I was goofing around, and took an online quiz, which classified me as a secular humanist. I hate that. Why do I have to be a secular humanist?
Sure enough, I'm secular. No denying that, really. But humanist? Where, in any of those questions, did I declare that I thought humans were the center of everything? They most clearly are not the center of everything. I rather prefer a philosophy like that elaborated once by the poet Robinson Jeffers: I'm an inhumanist. Not in the sense that I believe people should believe inhumanely. Only that I believe that, ultimately, humankind is far from the center of things.
If we dethrone and reject superstitious things, such as god, isn't it hypocritical or at the least a bit stupid to then elevate our own selves into that dethroned god's place? That would be like Copernicus saying, "well, obviously the Earth isn't the center of the universe... hmm, maybe I am the center of the universe." It's going in the wrong direction. The universe has no center. No special god. No special rules. No special monkeys.
I saw a t-shirt: "Nietzsche is my copilot"
Awesome.
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