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Grounding Our Selves, Freeing Our Minds | The Humanist Seminarian
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Grounding Our Selves, Freeing Our Minds. April 11, 2016. A sermon delivered at Throop Unitarian Universalist Church. Here’s an experiment: For a moment, try to think of yourself, and what you are doing, in the most basic terms try to forget the social meanings of things. You are a mammal. You are breathing, and warm. You are sitting in a large space, with a ceiling high above. Now, gently, start to wonder. Why? How is it that some kind of social system has put me in this place? That Google played on peop...
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skepticism | The Humanist Seminarian
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December 5, 2016. A sermon delivered at Throop Unitarian Universalist Church. Our worship theme at Throop Church for the month of December is. This is a difficult topic for a humanist like me to speak on, because, frankly, a lot of prominent public humanists and atheists can be very literal-minded and sometimes self-righteous when talking about such things. So in this sermon, I would like to do two things. First, as you might have expected, I’d like to talk about the type of miracle that I do. To have a ...
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Guardrails | The Humanist Seminarian
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December 8, 2016. Would be a test of man and machine. He handed me the keys. I drove home that night on the Angeles Crest Highway. Now, even as an 18-year-old boy, I was reasonably responsible. I’m sure I drove faster than I was really comfortable doing, but I probably was not being. I didn’t want to test the guardrails. But some of these guardrails. Been tested before. And they haven’t always held. Within living memory, a presidential executive order led to the incarceration. My fear is that in the next...
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Richard Wright | The Humanist Seminarian
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Tag Archives: Richard Wright. December 8, 2016. Would be a test of man and machine. He handed me the keys. I drove home that night on the Angeles Crest Highway. Now, even as an 18-year-old boy, I was reasonably responsible. I’m sure I drove faster than I was really comfortable doing, but I probably was not being. I didn’t want to test the guardrails. But some of these guardrails. Of over 80,000 U.S. citizens and 40,000 non-citizen residents. In violation of international law and basic humanity. My fear i...
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Apocalypse | The Humanist Seminarian
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November 15, 2016. Some might think that the reaction on the political left to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States is unduly apocalyptic. After all, will the world really end? But even if the world is not about to end, an apocalyptic view is appropriate, because the original meaning of. Is simply “an uncovering” or “a revelation” the “end of the world” meaning didn’t come until the late 19th century. Image credit: John Martin,. The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Fill i...
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justice | The Humanist Seminarian
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February 27, 2017. A sermon delivered at Throop Unitarian Universalist Church. Earlier in the service, the Story for All Ages was a reading. Of Eric Carle’s book. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. At the end of the sermon, I make reference to this. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Is one of Oscar Wilde’s most well-known works. A reviewer at the London. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Namely: Our sins, our excesses, our transgressions, our indulgences the story assumes that they are all reflected in our bodies. And...
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politics | The Humanist Seminarian
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November 15, 2016. Some might think that the reaction on the political left to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States is unduly apocalyptic. After all, will the world really end? But even if the world is not about to end, an apocalyptic view is appropriate, because the original meaning of. Is simply “an uncovering” or “a revelation” the “end of the world” meaning didn’t come until the late 19th century. Image credit: John Martin,. The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Integr...
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reflection | The Humanist Seminarian
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December 8, 2016. Would be a test of man and machine. He handed me the keys. I drove home that night on the Angeles Crest Highway. Now, even as an 18-year-old boy, I was reasonably responsible. I’m sure I drove faster than I was really comfortable doing, but I probably was not being. I didn’t want to test the guardrails. But some of these guardrails. Been tested before. And they haven’t always held. Within living memory, a presidential executive order led to the incarceration. My fear is that in the next...
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America | The Humanist Seminarian
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December 8, 2016. Would be a test of man and machine. He handed me the keys. I drove home that night on the Angeles Crest Highway. Now, even as an 18-year-old boy, I was reasonably responsible. I’m sure I drove faster than I was really comfortable doing, but I probably was not being. I didn’t want to test the guardrails. But some of these guardrails. Been tested before. And they haven’t always held. Within living memory, a presidential executive order led to the incarceration. My fear is that in the next...