The Universal Spiritualist Church incorporates a new age form of Spiritualism that corresponds with modern day science and culture. Our Core Tenets: Man (mankind) is not born a sinner and is essentially good. Flawed ideology, dogma, philosophy, education, ideals, and beliefs cause men to stray from grace. This is the source of hell (a sate of mind, perpetual ignorance) reinforced when the aforementioned pervade. We recognize the fact of evolution The idea of a chosen people or individua …

Secular Professionals After Work & Nightlife Social Group is one of the Meetup groups under the umbrella of Shades of Color NYC. Please go to our sponsor link to learn more. This is a social group for atheist, agnostics, and non-religious professionals and other working adults who are interested in experiencing nightlife and other related events with like minded individuals. This is not a philosophy or debate group although we will host occasional lectures and other intellectually stimulati …

Get up to date information about dates, times, and locations for all those Richies List events. The List is for events that have to do with Atheists, Skeptics, Philosophers, Brights, Humanists, agnostics, freethinkers, secularists, and those who want to build community without worshipping. Join Richies list to get info on all other like groups. Join us for Fridays Drinking With Atheists, DWA.

A.N.B.U a.k.a. "TRU-The Reality Union" (tm2007) Allied Non-Believers United is an unbrella organization to allow all non-believers of the supernatural and religeous cultural myth to have one regisitry to represent us. Goals: 1. Establish non-profit status 2. Connect all non-believers under one unbrella organization 3. Establish fund for lobbying, political goals, legal representation. 4. Assert contitutional equality for atheists and other non-believers of differing descriptors. 0 …

… It will work best if the conversation involves atheists, agnostics, those loosely spiritual, and those firmly committed to a specific religious tradition. So if you find yourself anywhere on that chart, and are interested in learning more about yourself and others, please join us.

NJHN is a growing and vibrant community of secular Humanists in Central New Jersey who believe that virtues like morality, kindness, justice and generosity derive from natural human values and reason, and are realized fully only when free from belief in supernatural powers and a spiritual afterlife. Humanism is a democratic and ethical life-stance, which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives. Join other like-minded friends for …

Meet other local Humanist families who believe in the basic goodness of the human spirit without supernaturalism and want to raise their children to value and feel comfortable with such beliefs. Meetings include children's activities, an outdoor activity (weather permitting), some organized adult discussion (with children playing supervised nearby), and lots of informal chatting opportunities with like-minded families. We are developing a group lending library of books for children and parents r …

Welcome to Formerly Frum Northeast! Our purpose: To bring together those who have left a strain of orthodox Judaism and are interested in meeting and sharing with others who have had similar experiences. Who should join: If you've left the frum community, or, conversely, have close friends or relatives who've decided to become frum and are seeking others who understand the life-changing significance of that decision. In other words, anyone who has been involved with the frum community in any way …

This is for people who are skeptical, curious yet open minded or you could even be someone who is trying to come back to the faith.  Or you could be someone who is struggling.  I'm looking forward to some open minded conversations hopefully for months or years to come.

Bright's are people whose ethics and world view are naturalistic and wish to identify themselves as Brights. Read this: http://www.the-brights.net/vision/essays/futrell_geisert_period.html * * *

The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism provides a welcoming, diverse community for cultural and secular Jews where we can celebrate and preserve our Jewish identity. As Humanistic Jews we rely on reason, inner strength, and the support of community to face life's challenges and collectively improve the world. We welcome everyone: families, singles, unaffiliated Jews, intermarried or interfaith families, single parent families, LGBT community, atheists, and agnostics. All are welcome here. …

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This meetup consists of different groups of people reading certain material to different degrees of depth and intensity. Books we've read in the past include Descartes' 'Meditations', Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding', Kant's '1st Critique', Kant's 'Prolegomena', Heidegger's 'Being and Time', Husserl's 'Logical Investigations', Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit', Marx's 'Capital', and many others. From time to time new groups are formed and remain open for awhile to newcomers. If yo …

We’re a discussion group with a focus on rationality, philosophy, science, technology, skepticism and ethics. We choose members who are friendly, intellectually curious, intelligent, non-religious, and rationally-minded – meaning that we’re more interested in figuring out the truth together than in proving ourselves right, or in arguing for the sake of arguing. Our members are young, almost all in the range of 20 to 35 years old. Our meetings are usually informal group discussions at someone’s a …

Ethical Culture is a movement centered on ethics, not theology, whose mission is to encourage respect for humanity and nature and to create a better world. Members are committed to personal ethical development in their relationships with others and in activities involving social justice and environmental stewardship. What We Believe We believe all individuals have inherent worth and dignity, the potential to grow and change, a responsibility to strive for ethical growth, and a responsibility t …

Tour the universe.  Drop in any week.  The universe is a big place, but my class is ongoing, and I am up to the challenge.  It takes 2-3 years for me to do a round trip.  With live links to the Wide World Web as my in-class resource, I have an unlimited supply of mind expanding pictures and movies to discuss.  Plus digital universe simulations that I run of the Earth's place in the galaxy, and the galaxy's place in the universe.  For example, on the tour of the Universe, we started in close, zoo …