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European Humanist Youth Days 1
Last weekend I attended the first European Humanist Youth Days in Brussels, and it was a very interesting event which shook me out of my lethargy. I want to share this experience with you, my beloved...
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EHYD – Sophie In’T Veld
Soooo, it’s time for my second article for the European Humanist Youth days and the first to present a speech. I am not going to try to transfer exactly what every speaker said, it’ll be mostly the...
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EHYD – Afterthoughts on the 1st speech
As expected, this speech made me think a lot about religion and how we evaluate its place in our society. For better or worse when there are conservative problems depriving a minority of people of...
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EHYD – Philipp Blom
Second that day was Philipp Blom, an engaging speaker and what seems to be a very approachable and warm person. His speech was quite long and it was late so unfortunately many people (including me),...
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EHYD – Afterthoughts on the 2nd speech
The afterthoughts on the 2nd speech will deviate a bit from humanism; it’s more about personal thoughts but I do think they are connected to religion in a way – or in this case the lack of it. Death...
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EHYD – More afterthoughts on the 2nd speech
This trail of thoughts is quite different from the previous one and it has to do with the way we treat logic and reason. I can’t help myself in blaming religion again – but I do think that Christianity...
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Intermission: Losing my religion
Since I abandoned religion, I find it very interesting to see how people experience both faith and the rejection of it. (It is funny that most religious people – including my previous self – don’t ever...
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Savoir Vivre 2015
Or what can you say to people these days. This post is a result of personal experiences but also of behaviours that I’ve seen online towards other people. Most of us try not to insult someone when we...
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France 1: Pray for Paris
As is usual in situations like this (but unusual for me in general) I didn’t know what to say. Most of the times I say nothing. I do talk about it with friends of course but I mean I write nothing...
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France 2: Calling Muslims to denounce their faith
Yep. Religion sucks but you can’t use instances like that to ask people to stop believing in something. Well you can but it doesn’t work like that. Saying to a religious person “seeeee, that’s what...
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