Re: The Bright Stuff

From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 (gpmap@runbox.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 03:40:43 MDT

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    I just read the paper, it is really good. The web site of the bright
    movement is:
    http://www.the-brights.net/
    There is also a paper by Richard Dawkins:
    http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,981412,00.html
    ending like:
    "Of course, even though we brights will scrupulously insist that our word is
    a noun, if it catches on it is likely to follow gay and eventually re-emerge
    as a new adjective. And when that happens, who knows, we may finally get a
    bright president."
    Of course I am going to sign up as a Bright.
    G.

    > An Op-Ed piece by Daniel Dennett today in the New York times is worth
    > sharing on this list.
    >
    > The time has come for us brights to come out of the closet. What is a
    > bright? A bright is a person with a naturalist as opposed to a
    > supernaturalist world view. We brights don't believe in ghosts or elves or
    > the Easter Bunny - or God. We disagree about many things, and hold a
    variety
    > of views about morality, politics and the meaning of life, but we share a
    > disbelief in black magic - and life after death.



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