So. My first blog. Thanks, Jack, for setting it up for me. I’ll try to use it regularly.

 I thought I might base my first blog on one of the themes I will come to from time to time. I would like to promote a materialist view of existance among as many people as I can. I would strongly recomment the ‘Brights’ website. Daniel Dennett, an American philosopher, came up with the idea of giving materialists a title or a handle that would distinguish them from religious and spiritual people.

Homosexual people adopted the word ‘gay’ successfully so that it has become the word people use to describe their life-style. It’s a good word, happy and positive and it has fulfilled an important purpose in its new role. Daniel Dennett wanted to find a similar word that was equally positive that could be used by atheistic materialists, people who didn’t believe in ghosts, goblins or gods. ‘Brights’ seems a suitable word. The brights have a ‘network’ that now included tens of thousands of people all over the world. It doesn’t involve ‘joining’ anything, but it’s nice to think that this is a growing group. During the last national census it was reported that many people write ‘Jedi’ under the ‘religion’ heading. I would like to think that in the next census ‘Bright’ is an answer written in by large numbers of people.