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Truth is important, but it's never been more elusive, and that's what we’ll be exploring in our conversation. We hope you can join us. Meetings are on Zoom. We will send members a link to access the call prior to the meeting. If you would like to join the discussion please join Humankind.
It was the existentialist Jean Paul Sartre who coined the phrase, ‘man is condemned to be free’. As he saw it, in a world without gods, the human task is to create our own purpose and meaning. Taking responsibility for our own existence is anguishing, he argues, but it is only by doing so that …
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Spirituality is a word that makes some humanists profoundly uncomfortable; they think it's something to do with religion, but we disagree, and thankfully we're not alone. Lindsay de Wal was the first humanist ever appointed to lead an NHS Chaplaincy team, and as she said in an interview in The Guardian, "A lot of people …
