Any Brights out there

[1234]

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/10/19/why-atheists-are-not-very-bright/
Hadnt heard the term bright before, then again dominionist slipped past me too.

[Ponzu]

I know about and support the Brights movement.  I guess I could consider myself as such, but its not like I'm an official member or anything.  I think it would be a good replacement term for the less appealing, more generic "Atheist" label.  Bright sounds better IMHO 

I understand why some people take issue with the word, as if to imply that religious people are dumb.  Well, I don't know what else you'd call people that take mythology seriously, and selectively decide which elements of the human imagination actually exist.

Being a skeptic, I don't the Brights movement will amount to much, and I doubt that you'll ever see one in person, or hear someone address themselves as such.  I imagine its one of those niche things like Pastafarians (they believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster), or those that worship the Invisible Pink Unicorn.  Still though, the optimist in myself would love to see it become more mainstream.

More info: http://www.the-brights.net/
 
               http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brights

[jtollison78]

I have read about the brights in the past and loosely identified with them.

John

[joe-bob henry-bob]

that was a silly article at the top

I guess things that can't be sensed MUST exist precisely because we can't sense them eh. 

Of course, if I can't percieve them in any way, they are COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT to me... just like the god Kant posits... a god that would have to have nothing to do with our universe, therefore even if real, totally utterly irrelevant.

[the_guy_with_the_gun]

Ha.

Ha HA ha!

We have no reasonable expectation of the continuity of nature.  Until somebody deals with that, I don't really care who says what, as long as they aren't trying to burn me at the stake.

[theozarker]

I'm an atheist, but never heard the term "bright" before.  Wouldn't call myself a bright even if I had heard of it

And I agree with Joe-Bob that the article was silly.  Surely our knowledge of the world and the universe we inhabit has progressed a little since Kant's day.  Philosophical arguments like Kant's always leave me a little cranky since they all start their arguments from the assumption that God is and is the a priori cause.  Once you start from that assumption, how can you argue against the existence of god?

Linda

[Mama Nueva de Elian]

I'm just an unbeliever, and I don't need a cute name for it so I can be part of a socially recognized group.

It's just Pi Kappa Crappa Alpha Yappa stuff.  Can't be your own man so you have to be a member of the club...The more things change, the more they stay the same.

When I was a kid, I formed girl-hater's clubs and treehouse clubs and we-make-holes-in-teeth clubs.  Now I'm grown.

[zigspider]

Personally, I'm non practicing Pagan and quite happy.

Jerry

[Anasazi]

I'm not very bright but I am a devout agnostic.

[dwheeler]

I made up my own religion and have lived by it for years.Anyone interested can send $25 and a self addressed stamped envelope.To my email address.

People who believe in nothing still believe in something.And are a lot less scary than the tele/phony group think/ evangelical/ mormon/ Mammonistical /Papist/ Mohamadeans.

I always claimed to be a born again secular humanist.Talk about blank stares.Might as well be talking about PO.

[REDREAMER]

ok this thread was a good laugh

personally tho ... i too have a great aversion to burning at the stake ......


 

[pamplemousse]

I like being a Secular Humanist, works better for me than atheist.  And Brights implies everybody else is dim.

Try this quiz, will tell you how much your beliefs match up with other religions:

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

[houseoftang]

No, I'm not very bright, alas.  I don't even know that I exist, not with enough certainty to posit it as a starting point for anything.  So I just got used to basing my reasoning on things I couldn't help but believe, no matter how hard I tried.  Things like:

I exist.
God exists.
Men will never understand women.

[Mama Nueva de Elian]

Worship the cat.

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Otherwise he will burn you with his magic eyes!!!!

[kyril]

/sigh...if only I could control all the figments of my imagination. I'm sorry that article was inflicted on my more enlightened figments. Of course, you will forgive me