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Nov
7
2:00 PM
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18 attended (est.) –
4.002
Our Program for Saturday, November 7th ... About Civil Rights & Liberties Our special guest will be Nigel Watson, a long serving member of the Board of the ACLU. A context of political and religious freedom is an essential aspect of the growth of Humanism over time. We will examine the current state of that freedom as it is tested in these tumultous times.
Our meeting is at the Clearwater East Public Library. More details will follow here later. For more information, see the newsletter appearing shortly on our Humanist society website JP
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9 Yes
3 Maybe
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Oct
3
2:00 PM
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23 attended (est.) –
4.506
Our Program for Saturday, October 3rd ... [
Our meeting is at the Clearwater East Public Library. More informaqtion will follow here later. For more information, see the newsletter appearing shortly on our Humanist society website JP
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8 Yes
3 Maybe
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Sep
5
2:00 PM
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33 attended (est.) –
4.503
Our Program for Saturday, September 5th ... Dave Dockery, President
of the Tampabay Computer Society
Technology Changes Everything
Our meeting is at the Clearwater East Public Library. Dave will share his extensive knowledge of the digital revolution, and how it will affect our shared future. For more information, see the newsletter appearing shortly on our Humanist society website JP
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9 Yes
3 Maybe
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Aug
1
2:00 PM
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7 attended (est.) –
4.002
Our Program for Saturday, August 1st... Special Guest: Sharon Gwozdz
Weathering the Stormy Seas[/c
Our meeting is back on track at the Clearwater East Public Library. Sharon will share her extensive knowledge of economics and personal planning, as we look at the economic developments of the past year and how they will affect our futures. For more information, see the newsletter on our Humanist society website JP
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Clearwater East Library
Largo,
FL, 33770
27.967281,-82.744087
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7 Yes
0 Maybe
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Jul
12
5:00 PM
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29 attended (est.) –
5.001
Our Program for Sunday, July 12... Special Guest: Rick O'Keefe
Why Curiosity leads to Inquiry This meeting will take place as a dinner meeting in the MESA room at TUSCON'S restaurant in Clearwater.
Food is not expensive, and our speaker promises to be most entertaining. What better way to spend a lazy summer's day than in the company of friendly, outgoing, intelligent, and curious people. See our Newsletter on line at our site here see you Sunday at 5 instead of the usual 2 pm!
Jim JP
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5 Yes
6 Maybe
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Jun
6
2:00 PM
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24 attended (est.) –
4.003
Our Program for Saturday, May 2nd ... Jihad
An Islamic holy quest, or a source of violence?
Led by Phil Cutajar For Moslems, the pursuit of Jihad as an internal quest to avert one’s attention from the world of sensory, emotional, and intellectual satisfactions to more completely unite with Allah, seems at first blush, worlds apart for the brutish wars and inchoate violence imposed by some aspiring to this pursuit.
Regardless of the economic, social and cultural impact of western culture, this worldwide synonym for cold minded, religiously inspired destruction on a mass scale focuses our attention on this critical religious doctrine.
Is this a recent development, as global communications and trade exacerbated the tensions and fears of the new, or has this behavior always been a part of this religion’s mission?
Many followers of Islam decry the stereotypes and the discrimination imposed by non-Islamic majorities. But are they being honest about their practices and doctrines, and are their grounds for the concerns of others? Join us for this important discussion. Philip Cutajar is a former Foreign Service Officer who moderates the Café Philo philosophy discussion
group at the Carrollwood Cultural Center in Tampa. A graduate of Columbia University, Philip is a long-time student of politico-military affairs and their relationship with religion. JP
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4 Yes
2 Maybe
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May
2
2:00 PM
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33 attended (est.) –
4.002
Our Program for Saturday, May 2nd ... Thomas Paine - A founder of the United States
An introduction to our country's greatest
revolutionary war patriot and Freethinker
Led by Joyce Chumbly "He attacked anything that seemed to him to sidetrack humanity's long struggle for the common good, liberty and rights of all people, especially those who were the victims of tyranny and terror, slavery and poverty....As he once wrote....'My motive and object....have been to rescue man from tyranny and false systems and false principles of government....he received very little money for the work he did on behalf of American, British or French liberty. He wrote because he thought he had to do his part, no matter how small, to serve the cause of human progress in the world."
"Paine's task, as he saw it, was to spread ...the message... that human beings could improve their living conditions when they acknowleddged the godliness of life itself and their own creative abilities tp transform political and social evils into liberty, equality and justice....he was not merely a deist..... but a pantheist, someone who believed that the spirit pf God, a power beyong human capacity to comprehend fully, was present in every aspect of life on earth." SB
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5 Yes
5 Maybe
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Apr
4
2:00 PM
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23 attended (est.) –
5.004
Our Program for Saturday, April 4th ...
Making Humanism a Living Philosophy for Everyday Life - Part B
For the majority of the world's people, religion forms the foundational worldview that determines the context of everyday life. In earlier times it held the only available knowledge about the the universe and its origins. Religion provided an organizing principle in constructing society and informing its institutions. These circumstances gave religion great power which it was not loathe to use in disciplining adherents and and non-believers alike through the power of the state. The landscape of urban areas all over the world is dominated by the architectural symbols of religious power and authority, even in places where such power no longer obtains. Careers have been made and lives lost in the struggle for and against the consequences of churchly power.
But despite the seemingly overwhelming power arrayed against doubters, skeptics, and outright atheists, we now find ourselves in a situation where a large proportion of the world's population has declared itself openly as "unchurched." In the U.S. alone, as many as 35 million of us declare our selves in that category. In Europe and Asia, the numbers are much higher.
How has this come to be? What will this mean for the condition of society as we strive to meet the enormous problems of runaway population growth, climate change, and resource depletion?
To understand more of the parameters of this question, we will present a short but provocative film by Richard Dawkins entitled, "The Root of all Evil". Afterward, we will host a group discussion of what we have seen to further enhance our appreciation of how we have changed. JP
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Clearwater East Library
Largo,
FL, 33770
27.967281,-82.744087
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7 Yes
2 Maybe
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Mar
7
2:00 PM
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23 attended (est.) –
4.002
Our Program for Saturday, March 7th ...
Making Humanism a Living Philosophy for Everyday Life As our world undergoes tremendous changes in its politics, economy, and the relationship between humanity and the natural world, we as a society are moving gradually, but inevitably toward a new synthesis in our attitude and thinking about life. Like every great moment in human experience, this change is no sudden entry upon the stage of history, but is an idea voiced once and yet again over the course of many thousands of years. From the writings of the first scientists, mathematicians and pre-socratic philosophers, and reverberating through the literature, insights and discoveries in our own time, the Humanist theme has accompanied the emergence of the fully developed person. But only in the last hundred years of so, has that theme been adopted explicitly in the form of organized Humanism as we find it today. The Freethought tradition is the first springboard for this organization, but other paths have also converged. Themes of empathy, sympathy, liberation and enlightenment have grown from a fierce passion for political liberty and freedom from theological oppression.
So what do we do now? On the base of such developments, how do we bring all humankind to the recognition of its own inherent freedom, and our individual potentials for creative living? In particular, how do we as an organized group meet these challanges? Lets talk about it. JP
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Clearwater East Library
Largo,
FL, 33770
27.967281,-82.744087
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2 Yes
3 Maybe
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Feb
7
2:00 PM
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25 attended (est.) –
4.503
Our Program for Saturday, February 7th ...
Science and the Humanistic Outlook from an Evolutionary Perspective This February 12th marks the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin, one of the great contributors to the scientific understanding of our world. While most people connect his name with the silly “monkey business” of the last century, the compass of Darwin’s efforts are most fully revealed in the landmark book, the Origin of Species. On this survey a great interrelated structure of ideas embrace the full spectrum of biological science, and not only explains the living world but provides a platform for the continuing transformation of humanity itself. Evolution is not a dry exercise in academic abstraction, but is the fertile ground for much of the improvements we have made to our own lives in this past century. Medicine, agriculture, and cosmology are only a few of the areas where evolution has played a pivotal role. Come join with us to examine this important science and find out how we can and will use it in our everyday lives. JP
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Clearwater East Library
Largo,
FL, 33770
27.967281,-82.744087
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6 Yes
4 Maybe
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