Todd Battistelli
How do our disagreements go? #rhetoric, #writing, and #education. Viewpoints that I express are my own and do not represent the views of organizations with which I'm affiliated. Boosts are not endorsements.
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"Humanism is simply the affirmation of the value of the human condition and the acknowledgement that we have only ourselves to rely on in our quest for a better world."
Judith Hayes, The Happy Heretic, 2000
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New interview in the American Humanist Society's "Communities in Action" series with Sikivu Hutchinson, discussing Black Skeptics Los Angeles and the Women’s Leadership Project.
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In 2017, I started a commonplace notebook focused on Humanist and other nonreligious writings exploring life in our shared world.
This thread reproduces a selection of entries from that notebook.
The epigraph is adapted from the Humanist Manifesto III.
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“All good causes are mutually helpful.” Frederick Douglass
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Cooperating in coalition: An ongoing commonplace thread
#organizing #coalition #collaboration #dialogue #facilitation #solidarity #ChangeTheory #TheoriesOfChange
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"Humanists UK is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Understanding Humanism, its education programme supporting teachers and pupils to learn about humanism as part of a broad, balanced education about religion and worldviews."
#Humanism #nonreligion #atheism #interbelief #pluralism #HumanistsUK
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@coloradosun/116573548919575618
"Senate Bill 189: Companies that create and use artificial intelligence wouldn’t have to disclose how their systems help make decisions on things like hiring, loans and housing under this measure awaiting the governor’s signature. The legislation waters down Colorado’s existing AI law, passed in 2024"
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Humanist Society Scotland interview series: humanist chaplain, funeral celebrant, and writer Lindsay de Wal on existential care
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The Adams County Riverdale Animal Shelter has an influx of hamsters up for adoption:
https://animalshelter.adcogov.org/animal-adoption?type=OTHER
Via Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1t07elh/riverdale_animal_shelter_hamster_hoarding_rescue/
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@FromTheRostra/116450584293665151
Finished reading. Great coverage of freethought from late 18th to early 20th century.
Interesting to see some cyclical history. Hoffman describes an antiscriptural emphasis to the Paine era & social reform emphasis in the Robert Owen era, which prefigures a similar difference in 20th/21st century freethought between skeptical debunking and social justice emphases.
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Reading David C. Hoffman's American Freethought (2025) and saw the National Liberal League's 1880 presidential platform, including this plank:
"Universal education the basis of universal suffrage in this secular republic."
As true now as it was then.
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Serious, substantive disagreements that could be worked through to build stronger coalitions and further systemic change are ignored or weaponized.
#coalition #solidarity #ChangeTheory #TheoriesOfChange #ShapingChange
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Intentionally calling to mind the desire for myself and others to be safe, healthy, and at ease in the world can be challenging enough on its own.
Dealing with the gulf between that intention and our lived reality is a whole other matter, even if I understand that acting with that intention in mind can help over the long-term.
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Some relevant hashtags:
#CriticalPedagogy #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #education #EdTech #EmergentStrategy #FountainPens #freethought #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #nonreligion #labor #LaborUnions #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #Paper #Pencil #Pen #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #writing #WritingTools
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Nothing against poultry, but I was not expecting to find this when I tried to get to the blog of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network: