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restriction: 21+ only, due to free flowing alcohol.

this is not an atheist event. it's a new year's party, like some awesome new year's parties past.

bring $10 worth of Alcohol of your liking. bring cool friends. if you have a group of 5, bring a $50 bottle of liquor. you do the math. if you don't drink, bring food.
we will provide food, mixers, and soft drinks--you provide the "hard drinks."
warning: party tends to be LOUD AND LIQUORED.
i do not know why it says erotic party below--but it sure does sound fun.

toan

NYE Potluck@Del Cerro
because you're probably gonna watch NYE on TV anyways
Event Info Host: yours truly
Type: Party - Erotic Party
Network: Global
Time and Place Start Time: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 9:00pm
End Time: Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 1:00am
Location: My hause
Street: 6512 Del Cerro Blvd
City/Town: San Diego, CA
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Hi folks,

A few of us are getting together to make decorations for the Anniversary party next Friday. We'll be meeting in the Hillcrest/downtown area to make darwin theme decorations from whatever craft/art/odds and ends we have around.

Please feel free to join us in an orgy of crafty goodness. Email me if you're interested!

-Katherine

Hi Ladies,

Come for a relaxing evening of chat and coffee at Cafe Libertalia in the heart of Hillcrest this evening.
If you're hungry, we can cross the street for organic pizza, salads and other fine foods at Pizza Nova.
We talk about everything from Dawkins to decorating each month in a casual venue asked for by popular demand.

If you haven't been to Cafe Libertalia Parking can be a bit tricky so here are a few suggestions courtesy of Donna:

"There are usually street parking spots on 4th Avenue and below (3rd, 2nd, etc.) There are $3 all night lots: John's Luggage, 4th Ave (thru the WaMu parking lot from the Cafe); a public lot on 5th btwn Robinson & Pennsylvania; California Bank & Trust, also on 5th btwn Robinson & Pennsylvania."

-Katherine

Hello everyone!

It can be intimidating to join a new group without knowing anyone, so what could be better than a meeting where getting to know one another is the theme? All new members are invited to attend this bi-monthly event. Libertalia's meeting room in Hillcrest is the place where we'll drink coffee and other warm beverages while chatting.

Look for the Meetup sign, that's us!

We'll have the new member get together every other month, so if you can't come to one, you can always come to another one later.

-Katherine

Some people tell me that reading Dawkins or Harris makes them feel less forlorn in an America where questioning religious dogmas still seems to be one of the big taboos. They feel that atheist writers like Harris and Dawkins are urgently needed in the US today where being a ‘confessing atheist’ is still perceived by many as a recipe for isolation; where a presidential candidate either has to be religious or pretend to be in order to have a chance to be voted into the White House; and where the influence and might of the religious right is widely perceived by secular Americans to be over-inflated and dangerous.
But many also criticize Harris and Dawkins. Harris for example has been accused to “foster an intolerance towards faith, potentially as damaging as the religious fanaticism which he opposes”. Other critics find his analysis of religious extremism flawed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris_(author)). Harris and Dawkins both at times seem to be fighting a straw man or a caricature of religion that might reflect views held at the extreme fringes but overall has not much in common with the religious realities of the vast majority of Christians or Muslims alike.

In our next discussion night we would like to discuss the question if writers like Harris and Dawkins are ultimately helping America to become a more secular AND a more tolerant place - or if they are
ultimately worsening the situation.

If people want to read a little bit beforehand there are many interesting links on the wikipedia article on Sam Harris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris_(author)
I am sure there is much more and if I find other interesting articles, critical of supportive, I will post them later. (Let me know if you find interesting articles that you want me to post.)

We will restrict the size of the discussion group to 9 people this time. But if there is a lot of interest, we will just repeat this discussion a week later.

lit:
http://hankfox.com/?p=281"
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7803