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What if a human being was a pen?
By David Seddon What if a human being was a pen? (Let us recall old fountain pens, with ink) How would that make life’s writing differ...
David Seddon
Jan 311 min read
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What if a human being was a dog?
By David Seddon What if a human being was a dog – Tail wagging, yapping ever joyfully – Out early mornings, joining as you jog: Your pal...
David Seddon
Nov 30, 20241 min read
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What if a human being was a car?
By David Seddon What if a human being was a car You wanted to be driven safe and well, Yet still expressed something of what you are Or...
David Seddon
Sep 30, 20241 min read
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Getting On
By John Hubbard And how are you getting on? Solicitude struggles not to patronise, enquiring from the inclined head and smiling eyes,...
John Hubbard
Sep 30, 20241 min read
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Poet’s Corner: humanism’s plan to face man’s inhumanity to man
By David Seddon David is a retired English teacher and an active member of Stockport Humanists FACE-OFF Let’s note man’s inhumanity to...
David Seddon
Jul 31, 20241 min read
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Poet’s Corner: only one life
By David Seddon David is a retired English teacher and an active member of Stockport Humanists Progress George had been great at...
David Seddon
Apr 30, 20241 min read
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Poet’s Corner – World Without Borders
By Alex Williams This month’s theme – World Without Borders – has inspired me to reflect on the origin and legitimacy of the different...
Alexander Williams
Nov 30, 20232 min read
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Poet’s corner: ‘Patience’
By Alex Williams Humanism finds itself in something of a trap in terms of public image. On the one hand, tolerance for different beliefs...
Alexander Williams
Oct 31, 20231 min read
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Poet’s corner: ‘Bully’
By Alex Williams Schools are microcosms of society, providing for their students a first taste of what it will be like to be out in the...
Alexander Williams
Sep 30, 20232 min read
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Poet’s Corner
By Alex WIlliams The idea of Woke Culture is a very appealing one, especially to those who wish to create and foster a climate in which...
Alexander Williams
Aug 31, 20232 min read
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Poet's Corner
By Alex Williams Human relationships can be beautiful and enriching, but they can also be fickle and treacherous. Too often, religious...
Alexander Williams
Jul 31, 20232 min read
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About a Funeral
''there enters our loved one,
slowly borne aloft like an Emperor''
Rick Field
Jun 30, 20232 min read
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Poet's Corner
By Alex Williams One of the concerns humanists have around housing is the way it can be used by wealthier families to game the education...
Alexander Williams
May 30, 20231 min read
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Poet's Corner: A Secular National Anthem
By John Dowdle John is President of the Watford Area Humanist Group. He is a retired lecturer in politics and business. This month,...
John Dowdle
Apr 30, 20231 min read
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Poet's Corner
By Alex Williams Alex is from Watford in the UK and he's a writer, teacher, singer and published poet. It’s All Us Religions are not the...
Alexander Williams
Mar 31, 20231 min read
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Poetry by ChatGPT appraised
By Susan Guiver Susan is a member of Milton Keynes Humanists We asked ChatGPT to write a poem about humanism and artificial intelligence...
David Warden
Feb 28, 20233 min read
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Poet's Corner
By Alex Williams Alex is a writer, teacher and singer from Watford. Son of Ham A son of Ham, well I’ve read Fredrick Douglass where he...
Alexander Williams
Jan 31, 20231 min read
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Poet's Corner
By Alexander Williams Alexander is a writer, teacher and singer from Watford. This is the title poem of his whole collection 'Secular...
Alexander Williams
Dec 31, 20222 min read
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