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Thomas Paine Dinner: January 29

Thomas_Paine-smallThe Morgantown Thomas Paine Society is having a dinner in honor of Thomas Paine on his birthday, on Friday, January 29th. He was born in 1737.

A chili dinner will be held at 6pm at Kent’s home in Morgantown. Kent and Lynne will cook chili and cornbread. Guests should bring drink/desserts

The First Annual Thomas Paine Doubles Ping Pong Tourney will be held

Dinner,drinks,ping pong ,and casual talk from 6 to 8 , then some serious Paine discussion for about 1 hour starts about 8. Bring a quote, comment, reading, or just contribute/listen. The loose ‘focus’ is “the later years: 1793-1809.

Contact Tim for details: timothynelms@hotmail.com, 304-685-9673 to reserve your seat.

Winter Solstice Party December 20

Celebrate Winter Solstice 2009
Sponsored by Morgantown Coalition of Reason

Bring Back the Sun!

~Update: The party was a great success! I am quite confident that the sun will return after our chanting, prayer to Marduk, fire walking, fire twirling and general merriment.

You can see the pictures I took of the chanting and fire twirling here.

Here’s our bonfire. Click the above link or the picture to see the whole album. :D

Jim, thank you so much for hosting a great party. It was great fun. :D

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Happy National Secular Service Day!

A Rescue MissionSunday, October 18, 2009 marks the first ever National Secular Service Day. Today, nonreligious organizations all over America will unite in performing acts of community service.

One of our missions as Morgantown Atheists is to help others and offer public service, and we are looking forward to participating next year. Unfortunately we found out about it a bit too late this year to organize anything for today.

The NSSD offers suggestions for Service Ideas:

  • Volunteer at a homeless shelter.
  • Work in a local soup kitchen.
  • Bake cookies for a firehouse
  • Help build houses in weather damaged areas.
  • Help with construction at a local park or other public area.
  • Clean up a park or other part of the community.
  • Start or participate in a mentoring program (i.e. Big Brother, Big Sister)
  • Pick up trash on a highway.
  • Restore trails or habitats in a National, State,

The Demography of Unbelief

“Who Are These Doubters, Anyway? The Demography of Unbelief”

Tom-Flynn-09presented by Tom Flynn, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism and Editor of Free Inquiry magazine

Thursday, October 29, 7:00 p.m.
Carnegie Science Center
1 Allegheny Avenue, Pittsburgh

You’ve seen the various religion polls and the reported percentages of unbelievers – and the polls vary widely.  How do you know which polls are more reliable?  Join Tom Flynn as he explores how sociologists and pollsters measure religious belief and unbelief.  He will also cover the controversies and scandals in the polling field, and what the polling data on religion really mean (for example, how many of those “no religious preference” people are really atheists?).

Tom Flynn is Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism and the Editor of Free Inquiry magazine.  A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and folklorist, Flynn is the author of numerous…

Darwin’s Ventriloquists by Jonathan Marks, Ph.D.

Professor-Jonathan-Marks

Monday, October 12, 2009 at 7:30 pm in the Mountainlair Blue Ballroom.

You are invited to the 2009 Eberly College Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, in association with the Division of Sociology and Anthropology, on Monday, October 12, 2009. Dr. Jonathan Marks, professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, will be delivering a presentation entitled Darwin’s Ventriloquists, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Blue Ballroom. There will be a reception held afterwards in the Gold Ballroom.

This event is intended as a counterpoint to last spring’s lecture by J. Philippe Rushton.

Human evolution expert Jonathan Marks, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, believes today’s training of modern scientists commonly shields them from the history and politics of their work, forcing generations of evolutionary geneticists to rediscover the intimate connection between science and culture.

“What we…

Learn To Deal With The Media

basement cat hell in a handbasketOn October 4th, Fred Edwords from United Coalition of Reason came to Morgantown to talk to us about the media and PR.

Fred Edwords is a public speaker well known to humanists, freethinkers, and religious liberals, and a specialist in media and PR areas. He is the head of UnitedCoR.

The seminar  was 4 hours and was both informative and extremely helpful to our organization as we grow and move forward. It will also be helpful to us as individuals in our chosen fields.

Brent and I took a lot of notes, and Fred gave us several useful handouts. We then went to dinner at Mi Pueblos which was delicious, as always. Fred and his lovely wife Mary are great company.

Thank you, Fred, for the excellent seminar and the great conversation over dinner! :)

Teaming Up, Doing Good

thinking outside the boxHello Everyone!

The billboard is up and making the news! You can see all the press we’ve gotten so far here: http://morgantown.unitedcor.org/press . Some of the comments at the different articles are fun and interesting. The Charleston Gazette has 100 comments, the most popular story at the moment. It appears that there are about 3 or 4 positive to each negative comment! Here is the link: http://wvgazette.com/News/200909290601

Rachel has done a great job as our spokesperson. She even got on TV: http://wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=67641 Watch the video too!

So, MorgantownCoR comprises the Morgantown Atheists, the Morgantown Brights, the Freethinkers Morgantown Book Club and the Morgantown Thomas Paine Society. One thing we all want to do is make a positive difference in our community. Through our actions, we can show the traditionally religious people in our area that we are good, moral…

We Need Your Happy Face!

ooh shiny!Hey Everyone!

Monday afternoon we need to all meet under our shiny new billboard on the Mileground to get a great group picture!  Which means we need YOU!

The time will probably be around 5:30 pm or a bit after, so that people can meet after work.

Email Neece or leave a comment letting us know you’ll be there. This is very important that we get this picture, hopefully with lots of people, so please try to come.

The billboard location is near Melvin’s Transmission on Mileground Road, westbound into town.

Here’s the map for the billboard on Google. The street view really shows you the situation.

Brent scouted the area for us. He recommends coming in from 68, not through Morgantown as the traffic at that time of day is pretty bad.

Drive most of the way down the Mileground, past the car dealerships, and the…

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