Atheist Discussion Group

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URL of Facebook page
E-mail lists
Meetings and Events

Announcement of next meeting
Directions (place and time) to reach monthly meetings
Future Meeting topics
Announcements of some other free-thought events
MIT Atheists, Agnostics, and Humanists (MITAAH)
Disproof Atheism Society (DAS)
Humanist Association of Massachusetts
New England Skeptical Society (NESS)--


Equal-time section: hymns, etc.
editorial page, including letters
public directory, including

How to make contacts
Some web-sites of ADG members
Factional interests
Ayn Rand
Progressive wing
Some recommended links on the Web

Atheism, Free Thought, and Fun
Some Boston-area humanists, free-thinkers, etc.
Scientific Skeptics
Religious Ultras and their foes
Some People We Love to Hate
Usenet groups

Minutes and records

Generic description of ADG
announcements and records from past meetings (since Aug 1998)
Some previous events of other organizations

Web page policy and disclaimers

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Announcement for next meeting
This month's ADG meeting will be Monday, April 1st, at 7:00 PM at the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University.

It will be an open forum

If anyone has any ideas for future topics please pass them along to Chuck.

Hope to see you there!

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Schedule of future meetings

place
Usually Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University in Cambridge MA.
Phillips Brooks House is located in "Harvard Yard" (the fenced-in rectangle of the Harvard campus adjacent to Harvard Square), at the northwest corner (the one toward the Law School and Cambridge Common. The subway station faces the southwest corner.)
Harvard has made a campus map available on-line at
http://www.map.harvard.edu/
A blow-up of Harvard Yard showing Phillips Brooks House may be available at
http://www.map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=A&series=M,
but I do not guarantee it.

Informal summer (June, July and August) get-togethers are usually held at a Harvard Square eatery . They start at 7 or 8 PM. (Ask.)

time
7:00 PM on the first Monday of the month.
Exceptions:
If the first Monday is a holiday, especially in a 3-day weekend (eg, in some years, Labor Day), the meeting is usually put off until the second Monday.
In summer months (June, July and August), there might only be an informal get-together at a local restaurant, but it is held at the same 7:00 PM time.

(Comments and additional suggestions are welcome)

Possible future topics include:

Is Atheism Dead?
Whatever Happened to Madalyn Murray O'Hair?
Pseudosciences - atheist religions?
What is the meaning of life?
Is God Evil?
Is Conscience a Superstition?
Christian Reconstructionism
Does God Love you?

MIT Atheists, Agnostics, and Humanists (MITAAH)

The Disproof Atheism Society (DAS):

DAS, founded in 1994, supports the development of arguments demonstrating that the concept of God, as defined by the world's major religions, is contradictory. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at Boston University. For more info, E-mail
DASociety@aol.com

Humanist Association of Massachusetts

New England Skeptical Society (NESS)--
Not "skeptical" of religion, except for religions (eg New Agers, Creationists) which make dubious scientific claims.

hymns, etc.
Hail the Flat Earth!

Jesus Christ Is Coming to Town!
[note 001206: link to another site temporarily disabled. In any case, a web search against "Santa Claus is coming to town" will find what you need.]
Just substitute "Jesus Christ" for "Santa Claus," and you have a coherent Fundamentalist hymn! (Other substitutions within the text can also be made.)

 

Fractured Scripture
The Wedding at Cana, as Retold by US Drug-Warriors. [John 2:1-10]

The Stalin Room

Practical Holiness:

Some advice for Jimmy Swaggart from a former head of the Doukhobor sect.

An old favorite:
The Latest Decalogue (Ten Commandments) by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
Sample:
Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?

Editorial page, including guest columns and letters

Old Articles
An index to some E-mail posts [last updated 20030903]

Authorities accuse former employee of murdering Madalyn Murray O'Hair [990601]

"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Support your answer with a proof."
Special Report, relayed by no_gods [990201].

Doubt cast on high US church attendance figures [990311]

public directory

Host: Tom F.
Moderator (aka "president"): Chuck H.

Address any questions about ADG to
[spamresistant format]
atheistgroup att emailaccount.com

Manager: Christine M.


Past Moderators:	Warren S.
	Jeff C.

Webmaster of this site: Check URL ../e-mail-address.html

Logos


Apart from the one at the top of this page, there is also a draft which has never been approved.




How to make contacts

To give speaker topic ideas contact Warren at a meeting, or by E-mail at
[spamresistant format]
atheistgroup att emailaccount.com

To add or change a postal address to the mailing list contact Chuck at a meeting.

To add or change an email address to the email list contact Warren at
[spamresistant format]
atheistgroup att emailaccount.com

Web-sites and contacts for ADG members

Former ADG President Jeff Chase, affiliated with the MA Libertarian Party, ran for the Cambridge MA City Council on Tues 2 Nov 1999, but was not elected. His campaign web site has since been allowed to lapse.

factional interests

(to be developed in future -- inputs invited)

Ayn Rand

Some believers' sites
Leonard Peikoff's official Ayn Rand Institute
Excommunicate David Kelley's Objectivist Center

Rand as seen by humorist Florence King
Linguistic curiosities:
An earlier Soviet definition of "objectivism"

The Progressive wing

ADG currently is weighted towards the libertarian Right (though none would accept the "anarcho-capitalist" label), but there is also a left/liberal presence.

Soviet curiosities

Some cartoons from "Bezbozhnik" ("Godless") monthly, 1924.

Minutes and records

Background info on ADG, by Jeff C. and others
Founded on 21 Mar 1987, the Atheist Discussion Group (ADG) of Greater Boston is New England's oldest atheist-by-name organization. It offers participants the opportunity to exchange ideas with other individuals who share a secular frame of reference.
In the early to mid 1990s, ADG was influenced by Eric Budd, who among other things instituted the "Holbach Society," meeting at Chili's Restaurant after ADG lectures. At the "society"s meetings, Eric B. would raise a toast to Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron D'Holbach (1723-1789), a materialist philosopher who held that religion and society were the twin sources of all evils.

After Eric B. moved out of town, ADG was run first by Liam Flanagan, and later by Jeff Chase.

The ADG meets at 7pm the first non-holiday Monday of each month. Usually, speakers take 40 minutes to present their topic and then take questions and lead a discussion for an additional hour.

The ADG is free and is open to all, however, those who actually come to our meetings are atheists [not necessarily true --editor]. We are made up of many different flavors of atheists. Quite diverse -- we tend to disagree with each other more often than not on secular topics.

Past meetings (since August 1998).
The description of past meetings has been moved to a separate page.

Some previous activities of other organizations

(This is not a comprehensive list)

MIT Atheists, Agnostics, and Humanists (MITAAH)

On Tues 16 Nov. 1999, MITAAH and the New England Skeptical Society (NESS) co-hosted a lecture by Steve Hassan, "cult awareness" educator and author of several books including Combatting Cult Mind Control.
More information on Steve Hassan can be found on the Freedom of Mind Web page:
http://www.freedomofmind.com/

On Wed 7 April 1999, MITAAH and the New England Skeptical Society (NESS) co-hosted a lecture by Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic Magazine, director of the Skeptics Society and author of Why People Believe Weird Things".

New England Skeptical Society (NESS)

On Wed 23 Jun 99, "ghostbuster" Perry DeAngelis spoke at the Brookline Public library.

Ford Hall Forum

Harvey A. Silverglate spoke Thurs, 25 Mar 1999 on the topic, Are Hate-Speech Codes and Hate-Crime Legislation Constitutional, Moral, and Effective?Attorney Silverglate is co-author of "The Shadow University."

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