#Secular

[fuckyeahwallpaintings]

Mosaics da via Panisperna / Mosaics from the Via Panisperna in Rome, late 2nd - early Ist century BC today at Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

Photos: otdelnovpavel

[holidaysincambodia]

Afghanistan before the Taliban

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

J.G. Davies - The Secular Use of Church Buildings - The Seabury Pr - 1968 (jacket photo: The B. and W. Menstrels rehearsing in Coventry Cath., 1967; 'Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph', tapestry by Graham Sutherland)

[turangalila]

Gilles Binchois, (1400–1460) Adieu, adieu, mon joieulx souvenir

Adieu, adieu, mon joieulx souvenir, / le plus hault bien qui me puist advenir, / belle et bonne que j'aim autant com moy. / Le dire adieu me donne tant d'anoy / qu'a grant paine puis je la bouche ouvrir. // Ce seroit fort que me puisse esjouir / quant j'eslogne mon souverain desir / et la chose que plus voulentiers voy. // Adieu, vous dy; il est temps de partir. / Adieu, celle que tant ay chier veïr. / Mon povre coeur vous remirant, par ma foy; / aultre que vous ne joira de soy; / tous deulx vous lesse, helas quel desplaisir.//

_ Triste Plaisir. The Music of Burgundy. Lena Susanne Norin / Randall Cook / Susanne Ansorg. (2002, Raum Klang 2208)

[secular-jew]

Is Israel secular?

Citizens of Israel are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Druze, Hindu, Sikh, atheist and agnostic, religious and secular, straight, gay, trans, and everything in between. Have you never been to Israel? Maybe go to Israekl and learn for yourself instead of asking dumb questions.

[campomni]

Welcome to the official Tumblr blog for Camp Omni!

What is Camp Omni?

Camp Omni is a one of a kind California secular summer camp experience! Camp Omni provides an educational adventure shaped by fun and friends.

Our camp features science, natural wonder, and humanist values such as empathy, creativity, critical thinking, and community. Summer sessions are week long, outdoor residential camps for campers ages 8-17.

For more information, you can click the link below to check out our website!

If you would like to ask questions about the camp/the experience of attending/anything that you can think of, you can go ahead and send us an ask here on Tumblr. We don't bite!

[bli-o]

I dunno i just feel like social justice movements have completely left behind atheists and agnostics and just secular people generally ESPECIALLY apostates

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Science is the secular religion of today and scientists are, in a very literal sense, the new priesthood. And it all began when Ben Franklin flew his kite in a thunderstorm in the crucial year of 1752.

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[xerxeswitch]

My Unpopular Opinion about 'Deities' (mini vent:)

I strongly believe not all "gods" are healthy, infinite, benevolent, selfless, flawless, or all powerful who deserve special treatment just because of a human constructed status.

I treat anyone accordingly upon how they treat me, and you don't get respect unless you respect my space.

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This is coming from someone who respects Anubis as a 'person' I connected with because he was respectful and mindful, and we just got along.

That being said, I don't believe in worship or even the concept of a "god" but just the status of celebrities.

From the ask box here and in metaphysical groups, I had too many people insisting to me that I should just bow down to them just because they're "gods." If I don't agree with them, a few tried to send these "gods" to smite me because I'm a non-believer.

You believing in a deity doesn't automatically make you better or special than other witches whom might be secular.

It makes me roll my eyes when I hear, "Gods are gods! You don't get to talk about them that way!"

The way I work, I need to get up and personal and not greet them ONLY because they're "gods/goddesses. But as people I just get along with.

I can understand some 'deities' are important in certain cultures that built it in the first place, but I just then see it as that -- culture/religion. Since I don't believe in the concept a 'god/goddess' I don't have to believe in their 'god/goddess', but I can still acknowledge what they got for it as strictly their culture.

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I'm glad you adore what you do, and keep doing it if it gives you meaning and happiness. I respect what you're into at a healthy balance, as long as you respect mine. Please, everyone is different.

You wouldn't be any better as a proclaimed, radical Christian tried to shame you for not submitting to the Lord.

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Edit:

I received a couple of threats just from this post alone in my ask box.

(One said she'll send Aphrodite to give me nightmares and sickness, while the other got really upset and threatened me with actual violence to change my mind)

If you are representing your "gods/goddesses" through how you're acting like a derelict -- I'm glad you have so much faith in your 'gods' to protect you, but nothing will shield you from the consequences of being an intolerant, toxic person. I'm sure they'll step aside and let things slip...unless the "god/goddess" is toxic themselves.

[oceanicmarxist]

God isn't real. Sorry.

[fuckyeahwallpaintings]

Mosaics da via Panisperna / Mosaics from the Via Panisperna in Rome, late 2nd - early Ist century BC today at Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

Photos: Carole Raddato / wikimedia commons / CC BY-SA 2.0

[bowserpunk-vevo]

its been 2000 years guys... let's face it, Jesus holy-ghosted us

[turangalila]

Guillaume Dufay (1397 — 1474)

— Par le regard de vos beaux yeux

*Par le regard de vos beaux yeux / Et de vo maintien bel et gent / A vous, belle, vien humblement / Moy presenter vostre amoureux. // De vostre amour sui desireux / Et mon vouloir tout s'y consent / * // Or vous plaise, cuer gracieux, / Moy retenir or a present / Pour vostre amy entierement, / Et je seray vostre en tous lieux. // * //

— Le serviteur hault guerdonné

*Le serviteur hault guerdonné, / Assouvi et bien fortune, / L'eslite des heureux de France, / Me treuve par la pourveance / D'un tout seul mot bien ordonné. // Il me semble en prime estrenne; / Car apres dueil desordonné / Sui fait par nouvelle alliance / * // J'estoye l'homme habandonné / Et le dolent infortuné, / Alors que vostre bienvouliance / Veult confermer mon esperance, / Quant ce beau nom me fut donné, // *//

- Guillaume Dufay: Complete Secular Music. The Medieval Ensemble of London. Peter Davies & Timothy Davies. (1981, L'Oiseau-Lyre – D237D6)

[secular-jew]

How can you call yourself secular? G-d the shit you espouse makes me think you’d be a Nazi if you weren’t born Jewish. Maybe you shouldn’t be secular, I think you need G-d to help you understand the world in which you live.

WTF are you gabbering on about? Calling a jewish person a Nazi is bad enough, but pretending to be god-fearing begs the question, what kind of hateful god do you pledge allegiance to?

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

- Eugene Ionesco

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586, it is the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press.

Last year the University Press announced it would be changing its branding and logo which had served it so well and was iconic the world over. The new branding was designed by an agency named Superunion with refinements by typographer and logo designer Rob Clarke.

The new logo featured Oxford’s name and an icon showing the turning pages of a book forming the ‘O’ of the popular university press. It represented Oxford’s heritage as a print publisher, and its transformation to a future of multi-format content publishing. Or so they say.

The old OUP logo had the university coat of arms in which was the Latin quote: Dominus illuminatio mea. This is Latin for 'The Lord is my light’. It is the incipit (or opening words) of Psalm 27 from which the motto of the university was taken.

That motto has been in use there since at least the second half of the sixteenth century, and it appears in the coat of arms of the university. The origins of the motto shdes light (no pun intended) on the origins of the mission of the university as it was back then. Roman Catholic priest and theologian Ivan Illich explained that ancient university motto was being formulated around a time when scientists were progressively replacing the concept of vision as a gaze radiating from the pupil by the concept of vision as the retinal perception of an image formed by reflected sunlight. Illich wrote, “To interpret De oculo morali, the relationship of things to God "who is light" must be understood. This is the century (i.e. the thirteenth century) suffused by the idea that the world rests in God's hands, that it is contingent on Him. This means that at every instant everything derives its existence from his continued creative act. Things radiate by virtue of their constant dependence on this creative act. They are alight by the God-derived luminescence of their truth.”

It seems the Oxford University Press, in all its wisdom, threw out hundreds of years of tradition in the name of digital transformation to advance knowledge to all fours corners of the globe. In other words just another bland soulless corporate entity. As one critic said Oxford had gone from ‘maybe god will read your book, but no one else’ to ‘look here’s a visual representation of the drain your book will disappear down’.