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A Naturalistic Worldview Club

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Journal Entry: Thu Mar 27, 2008, 12:06 PM

Well, a quick announcement: ~brights is back

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Now *SiriuslyBright33 and I, =Paw-BR are running the club.
So the doors are open again, I guess.

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Members and Rules

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WHAT?

This community is for those who live in the real world, be they atheists, secular humanists, freethinkers, skeptics or anyone else with a naturalistic worldview. A positive-sounding, stigma-free umbrella term was coined in 2003 to unite such people: Brights.

* A Bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview.

* A Bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements.

* The ethics and actions of a Bright are based on a naturalistic worldview.

That's it: if you meet these criteria, you are a Bright.

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WHY?

Atheists etc. have a bad reputation in today's overwhelmingly religious and superstitious society. More than 50% of Americans have a “negative” or “highly negative” view of people who do not believe in God. We are perceived as arrogant, joyless, narrow-minded and supercilious, and our opinions are neglected. Meanwhile, religion, new-ageism and so forth are in the ascendent. In this climate, it is important that we nonbelievers are able to feel positive about our worldview.

This new group will hopefully:

* Unite deviantART's Brights.

* Create and promote artwork which is atheistic, anti-[religious/superstitious/supernaturalist] or about science/nature. (Gratuitously offensive work may be rejected)

* Be a positive force in the dA community.

* Make atheists seem less evil!

* Make us all less depressed about the religious majority on dA.

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RESOURCES

The Brights' Net
Brights Online
An Atheist Manifesto
American Atheists
Ex-Christians
The Atheism Directory
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
The Skeptic's Dictionary
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
The Skeptic's Annotated Quran
The Skeptic's Annotated Book of Mormon

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Devious Information

Website
http://www.the-brights.net/

Personal Quote: By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

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~steveooo

19 hours 9 minutes ago

Hey thanks for sharing! I love your stuff!! I will be sure to visit again to see what you have added.

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Free Poetry Contest

~lordstench

Mar 31, 2008, 2:27:56 PM

What a marvellous club this is.

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>> "98% of teenagers has tried smoking pot." If you're one of the few people with enough intelligence to realise that this statistic is patently false, copy and paste this into your signature. <<

*brights*craigthebrit

~Fiskus

Sep 13, 2007, 12:06:54 PM

yes, the page could use some new comments...

so everyone,, just do it

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I AM the logarithmus naturalis

~Soul-Daemon

Aug 29, 2007, 4:09:57 PM Mood: Spidey Sense

This made me laugh so i thought i'd share:

'I think we should all gang together and inform richard dawkins he is the messiah and he has been sent to test our faith.' Anon.

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There was a HOLE here, it's gone now.

!voiceslung

Jul 26, 2007, 1:57:16 AM

hey

*a-neon-devil-breath

Jun 27, 2007, 12:45:39 PM

Here is a personal story of dealing with a proselytizer [link]

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*TheExquisiteCorpse ~JigsawPuzzleProject ~brights ~AtheistsClub *the-surreal-arts ~stock-devil-breath

~KuraiguNoir

Jun 25, 2007, 6:03:35 PM

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Now, where's my wallet?

OH SHIT

IT IS ON THE MOON

~K-bot

Jun 25, 2007, 10:50:57 AM Mood: Awestruck

LOL.
That's even better than peanut butter.

I hope no serious creationism supporters ever actually use these; otherwise, they'd all just look silly, wouldn't they?

Oh, wait.

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clubs *brights *AtheistsClub ~Domain-of-Darwin

~KuraiguNoir

Jun 24, 2007, 6:49:29 AM

Oh, come on! You want to pull out the big guns?

BANANAAAAAA [link]

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Now, where's my wallet?

OH SHIT

IT IS ON THE MOON

~K-bot

Jun 13, 2007, 7:54:33 AM Mood: Stunned

Here's a video that illustrates why we atheists are completely wrong and should rethink our lives. Watch it, and be awed. At what, you ask? Proof of Creationism. [link]

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clubs *brights *AtheistsClub ~Domain-of-Darwin

~B-F-G

Jun 4, 2007, 11:43:10 AM

well looks like our dear clubs main page could use some new comments ^_^

so....

i still think my avatar looks kinda like the brights club one

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...and there was much rejoycing

find prints, posters and cards of my photographs on RedBubble [link]

=scott5353

Jun 1, 2007, 9:04:38 PM

Mr.Diety.Episode 1.
[link]

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Everything disputable is to be disputed.
The blue in the sky
Will remain gray as long as
It is not reinvented.

[link]

=scott5353

Jun 1, 2007, 9:04:07 PM

Mr.Diety.Episode 1

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Everything disputable is to be disputed.
The blue in the sky
Will remain gray as long as
It is not reinvented.

[link]

~resembles

Jun 1, 2007, 4:27:03 PM

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_{"staring contests are the new default."}

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