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Ypsidixit - 2007-09-13 14:06:20
Now, C. sent this in just out of the goodness of his heart. Now he probably feels made fun of, which I am certainly NOT doing, Heaven forbid. It's really a miracle I have any friends left at all...but at any rate, if you don't get to the bar, just make 50-100 copies of this and tape them on kiosks and things around town (where it's legal to tape things)--just to make people stop and ponder.
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Ypsidixit - 2007-09-13 16:08:44
The cute or sad part is that a romantic method very much like this one is what worked on Y.

There were plenty of Venn diagrams in the handouts Lisa passed out in the Sustainability group, yes, sir. I distinctly remember one day being short on one handout. Fritz and I had to share. We pored over it together--my heart racing. I think the diagram was about vermicomposting.

Ooo la la.
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Enough silliness - 2007-09-13 16:56:26
The take-home message this diagram suggests to me is that secularists and the religious have nothing in common, but humanistic secularists and the humanistic religious have humanism in common. What is humanism?

Atheists define it as philosophy based on science, reason, and empirical fact; drawing conclusions about the world based on those criteria.

I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that religious people define it a little differently, meaning actions that will benefit people as a whole. Rather a radially different definition!

Now I'm confused, no less because I think words are like the densest part of a cloud, and not a tidy box that holds meaning precisely. What DOES this Venn diagram mean?
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