What are your values?

[Mystic]

What is ironic is the above is their next Agenda at the heart.

And here I was, wondering whether anyone could be as willfully obtuse as Pat Robertson.

Watch it happen by mocking it while it happens... nothing new how Iblis blinds the masses.

[Whateverist]

I skimmed the thread and could have missed this but anyway:

BE THANKFUL

But how can we atheists be that if we have no One to be thankful to, huh?

But seriously, I find thankfulness is just something that comes up a lot unbidden.  It isn't on any to-do list.

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• One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.
  
  
• The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
  
  
• One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
  
  
• The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo your own.
  
  
• Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world. We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs.
  
  
• People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.
  
  
• Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word
  
• I agree with all of the these tenets. Anyone know the source?
  

Green Giant's notepad?

[energizer bunny]

Awareness and self honesty is a big one for me. 

Passion and fun before work and money.

Self before others. My needs come before anyone else's.

[vorlon13]

What is ironic is the above is their next Agenda at the heart.

And here I was, wondering whether anyone could be as willfully obtuse as Pat Robertson.

Mine is a reworked Pat Robertson quote.

[Whateverist]

And here I was, wondering whether anyone could be as willfully obtuse as Pat Robertson.

Mine is a reworked Pat Robertson quote.

Don't tell me you had a crush on that guy, did you?

[Antares]

Sorry, my pasting options are limited atm,

[Jackie]

I skimmed the thread and could have missed this but anyway:

BE THANKFUL

Highest form of love.

AWESOME, one Christian, one Muslim, and damn if I don't agree. I am thankful that as an outsider I have a forum I can watch both of you make an argument for a deity neither of you can prove exists. DAMN I love freedom.

[CapnAwesome]

I got the idea for this thread from Pool's recent thread.

Make a list of some of the more important values you strive to live your life by.

As an example, here are a few things on a short list:

Respect all people
Be humble
Live a moral life
Be generous
Don't be self righteous
Forgive others

Yours?

Well it's safe to say I have different values than you. Of those I would say I only living a moral life is one of my values. I see nothing inherently positive about humility, certainly someone would be just as good of a person if they were doing good deeds whether or not they were humble or not. Not to mention that vatican city and the 4 story tall throne the pope sits his ass on is the opposite of humble. I definitely don't see the value in respecting ALL people.

Nazis, pedophiles, people who abuse the elderly, people who torture their own children, I think society would benefit with a little less respect for some people. Or just plain stupid people cramming uneducated opinions down people's throats.

People have to earn my respect.

Same with self righteousness. I mean, if some IS right, especially as often as I am, I think there is nothing wrong with a little self righteousness.

My values are:
Live a simple life, free of materialism.
Minimize harm to others
Help those who really need help
Consider things from other people points of view.
Never hate.
Own the minimum amount of things I need.

I find, as an Atheist, it is impossible to hate anyone. If you believe everything comes from a combination of nature and nurture, and you are confronted by, say an alt-righter, you either have to say you would do under their circumstances because you have better genetic. In that case you are hating someone because they are genetically inferior to you, which is a disgusting reason. So as an atheist I find hate impossible when I know everything comes from nature or nurture.

Doesn't mean I'm going to respect those people just for being born people though. Nothing particularly impressive about being born a person.

[The Industrial Atheist]

Awareness and self honesty is a big one for me. 

Passion and fun before work and money.

Self before others. My needs come before anyone else's.

Yeah, I think it's hard to help others when your own needs haven't been taken care of.

[Antares]

I value font critics. Who said size isn’t everything?