Brendan Myers

We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn,…

— Brendan Myers

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and…

— Brendan Myers

The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.

— Brendan Myers

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a…

— Brendan Myers

“If one believes that God is up there in heaven, separate from the world, and is preparing a reward for you in…

— Brendan Myers

I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of…

— Brendan Myers

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to…

— Brendan Myers

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things…

— Brendan Myers

People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences associated with…

— Brendan Myers

There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live.…

— Brendan Myers

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms,…

— Brendan Myers

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

— Brendan Myers

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time…

— Brendan Myers

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

— Brendan Myers

My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was…

— Brendan Myers

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as…

— Brendan Myers

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they…

— Brendan Myers

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning…

— Brendan Myers

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss…

— Brendan Myers

“To my mind, ‘magic’ is the hard-to-define quality of the things that stir up mystical feelings like amazement, curiosity, imagination, and above…

— Brendan Myers

What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of…

— Brendan Myers

Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets…

— Brendan Myers

I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got…

— Brendan Myers

The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the…

— Brendan Myers

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I…

— Brendan Myers