#humanist
I was bullied
Im depressed
I cry myself to sleep at night hoping that one tear might burn a hole in my cheek
So ask me one more time why i wont believe in a benevolent god
When he clearly left me out
Like everyone else did
I tried praying
I read
I used logic
So tell me again why i dont believe in god
When he answered you
But pushed my mail aside like spam
I converted
I lived happily
I became humanist spiritualist
So ask me again why i dont believe in god
When im happier without him
When im still depressed but with hope
So ask me again to ‘find god’
When I wasn't the one who lost him
I escaped him
Oct 15, 2025
Oct 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM UTC
Instead of
"I would **** or die for you,"
On the sand and desert
Of some politician's stupid war,
I have learned to do the hard thing.
Breathing is startlingly intimate.
Consent to breathe with me.
I will live for you.
Fiercely, unflinchingly,
In the mess and filth of being.
I will help others live;
Together we will learn
How best to love.
Jul 29, 2025
Jul 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM UTC
No gods, no fate,
not even yielding to chance
To live this one life
in full acceptance:
This will only happen once!
A stubborn strength
born of a conviction
That there is no soul
in need of absolution
That life is not made meaningful
by abstract metaphysical contortions
in favor of a jealous,
angry, cruel
deity
Purportedly in love with creation
Such is the choice of the humanist
in staunch opposition
to the zealot, the spiritualist
To stand on one's own feet
Acknowledging the grand mystery
Not willing to submit.
Jul 11, 2020
Jul 11, 2020 at 10:24 AM UTC
They gave me
A form to be filled
“Introduce yourself in 200 words or less.”
HUMANIST
Nothing more, nothing less
Aug 23, 2018
Aug 23, 2018 at 4:07 AM UTC
It needs greatest courage to feel weak,
Weak can be an ideal humanist.
Humanist has a love for life,
of self, and of others.
Having,
higher educational background,
stored wealth
or/and
greater strength,
never gets bigger than
being Humanist.
Humanist classification as follows:
Silent Humanist
Naïve Humanist
Paid Humanist
Vegan Humanist
Titled Humanist
Part time Humanist
Religious Humanist
Accidental Humanist
Unclassified Humanist
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 7:50 AM UTC
I am weightless.
There is no up, no down.
My thoughts are free,
they are evolving and dissolving and revolving around other oxymoronic ideas.
My body is trapped,
it is confined, asinine, and constantly refined to what I believe,
or what I enjoy.
Why is it that every human on this Earth has to be stereotyped?
I want a world where we first ask someone how their day is going,
before texting the first person on their phone that the other person is a ****
Apr 22, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 at 1:21 AM UTC
It needs greatest courage to feel weak,
Weak can be an ideal humanist.
Humanist has a love for life,
of self, and of others.
Having,
higher educational background,
stored wealth
or/and
greater strength,
never gets bigger than
being Humanist.
Humanist classification as follows:
Silent Humanist
Naïve Humanist
Vegan Humanist
Paid Humanist
Titled Humanist
Part time Humanist
Religious Humanist
Accidental Humanist
Unclassified Humanist
Feb 27, 2018
Feb 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM UTC
So glad I wasn’t born a Daesh Child
Or Indian lower caste.
Or in some ghetto in Brazil
Or wherever.
The hands of Fate were kind to me,
Being born a Brit.
An easy life, compared to many men.
To think I could have been born anywhere:
A black, white or yellow,
Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu….
Even a Royal!
I’m glad indeed at what I am,
But should my birth determine all?
I must have Choices
Little though they be.
I choose Agnostic though I’m C of E,
And Humanist is my Way.
My Love of Nature is a solid choice:
Compassionate Kindness being my Creed.
My race and gender (and being Straight)
Are set in stone
Popular or not.
But otherwise I’m just very glad
To be Free.
Paul Butters
Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 6:05 AM UTC
The human being is an inherently contentious creature.
Seven billion rock-wall eyes;
Eyes staring belligerently down seven billion sharp noses;
Noses affixed to seven billion faces;
Faces covered in creases and scars,
Framed in unruly hair
And outlined in stark exactness
By the flames cowering in bipedal shadows.
Into the human heart is chiseled "inexorable".
We are an incongruence:
We row up the rapids,
Scale the waterfall
And taunt the oily heavens from atop Devil's Tower.
We will always get what we want,
Whether it involves killing the albatross
Or playing Gondorff's chess.
Whether we wrest it from Gaia's grasp
Or that of our more miserly peers.
Robert C. crystalised our resolve.
The riot gear-clad Blue and Green with timers in their throats
Stand abreast.
Chanting "Listen to Mother. Mother knows best.",
They begin the forward press.
When an impish grenade leaps our way,
We fling it back between mouthfuls of chips.
The barricades erected
By Mother and ourselves alike
Are many and implacable and incessant,
But they will be broken and overtaken.
They will be broken and overtaken by us,
The humans,
Because we are.
May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 8:05 AM UTC
The libraries and bookstores of the world
Are stocked with pleasantries:
Prim, proper, peach juice-oozing volumes
That made the grade.
These books are all well and good,
And are not unworthy of examination,
Simply because they were deemed so
By a jury of your peers.
Make note, however,
Of the myopia inherent
In limiting yourself
To the savoury.
Observe:
Past the shelves of
Well-lit,
Worn-covered
Thoroughly thumbed delicacies,
There is more to be seen.
Do not hesitate to approach the shelves
Wreathed in thorns and security tape
And kept under dim bulbs.
The books that lurk there
Are sealed tight
And wear jackets plastered in sludge:
Sludge laid thick by heavy-handed brushstrokes.
Prying open the padlock
Will sometimes reveal
Further grime coagulated upon the pages.
Further prying, however,
Will split open tomes
Scrawled with fractures of light,
Lending to the eye
An illumination unique
To such tarred works.
Do not fear these banned books,
These veiled wonders,
For they contain pure, unscreened scrawlings
Soulfully wrought upon simple scraps of paper.
It is within these that truth can be found.
May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 7:58 AM UTC
Do you know what sums up the dark side of capitalism perfectly?
A Banks steps on a cold night occupied by a homeless lady.
That's what I saw tonight and it hit me.
The sheer juxtaposition pushed home the level of inequality
we see daily and walk past...
Thought of Marx
" There's something rotten at the core of a society that increases its wealth without diminishing its misery"
and believe me I'm no ******
but it was eerie.
To put it simply
I worry for and care about humanity.
Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015 at 12:29 PM UTC