The Happy Humanist

My name is Sarah and I am an agnostic atheist, as well as a secular humanist.

On this blog I talk about lack of belief: how I got there, what it means for me, and how it has shaped my outlook on life. The world is far less black and white, than it seemed when I was a believer. I'm still learning, still growing, still trying to navigate where it is I stand in this big mess we like to call life.

Feel free to stop in my ask! I love to have conversations :)
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  • I’ve been seeing posts all over the internet for the past few days asking “Why does Chris Brown receive so much hate, when other known celebrity domestic abusers (Sean Penn, Charlie Sheen, John Lennon, etc.) were forgiven?”

    And I would just like to take this time to remind the internet that Rihanna’s injurys were plastered all over the internet. Pretty much the entire country saw what he did to her, and then proceeded to watch as he acted like a little bitch anytime anyone so much as mentioned the incident to him. 

    Should other celebrities have gotten off so easily? Absolutely not.

    But the people who are asking  why Chris Brown is getting more hate than anyone else are severely underestimating the power of photography.

    • 8 months ago
  • I’m getting so incredibly sick of hearing the GOP talk about welfare recipients, like they are the source of our countries problems. By the way they talk, you’d think that people on welfare were raking in a cool 100k per year. 

    Give me a break. I’d like to see those motherfuckers living off of a welfare check, see how exactly how “easy” it is.

    It really speaks volumes about these politicians that when they go around screaming “CUT THE BUDGET!!!” they don’t look into cutting back from the defense budget— the budget where we are spending the most of our money, money that is spent in pursuit of killing people. Nor are they willing to cut back their grossly large salaries, costing tax payers millions of dollars. Nope. They want to take money from the people who just need some help getting on their feet. They take away money that people are using to feed themselves and their children.

    It’s fucking gross. 

    • 9 months ago
  • I’ve been seeing posts all over the internet for the past few days asking “Why does Chris Brown receive so much hate, when other known celebrity domestic abusers (Sean Penn, Charlie Sheen, John Lennon, etc.) were forgiven?”

    And I would just like to take this time to remind the internet that Rihanna’s injurys were plastered all over the internet. Pretty much the entire country saw what he did to her, and then proceeded to watch as he acted like a little bitch anytime anyone so much as mentioned the incident to him. 

    Should other celebrities have gotten off so easily? Absolutely not.

    But the people who are asking  why Chris Brown is getting more hate than anyone else are severely underestimating the power of photography.

    • 9 months ago
  • Das Handy als mp3 Player nutzen

    Handys und wie sie immer mehr Geräte ersetzen

    Handys sind mittlerweile kleine Alleskönner und dabei sehr viele Geräte zu ersetzen oder mit den neuen Funktionen den bereits bestehenden Geräten Konkurrenz zu bieten. So ist es beispielsweise bei der Kamera, dem Fernsehen und sogar dem MP3 Player. Moderne Handys haben schon lange die Möglichkeit mp3s wieder zu geben und dank der immer besser werdenden Technologie werden Handys wohl bald die mp3 Player ersetzen, was ziemlich praktisch ist, da das Handy ohnehin immer mitgenommen wird und man auf die Weise Platz in seinen Taschen spart – und das nicht zu knapp.

    Warum sich die Handys immer mehr als mp3 Player eignen

    Der Grund für die zunehmende Beliebtheit und die Nutzung als mp3 Player dürften wohl die immer größer werdenden Speicherkarten sein, die sehr viele Lieder auch in hoher Qualität speichern können. Der zweite Grund sind die immer besser werdenden Apps wie Winamp und Konsorten mit denen man Musik ordnen und in bester Qualität hören kann. Es gibt sogar Amplifier für die Handys mit denen die Musikwiederhabe von der Qualität her auf eine höhere Stufe gebracht werden kann. Des Weiteren bietet jedes moderne Handy auch einen Klinkeneingang um Standard Kopfhörer anschließen zu können.

    Spezielle Musikhandys für die höchste Soundqualität

    Auf dem Markt sind auch eigens erstellte Musikhandys erhältlich, die speziell auf die mobile Musikwiedergabe spezialisiert sind. Der Unterschied zu normalen Handys besteht in der Hardware, wie etwa einem kleinen Verstärker für die Musik, besseren Lautsprechern für eine Musikwiedergabe ohne Kopfhörer und vorinstallierten Managment Programmen zum Koordinieren und Ordnen der mp3 Dateien, die man sich auf die Handys geladen hat. Vorreiter für Musikhandys war Nokia. Mittlerweile ist der Markt nicht so stark in dem Segment, doch haben viele Handyhersteller angekündigt sich in nächster Zeit darum zu kümmern.

    Auf die Kopfhörer kommt es auch an

    Kopfhörer können eine Menge bewirken. Manchmal verbessern sie die Musikqualität auf ein Maximum. Bei normalen mp3 Playern ist es deshalb wichtig gute Kopfhörer zu haben. Noch wichtiger wird es bei Handys, weil diese in den meisten Fällen mit normalen und keinesfalls besonderen Kopfhörern ausgeliefert werden, durch die die Musik alles andere als gut klingt. Welche Kopfhörer es sein sollen und wie viel die kosten hängt von der Qualität der Soundausgabe ab. Am besten man probiert viele durch und entscheidet sich dann für die Kopfhörer, die das Meiste an Musikqualität aus dem Handy herausholen.

    Ist das Handy eine wirkliche Alternative zum mp3 Player?

    Angesichts der Tatsache, dass mp3 Player ausschließlich für die Musikreproduktion hergestellt werden, wird es wohl noch lange nicht so sein, dass man auf diesen verzichten kann, wenn man wirklich in bester Qualität seine Musik hören möchte. Es wird wohl noch einige Jahre dauern, bis Handys mit solch einer Technologie auf den Markt kommen, bis die mp3 Player der Vergangenheit angehören und dabei sollte man nicht vergessen, dass mp3 Player ebenfalls ständig weiter entwickelt werden. Bestens sind die Handys geeignet um unterwegs Musik zu hören während man einen mp3 Player in bester Qualität zuhause hören kann.

    • 9 months ago
  • Ranting again. Feel free to skip over.

    capncaptain:

    It’s not my fault that you don’t understand how to write something that clearly establishes what you were meaning to say. No where in your rant did you talk about how healthy foods need to be cheaper and readily made accessible to everyone. Instead, it looked a whole hell of a lot like shaming fat people for not buying healthy foods.

    I’m not a fucking journalist, it’s a RANT. And I’ve been talking about it for weeks now. I didn’t see the point in saying stuff I’ve already said. It’s a fucking blog, not an editorial for a magazine. 

    For someone who’s apparently part of the fat acceptance community, you also don’t seem to even understand a lot of the problems. You sit there and point out that over half of Americans are apparently fat, but don’t bother to mention that this is based on the BMI scale, which has been proven again and again to be an unacceptable way to measure health in regards to weight. You talk about how there is an “obesity epidemic” going on, but fail to mention how beauty standards have forced what is considered a normal, healthy size to now be considered overweight. 

    Actually I do understand it. I’m talking about the obesity epidemic, because I’m pissed about the health ramifications I’m currently going through, as a direct result of my terrible diet, and subsequent obesity, as a child. 

    I’m not here to talk about the media, and it’s ridiculous standard of beauty. I’m here to rant about how unhealthy America is, and the fact that NO ONE WANTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT. 

    You have people pushing for acceptance of our culture, and then you have people pushing diet programs like Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, that are terrible. They aren’t particularly heathy, their long term success rates are pretty much non-existent, and their fucking expensive to boot.

    No where do you see people actually trying to fix anything.  

    You talk about how body acceptance landed you in the hospital, as if that’s everyone’s experience. I’m 5’7” and I weigh about 300lbs. I’m fat. Really fat. I fall into the morbidly obese category. You know what else I am? Perfectly healthy. Is this what everyone experiences? No. Of course not. 

    No, thats not everyones experience. But it’s really silly to pretend like most people aren’t going to be feeling those ramifications, at some point in their lives. 

    No, being obese in itself, is not unhealthy. But many of the main contributing factors to obesity areunhealthy.  

    I may have started getting sick earlier in my life than most people would, but my story is not an isolated one. It’s actually really common. 

    You can’t just say “HEY A LOT OF US OBESE PEOPLE ARE HEALTHY.” Because, it might be true now. It might be true for you forever. I, very obviously, know nothing about your health. But should we not address the health issues on the rise, and the risk factors that are a reality for millions of obese people, because *you* are perfectly healthy?

    But I’m also not ranting on tumblr, blaming others for my own choices, and saying that the fat acceptance movement is bad because it teaches fatties that it’s okay to love their body- and I don’t give a shit what you “meant,” because what you “meant” isn’t at all what you said.

    I said, very clearly, that loving your body is important no matter what size you are. 

    I also made it very clear that my problem was not with body love, but with teaching people to accept an unhealthy lifestyle.

    I may have left other stuff out, assuming that people weren’t going to put words into my mouth, but those two points are pretty fucking clear. If you can’t see them, maybe you should read it again.  It’s not “read between the lines” shit. I outright said those things. 

    You keep saying that America is unhealthy and we need to fix it. No, what we need to do is fucking stop shaming fat people because of how they live their lives.

    NO ONE SAID WE SHOULD SHAME FAT PEOPLE. WHY WOULD I BE ADVOCATING FOR PEOPLE TO SHAME ME?

    If you don’t want to care about the health of the overall population? FINE. Good for fuckin’ you. But stop trying to make me out to be a terrible person because I care that the life expectancy in the US is going down. 

    Even if we lived in some utopia where good food was made readily available and all that jazz- it still would not be okay to shame fat people for being fat. Is it NEVER okay to tell someone that they need to be “fixed” or they need to “take care of themselves” because you don’t like fat people.

    Stop pretending like I don’t like fat people. It’s ludicrous. I am fat. The only thing I care about is improving the wellbeing of my country.

    Maybe you don’t care about the greater well-being, but I fucking do. And I’m going to talk about it whether you like it or not. 

    • 9 months ago
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