{"id":203,"date":"2021-03-08T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/katehobson\/?p=203"},"modified":"2022-03-14T17:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:48:03","slug":"humanism-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/katehobson\/2021\/03\/08\/humanism-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanism and me"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing I can say about humanist values that hasn’t been said before, so I make no apologies for the quotes below. George Eliot comes first because it was through her novels that I first started thinking about humanism, before I realised it had a name.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.\u00a0\u00a0 What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?<\/p>\n

\u2013 Attributed to George Eliot<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u201cThe value of life lies not in its length, but in the use we make of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), Essays<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u201cNothing in life is to be feared.\u00a0 It is only to be understood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Attributed to Marie Curie (1867-1934)<\/p>\n

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Written at the Millennium, this could just as easily apply at other times, whether a new season or a time of personal – or world – crisis.<\/p>\n

Mental Fight: Time to be Real VI<\/h3>\n

\"\"Everyone loves a Spring cleaning.
\nLet\u2019s have a humanity cleaning.
\nOpen up history\u2019s chamber of horrors
\nAnd clear out the skeletons behind the mirrors,
\nPut our breeding nightmares to flight
\nTransform our monsters with our light.
\nClear out the stables
\nIn our celebrated fables
\nA giant cleaning
\nIs no mean undertaking.
\nA cleaning of pogroms and fears
\nOf genocide and tears
\nOf torture and slavery
\nHatred and brutality .
\nLet’s turn around and face them
\nLet’s turn around and face them
\nThe bullies that our pasts have become
\nLet’s turn around and face them
\nLet’s make this clearing-out moment
\nA legendary material atonement.
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Ben Okri<\/h5>\n

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