FIRST, I'd planned to write my brother, Michael William Kenan, who refuses to believe many things about our NAZI Mother and her Meyer Family!!! I want to write him, so with it WRITTEN no one can remember it INCORRECTLY -- a FAVORITE TRICK of NAZIS, TRUMP SUPPORTERS, etc.
My Shrink at New Hanover Behavioral Health Hospital (now NOVANT -- but about 2018, so before that sale), Julia Triggs, MD, spoke at length with both my Mother and my Brother (on separate calls), and said my Mother was a "bitter, resentful old woman, nursing her ancient grudges" and that I should NEVER LISTEN TO HER. Of Mike, she said she caught him in "SEVERAL LIES", so I'd better beware of him.
All three of my siblings have been in Alcoholics Anonymous since about 1990, and STILL attend about three times per week. A.A. is one of eight accepted serious "get sober" programs -- and has the LOWEST PERCENTAGE of SUCCESS. It especially attracts "Christians" -- LOL!!!
I know that Michael Werner, a scientist who has taught and lectured at many Universities on Humanism -- and has been President of their NATIONAL organization as well as Cape Fear Humanists, developed the program to SOBER UP that is MOST SUCCESSFUL!!! So, I wanted to send Mike that info since Humanists are organized all across the country.
Michael Werner: What Can You Believe If You Don’t Believe in God?
Michael Werner is the author of a new highly acclaimed book, “What can you believe if you don’t believe in God”.
This book is intended to help you live your life, and to shed some light on your own values and ethics, if you don’t believe in God. More than just a primer on Humanism, but not quite a full-blown treatise on philosophy, it offers some answers to those crucial questions Socrates asked: What is true? And how shall we live our lives? Those of us who don’t believe in the supernatural sometimes struggle to understand how we can ground ourselves ethically, and how to find truth, meaning, purpose and joy. This book offers ideas about how to know, without depending on Holy Scriptures or guidance from a deity, what it means to lead a good and ethical life.
“Humanism is a value system whose time has come: a positive philosophy for the surging proportion of the world’s population who indicate ‘None’ as their religion but seek meaning, morality, and purpose in their lives. Michael Werner’s statement of Humanism is clear, effective, and graceful, just right for our times.” Steven Pinker, professor of psychology, Harvard University author, “The Better Angels of Our Nature” and “How the Mind Works.”
“Mike Werner captures the depth and breadth of Humanism in his latest work. He shows us what love, reason, imagination and science can have in common. In doing so, he demonstrates what we all have to live for, strive for, and believe in.” Roy Speckhardt, executive director, American Humanist Association
“Outstanding and a must read for everyone who takes life seriously.” Rev. William R. Murry, former president, Meadville Lombard Theological School, University of Chicago
“Michael Werner has written the quintessential book on Humanism for the 21st century. Not since Corliss Lamont’s, The Philosophy of Humanism, has a book so beautifully explained the Humanist position on non-belief with such clarity.” Rev. Suzanne Paul Founder and Executive Director, Center for Secular Humanism
Bio: Michael Werner is president of the Humanist Foundation, is past president of the American Humanist Association, adjunct faculty member of the Humanist Institute. He has taught widely at major universities. He was one of the founders of SMART Recovery a Self Management and Recovery Training recovery program for addictions. He was in the chemical business and now lives in Wilmington, NC. Michael is a past board member of Humanists and Freethinkers of Cape Fear.
https://hsgp.org/civicrm/event/info/?id=2501&reset=1
https://thehumanist.com/contributor/michael-werner/
And LOOK AT THIS!!! From Cape Fear Humanists' Facebook Page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2w3QIJ0WTk
AND, I really wanted to drop Ben a NOTE because in this PAST SUNDAY'S:
Ben wrote up TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -- as if he UNDERSTOOD TOM'S WRITING!!!:
CFCC argues that this was necessary to maintain “political neutrality” in a show presented under the college’s name. Interestingly, CFCC does not have a written ‘neutrality policy,’ unlike the high-profile regulations rolled out by the UNC university system in 2024. Say what you will about UNC’s ‘equality policy,’ it is at least a written document. CFCC’s decision in this story seemed to be based on 'vibes,' as one student put it to me (other students used harsher language, but you get the idea).
There is a whole conversation to be had here about what art could possibly look like under such a nebulous quasi-policy – and whether that’s by design or just haphazard. But for now, I’ll say two things.
First, the college’s argument that “overt references to current political messaging risk narrowing [the] interpretative space and shifting focus away from the broader, more enduring themes of the work,” is certainly one kind of argument for how to present historical works, be it Euripides, Shakespeare, or Tennessee Williams.
You’ll always find originalists, and there’s merit to their stance. But they exist in conversation with other arguments about the flexibility and capaciousness of these works, from those who would recast Hamlet in the modern corporate world, Medea in a dystopian future, or reimagine the titular streetcar as a steampunk dirigible. And of course, there's also going to be a space to insert the present into the works of the past: plays like Lysistrata 1969, which swapped in Vietnam for the Peloponnesian War.
My point is not that the college doesn’t have a case to make; it does. But when you enforce your point of view by fiat, it’s not really winning on the strength of your argument.
This one has NOT yet been posted on WHQR's website -- but should be very soon, and here: https://www.whqr.org/tags/sunday-edition
He claimed to do a lot of internet work for the City of Wilmington, DEMANDED hand over all my passwords, etc., to my website advertising my MEMOIR, and then STOLE MY DOMAIN!!!
https://scottkenan.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-specifics-on-corrupted.html
https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2015/08/after-meeting-three-top-sages-enroute.html
I was WRONG when I assumed that when the Werners took over Cape Fear Humanists that they had anything to do with Han Hills!!!:
https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2024/01/michael-susanne-werner-have-proven.html
>>> HAN HILLS, TODAY:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/han-hills-wilmington-wedding-officiant-wilmington
>>> THIS LAST WEEK, I'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS ON BEGINNING MY NEW BOOK!!! In the last two days, I've contacted a couple of people I knew in Key West in 1981 and 1982!!!:
Atlantic Shores Resort in Key West, Florida.
>>> I also discovered that my one TRUE and NORMAL FRIEND in Key West, Wesley Sizemore, who became an EXCELLENT electrician and later general contractor (but I could not interest romantically -- he pined for a lost boy friend), DIED a couple of years ago.
>>> TODAY, I SENT PUERTO VALLARTA INFO ON HOW I WAS HELD HOSTAGE THERE BY "FERNANDO MERINO", THE GODSON OF COLOMBIA'S TOP CIA COCAINE EXPORTER TO THE USA!!!
>>> I ALMOST FORGOT THIS:
