Ariane Sherine

@arianesherine
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Singer-songwriter: debut solo pop album BETTER out soon under artist name Ariane X.
 Journalism: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Esquire, New Statesman, Independent, Independent on Sunday, NME. 
Books: The Real Sinéad O’Connor (2024, White Owl); The How of Happy (2022), How to Live to 100 (2020), Talk Yourself Better (2018), all Hachette; The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas (2009), HarperCollins.
 Mixed race Asian Londoner. British/American. She/Her.
Ariane SherineJan 14
My boyfriend has joked that he's going to stop talking, but he won't. He *is* an extrovert, but not the annoying kind. We all know the annoying kind: loud, brash and convinced of their own self-importance, for absolutely no reason. A couple of world leaders spring to mind. https://arianesherine.substack.com/p/im-going-to-stop-talking
Ariane SherineJan 13
Every time I take a photo in this black jacket with hood, I feel like a traitor.
Ariane SherineJan 12
Weirdly, atheism turns you guys off and what you seem to want is TMI about my sex life and romantic problems. Well, I am nothing if not an oversharer, so here's my brand new blog theme! (Free to read.) https://arianesherine.substack.com/p/behold-my-brand-new-blog-theme
Ariane SherineJan 9

Me: I have a gorgeous man who loves me. What more could I want?

Boyfriend: I'm not going to offer you a list of suggestions in case you take me up on them!

Ariane SherineJan 9
What would it take for me to believe in God? "Firstly, I would have to be convinced that whatever I was seeing or hearing wasn’t me hallucinating or hearing voices. Scientifically speaking, there is zero evidence of God and a lot of evidence that people develop mental health problems." https://arianesherine.substack.com/p/what-would-it-take-for-you-to-believe
Ariane SherineJan 7
Do you ever wish you could go back in time and do-over your life? Here's why it's a bad idea. https://arianesherine.substack.com/p/why-regret-is-almost-always-futile
Ariane SherineJan 6
It's the 17th anniversary of the Atheist Bus Campaign today, and a kid who was born on its launch date of 6th January 2009 would be nearly an adult now. The campaign is all but forgotten, but it really pissed a lot of people off at the time, and here's why. (Free to read.) https://arianesherine.substack.com/p/6-its-the-17th-anniversary-of-the
Ariane SherineJan 5
If my body and mind were still in good nick and I were able to live independently, I would happily live to 200, or even 500, if that were possible. But living for eternity sounds like hell - life would become like Groundhog Day. https://arianesherine.substack.com/p/5-why-living-forever-would-be-a-curse
Ariane SherineJan 4
Sam Harris says we don’t have free will and have no control over our actions, so must accept that we would have acted the same way as criminals had we been in their shoes. It is, ironically, a kind of ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ argument.
https://arianesherine.substack.com/p/4-do-we-have-free-will
Ariane SherineJan 2
My second entertaining free-to-read Atheist Thought for the Day is about the thorny problem of God's existence and atheists' inability to prove a negative - and also about how you won't want to come round to my house. https://arianesherine.substack.com/p/the-problem-of-god-and-the-milk