Talk:Bright (philosophy)

I'm not sure why this page is up for deletion, can somone comment? Ziplux 19:21, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ziplux, the Articles_for_deletion/Bright page may be what you're looking for. --Ds13 19:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I've considerably changed the list of "self-identified" subgroups of brights. Here's what I've done and why:


 * Removed humanists because this seems to be too wide and ambiguous a term to be useful here.


 * Changed naturalists to scientific naturalists since the term naturalist is ambiguous, and scietific naturalists are clearly brights - other types may not be.


 * Changed Skeptics to Philosophical skeptics for similar reasons.


 * Changed Unitarians to Unitarian Universalists since, apparently, most Unitarians are Christians and only some Unitarian Universalists are humanists.


 * Removed Wiccans since, apparently, "Wiccans worship the Goddess, with most also choosing to worship the God, her consort". Gods & goddesses are by definition supernatural, so Wiccans are not brights.


 * Removed Yogis since, apparently, "Yoga" means "union with the Divine". The Divine "refers to some transcendent or transcendental power". This is supernatualism and mysticism in one, so Yogis are not brights.


 * Removed Pantheists since, apparently, "classical" Pantheists believe in God (who is, by definition, supernatural), while other "Naturalistic Panthists" identity themselves as "mystics".


 * Removed Buddhists, since their worldview is plainly not free of supernaturalism (e.g reincarnation) nor mysticism (e.g. temples, chanting, prayer wheels).

GrahamN 04:56, 20 March 2006 (UTC)