Category for all Forum posts.
October 4, 2015
HCSV member Paul Gilbert will moderate this Forum, which is designed to provide every member and friend of the Community the opportunity to contribute his or her ideas about how we can be most effective in achieving the purposes and aims of humanism in our Community and beyond. Please attend, share your ideas, and learn from fellow humanists.
September 27, 2015
Few doctors are choosing to be trained for geriatric care. As a result, the elderly are often treated using the so-called medical model: determine the most life-threatening problem and treat it. The medical model prioritizes maintaining life at all costs. But it is failing elderly patients with serious illnesses. 25% of Medicare spending is for 5% of patients in their final year of life, and most of the expensive treatments provide little real benefit (see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/being-mortal/). However, there are alternatives that focus on making the remaining days as good as possible. Richard O. Duda will discuss these issues.
September 20, 2015
Longtime Humanist Community members and leaders Paul Gilbert and Arthur Jackson will explore the ideas in the new book by Roy Speckhardt (Executive Director of the American Humanist Association) entitled “Creating Change Through Humanism”. Jamie Raskin says about this book, “Roy Speckhard’s book is a compelling invitation for people to engage actively in social and political life as humanists. ‘Creating Change Through Humanism’ will speak powerfully to the hearts and minds of tens of millions of Americans who may not have a church but definitely have a calling to participate as citizens and moral actors in the challenges of our time.”
September 13, 2015
There has been a march of unanimity by every high court in the U.S., ruling that 12-Step support programs are “inherently religious.” The treatment industry and local governments ignore these rulings in violation of the First Amendment, and continue to promote substance abuse treatment that exclusively coerces or compels people into inherently religious 12-Step programs. Byron Kerr is extremely active with LifeRing Secular Recovery (http://lifering.org), and currently serves as the Chair of the LifeRing Board of Directors.
Humanist Community Forum (2015-09-13): Clear and Equal Choice of Secular Recovery Support (Byron Kerr) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.
September 6, 2015
What is a Utopia? What is human nature? These core issues will be explored in this discussion. Longtime Humanist Community member and leader Arthur Jackson will draw heavily from his book, “How to Live the Good Life: A User’s Guide for Modern Humans,” to present Utopias in a new way to clarify what life is all about. Mr. Jackson has been actively involved in Humanism since the late 1950s and served in many roles at all levels of organized Humanism. He wrote his book as his effort to understand how everything we know fits together.