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  • 03-11-2012 12:05am
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    lamesausage
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭


    For a few year now I have been becoming increasingly anxious to somehow contribute in a meaningful way to society. I believe that helping to spread reason and rationality is a pretty good undertaking should I embark on it. So my question is how could I help the cause of secularism, atheism ect. How can I help change the views of society? What group should I join? With whom should I speak? I just want to contribute somehow. Thank you.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    convert to islam and blow some **** up


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Become a teacher.

    If that sounds too daunting then, I dunno, harass people in the pub who have no idea what they're getting themselves into and make them cry. That's what I do.

    (I swear, the last one told me she was getting her child baptised but that she was Buddhist but didn't actually know anything about Buddhism. I felt almost cruel when I asked her about her opinion on the Four Noble Truths - there was no doubt in my mind that she wouldn't have a notion what it meant.)


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    pauldla
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    lamesausage wrote: »
    For a few year now I have been becoming increasingly anxious to somehow contribute in a meaningful way to society. I believe that helping to spread reason and rationality is a pretty good undertaking should I embark on it. So my question is how could I help the cause of secularism, atheism ect. How can I help change the views of society? What group should I join? With whom should I speak? I just want to contribute somehow. Thank you.

    See a need, fill a need, dude - depending on your interests, experience and skills, of course. I'd suggest taking a look at any local humanist/secularist/atheist groups and see what they have going, then give them a shout and see how you can get involved. Have a look on google and see what you can find.

    Good on you for wanting to make a contribution, btw. Let us know how you get on!


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    fitz0
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    You can join AI if they share your aims. You could set up your own lobby group or harass your TD's about the religious educational stranglehold. Personally, I just try to leave things a little better than I found them and not be a dick to people.


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    Kidchameleon
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    How about not interfering in peoples lives and let them come to their own conclusions?


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    Doctor DooM
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    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    How about not interfering in peoples lives and let them come to their own conclusions?

    Yes, he should definitely help fight so someday we can live like that.


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    robindch
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    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    How about not interfering in peoples lives and let them come to their own conclusions?
    Now, if only the religious did that...


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    pulpfictionost
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    lamesausage wrote: »
    For a few year now I have been becoming increasingly anxious to somehow contribute in a meaningful way to society. I believe that helping to spread reason and rationality is a pretty good undertaking should I embark on it. So my question is how could I help the cause of secularism, atheism ect. How can I help change the views of society? What group should I join? With whom should I speak? I just want to contribute somehow. Thank you.

    Enter a political election, you will run for the position as an open atheist.
    You're competitor will be an actor, who's only skill is to act as a Christian.

    You will be the only person besides the actor that will know he is an actor.
    Try your hardest to beat the actor in the election.


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    [Deleted User]
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    If you can't be a good example then be a terrible warning.


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    Dades
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    lamesausage wrote: »
    So my question is how could I help the cause of secularism, atheism ect.
    Atheism doesn't have a cause, despite what some would have you believe.

    This is where you need to go:
    http://www.atheist.ie/


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    MrPudding
    Registered Users Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Check out the NSS:

    http://www.secularism.org.uk/get-involved.html

    They have quite a few ideas for things to do, and I expect they will be along the lines of what you might want to do.

    MrP


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    lamesausage
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭lamesausage


    Dades wrote: »
    Atheism doesn't have a cause, despite what some would have you believe.

    This is where you need to go:
    http://www.atheist.ie/

    Yes, I shouldn't have said Atheism as it's just a lack of belief. I suppose I'll try and get involved with Atheist Ireland then.. I want to die knowing that I have done something worthwhile with my life, as opposed to just sitting around or working for some pointless business. I figure there are those who are far better than me at pursuits such as science and the like. Although I am able to understand what they find and utilize it with logic and reason to form opinions. I'm 22 and regret my degree choice. So I am basically looking to matter in some way to society.


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    Canis Lupus
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    Stand on street corners with a megaphone and try to spread the 'word' of atheism. You'll want a catchphrase like that Liverpudlian "Don't be a sinner, be a winner". Something like, god doesn't exist so go kill people... I'm not very good with this sort of thing, maybe someone else can come up with something that rhymes better :P


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    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    Go door to door like the JW.


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    nozzferrahhtoo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,338 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    Dades wrote: »
    This is where you need to go:
    http://www.atheist.ie/
    lamesausage wrote: »
    I suppose I'll try and get involved with Atheist Ireland then.. I want to die knowing that I have done something worthwhile with my life, as opposed to just sitting around or working for some pointless business.

    Actually on the note of Atheist Ireland they might have the very thing for you lamesausage. They recently launched a campaign website called "Good without gods" and started it off listing a few things you can get involved in if you want to be... as they say... good without gods.

    While the site has been launched the campaign itself has been a little static while the Atheist Ireland AGM goes on plus Atheist Ireland have been terribly busy with things like the Human Rights convention in Warsaw etc etc. So there is room there for someone to try and get involved in the "good without gods" site itself and come up with more ideas for it and so forth.


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    PopePalpatine
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    pulpfictionost wrote: »
    Enter a political election, you will run for the position as an open atheist.
    Your competitor will be an actor, who's only skill is to act as a Christian.

    You will be the only person besides the actor that will know he is an actor.
    Try your hardest to beat the actor in the election.

    Is this one fascinated/horrified by gays too? :rolleyes:


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    Daftendirekt
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    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Is this one fascinated/horrified by gays too? :rolleyes:

    Is that the guy who was obsessed with rectal prolapse?


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    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Dades wrote: »

    This is where you need to go:
    http://www.atheist.ie/

    Sweet fancy Moses, that's one ugly website design...


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    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


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    ....and aesthetic abstinence. :confused:


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