humanism
Significance
Humanism emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, without reference to any non-human authorities.
Original Writings
- And When I Die
- Box of Rain
- Come On Up to the House
- Fruitcakes
- Hallelujah
- Late For The Sky
- The Village Green Preservation Society
- The Weight
- Will the Circle be Unbroken
- Humanism and the Practical Utopian
- Rejiggering Our Religion
- Religion, Storytelling and Art
- What Does It Mean to be Human?
- Why I Call Myself a Practopian
- A Guide To Becoming
- My Education in Racial Superiority
- A Resumption of our Humanity
- Ring Them Bells
- Paul Thorn and his 800 Pound Jesus
- The Rebel Jesus - Song by Jackson Browne
- Christmas Bells
- Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Quotations
- Apes and Humans
- Art presents us with a window into the minds of these people
- The center of every man’s existence is a dream
- Chimps and Humans
- Cockpits with Instruments Controlled by Gremlins
- God and Morality
- Her faith had twisted very early in her childhood
- Imagination is not a means of making money
- An Invincible Summer
- An Irreplaceable Compact
- The modern horrors of bureaucracy
- Monkeys with money and guns
- The Most Dangerous of Devotions
- Only a Human Being
- Rationality is not the strong suit of our species
- The Real Problem of Humanity
- Safe in the hands of a force far greater
- The sort of organisms that interpret and modify their agency
- Start with romance and build to a reality
- Symbolic Language
- To end up here in a pile of bones
- To prolong our presence on the face of the Earth
- To refuse Apocalypse in all its forms
- To simply see human beings
- The Undisputed Sovereignty of the Human Being
- We All Derive From the Same Source
- We are in Eden still
- We’re part of something continuous
- When machines are considered more important than people
- A Work Ethic Gone Mad