In the patriarchal Kazakh society, women have traditionally been the keepers of the home. Everything related to the household was considered their responsibility, which was fair since women didn’t work and spent their entire day managing the home, while men earned money.
However, later on, women began striving for equality and started working outside the home. Despite this, the stereotype …
Billions of years ago, with the emergence of life on Earth, the simplest living beings initially reproduced by division, budding, fragmentation, spores, and so on. With this method of reproduction, almost any living creature could produce offspring.
Later, through evolution, a more complex method of reproduction appeared – sexual reproduction, that is, the mating of two individuals of different sexes …
Read moreWhen you carry one stone in one place every day, no one notices it.
Then comes the day when you stand on top of a mountain of your stones.
Everyone is jealous of you and wants to take your place.
But few people want to wear one stone every day.
I could never understand people who don’t accept criticism.
They get offended by any comments addressed at them; zealously watching that no one makes caustic remarks behind their back; any unflattering statement and they’re ready to pounce at you with fists or sarcastically exclaim: “Look at yourself.”
I feel sorry for these people.
To hide from criticism is like turning …
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Long before the appearance of modern religions, certain rules of behavior had developed in human society. People wanted to live in safety and not be killed by stronger tribesmen, so there was a social agreement not to kill each other without a good reason. People wanted to protect their personal property while they were hunting or …
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All the major religions that exist today claim that everything on Earth was created by God and that everything in nature works according to the laws of God.
We atheists disagree with this. We claim that all phenomena in nature are subject to natural laws, that is, the laws of physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and so …
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My friends!
Today I am starting a series of atheist sermons. And my first sermon will be dedicated not to atheism and not to religion, but to tolerance.
We are like-minded people, but we must always remember the diversity of humanity, that there are many people with different views, including on faith and religion. We …
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Life on planet Earth originated about 4 billion years ago, thanks to the coincidence of many favorable circumstances. This includes temperature, light, and the presence of appropriate gases: oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and so on. As a result of all this, life appeared on one of the billions of planets.
At first it was just inorganic compounds …
Read moreQuestions of faith and religion have interested mankind from time immemorial. Disputes about God do not abate today, hundreds of thousands of years after the first signs of religion appeared.
They also worry me, a convinced atheist.
I often become a participant in discussions on this topic.
Over the years, I have formed my own vision of the world, humanity, …
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This is a story from an acquaintance of mine. I have no reason to doubt her.
She is from Western Kazakhstan, but it so happened that she fell in love with a guy from the South and married him. They now have a daughter. They live with her husband’s family in Astana.
Here’s what her life looks like now: every …
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