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The Big Book of Humanity project on Ning
I would like inform the members of "Atheist Bloggers" about a new project called "The Big Book of Humanity" that has now a Ning-group quite like this in the address http://bigbookofhumanity.ning.com/ Project is also in Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=179027371432
The "Big Book of Humanity" will be a result of collaborative effort. It is freely available and accessible to all in the Internet.
BBoH is created with the open Wiki-model, where all willing collaborators can supply content and what most important also freely comment on the content supplied by others.
This project is not just another collection of great quotes, as the Internet is filled this them already. The important part is that all the pieces of collected wisdom of humanity are commented and explained in layman terms.
These explanations make it possible that people with different levels education could all get the hang of that the great men and women of the past really had in their minds.
The most important part is that these comment and explanations need to be open to debate.
All parts of that debate itself need also be preserved intact quite like the debates that are preserved in the discussion in Facebook about the links and quotes supplied by Facebook-users.
An open community will decide with instant voting especially about more controversial issues if they are to be included or not.
This process means that the "Big Book of Humanity" will be never sealed and would constantly chance if and when the community creating and supporting it changes and new ideas would emerge. The entire thing would be published under the Creative Commons copyleft that allows unlimited use of the material.
A open-source project like this does not require any physical contact and work can be carried on simultaneously from all over the wold.
The end result will be an important tool in the work in preserving and most of all presenting in a user-friendly fashion the collected wisdom of mankind.
Under the three millennium there has been accumulated a immense wealth of ideas on how to be a just and moral human being and how to carry one's responsibilities as a member of society and humanity at large.
The most important thing would be that this work would be used as a place to where one could guide people who are asking "If we have no religion, who will guide us into being just and moral people?"
This question has of course been answered many, many times in the past by great humanistic and secular thinkers, poets, writers, scientist and philosophers. We still need an easily accessible and most of all easy to understand repository of this past great wisdom.
Last updated by Jaakko Wallenius Nov 3.
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