Homo economicus’ Weblog

I am a volunteer for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Recently I attended the American Atheist Conference 2008 and last year the Atheist Alliance International Conference of 2007.

I am also a writer for Ask The Atheists. My user name on both is Homo economicus (a homage to both economics and biology) but my real name is John Sargeant.

My childhood experiences in the Jehovah’s Witnesses has made me particularly concerned about the labelling and indoctrinating of children. Hence one of the reasons why I am active, not least because a false view of science is promoted, and reason is effectively butchered in an attempt to allow dogma to reign supreme. Free thinking in such an organisation is not encouraged.

I am available for public speaking and talking about what it is like to grow up in such a cult and give advice on how you deal with relatives or friends who are members. Also available to those who are members themselves or have left that just want to talk – trust me it will be confidential and I am not going to judge you.

john_sarge@msn.com

At the AAI conference I have met so many people, both academics, writers and activists, that have encouraged me in the writing of this blog and in my posts on the forum as well as activism. This includes giving blood against Jehovah’s Witness dogma which would refuse a blood transfusion for an infant with critical blood loss – basically labelling a child with a parent’s belief and unnecessarily putting a child’s life at further risk. For more read this blog here. The video of me and my friends Joe (Matalanifesto) and Owen (Hyrax) giving blood here. I hope that you may be encouraged to do the same and to make that easier I have started a new blog on that which is about The Blood Challenge – Life over Death.

I read Economics and Politics at University (hence Adam Smith as avater), I am a big Morrissey and Douglas Adams fan. There is lots on www.myspace.com/homo_economicus if you want to know more and my introduction on RDF is included in this blog here.