Wherever you are on your fai journey, you are welcome...
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Volume 14, Number 3, March 2014 Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area (HAMBA) is a chapter of the American Humanist Association with tax-deductible status for dues and donations. We are also affiliated with the Council for Secular Humanism http://www.secularhumanism.org/. Your officers are: President: Mark Folsom 831-601-3770 [email protected] Vice President: Carol Shadwell Secretary: Deborah Warcken 831-601-6633 [email protected] Treasurer: Robert Sitzman Members-at-large: Ken Helms, Rosemary Matson, Harriet Mitteldorf, Robert & Shelley Sitzman Need a Ride to one of our meetings? Call one of the phone numbers listed above to arrange one. Meetings are free and open to the public and are held monthly at the Monterey Public Library. If you have any questions regarding our organization or for directions, please feel free to call Mark at 601-3770 or Deborah at 601-6633. * These events are not sponsored by the Monterey Public Library * March Meeting - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 6:00 pm HUMANIST ASSOCIATION OF THE MONTEREY BAY AREA P.O. 22094, Carmel, CA. 93922-0094 http://hambaonline.weebly.com Room opens at 6:00 pm * program begins at 6:15 pm. We are planning something a little bit different for March…. “Wherever you are on your fai journey, you are welcome here!” So announces a local community church. We’re sure these are good and kind people and have no wish to disparage them but we are also aware that many consider “faith” to be a virus. “Faith is not a virtue; faith is an epistemology”. As Peter Boghossian says in his recent book, A Manual for Creating Atheists, faith is a very unreliable epistemology. Of course for this criticism to be compelling we have to assume people value truth and reliable ways of discovering truth and knowledge. It’s trivial, but surely we could all agree that even the most faith soaked human would use a tape measure to measure a window for curtains rather than praying or asking their dog. This month we will have a conversation about our own epistemologies and how we came to be humanist/atheist or wherever we are on our knowledge journeys. We may also have time for a short video. Please come prepared to share your story with the group. Should HAMBA sign on to the Monterey County Against Fracking campaign? Please share your comments during our March meeting
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Volume 14, Number 3, March 2014 Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area (HAMBA) is a chapter of the American Humanist Association with tax-deductible status for dues and donations. We are also affiliated with the Council for Secular Humanism http://www.secularhumanism.org/.
Your officers are: President: Mark Folsom 831-601-3770 [email protected] Vice President: Carol ShadwellSecretary: Deborah Warcken 831-601-6633 [email protected] Treasurer: Robert Sitzman Members-at-large: Ken Helms, Rosemary Matson, Harriet Mitteldorf, Robert & Shelley Sitzman Need a Ride to one of our meetings? Call one of the phone numbers listed above to arrange one. !
Meetings are free and open to the public and are held monthly at the Monterey Public Library. !If you have any questions regarding our organization or for directions, please feel
free to call Mark at 601-3770 or Deborah at 601-6633. !!* These events are not sponsored by the Monterey Public Library *
March Meeting - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 6:00 pm
!HUMANIST ASSOCIATION
OF THE MONTEREY BAY AREA P.O. 22094, Carmel, CA. 93922-0094
http://hambaonline.weebly.com !!
!Room opens at 6:00 pm * program begins at 6:15 pm. !
We are planning something a little bit different for March…. !“Wherever you are on your faith journey, you are welcome here!”
So announces a local community church. We’re sure these are good and kind people and have no wish to disparage them but we are also aware that many consider “faith” to be a virus. !“Faith is not a virtue; faith is an epistemology”. As Peter Boghossian says in his recent book, A Manual for Creating Atheists, faith is a very unreliable epistemology. Of course for this criticism to be compelling we have to assume people value truth and reliable ways of discovering truth and knowledge. It’s trivial, but surely we could all agree that even the most faith soaked human would use a tape measure to measure a window for curtains rather than praying or asking their dog. !This month we will have a conversation about our own epistemologies and how we came to be humanist/atheist or wherever we are on our knowledge journeys. We may also have time for a short video. Please come prepared to share your story with the group.
Should HAMBA sign on to the Monterey County Against Fracking campaign?!Please share your comments during our March meeting
Upcoming Meetings!!March Meeting - Wednesday, March 12, 2014!!
April Meeting - Wednesday, April 9, 2014!!May Meeting - Wednesday, May 14, 2014!!June Meeting - Wednesday, June 11, 2014!!
July Meeting - Wednesday, July 9, 2014!!August Meeting - Wednesday, August 13, 2014!!
September Meeting - Wednesday, September 10, 2014!!October Meeting - Wednesday, October 8, 2014
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SUPPORT HAMBA IN 2014! Your membership form may be found below.
Please join us for dinner - !Don’t forget to join us for a pre-meeting dinner at Estéban Restaurant. This establishment is located at the Casa Munras Hotel (west/south end of Fremont Street in Monterey). The restaurant opens at 5:00 pm. Check out their full menu at www.estebanrestaurant.com.
Links -
The American Humanist Association magazine, The Humanist, is available online - http://thehumanist.com
Please visit and support California’s new Secular Coalition for America chapter. See the website at http://states.secular.org/states/california There is also a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/secularCA
Folksinger TOM NEILSON is coming to the peninsula. Presented by the Peace Coalition of Monterey County, Thursday, March 20th at 7:00 pm at the Peace Resource Center (831-899-7322). “Politically cutting-edge, incisive, warm, & very funny; Raucous satire &, quick wit; had everyone laughing & engaged.” Cathy Gilbert, Miami Dade Greens. Requested donation $15.00. http://www.tomneilsonmusic.com/bio/
Freethought Radio – Freethought Radio with Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor is still available on AM KRXA (currently 1pm Saturdays and 8 pm on Mondays but it is moved frequently so please check). Freethought Radio broadcasts can be accessed at www.ffrf.org via podcast as well as at iHeart (http://www.iheart.com/) and with the iHeart Radio mobile app. !
In God We Trust: Discrimination against the Non-religious - Please join HAMBA at the Peace Resource Center on Thursday, March 13th at 7:00 pm for an important presentation by Phillip Crawford, Esq. While non-believers are the fastest growing religious demographic in our country, there is systematic discrimination against atheists, agnostics and secular humanists both officially and unofficially in government, military, schools and the workplace.
If suggested links do not work when clicked, please try copying them and pasting them into your browser. !Please support HAMBA by sending in your dues today! !
HAMBA Membership Thank you for being a member and supporter of the Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area. Membership renewal is now on an annual basis, from January through December. Please help us with expenses for meetings, mailings, advertising and programs to promote the Humanist cause. MEMBERSHIP FORM- Subscription or renewal request: HUMANIST ASSOC. OF THE MONTEREY BAY AREA (HAMBA) Name___________________________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________________Telephone_________________________E-Mail_______________________________ Single $20.00________Family Membership $30.00______________ Membership dues are now payable each January. Please make your check to HAMBA and mail to Robert Sitzman, Treasurer, P.O. Box 22094, Carmel, CA 93922-0094
Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism and other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of
personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.
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