is reflected in any of the Humanist Manifestos. More importantly, it’s not even presupposed by them. To interpret Humanism thus is to erect a straw man of Humanism.

What then is Humanism?

In short, it’s the axiom of the value of humans as central, of human life and dignity as central. This doesn’t mean that Humanism lacks an ecology, quite the opposite. Because Humanism is axiomatic, and proceeds by means of reason and evidence, it can be said to be foundational to progress/ because it’s not a superstitious system, its approach to the world is open and reflective, it doesn’t dogmatize, but is a continual process of open learning.

“Humanism is an ethical process through which we all can move, above and beyond the divisive particulars, heroic personalities, dogmatic creeds, and ritual customs of past religions or their mere negation.” Manifesto II

Zizek gives no citations to back up his negative and limited characterization of Humanism. He simply asserts that it’s a system of “exclusion,” when in fact, it’s just the opposite!

The religions of the world have failed, so much so that Zizek is now offering a negative version of Christianity/ why not the positive one? (In contrast, Humanism is not something that needs to be inverted!)

So far from “reducing” people, Humanism embraces the hope of a world united. “We urge recognition of the common humanity of all people.” Ibid. It is an approach whose time has come.

The historical religions of the world aren’t epistemologically or ontologically broad enough to cope with the increase of social complexity, but Humanism is, because its foundation is universal. Zizek wants to claim that this universalism contains an exclusion. Fair enough. What then is that exclusion? It’s not Humans as he wants us to believe! (He got it wrong because he doesn’t understand Humanism, or purposely tried to distort it): it’s the exclusion of the non-universal. This alone makes Humanism exceptional among the religions of the world.

I suspect that Zizek is threatened by Humanism because, even as an Atheist, he’s still too much of a Christian!

I just finished an annual tradition of mine (something I do outside of Aretéanism) in that I just rewatched the classic movie "The Great Escape" (1963) with some of my family members. If you're not already familiar with it, it's a great film about the real-life mass escape of Allied POWs from a German prison camp during WWII.

Usually I watch it on either the night of March 24th (Great Escape Night), or sometime during the day of March 29th (Salute the 50 Day), as those are the two dates that the events of the film most coincide with, but my schedule conflicts this year, so we watched it tonight instead.

Anyway, the point is that it's a great movie, with distinctly humanist values; and so I make this effort of watching it every single year. There are other movies that I do this with too, but I'm curious what movies does the rest of this community suggest as being great movies that promulgate thoroughly humanist values? Would you recommend any of those movies as being worthy of annual rewatch? Do you have any suggestions for what date would be most appropriate to rewatch them?

Looking forward to seeing what the sub recommends!

Here is mine.

I admit this topic isn't directly related to Humanism, but I figure other Humanists might relate to it.

Obviously the Avatar movies are meant to be fun uplifting action-adventure stories, and on the surface they 100% are. For those who haven't seen them, spoilers incoming...

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The first movie's plot is that Humanity has made Earth uninhabitable by exploiting all its resources. So Humanity looks to the stars and finds a planet called Pandora with rich untouched natural resources. Pandora is however inhabited by the Na'vi, blue Humanoid aliens. At the movie's start, the primary protagonist Jake Sully is sent to Pandora, where he joins both the scientific and the military mission there. Over the course of the movie, Sully empathizes with the Na'vi, learns their ways, eventually 'goes native,' and falls in love with a Na'vi named Neytiri. At the movie's climax, there is a big battle between the Human military and the forest Na'vi that Sully has joined. Sully and the Na'vi win, they send the Human military personnel back to Earth, everyone rejoices, the end.

The second movie picks up years later, with Sully and Neytiri now married and raising three kids. A second wave of military personnel are sent from Earth, and part of their mission is to kill/capture Sully. After a close call, Sully decides that the only way to protect his family is to cut ties with the forest Na'vi and emigrate to another tribe. So they cut ties, and then find a coastal tribe. Over the course of the movie, the family learns 'the way of water' and eventually earn the acceptance of their new tribe. However, Earth's military does track them down. Again there is a battle, the good guys win, and the newest members of the water tribe bask in their newfound lifeway.

Obviously, the Avatar franchise is an allegory for the colonial era, when European colonials murdered or subjugated a massive number of indigenous people all over the world. In the real world, a big reason that colonials were so successful was because the native people saw each other as separate tribes rather than a single people, thus allowing the colonials to divide and conquer. When several tribes managed to work and fight together, they usually smashed colonial invaders. But such teamwork was the exception rather than the norm, and so the colonial invaders were able to conquer one tribe at a time.

Which is what I find utterly depressing about the Avatar movies. The Na'vi tribes have a common enemy, two victories under their belt, flora that they hold in high spiritual regard which they can use to communicate with each other, and a former colonial who knows how their enemy thinks and operates. Cameron could write a story about the Na'vi uniting in order to protect each other from the colonials. But so far, he has them viewing each other as foreigners as much as the colonials, they don't seem to use the magical flora for inter-tribal communication, and he has Sully very formally cutting ties with one tribe before joining another.

In short, the good guys have managed to win two battles, but they're going to lose the war.

Thoughts?

Hello all. I recently discovered Humanism, I guess more accurately "secular humanism." From what I gathered is really only used in the US? Anyways, I have held the thoughts of equal human rights and tolerance and respect of everybody regardless of religion, sex, gender, sexuality, etc for quite awhile now. When I deconstructed from Christianity about six months ago, this made even more sense to me and it's a view that I still hold. I don't really know what other personal beliefs I have, but I could be described as non-religious, agnostic, atheist, etc, but I definitely value human potential and morality above anything else, over the promises of religion and of an afterlife that we really have no way of knowing exists, if one exists at all.

https://youtu.be/OIIa3UJCMhU?si=9Zu8JgdPiPNxLhE6

I posted once here before. Essentially my channel is about british south asian men. we are always portrayed in the media as religious people. that's false. Also sadly in our communities and certainly in south asia itself being a humanist/atheist can be seriously dangerous so we must speak out and create a global movement.

I am a humanist and an agnostic atheist.

First of all, who cares? Well I made this channel because I have an issue with our current media and wider culture and part of that is the taboo around religion, politics and race. We are healthier when we speak openly. These are my opinions, I have no hate for anyone with different ones.

Atheism seems natural to me. We are all born atheists. There is no hard evidence for any religion being right. I live my life through purely evidence, not belief.

To me religion started to explain the unexplainable and as a means of social control from elites who needed the loyalty of the masses so used religion to do this.

It seems odd to me that religious people are often so lucky. If you were born in Pakistan you'd be Muslim, in Mexico you'd be Christian. Thus is it the truth or just culture you believe in?

Being an atheist and a humanist does not mean I am without morals. On the contrary it allowed me to find my own meaning in life and that was to be good and do good above all. Humans do not need religion to keep us in check, we are good people for the most part by nature.

To me not all religions are equal though. Sikhism doesn't contradict many of my beliefs (unlike other religions) and the religion itself and generally its followers are very tolerant and relaxed which means I am still fiercely proud of my heritage. I don't see why I can't be.

Above all however is a serious issue and we need a global humanist movement. There is pressure in British Asian communities to not rock the boat on this. In Pakistan you can actually be killed for being an apostate.

The media always portrays us as religious (and often religious nutcases doing bad things) but 25% of Brit Asians and 18% of Indians were not religious. Is the media reflecting that? No.

So here I am. Again and always.

I feel like the recent conflict in Gaza proved this to me. What’s going on in Gaza is heartbreaking, and it just feels like people are so willing to overlook the sheer scale of suffering and death going on over there, in the name of destroying Hamas. I think true sympathy for the people of Gaza among pro israelis is very low.

On the other hand, during the October 7th attack many people who are pro Palestinian (of which I consider myself to be to an extent) were justifying and even celebrating the murder of innocent civilians, some even going as far as to say there are no innocent Israeli civilians. Many of these people are now the most vocal when it comes to criticizing Israel for their response.

It just feels like people appeal to “humanitarian values(idk what else to call them)” only when it benefits “their side”. But I think people generally only really care about the people on “their own team”, and only pretend to care about humanitarian values and morals when it suits them.

I personally struggle to understand the reasoning for why so many people find the crossroads of Humanism being some battle between Theism and Atheism. For me, I'm somewhat of an inbetweener. Some might say that there can be no in between-- you either believe or you don't believe. To that, I say, "Maybe." I'm tired of hearing religious people sound so worried and struck with fear because they need to "save" more individuals' souls-- that individual can learn to survive, thrive and be spiritual if they so choose. I'm tired of hearing non-religious people assert empiricism and finding joy in tearing into an individuals' religious ideals-- that individual doesn't need evidence to continue having their subjective beliefs in a higher power. It's worth noting these are my viewpoints I've had from my interaction with both groups. Of course, interactions or perceptions will vary from person to person. This said, focusing on these things while people are quite literally being tortured out there doesn't help anyone. It only sheds light on all parties' apathetic stances to the problems threatening humanity's ability to stabilize, much less survive.

Realization has set in for me as an individual, considering the years that went by, that while I've adopted certain things from both Christian and Atheist mindsets, neither as they were presented gave me a framework from which to live out a fulfilling life. There are certain aspects of both such as a lot of what was in the Ten Commandments found in Christianity, and the healthy amount of skepticism found from an Atheist mindset that I carry with me to this day. Aside from these things and some others though? I've become callus to all the infighting, which is what it is. Human vs. human infighting. I try not to pretend to be someone who has any philosophical authority either, but owing to the fact that I'm a creative, making new terminology and analogies is part of who I am. And so I have a not-so-new concept for those out there who feel stuck between two extremes, and is frustrated, because we feel that there are better things to do than bicker about things when there are other tasks that should take priority in a more pragmatic sense.

"Blistered."

A protective callus normally forms after getting a blister, which makes this term a recognition of the stoicism that can come from disillusionment from conflict between two views. As someone who prioritizes addressing urgent issues like minimizing abhorrence in the world over engaging in ongoing conflicts, I identify as a Blistered Christio-Atheist. This isn't a way for one to identify as not caring about these views. It's a way to say that you've lived the life and have cared deeply for both, mine being "Christio" (a constructed suffix) first as I was raised Baptist, and Atheist after that chronologically. Every viewpoint has worth and every human I feel should be afforded the dignity of believing whatever they want to so long as not involving themselves with human on human abhorrence. I feel like there's plenty to learn from many viewpoints to help one another continue to thrive, but when stability and surviving are still the issues, arguing over certain issues while we neglect the larger problems on Earth is not just unproductive. I think It's telling of humanity being resistant to surviving alongside one another.

The importance of realizing you are blistered and have become callus to it then is understanding we can act as a mediator between the two. We can give a dynamic point of view and serve as a neutral voice amidst the two sides. Someone being "Blistered" hasn't got to be confined to these two specific mindsets I'm speaking about here either; It could be between religions, ideologies, philosophies, political parties, and beyond. Acknowledging there are people out there who have been subject to the direct friction of and feel they have been burned by both sides is something that may help us significantly-- by realizing that life isn't about this "black vs. white," and "right vs. wrong" illusion, we can accept that our lives and the groups we decide to be a part of are integral pieces of human wide culture. No one is doing anything wrong by doing as they have learned, but without recognizing the complex nature of society, we are most certainly doing each other wrong by failing to teach one another that we can change, adapt, and accept other points of view. In this way, Christian, Atheist, or otherwise, we can work to make a more safe and caring world - together.

https://youtu.be/RJbcdjdWUis?si=uvjDX53pfPtnZzBW

Why be happy and defeat depression with no afterlife?:

With no afterlife or “reason” for being here, we are left with life as it lies before us preceding the opportunity we get to choose to interpret its results. The possibility for any event to occur is best described by a system of mathmatics that is near-impossible for both the layman and the genius to comprehend. The metaphysical reasons for these mathmatics is a debate that, while philosophically enjoyable, is ultimately unawnserable. But the impossibility of the existence of an answer is why we should be content with our “reason” for existing in the first place.

The likelihood of you existing, your history and even the event of you reading this text are so improbable that the existence of it alone should be celebrated. It may be that there is no definitive answer to the “why” and comprehension of this concept will always be a struggle, as this introspective odyssey has plagued us for millennia. But the fact that it is even being questioned is a testament to human greatness. Our ability to quest for truth evidences the beautiful luck we have to be the ones on the very journey we find ourselves contending to begin with.

No matter how desperate life becomes, the fact that we can call it as such is so immeasurably preferable to nothingness that it exemplifies why true appreciation of the fact of existence is not only a reality, but is conducive and paramount to discovering an undefinable yet veraciously concluded unanimous happiness.

Because of our ability to reason, only we as humans on this earth have the opportunity to experience this kind of contentment. And while human societies around the globe waste this life and destroy the opportunities we are afforded, you as an individual still have the ability to be joyfully purposeful. Be free of the moral chains that our societies cast you in.

For you are real, so you are true. You are that truth we forever attempt to seek. You are what is beautiful in this temporal realm that is fortunate to be. You should do nothing but rejoice. You need not the metaphysical “realities” put forward by the potentially destructive socially created philosophies of religious entities to simply love the experience of our stunning pre-existence. They are inherently a misunderstanding of the beauty of being.

Because to survive is optional, but to live is to succeed regardless of what may come after death. If I provide anyone reading this with anything it would be this: Use the capacities you are given as a living being as best as you can, because the best luck you’ll ever ascertain is to live in the first place.

I hope I contribute happiness to all those I meet. Ultimately, the words I have written before you is the opus I hope to leave behind to describe why I believe all of us deserve and are able to achieve ultimate happiness.

Hate is therefore the enemy of this existential discovery, and for that love should forever be the ubiquitous retort.

Gaz

P.S: I struggled with mental health disorders due to losing my boyfriend and suffering severe physical health disorders, rendering me part-disabled. I have plenty reason to recede into a emotionally destructive pit.

But I am forever happy now as a result of this here described eventual moral epiphany, and I write this so that others may defeat the horrific realities we can be forced to suffer. That is, I think, the only reason I survived.

I promise only one thing as a result: You are human, and so you are beautiful. Thank you for reading.