The Human Odyssey

Come to reveal your creative spirit in words or share what others have done that moved you. Come celebrate the wonderous creativity of the Human spirit, where dreams become our voice and those voices become the levers that will move the world.

Tell your story, where you've been and where you're going, your dreams. Because fundamentally, it is our curiosity that must drive our purpose in life, to seek out experiences and adventures; to explore and understand the world around us, the beauty in the nature of Nature. To hear the voices of those who have come before us in the in literature and poetry.

And let's add our voices to the Celebration of the Majesty of Humanity

Cross posted from our sister site "The Atheist Odyssey".

ONLINE ZOOM meeting -- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82322948586?pwd=ZVhWU2M0c3JtLzVMZ2oyUGxLSTE5Zz09
Meeting ID: 823 2294 8586
Passcode: 159986

All meetings are online, until further notice.

---To attend the online Zoom meeting, use the regular Zoom link given above. You can test the Zoom link before the meeting if you like. Let me know if you have any problems. (message through Meetup)

If you’re a progressive humanist/atheist/agnostic/freethinker/(other label!) and want to enjoy the company of other free-thinkers, you are warmly invited to have lunch with us. We’ll talk about whatever interests us, make new friends and make sense together using rational discourse and wisdom garnered from our lives. Our purpose is social, our philosophy is skeptical humanist, and our politics are progressive. What is a Humanist? Read it here: https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/humanism-capital-h/ We support the Humanist Manifesto III. Read it here: https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto3/
Humanism - Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion. Natural answers to natural questions
TOPICs : It's nice to have a topic or two to discuss as a starting point. Although impromptu subjects and general conversation are good too! This is a social conversation. Please write your suggestions in the comments. If we don't get to it this time, I'll collect them for later.
---------- STARTING TOPICS for 1/15/2026 -----------------------------
1. Short introductions, check-ins (how are you?) and rants -
----- How long have you been an atheist/agnostic/humanist/any other classification you give yourself?
----- You can rant about anything. Just do it! You'll feel better
2. Politics
3. International
4. What do you think of explorers/are they crazy?
5. What's your favorite paradox?
6. Australia's ban on social networks for kids & ibanning the phone in the classroom
7. Supreme Court decisions
8. Any good jokes?
9. Have you seen any movies? What are you watching?
10. Are you prepared for an emergency?
11. People around the world are having less kids - good or bad?
12. Any others you have.
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Come and enjoy an evening of games and blasphemy (online for now)
Join us for the games
Join us for the camaraderie
Join us for the conversation

But Join us. Your hosts are Christine and Bill

Code Names is the game of choice for the next few meetings. We open at 6:30 so that newcomers can have time for a tutorial; the first game starts promptly at 7 pm. It ends when the group agrees—typically around 9—there’s no definite end time. If you log-in late, you can always cheer the players on and still be able to play in the second game of the night.

We are always looking for new games. Got suggestions?
Reserve a space by clicking “attend.”

And hey... No cheating or praying to win!

Cross posted from our sister site "The Atheist Odyssey"

Come join us for a grand discussion on the failure of the arguments for god.
Let’s spend a Saturday afternoon for some in depth conversations regarding counter apologetics, philosophy, science, and the bible. Let’s shine a light on the epistemological dishonesty lurking within fundamentalist apologia and tactics while examining methods of effective communication.
Bring your knowledge and experiences, bring your favorite books, podcasts, videos and websites. Come to teach, come to learn or just come to listen and let’s write the last chapter on god.
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-------------------- ATHEISM vs CREATIONISM in a nutshell --------------------

“In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth.”
~ vs.
"In the beginning"... there was a quantum event which, in a microsecond, erupted into a Quark-Gluon plasma, creating the first matter of our universe. As this plasma expanded it coalesced into hadrons and protons then the forces of nature began to separate and atoms were formed into great clouds of hydrogen and helium that began to condense and rotate under their own gravity. Theses clouds became the first generation of stars and under the sheer magnitude of their masses, these giants erupted into supernovas creating new generations of clouds of heavier elements which again coalesced under gravity and... "created the heavens and the earth".

Saying god did it is so uninspired, so bland and vacant. The majesty and awe of the knowledge and understanding we have of the universe has emerged, not from the bible, not from god, but from the genius of humanity. In the very last moments of the 4 and a half billion year history of earth, humans have evolved... “ and for the last 100,000 years, we have looked up into that night sky and wondered at those awesome points of light, what are they, where did they come from... We are the first people in that long history not to wonder... not to guess... but to know... "

final quote by potholer54:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1fs6vp9Ok&list=PL82yk73N8eoX8RpvQfjdupAKFWKjtMhTe&index=1