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“I discuss how as a child, I was a sexual subject to discuss, I was sexually used and sexually exploited, I was a sexual problem to be avoided, and I was a sexual customer to serve for a fee. I was not considered a child human being worth being cared for and loved, and I was not considered a child worth living for and worth dying for.” -Antonio Myers.

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“Understanding Celebrity Culture

Celebrity culture has grown substantially in recent years and has had a staggering impact on our society. Understanding celebrity culture involves understanding the power of fame and its implications, as well as its influence on modern culture. It is argued that celebrity culture has led to an unhealthy obsession with celebrities and their lives – leading to a number of psychological consequences such as low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. On the other hand, it could be argued that celebrity culture has positive effects such as fostering creativity and allowing people to be inspired by admired public figures. It can also be inspirational when you do a net worth lookup and find out the earning possibilities; that can be a strong motivator to work harder!

Although celebrity culture can extend far beyond the media, there is no denying the fact that it is heavily influenced by media outlets. By creating an idealistic world based on glamorized versions of reality, this often produces unrealistic expectations for viewers who aim to recreate these images in everyday life. Additionally, exploitation of personal information can cause a great deal of distress for celebrities in terms of privacy concerns, legal implications, and reputational damage.” -https://fault-magazine.com/2023/02/understanding-celebrity-culture-how-fame-impacts-society/#

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“Evidence indicates that poor mental health is correlated with celebrity worship.[13] Researchers have examined the relationship between celebrity worship and mental health in United Kingdom adult samples. One study found evidence to suggest that the intense-personal celebrity worship dimension was related to higher levels of depression and anxiety. Similarly, another study in 2004, found that the intense-personal celebrity worship dimension was not only related to higher levels of depression and anxiety, but also higher levels of stress, negative affect, and reports of illness. Both these studies showed no evidence for a significant relationship between either the entertainment-social or the borderline-pathological dimensions of celebrity worship and mental health.[14]

Another correlated pathology examined the role of celebrity interest in shaping body image cognitions. Among three separate UK samples (adolescents, students, and older adults), individuals selected a celebrity of their own sex whose body/figure they liked and admired, and then completed the Celebrity Attitude Scale along with two measures of body image. Significant relationships were found between attitudes toward celebrities and body image among female adolescents only.[6]

The findings suggested that, in female adolescence, there is an interaction between intense-personal celebrity worship and body image between the ages of 14 and 16, and some tentative evidence suggest that this relationship disappears at the onset of adulthood, which is between the ages of 17 and 20. These results are consistent with the authors who stress the importance of the formation of relationships with media figures, and suggest that relationships with celebrities perceived as having a good body shape may lead to a poor body image in female adolescents. This can be again supported by a study carried out, which investigated the link between mass media and its direct correlation to poor self-worth/ body image in a sample group of females between the ages of 17 and 20.[5]

Within a clinical context the effect of celebrity might be more extreme, particularly when considering extreme aspects of celebrity worship. Relationships between the three classifications of celebrity worship (entertainment-social, intense-personal and borderline-pathological celebrity worship and obsessiveness), ego-identity, fantasy proneness and dissociation were examined. Two of these variables drew particular attention: fantasy proneness and dissociation. Fantasy proneness involves fantasizing for a duration of time, reporting hallucinatory intensities as real, reporting vivid childhood memories, having intense religious and paranormal experiences. Dissociation is the lack of a normal integration of experiences, feelings, and thoughts in everyday consciousness and memory; in addition, it is related to a number of psychiatric problems.[15]

Though low levels of celebrity worship (entertainment-social) are not associated with any clinical measures, medium levels of celebrity worship (intense-personal) are related to fantasy proneness (approximately 10% of the shared variance), while high levels of celebrity worship (borderline-pathological) share a greater association with fantasy proneness (around 14% of the shared variance) and dissociation (around 3% of the shared variance, though the effect size of this is small and most probably due to the large sample size). This finding suggests that as "celebrity worship becomes more intense, and the individual perceives having a relationship with the celebrity, the more the individual is prone to fantasies."[16]

Celebrity worship syndrome can lead to the manifestation of unhealthy tendencies such as materialism and compulsive buying, which can be supported by a study carried out by Robert. A. Reeves, Gary. A. Baker and Chris. S. Truluck. The results of this study link high rates of celebrity worship to high rates of materialism and compulsive buying.[17].” -Wikipedia.

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“Human rights activism seeks to protect basic rights such as those laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights including such liberties as: right to life, citizenship, and property, freedom of movement; constitutional freedoms of thought, expression, religion, peaceful assembly; and others.[28] The foundations of the global human rights movement involve resistance to colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, segregation, patriarchy, and oppression of indigenous peoples.[29] Environmental activism takes quite a few forms:

the protection of nature or the natural environment driven by a utilitarian conservation ethic or a nature oriented preservationist ethic

the protection of the human environment (by pollution prevention or the protection of cultural heritage or quality of life)

the conservation of depletable natural resources

the protection of the function of critical earth system elements or processes such as the climate.” -Wikipedia. “I am called to do all of the above.

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“I adore media ability, media aptitude, media intelligence, media innate qualities, media powers, media potency, media worth, media talent, media gift, media genius, media capability, media competence, media proficiency, media adeptness, media qualifications, media knowledge, media self-sufficiency, media technique, media craft, media skill, media artistry, media skillfulness, media dexterity, media facility, media flair, media finesse, media mastery, media cleverness, media deftness, media experience, media ingenuity, media strength, media understanding, media faculty, media comprehension, media makings, media sense, media what it takes, media brains, media knack, media the hang of something, and media know-how. I discuss the consequences of media ignorance, media incompetence, and media inexperience.” Antonio Myers. “I hate others-abasement, others-blame, others-destructive behaviour, others-harm, others-hatred, others-neglect, and others-victimization.” -Antonio Myers.

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“I am the kind of person who avoids media abuse, media misuse, media debasement, media degradation, media desecration, media injury, media damage, media harm, media hurt, media wrong, media injustice, media insult, media mistreatment, media violation, media malevolence, media mishandling, media mismanagement, media pollution, media defilement, media perversion, and media spiritual prostitution because I prioritize media care, media respect, and media veneration.” -Antonio Myers.

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“I have the freedom to not clap back, pushback, blowback, talk back, comeback, backlash, tongue-lash, whiplash, fling back, hit-back, fight back, bounce back, hurl back, feud, blood feud, type back, write back, answer, respond, reply, return, retort, reciprocate, counterattack, counter, retweet, repost, retaliate, riposte, react, acknowledge, give tit for tat, take the bait, rise to the bait, say something, return the favor, respond in kind, greet, and meet when it comes to my hecklers, trolls, detractors, haters, naysayers, and mean-spirited critics.” -Antonio Myers.

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“The media doesn’t cover negativity wholesomely and its coverage is spent more on negativity than positivity. I am advanced pertaining to media literacy. I choose to be independent media of me. I refuse to be the temporal “feel good” story of the media. The “feel bad stories” are the majority of the media’s coverage, and the media’s wealth. It (meaning the media) has consumers who demand negative stories more than the positive stories. Its viewership consumers have heightened anxiety, heightened depression, heightened suicidal ideation, and heightened body image issues largely because of media exposure. The media’s negative stories play a role in the committal of crimes, and high lying problems instead of highlighting solutions to problems. I refuse to be the media’s “shiny object.” I refuse to media interviews for any and all media platforms. I enjoy complete control over my image and my likeness.” -Antonio Myers. “The media prides itself on being careless, loose, lax, remiss, unguarded, incautious, forgetful, unthinking, unobservant, reckless, unheeding, indiscreet, inadvertent, unconcerned, wasteful, regardless, imprudent, unconsidered, hasty, inconsiderate, heedless, mindless, untroubled, negligent, neglectful, thoughtless, indifferent, casual, oblivious, absent-minded, listless, abstracted, nonchalant, blasé, undiscerning, offhand, slack, blundering, and rash. The media is not thoughtful, not attentive, and not careful. Clearly, I am not talking about everyone in the media.” -Antonio Myers.

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“1. Resilience. Keeping going even when things are looking dark.

2. Empathy. The capacity to connect imaginatively with the sufferings and unique experiences of another person.

3. Patience. We should grow calmer and more forgiving by getting more realistic about how things actually tend to go.

4. Sacrifice. We won’t ever manage to raise a family, love someone else or save the planet if we don’t keep up with the art of sacrifice.

5. Politeness. Politeness is very linked to tolerance, the capacity to live alongside people whom one will never agree with, but at the same time, can’t avoid.

6. Humour. Like anger, humour springs from disappointment, but it’s disappointment optimally channelled.

7. Self-Awareness. To know oneself is to try not to blame others for one’s troubles and moods; to have a sense of what’s going on inside oneself, and what actually belongs to the world.

8. Forgiveness. It’s recognising that living with others isn’t possible without excusing errors.

9. Hope. Pessimism isn’t necessarily deep, nor optimism shallow.

10. Confidence. Confidence isn’t arrogance, it’s based on a constant awareness of how short life is and how little we ultimately lose from risking everything.” -Alain de Botton, a Swiss philosopher. These all apply to Non-Christians (the faith based ones and the secular ones.) Non-Christians are not “pure evil” and not “pure hell.”

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““Humanism is the only — I would go so far as saying the final — resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.” – Edward W. Said was a University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.” — George Santayana was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

“We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or earned. We are really talking about humanism.” – Gloria Steinem, feminist and author.

“Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.” – Barbara G. Walker is the author of Man Made God and The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets.

“Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.” – Joss Whedon is an American screenwriter, film and television director and producer, composer and actor.

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator. There doesn’t need to be a god for me. There’s something in people that’s spiritual, that’s godlike.” – Angelina Jolie, actor.

“What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.” – Sam Harris, an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist, is the co-founder and chief executive of Project Reason. He is the author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation.

“I’m an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.” – Katharine Hepburn, actor.

“It is quite possible to be an atheist and be quite deluded about other things other than religion. ‘A-theism’ is an empty category. ‘Humanism’ may be deluded about human potential, but at least it is a hopeful and non-exclusionary delusion!” – Joyce Carol Oates AHA Humanist of the Year and prolific author.

“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.” – Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science popularize. In 1981 he received the AHA’s Humanist of the Year award. “I have something to say (about atheists) to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil — you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself” – Dan Barker is the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

“I have known many good people who did not believe in God. But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people.” – John Lovejoy Elliott was an Ethical Culture Leader at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. An Atheist and Humanist Conversation

A group of current and historical atheists and humanists communicate the often intertwined nature of humanism and atheism clearly.” -American Humanist Association.

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