By Neece
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We are meeting March 20 at 2pm at Joe and David’s Farm to celebrate the Spring Equinox with a Potluck dinner. We will also finish up The God Virus.
- Potluck Dinner
- BYO Beverages
- We’ll talk and vote on our Secular Service endeavor
- We’ll finish up The God Virus
- Merriment will ensue!
NOTE: This is INSTEAD OF meeting March 21. We are now meeting the day before. Any questions, email Neece.
I forgot to bring up the subject of our Secular Service in our regular meeting! So we’ll spend a few minutes when we get together for this meeting, gathering ideas and then getting a tally on which service we’re all most interested in. So bring your ideas or comment here with suggestions if you can’t make the meeting.
Directions Below.
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We had so much discussion for The…
By Neece
Dave told us about this video at our meeting last Sunday. This is Julia Child cooking up a batch of Primordial Soup. Here is the description:
Julia Child cooks up a batch of primordial soup and explains how these simple ingredients produce amino acids – the building blocks of life. This video played in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Life in The Universe gallery from 1976 until the gallery closed.
I never watched her cooking show, but I’ve heard she never took herself too seriously, always made fun of herself a bit, and seemed to have fun. She is quite endearing in this video. I hope you enjoy it.
By Neece
We are meeting December 6 at 5 pm for our regular monthly get together.
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Dec 7th Update:
Yesterday’s meeting was amazingly successful! Thanks to the 22 people who showed up to make it interesting, lively and fun.
We ran the gamut from christian apologist to deists to a bunch of godless athesists. Rachel brought tracts to hand out as well as great arguments for why we should believe in god. Her arguments were classic but I think we held our own and had fun refuting her reasoning.
Godless Heathens Converted: 0 (although Joe raised his hand when she asked if anyone accepted her arguments and wanted to convert, but I think he was just being supportive since he was pretending to be on her side and help her out. Joe you can clarify if you were really converted!)
At any rate, it was fun. Afterwards, we hung out and…
By Neece
Our October meeting was on October 11 at 5 pm. Same bat channel at the Blue Moose in Morgantown.
The October Theme was: My Personal 10 Commandments.
Make a list of 10 (or less) New Personal Commandments. These are 10 rules or virtues you set for yourself that you might hang on your wall, keep on your desk, or wish to teach to others. These 10 Commandments are like your personal creed for living. Write them down and bring your list. We’ll share them at the meeting.
Remember to keep each commandment succinct. It will be easier to remember.
Also, call it whatever you like. You certainly don’t need to call them commandments. That’s just used for familiarity.
EDIT: I found this and thought it might help you: A List of Virtues. It seems interesting for at least looking at a list of virtues that you might connect…
By Neece
Here is a video clip from the Colbert Report the other night (Sept 30). Stephen Colbert interviews Richard Dawkins. It’s almost 6 minutes long:
Oh, and take note of Dawkin’s tie! It’s Crocoduck tiled! LOL!
Cross-posted from Heaving Dead Cats
By Neece
I think this might be my favorite so far! Mr. Deity is a very funny video series.
Mr. Deity and Da Man
Go to MrDeity.com to see all of the episodes from the beginning. You can subscribe to them through iTunes as well.
By Neece
We had a good meeting at the Blue Moose! Thanks for attending, everyone. We had about 10 people. 
We talked about logical fallacies and socialized a bit. Please email the information that you shared to Neece so that I can post it to share with everyone. I’ll be posting the different fallacies as I get them.
September Topic of the Evening: Your Favorite Logical Fallacy
We all chose a logical fallacy and talked a bit about it.
So, for this meeting:
- bring your logical fallacy
- an explanation of what it is
- several examples to share with us
- If someone uses that fallacy on you, how would you refute it?
- Bring a legible copy of your notes for us to post on this site after the meeting, to share with everyone. Even better, send a companion email to Neece before the meeting so
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By Neece
Here’s something Rachel over at Morgantown Brights shared with me since we’ve been talking about logical fallacies lately.
Nothing can reduce your happiness faster than an argument with an irrational co-worker. You can’t win irrational people over to your side by your superior reasoning abilities. And you can’t talk them into getting inside abandoned refrigerators and closing the door to see if the light goes out. There simply aren’t that many abandoned refrigerators. If you use the refrigerator in the break room, everyone will start whining about how there’s no room for yogurt. Until there are more refrigerators, or less yogurt, you will find yourself in frustrating discussions that can have no good endings.Trying to win an argument with an irrational person is like trying to teach a cat to snorkel by providing written instructions. No matter how clear your instructions, it won’t work. Your best strategy is to
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