#Freethinker

[kellymagovern]

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The second extraordinary Scottish lady today, Frances "Fanny" Wright was born on September 6th 1795 in Dundee.

After her parents died when she was two years old, Frances Wright spent her childhood with a succession of relatives in Scotland. Living with her uncle, a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow College, she explored the college's libraries and became especially intrigued by books about the newly independent United States. A two-year tour of the United States with her sister provided Frances Wright with the material for her Views of Society and Manners in America in 1821, an enthusiastic account of Americans' patriotic idealism.

Formulating a plan to emigrate to the United States and create a southern settlement on which slaves could work to earn profits toward their eventual emancipation, Frances Wright purchased a tract in Tennessee called Nashoba and recruited slaves and abolitionists to join her. The farm never produced enough to achieve her initial goal, and when she made a brief journey back to England, Nashoba provoked a national scandal after its remaining settlers proclaimed a doctrine of free love. Upon her return to the United States, she paid to transport of the slaves to Haiti (where they would be free) and moved to a utopian community in Indiana.

An anti-clerical lecture tour consolidated her unpopularity among the American middle class. In these lectures, she recommended the abolition of capital punishment and advocated women's rights, focusing especially on the need for birth control and liberalized divorce laws. Well-received in New York City, she relocated there and became a leading figure in the progressive working class politics of the day.

In New York, she met, had a child with, and married French doctor Guillaume D'Arusmont in 1831. The child died shortly, and the couple moved to Paris, where Frances Wright D'Arusmont had a daughter and removed herself somewhat from the public eye. Traveling across the Atlantic several times throughout the 1830s, she lectured occasionally, but her audiences were small and the movements in which she had involved herself had either fallen apart or found other leadership. She and her husband divorced in 1852, and he retained custody of their child. She died in Cincinnati in 1852, the inscription on her gravestone at her own request, reads "I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.

As usual you can get the full story on this link here http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/01/frances-wright.html

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[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[wisteria-grows-here]

Free Will is my girlfriend

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs."

-- Leo Tolstoy

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Video provided by JayeDeBlack

Video explains all of it very clearly. Could be fake, in order to get attention and clout. However, it could be real.

[wayti-blog]

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- i mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)

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[crustaceansingles]

Get your own thoughts. These ones are MINE

[asilaaspirations]

Modern and Classic Generations......

What really is the difference between the young and old, despite the physical difference, but even that factor can be considered more like a blur..

  "All History Is a Current Event"-unknownPersonally, I used to think a lot of elements were different, the sun, the moon; black and white people; red and blue; modern and retro, well you get where I am coming from, but as I have grown to analyze these elements, I discovered that these concepts have different parts and mechanics...yes; meanwhile, these parts come from one source with the colors being created from one color source, the sun and moon being birthed from the universe, and dark and light- complexioned beings are apart  and make up humanity. Now, to get back to the topic, old and young ways of living are not merely different, but are only living based on what they learned or know.

As I was growing older or younger, as some say either or, I was always told the generation that I live in is terrible and that they do not having any morals or "home-training" so to speak, then you have some elders feeling or thinking that their generations do not share responsibility for the behaviors and antics that the new generation is exemplifying or showing. Till this day, there is this thick and visible barrier between young and older generations from they way they act, to clothes, music, style of dressing, to the current issues that our society deals with today. This separation anxiety that some people are still holding onto needs to stop, it only brings disconnect and turmoil between another, both groups have a lot to learn and do in order for future generations to take better care of humanity and this planet, which is burning rather quickly by the way.

For instance, I am going to use music as a separated concept that both parties feel are different(when its really not), the elders feel that their descendants act in foolishly and shame themselves based on the music that is being play currently, while the descendants feel that the past music is boring and worthless, maybe not exactly in these words but close to how they feel. I am a lover of classic and older music, but I have admiration and love for current music as well; meanwhile, music and many other forms of living are nothing but manifestations of past inventions...look at technology, like a pen and notebook filled with trees as paper has now been transformed into a notebook personal computer, so one could not survive or be made without the other.

This may be a little off-topic, but I have so much appreciation and admiration for nature because the very makings and beings that help each system function do not have battles about which group has done worse or contributed, all elements and components work together to bring harmony, peace, and love into their habitat. When you have time, just sit outside and observe how the birds, squirrels, trees, plants, and other organic element play into each other no matter how long they lived on this planet, but how they are able to interact with one another to bring a shift into their existence.

Something had trigger me to cover or mention this topic, originally I was going to write about my loc journey, but I will save that for another time...anyhow young and old still experience this imagined thought and perspective that we are so different from each other, and how could that be when the young was birthed from the old, where the elders taught the young everything that they know and the pattern continues many lifetimes.

Looking at the crimes that has taken place, from racial profiling from police brutality which effects each one of us, of course, these crimes have a bigger effect on others, but it sill has a impact on all of us. Police brutality is a criminal act, just like robbing has been around, since people and objects were brought together, but back on police brutality which is a popular and viewed act that has become a common practice that others are constantly indoctrinated to seeing on new stations like CNN and NBC, but again what is new, police brutality has been around, ever since police were formed into society. Now, this is not specifically on the age groups, but it still brings another idea on how a lot of current events have been seen in earlier lifetimes are deem to be outside or different because we're in a different time zone.

It is time to fill this imaginary gap that has made others feel superior and inferior to one another, which is blocking all of us to bring the change needed to make humanity thrive again. Just my thoughts on a link

P.S. I wrote this piece yeearrs ago, some thoughts I resonate and some differently, but read away and share your thoughts ;-)

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[survivingthesimulator]

It’s important to find positive outlets. In a world of chaos - everyone needs an escape.

[drmarthacastron]

Saturday Nighte For The Freethinker Christopher Hitchens

“THE VALUE OF HETERODOXY” ‘It matters not what you think,’ Hitchens wrote, ‘but how you think.’ Many assume Hitchens was such a pugnacious debater and polemicist because he was temperamentally inclined toward rhetorical combat. As Amis put it: ‘He likes the battle, the argument, the smell of cordite.’ This is true, but another source of Hitchens’s ferocity in print and on the stage was the fact…

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men. I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free."

-- Charles Darwin

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