Secular Humanism
I am a Sixty-One year old retired woman who was fortunate to have worked many interesting jobs and had many intelligent and interesting friends! I attended Northwestern University on two academic scholarships and graduated with a Liberal Arts degree in Psychology, minor Biology. Participated in different sports and hobbies throughout the years. Golf, tennis, speed walking, cycling--in addition, cross stitch, crocheting, knitting, Bridge, Crossword puzzles. Also, I continued studying all my life including religion and spiritual paths, cat behavior and training, psychology, and other fields. I never had children by choice; I felt I would have been an abusive parent.
I have several disabilities and have had a condition called Apnea for over ten years and as a consequence, have had little Delta or Rem sleep during that period which makes me slow and groggy.
Today, I'm sorta a Buddhist/Secular Humanist. I don't believe in God or in the supernatural.
A SECULAR HUMANIST..."Believes in the here and now and in developing our creative talents to the fullest.
The cultivation of moral excellence.
Believes that scientific discovery and technology can contribute to the betterment of human life.
In an open and pluralistic society and that democracy is the best guaranatee of protecting human rights from authoritarian elites and repressive majorities.
In common moral decencies; altruism, integrity, honesty, truthfulness, responsbility. Humanist ethics is amenable to critical, rational guidance. There are normative standards that we discover together.
We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guilt or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness, and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality".
Excerpt from "freeinquiry" magazine statement of principles.
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