Location: Kauai, Hawaii, United States
Traditions:
Humanism, Universal Ethics, Freethought
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Location: Kauai, Hawaii, United States
Traditions:
Humanism, Universal Ethics, Freethought
Thoughts, Interests and Activities:
I am involved with promoting my flavor of "spiritual humanism" by offering my officiant and celebrant services for weddings, funerals, vow renewals, child blessings and such.
I'm currently doing this on the Island of Kauai, which holds a special place in my heart. It's also a popular place for destination weddings and family vacations. I love the island spirit, where "aloha" is a way of life, not just a word. One can be gracious here and not feel out of place. The Catholicism of my youth didn't stick. I was the nuns' worst nightmare, because I had questions and was puzzled by the ideas we were being asked to believe. While raising my children, I wanted to offer real answers to their questions. I then realized that by raising them to be freethinkers, they were the odd ones out in school, as their teachers and friends all espoused supernatural religious beliefs. So I began strengthening their confidence in the values we supported as a family. Now I do that for others.
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As a humanist, I celebrate human values. Professionally, I help others mark milestones and passages. One of my dreams is to create a human values resource center. It would be a gathering place for families to see each other through the many stages...
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Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.
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No source entered for Contribution #6694Dogma is often the corruption of someone else's spiritual experience. Belief systems are often the enemy of the very spiritual truths they supposedly uphold. Most religious beliefs are not merely the foe of reason, of science. They are the enemy of God; not the man-made tyrant in the sky, but the very source of life, love, and truth. They are the enemy of spiritual understanding that would otherwise flow through us like the blood that circulates through our veins. Dogmatic presuppositions, drummed into our heads from infancy are like security blankets that shroud us in relative ignorance, and chain us to our beast-like tendencies. We are capable of much more. So much more.
Never underestimate the influence you have on others.
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Source type: WebsiteLaurie Buchanan
http://sence.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/influence-the-power-to-affect/
Viewed on March 12, 2012
Contribution #6690
Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? There’s another 90 percent of our brains that we have to illuminate.
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No source entered for Contribution #6689Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
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No source entered for Contribution #6570The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.
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No source entered for Contribution #6443Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
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No source entered for Contribution #6440A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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No source entered for Contribution #6438A writer -- and, I believe, generally all persons -- must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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No source entered for Contribution #6437There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.