Secular beliefs are invariably religious positions.
It comes down to what you believe is axiomatic about the world.
For example, asserting that life is soulless and meaningless is to take a stand on something that you cannot know. It's a religious position.
All secular beliefs stem from similarly foundationless religious positions.
Or maybe not foundationless, but without acknowledgement of the religious roots (that is, positions that require faith), which is probably worse than acknowledging that the beliefs you hold cannot be proven.
It's worse because it leads people to believe they have a leg up on those religious clods with their backwards ways. When you don't recognize the things you assume about the world require faith, there is no corrective mechanism capable of opening your mind to other possibilities. Secular people and secular beliefs are ironically very close minded.
Take all the things that you believe to be true and work backwards to first principles. What are the assumptions that those principles require to be true?
The actual axiom is that real things are observable/that empiricism is true. That's not even a required secular thing; secular folks can believe in souls as well, or be rationalists, where what's real does not depend on what you can observe.
But for some subset of us, the soul is not measurable, nor can youcreate a test to determine whether something has a soul or not, so souls do not exist, by comparison to something like the electrical charge.
First off, it looks like you've really worked hard at this, and it looks really interesting. It's something that I would try if I saw it in a store. I would expect to find it at any of the health food stores locally.
I mean the following constructively:
Why the focus on ditching alcohol? It's a big turn-off and I'm not even a regular drinker.
Seems like the wrong messaging immediately.
Sell your product on its own merit, not with an up-front negative message that judges people's alcohol intake.
I stopped drinking alcohol three years ago because, as I was getting older, it wasn't working for me anymore. Two or three beers and I would feel it the next day.
The drink was born out of the desire to create an alternative to alcoholic drinks.
Also, there is a big movement away from alcohol right now, with people looking for alternatives and I was hoping to tap into this.
But, looking at the site with a fresh eye, I think you're making a good point. Perhaps it comes across as a little judgy.
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll do some thinking.
Non and low alcohol is a massively growing market - it's not about judgement, but about creating an adult drink that doesn't have alcohol. Whether that's for people on medication, designated drivers, recovers, or those who just want something else.
It's very common to market these sorts of drinks as non/low alcohol as that's part of the appeal.
Very true, I'm a frequent person to Kava/Kratom bars where I live and there are several of them with lots of regular clients so non-alcoholic beverages seem to be a good market.
Truth has no relation to news and news is not about observation of fact.
Even if you witness events yourself, your understanding of what occurred is a narrative you tell, not truth.
All truths and history are interpretations within religious (or ideological) frameworks. Truth as we use the word is not attainable.
There are no exceptions to this!