August 2012 Freethinker Meeting

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August 2012 Freethinker Meeting

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Howdy Freethinkers, just a note to let you know we'll be gathering for our August freethinker meeting this Saturday.

It will be a week early this month because, as we hinted in last month's notice, the last weekend is not available to us. And a heads up for next
month... our meeting will be on *Sunday* September 30th. In case you are ever wondering, the next meeting date is always posted on the front
page of our website: fayfreethinkers.com

Also, the links to the video clips we played at our last meeting are posted in our forum here.

So what are we going to do at this meeting? Well, glad you asked:

Darrel went to The Amazing Meeting 2012 and was inspired by a lecture by the physicist Lawrence Krauss. As good as that lecture was, we will be watching a
similar but even better video presentation by Dr. Krauss. He'll bring us right up to date on what we know about the universe. If you don't want to know
how the universe began, and how it is going to end, do not come to this meeting! As accessible as this presentation is to the non-specialist, we'll still have our in house
physicists standing by to take questions afterward.

Feisty Linda will tell us the good news about the growth of secularism in the US and around the world, and she has a stumper of a
moral question for us to reason our way through and solve.

We'll have several other things going on of course but those haven't been entirely figured out yet. Hey, we're still recovering from our vacations okay?

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Meeting Details:

When: Saturday, August 18, 2012.

Where: The Fayetteville Public Library. 401 W. Mountain
St. (two blocks west of the town square). Library phone: 571-2222.

Time: 2:00 - 4:30 pm

Room: The Walker Room, the main meeting room. Go in the front door, through the
lobby and to your right. You can bring a snack or coffee from Arsaga's in the library lobby.

Map: http://tinyurl.com/b3sfgf

ps. At the last meeting there was a discussion about the definition of "murder" in the Ten commandments. Here is the link to excerpts
from the article by Dan Barker that was referred to and some asked to see:

viewtopic.php?p=23084#p23084
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Re: August 2012 Freethinker Meeting

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At our August meeting the Fayetteville Freethinkers presented our local University of Arkansas freethinker group (Secular Student Alliance affiliate) the gift of two six foot banners that will come in handy at their events:

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Clips we played at our August meeting:

'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOGi-MXhbEs

Secularism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6Fd_2yNt4

The BEST emotional PORN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSqJ-7tg0Eo

Jack Schaap Demonstrates How To Polish A Shaft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr0UpQXYkGs

Chick-Fil-A Promo (Parody): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxFJm-lbZQ
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