Non-Theists, How do you choose your Icon?

[Colabomb]

(Not here for debate, please don't let it go that way )

Just out of Curiosity, How do you choose your Icon?

One can be a humanist, and an atheist simultaneously. I have even known a few atheists that claimed to follow eastern religious teachings like taoism and Buddhism.

How did you decide on your icon? If you are an Atheist Humanist, how did you choose one over the other?

If you are a Humanist of another Religion, such as buddhism or taoism, did you choose your religion or your philosophy?

Just curious.

 

[BeginnerOnAPath]

(Not here for debate, please don't let it go that way )

Just out of Curiosity, How do you choose your Icon?

One can be a humanist, and an atheist simultaneously. I have even known a few atheists that claimed to follow eastern religious teachings like taoism and Buddhism.

How did you decide on your icon? If you are an Atheist Humanist, how did you choose one over the other?

If you are a Humanist of another Religion, such as buddhism or taoism, did you choose your religion or your philosophy?

Just curious.

Well, I went with Humanist, because that describes me the best. I feel that "atheist" is incomplete, since it only refers to my lack of belief in gods, rather than my whole world view. I could have gone with Unitarian Universalist, but that denomination has all different flavors of worldview, so its still unclear. I have Buddhist influences, and in fact that is what my icon was before I switched it, but Humanism still predominates.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Just out of Curiosity, How do you choose your Icon?

I wish I had an icon for "Eudaimonist", "Objectivist", "Philosophical Naturalist", or "Philosophical Path", but there wasn't enough interest here in such icons to justify bothering the admins here to add one.

One can be a humanist, and an atheist simultaneously.

I considered the Humanist icon, and while my Eudaimonistic philosophy is humanistic, I don't feel enough kinship to the Secular Humanist movement (e.g. to its various statements of belief) to want to use the icon. It seemed to me that I would be misleading and confusing others about my beliefs.

I have even known a few atheists that claimed to follow eastern religious teachings like taoism and Buddhism.

Buddhism is quite interesting, and while I agree with it on some issues, I do not regard myself as a Buddhist. It is not my path in life.


I decided to stick with the Atheist icon, and put Fellowship of Reason in the tag.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[quatona]

Just out of Curiosity, How do you choose your Icon?

You mean "what determined you to pick your icon"?

One can be a humanist, and an atheist simultaneously. I have even known a few atheists that claimed to follow eastern religious teachings like taoism and Buddhism.

How did you decide on your icon? If you are an Atheist Humanist, how did you choose one over the other?

If you are a Humanist of another Religion, such as buddhism or taoism, did you choose your religion or your philosophy?

Just curious.

I didn´t find any of those icons/labels available reflecting my notions accurately and sufficiently (and I couldn´t tell which of the aspects of my notions that the potentially accurate icons/labels emphasized were most important to me), so I evaded that problem by not picking any icon at all.

Since this is a forum about religion "atheist" might have been the most relevant information, but then again it says so little. What I don´t believe in is so unimportant to me - I mean, I don´t even believe in it.
"Agnostic"? Well, that appeared to be trivial. If I knew things I wouldn´t discuss them.
"Searcher?" Well, yes, of course. Who´s not searching?
"Humanism" seems to possibly imply an emphasis that I do not really identify with.
"Buddhism" has great teachings, but I am not a Buddhist.

 

[richard955]

As the forum is Christian, I chose the icon relevant to the subject of belief in god - Atheist.
Of course I would like the Icon: Atheist - Agnostic - Humanist - Trans-humanist, but that is stretching it

 

[Eudaimonist]

Of course I would like the Icon: Atheist - Agnostic - Humanist - Trans-humanist, but that is stretching it

Yeah, the character limit might only be around twenty Unicode characters, null terminated.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[ExistencePrecedesEssence]

I was thinking about switching to a humanist icon, but i dont associate myself with secular humanism, or mainstream humanism, i only use it for the use of atheistic existentialism i associate myself with. I decided that since i only associate myself with atheism and humanism to create the ideology i use i decided atheism is the main conductor within my association into humanism and thus i concluded it to be the first representation of my overall ideology.

 

[peter22]

I couldn't find a David Bowie icon, so I chose the Buddhist one.

 

[meebs]

(Not here for debate, please don't let it go that way )

Just out of Curiosity, How do you choose your Icon?

One can be a humanist, and an atheist simultaneously. I have even known a few atheists that claimed to follow eastern religious teachings like taoism and Buddhism.

How did you decide on your icon? If you are an Atheist Humanist, how did you choose one over the other?

If you are a Humanist of another Religion, such as buddhism or taoism, did you choose your religion or your philosophy?

Just curious.

I don't really need an icon (or i could make one of my own) but i chose this becuase it closely represents my philosphical views on deities and supernatural forces. IE: my beleif they do not exist.

 

[SpaghettiM0nst3r]

Just out of Curiosity, How do you choose your Icon?
One can be a humanist, and an atheist simultaneously. I have even known a few atheists that claimed to follow eastern religious teachings like taoism and Buddhism. If you are an Atheist Humanist, how did you choose one over the other?
If you are a Humanist of another Religion, such as buddhism or taoism, did you choose your religion or your philosophy?
Just curious.

I feel that "atheist" is incomplete

Atheism isn't a philosophy or a world view. It expresses one position with respect to one question, do you have belief in a god or gods?

That is a very complete position to take in response to the question of whether or not you believe in a god.

Because it is generic, and rare, it also acts as common ground between non-theists of all flavors.

I wish I had an icon for "Eudaimonist", "Objectivist", "Philosophical Naturalist", or "Philosophical Path", but there wasn't enough interest here in such icons to justify bothering the admins here to add one.

If you wanted to be Cliche... the Objectivist Icon could be simply $

I think overall the title Atheist communicates everything I want it to, to both theists and Atheists alike on this board. I don't believe in god. My complete views on Politics/Metaphysics/Epistemology/Ethics/Art are in many cases superfluous on a forum titled "Christian Forums" because often I agree with religious people in the end result of two very distinct trains of thought, and at the same time, whole heartedly disagree with them on how they arrived at their conclusions.

The only philosophy I feel that completely outlines the entirety of my philosophical world view is Objectivism, because Objectivism is a whole, and it's one that I've found to be completely consistent. I couldn't identify with anything else, unless I were to do so only in part. The fullest sense of what I believe can only be communicated with the title Objectivist, and yes... I chose it myself.