Sentientism
@sentientism.bsky.social
The Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings". Simple yet radical. https://sentientism.info/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Sentientism https://apple.co/391khQO By: https://bsky.app/profile/jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social
One of my favourite proto-sentientists: www.middleeastvegansociety.org/blog/abu-ala...
Abu al‑Alaʾ al‑Maʿarri: The Medieval Poet‑Philosopher Who Refused to Steal From Nature — Middle East Vegan Society
Abu al‑Alaʾ al‑Maʿarri (973–1057 CE), the blind Syrian poet and philosopher from Maʿarrat al‑Nuʿman, is remembered as one of the earliest voices to reject the use of animals in every form. His stance ...
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youtu.be/5jNoZ0HdQdI?... "Pretty Lies" indeed... @sentientism.bsky.social thank you for this discussion, Natalie Khazaal is great! #sentientism Live #vegan
Pretty Lies that hide the truth and drive discrimination | Natalie Khazaal | Sentientism 248
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If you have a good worldview, please take it more seriously. If you have a bad worldview, please take it less seriously.
"Pretty Lies" Dr. Natalie Khazaal 🤩 joins me on episode 248 of the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast. Find our full conversation there. Links in comments below. Please do share it around!
"Pretty Lies" Dr. Natalie Khazaal 🤩 joins me on episode 248 of the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast. Find our full conversation there. Links in comments below. Please do share it around!
Writing about which political systems could be consistent with #SentientistPolitics. Starting with two easy ones, fascism and totalitarianism. (The answer is “no” 😊)
Humans obsessing over the moral implications of potentially sentient AIs as if they're at all interested in the moral implications of definitely sentient nonhuman animals in slaughterhouses & fisheries🤷♂️ Don't we want to be consistent? @sentientism.bsky.social
Our first ever in-person @sentientism.bsky.social meetup was a picnic. So is our next one! Come join us if you're in range of London on 26th July. All species welcome! Why not bring a friend or two? Sign up for free here: luma.com/qog22s4o?tk=...
Sentientist picnic: Agriculture - 26th July · Luma
Sentientism is a worldview summed up nicely by the motto: "Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings". These meet-ups are a chance to discuss…
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Our first ever in-person #Sentientism meetup was a picnic. So is our next one! Come join us if you're in range of London on 26th July. All species welcome! Why not bring a friend or two? Sign up for free here: luma.com/qog22s4o?tk=...
Sentientist picnic: Agriculture - 26th July · Luma
Sentientism is a worldview summed up nicely by the motto: "Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings". These meet-ups are a chance to discuss…
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And the reason dehumanization is so dangerous? It's because of how we think about nonhuman animals. Our anthropocentrism. Our human supremacy. Our casual derogation, objectification, vilification. Ending those via @sentientism.bsky.social will help us end all the intra-human discriminations too.
Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 3w ago"Metaphors that identify other human beings as pests, deadly animals, reptiles, parasites, disease, filth, zombies, or demons, are extremely dangerous rhetorical devices. As the case of Charlottesville also shows, such metaphors have a powerful impact on human thinking."
Anthropocentrism, even our obsession with the human, doesn’t just destroy our ethics. It warps our epistemology too. So many debates about the nature of reality are trapped into circling purely human psychological and sociological conceits. Forever marvelling at ourselves.
We focus on #SentientistPolitics, #SentientistEconomics and #Sentientist [insert all the other fields here], because, whenever an “animal” field is seen as optional & separate from the mainstream human field, the door remains open to the ongoing exploitation of nonhuman sentients.
If your first questions, when you come across the #Sentientism worldview, include: - “Who or what do I worship & submit to?” - “Where do I fit in the hierarchy?” - “What should I believe?” - “Am I allowed to leave?” Your expectations may have been shaped by other worldviews.
We can’t do ethics only with values. They’re not enough. We need facts too. That means we need an epistemology. Better make it a good one! One driven by reality. To give us the best shot of understanding reality. So we can make reality better.
By feeding our companion animals #plantbased foods we can show we care about all sentient animals, not just those in our families ❤️ 🌱 youtu.be/7U3ZCFwZ2pY?... @sentientism.bsky.social
"Vegan pets... They're enjoying their lives more & they're living longer" - Dr. Andrew Knight - E148
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One of the darkest, but most important things to learn about human psychology, sociology, disinformation and power, is how decent people can end up supporting terrible things being done to other sentient beings, both human and not. Not just in history, but today.
Anthropocentrism is bad for human sentient beings too.
There are hints of a potential Sentientist future everywhere. Even in the toughest situations, human sentients often still care about nonhuman sentient beings.
There are hints of a potential Sentientist future everywhere. Even in the toughest situations, human sentients often still care about nonhuman sentient beings.
youtube.com/watch?v=4E55... What a wonderful human Eva Meijer is; such a profound sense of the world around her... really beautiful reflections she has. Fascinating conversation. Thank you @sentientism.bsky.social 🫶 Live #vegan #sentientism
Eva Meijer | Citizens' Assemblies, With Animals Included | Multispecies Politics & Art
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A workshop w/12 yr olds today: Me: "Why should we care about humans?" Kid 1: "Because we're human." Me: "But what is it about being human that means we matter?" Kid 2: "Because we're conscious. Because we can feel." We matter because we're sentient beings, not because we're human beings.
To understand how #economics thinks about animals in agriculture, look at how most 17th, 18th and 19th century economics thought about enslaved humans. Objects, commodities, production units, capital, chattel. Not sentient beings. Fortunately there’s #SentientistEconomics 💚
Because it’s pride month (with fewer than 2 weeks left) and next month marks 9 years since I went vegan, here’s a list of some famous queer vegans (in no particular order): Alan Cumming — bisexual & vocal about veganism and animal rights. Everything he wears on The Traitors is cruelty-free.
Alan Cumming: Doesn't Feel So Nice, Does It?
ALT: Alan Cumming: Doesn't Feel So Nice, Does It?
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"I hope future generations will look at this time as the time we decided to have morality and compassion towards sentient beings... we should have ended this decades ago." @zackpolanski.bsky.social Are we edging towards #sentientistpolitics? projectslingshot.com/zack-polansk...
Zack Polanski Supports Projection of Pig Slaughter onto London Landmarks - Project Slingshot
Project Slingshot projected footage of pigs screaming in gas chambers onto the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. This is what happened.
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I'd like to suggest considering Universal Basic Income as part of Sentientist Economics. There are many reasons why I think UBI is essential to any functional and ethical economic system. This thread by @scottsantens.com is an excellent resource for understanding why. bsky.app/profile/scot...
Scott Santens@scottsantens.com · 2y agoI've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
Earthling Ed Comes Out As a Sentientist :) youtu.be/6UgqXhj_W-A?...
Veganism, Bad Arguments, and Moral Philosophy with @DrJackSymes
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