The Keep:Secular Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics

This wiki page exists because the speech bubble of the Secular Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics guild became longer, and longer, and longer - until it was simpler to put most of its content here in the wiki instead.

Guild Description
The current guild description is:


 * You don't derive your ethics, morals, and values from religion? You try to have a world view consistent with science, evidence, and reason? Or you have a different point of view and like to discuss these things? Or you just don't know, and want to think more about it? Welcome in the guild!


 * Some things we like to do here:


 * Discussing all things related to the guild theme: world views, ethics, philosophy, science, news and developments regarding humanism, secularism, atheism and religions, ... We value freedom of speech and good debates! All points of view that can be stated without violating Habitica's Community Guidelines are welcome.
 * Discussing all things related to the guild theme: world views, ethics, philosophy, science, news and developments regarding humanism, secularism, atheism and religions, ... We value freedom of speech and good debates! All points of view that can be stated without violating Habitica's Community Guidelines are welcome.


 * Learning more about basic concepts of the guild topic (for example, what do you know about Russel's teapot? And what is a tooth fairy agnostic?), sharing links and book recommendations.
 * Learning more about basic concepts of the guild topic (for example, what do you know about Russel's teapot? And what is a tooth fairy agnostic?), sharing links and book recommendations.


 * Trying to do our best for the common good, to act ethically, humanistically, altruistically - just because! (If we can show that atheists can be at least as good at it as religious believers, that's a nice side effect.)
 * Trying to do our best for the common good, to act ethically, humanistically, altruistically - just because! (If we can show that atheists can be at least as good at it as religious believers, that's a nice side effect.)


 * Search terms:


 * The search terms are in alphabetical order. Those that already appear in the guild name were left out. Some search terms are included in or interlaced with others. (For example, "disbeliefs" covers both "disbelief" and "beliefs".) Some search terms were even added deliberately to invite religious people and believers in the supernatural to a friendly debate where people don't all have the same opinion! (This is still experimental and will be changed if it doesn't work well.)


 * If you would like to see a term added or removed, please say so in guild chat!


 * afterlife after death, agnosticism, altruism, altruistically, altruists, areligiously, atheism, atheistically, bible, buddhism, christianity, churches, convictions, creationism, critically, debates, disbeliefs, disbelievers, disbelieving, discussions, deities, deity, divine, divinity, does god exist?, doctrines, doubts, empiricism, eternity, ethically, ethics, everything, evidence, evolution, faithless, faiths, fate, flying spaghetti monsters, freedom of religions, freedom of speeches, freethinkers, goddesses, godless, gods, good and evils, ghosts, guilt, heathens, heaven and hell, heretics, hinduism, holy, humanistically, ideals, ideas, indeterminism, infidels, intolerance, islam, jewish, judaism, karma, logic, love your neighbor, loving your fellow humans, morals, muslims, mysticism, neopaganism, nonbelievers, nondeterministically, nonexistence, nothingness, paranormal, pastafarianism, philosophically, philosophy, politics, prayers, preternatural, quran, nihilism, rationalism, rationalists, reason, responsibility, sacred, sciences, sects, secular humanism, secularism, secularists, sense of life, separation of church and states, sins, skepticism, society, souls, spiritualism, street epistemology, supernaturalism, superstitions, theology, thinking, thinkers, thoughts, torah, truths, unbelievers, undogmatic, unfalsifiability, universes, values, wiccan, world views, worldviews

The current "message from group leader" (aka speech bubble) links to this wiki page and sometimes also includes guild news and information about current activities (running challenges etc.).

Guild Leader
The current guild leader is Mara the Marine Marauder. She also has a wiki account.

Mara the Marine Marauder hereby gives her permission that, if she hasn't logged into Habitica for over a month, someone else can become guild leader. (The usual waiting time without the absent guild leader's permission is six months.) The new guild leader will then also have to take care of this wiki page (and/or find other wiki editors to help with it).

(Exception: If Mara the Marine Marauder goes on vacation without easy internet access for over a month, she will try to inform the guild beforehand and give an expected return date. It would be nice if, in that case, the month of absence could be counted from the expected return date.)

Guild History
The guild was originally named SHS: Atheists and Skeptics. It was created by No Flower Policy. (Thank you!)

The original guild logo was created by Mioree. Her profile also contains the description "Co-Founder of the SHS (Secular Humanist Society)" with a link to the guild. (Thank you, too!)

The "SHS" in the original guild name stands for "Secular Humanist Society" - but none of the currently active guild members knows exactly if that name referred to a society outside Habitica, or if the guild was that "Secular Humanist Society". (No Flower Policy hasn't logged into Habitica since January 26, 2016, and Mioree still logs in but doesn't react to private messages nor guild chat, so we can't ask them.) To the best of our knowledge, there are various local secular humanist societies, but no international or otherwise widely known society with that exact name. There is also a YouTube playlist named Secular Humanist Society (last updated on September 30, 2015), which No Flower Policy linked to in a challenge. We don't know if No Flower Policy created this playlist or was a fan of it, and if it was created before or after the guild.

Interesting Links
There isn't much here yet. We hope this list will grow!

This list is in no particular order (yet).


 * Wikipedia has articles on nearly everything that's mentioned anywhere in the guild description.
 * YouTube playlist Secular Humanist Society (link mentioned by guild creator No Flower Policy - see Guild History)
 * Street Epistemology (was mentioned in guild chat)

Related Guilds
Some are more related, some less...

This list is in alphabetical order.


 * Atheists, Feminists, and other No Good Commies
 * Effective Altruists
 * Pastafarians
 * The Bayesian Conspiracy
 * The Philosophers

Religious Guilds
... because it's interesting to know what other people believe (and the Guilds Guide doesn't list the smaller guilds).

This list is in alphabetic order.


 * Catholic Champions
 * Dar al-Arqam (a Muslim guild)
 * Disciples of Jesus
 * Eclectic Spiritualists' Guild
 * Everyday Buddhism
 * FOCUS - Fellowship of Catholic University Students
 * Followers of the Eightfold Path (a Buddhist guild)
 * Kemetic Temple
 * Knights of the Prayerful Rose (Catholic/Christian Habiticans and their friends)
 * Latter-day Saints
 * Moslem Guilds
 * Occult
 * Pagans for Justice Guild
 * Pagans of Habitica
 * Polytheists & Pagans
 * Scientific Illuminism (An occultism guild; the guild leader states that &apos;"Scientific Illuminism" was coined by Aleister Crowley to name his system of magical and mystical practices&apos;, and uses the term in that sense.)
 * The 'Clairs'- A Metaphysical Guild
 * Witches, Pagans, and Diviners

Contributing to This Wiki Page
Keeping wiki pages up to date is a lot of work, and help is always welcome! If you think something should be added, removed, or changed on this page, you can edit this wiki page yourself! If it is a major change, please notify the guild leader (before or after the edit) via Habitica Private Message, or chat in the Secular Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics guild, or wiki message wall. If it is a minor change (updating a link, adding a new guild, correcting a typo, etc.), notification isn't necessary. If you don't want to make the edit yourself, you can write your suggestions on this page's talk page, or tell them to the guild leader via PM, guild chat, or message wall, or ask for help in the Wizards of the Wiki guild.