If Light be in itself good -' At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, 'Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light.
"Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. What will be the ultimate consequence of choosing to be subjective instead of objective, close-minded instead of open-minded, and emotional instead of equable? None have answered this better than one who wrote the answer more than a century ago: Two years into the Trump administration, we have seen first-hand the consequences to our politics, our planet, and our humanity, when those given power commit to the practices of denialism, dogmatism, and emotivism. history), the first President accused of being a foreigner, and the Rise of Trump. Yet in a matter of mere months, America stepped boldly forward with its eyes firmly on its own feet - and walked the long road to butterfly ballots & the SCOTUS election of President, 9/11, non-existent WMDs & the Needless Iraq War, the Afghanistan War (the longest in U.S. Hopefulness abounded in the new millennium. The social initiative of plurationalism began on Jan 1, 2000, as an attempt to offer a workable and inclusive alternative to the antirational approaches of the 20th Century in solving our human, political, and global problems. Op-Ed (Frank Burton, TCOR Founder): "Plurationalism in Trumpian Times" If your Twitter followers or Facebook friends ask you what that word means, tell 'em! (Or tell them to check it out at Wikipedia.) Help others learn about and practice plurationalism (commitment to reasoning regardless of worldview) by name-dropping " plurationalism" or " pluralistic rationalism" in one of your posts, tweets or links this month. Within another generation or two our founder will be gone, but we'll hope to still strive to practice, and help the world to practice, plurationalism - the last, best hope for humankind's maturation into a species that will at last deserve the name Homo sapiens - "Wise humans." Live long and prosper! Today that generational countdown decreases, from 50 generations to 49. It was twenty years ago today that we envisioned, in the words of Archimedes, that our "small force" would take the "long lever" of 50 generations on the "fulcrum" of plurationalism to "move the world" to its optimum - an objectively moral society. And, btw, "we" includes our plurationalist GOP conservatives.) But encouraging plurationalism is, nevertheless, the only path that will one day move our civilization to abandon its potty(-mouth) training and take its next major step toward adulthood.
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Hey, you can't reason when someone lies to you, pumps you full of dogma, and emotionally or physically coerces or kills you.) Asking for such personal and social volunteerism isn't the world's quickest way to grow our numbers, especially in a political era stampeded by those who are being subjective, close-minded, and emotive.
(Yes, you've just seen the world's first objective moral code. We ask you to join our cause by charitably giving not your money but your commitment to practice being more objective, open-minded, and equable and by extrapolation to also permit and encourage others to do so, as well. 20 years later, we're now 2781 - both plurationalist interbelief reasoning dialogue group participants and at-large TCOR-International members. On January 1, 2000, there was one declared plurationalist. founding of The Circle of Reason (TCOR) and its millennial social initiative, "pluralistic rationalism" (or "plurationalism") - the moral commitment to reasoning regardless of worldview. The Plurationalist Foundation (January 1, 2020) - Happy New Year! Today is the 20th Anniversary of the 2000 A.D. If we commit to support such candidates, and commit to such practices in our own lives, we'll not just remain a democracy but become people, and a People, worthy of self-governance. Choose candidates who are equable, not emotive, in how they express their worldview. Choose candidates who are skeptical, not dogmatic, in how they vet their worldview.ģ. Choose candidates who are objective, not subjective, in how they source their worldview.Ģ. So go vote.īut right below the importance of voting to democratically empower your political worldview is the importance of deciding what leader you will choose to implement that worldview.Īs a Plurationalist, one who is committed to reasoning regardless of one's worldviews, I offer this advice for Election Day, and for all Election Days to come:ġ. Voting is paramount, regardless of its outcome, for us to remain a democracy.
"From One Plurationalist to My Fellow Americans."
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