MY PROFILE
November 16, 2008
I am all of the following:
secular humanist
libertarian anarchist
ethical nihilist
spiritual atheist
A secular humanist believes in people, as opposed to the gods and devils that most of those idiotic people believe in. People are real. Gods and devils are imaginary, or (as I am rather fond of saying) bullshit.
A libertarian anarchist believes that people should be able to do pretty much whatever they feel like doing so long as they do not touch other human beings while they're doing it, and I'm talking about deliberate touching, actions that are sometimes referred to as willful, wanton and with malice aforethought.
An ethical nihilist does not believe in right or wrong, unless you're doing a crossword puzzle or a math problem. What human beings do is what human beings do, and nothing they do is right or wrong. There is only one source of evil to an ethical nihilist. It enters the world whenever a parent teaches a child that there is such a thing as evil. For more on this read Ethical Nihilism.
A spiritual atheist believes in unseen forces, but does not personalize those forces. There is no God, except perhaps the God of Aristotle. A spiritual atheist, in other words, accepts that the universe is ultimately a mystery. On this score, some of the most spiritual words ever spoken were those by Lao Tzu:
These words in effect assure us that talk is cheap. You can talk all you want to, on any subject you wish to talk about, but you can never say everything there is to say about it, never cover all the bases. Saying that there is always something left, something that you missed, is the same as saying that there is mystery in the fabric of the universe. You simply cannot cover it all.