• National Day of Reason

    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 2 00:38:36 2024
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    From a Google margin box (from Wikipedia?):

    The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists,
    atheists, secularists, and freethinkers. The day is celebrated
    annually on the first Thursday in May, in response to the statutory
    observance of a National Day of Prayer in the United States,
    which many atheist and secular groups deem unconstitutional.

    Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024

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    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to
    find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (Sarah McLachlan)

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to Dawn Flood on Thu May 2 12:53:12 2024
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    Dawn Flood <Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com> wrote in news:v0vqqi$3q5vp$1@dont- email.me:

    On 5/1/2024 10:08 PM, David Dalton wrote:
    From a Google margin box (from Wikipedia?):

    The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists,
    atheists, secularists, and freethinkers. The day is celebrated
    annually on the first Thursday in May, in response to the statutory
    observance of a National Day of Prayer in the United States,
    which many atheist and secular groups deem unconstitutional.

    Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024


    I signed the FFRF petition. Give it another century, especially, after people are arguing over whether the State of Florida should be regarded
    as being part of the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.


    The bigger question is whether it is
    part of 12th or 14th century.




    Florida school district pulls dictionaries
    and encyclopedias as part of "inappropriate"
    content review
    January 12, 2024

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-school-district-pulls-dictionaries- and-encyclopedias-as-part-of-sexual-or-inappropriate-content-review/

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  • From lef@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Thu May 2 22:57:17 2024
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    On 5/2/24 06:08, David Dalton wrote:

    From a Google margin box (from Wikipedia?):

    The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists,
    atheists, secularists, and freethinkers. The day is celebrated
    annually on the first Thursday in May, in response to the statutory observance of a National Day of Prayer in the United States,
    which many atheist and secular groups deem unconstitutional.

    Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024


    can materialists celebrate on this day

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to Dawn Flood on Fri May 3 10:09:48 2024
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    On Fri, 3 May 2024 00:02:18 -0500
    Dawn Flood <Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/2/2024 7:53 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
    Dawn Flood <Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com> wrote in news:v0vqqi$3q5vp$1@dont- email.me:

    On 5/1/2024 10:08 PM, David Dalton wrote:
    From a Google margin box (from Wikipedia?):

    The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists,
    atheists, secularists, and freethinkers. The day is celebrated
    annually on the first Thursday in May, in response to the statutory
    observance of a National Day of Prayer in the United States,
    which many atheist and secular groups deem unconstitutional.

    Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024


    I signed the FFRF petition. Give it another century, especially, after
    people are arguing over whether the State of Florida should be regarded
    as being part of the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.


    The bigger question is whether it is
    part of 12th or 14th century.




    Florida school district pulls dictionaries
    and encyclopedias as part of "inappropriate"
    content review
    January 12, 2024

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-school-district-pulls-dictionaries- and-encyclopedias-as-part-of-sexual-or-inappropriate-content-review/



    Let's see them pull "the Internet".

    It's easy, ask the government in China.

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    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Sat May 11 21:23:33 2024
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    On Thu, 02 May 2024 00:38:36 -0230
    David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> wrote:

    From a Google margin box (from Wikipedia?):

    The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists,
    atheists, secularists, and freethinkers. The day is celebrated
    annually on the first Thursday in May, in response to the statutory observance of a National Day of Prayer in the United States,
    which many atheist and secular groups deem unconstitutional.

    Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to
    find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (Sarah McLachlan)


    People who use "reason" can be as bad as religious fundamentalists.
    "Reason" leads to evil, when based on false assumptions, or hubris.

    We need to account for that which isn't quantified, that which is
    qualitative, unknown. Leading by reason leads men astray as they
    are led to believe that data is everything and means everything.
    This results in a technocracy.

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