Brights

Also got this fabric from Big Horn Quilts in the US - I needed some shirting fabrics for a block background, and added a few other things, to make it worth the Global Priority Mail postage - some more Civil War repros, and a couple of crazy brights from the sale bin, which will be used for pencil rolls for some upcoming birthday parties (I told you there were lots of them coming up!) ❋ Katelnorth (2008)

“A Street in Brittany” by Stanhope Forbes shows the characteristic look achieved by brushes that we would call brights or flats. ❋ James Gurney (2008)

Mondo is going very literal with the "brights" theme and is basing his design on the idea of a kaleidoscope, while "bright" for Ivy recalls the beaches of Hawaii; she's planning an electric blue gown ... with waves on it. ❋ Una LaMarche (2010)

The responses by Zachriel and Raevmo could not more clearly illustrate how they perceive themselves; atheists are 'brights', theists are idiots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If your a Woman aged 50-79 it would be 6.3% over 7.7 years, this is much less than the 7.0% recorded for the "brights". ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm motivated to indulge in the latter because so many 'brights' constantly and savagely lampoon the alleged nuttiness of religious people's views. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The same bizarre intellectual dissonance emanates from 'brights' when they start prattling on about the probable, in their view, unintentional origin and nature of codes (for even Morse code is, on their view, simply part of the materialist's natural continuum, minds being naturally evolved brains and all, dontchaknow). ❋ Unknown (2007)

As if it's fine for 'brights' to insult others while themselves demanding immunity from insult. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And to think that 'brights' accuse religious people of blind faith, fundamentalism, dogmatism, not being willing to go wherever the evidence leads, and harboring unfalsfiable ideas. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Whether they call themselves "brights" or "enLIGHTenists" is all the same to me. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And Sonja Cohen tracks an unusually rich week of Unitarian Universalists in the media, with the "Our Whole Lives" sexuality education curriculum on NPR, Rep. Pete Stark's humanism getting a trumpet blast from the "brights," and Pete Seeger talking about his spirituality with Beliefnet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Was it Odious who said that the self- described "brights" should be called "smugs"? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Remember Richard Dawkins's suggestion that atheists start calling themselves "brights"? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Chutney, the savant at MyIrony, has written a rip-roaring review of the way "brights" theorize about religion. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There's too much crammed into Edward Rothstein's column in the New York Times this week — he jumps into the vast ocean of the "reason vs. faith" debate, commenting on everything from the anti-religious "brights" movement heralded by Dawkins and Dennett to Alan Wolfe's new book, The transformation of American religion — but the last five paragraphs are worth pondering. ❋ Unknown (2003)