The Mid-Michigan Atheists & Humanists Meetup Group

Name: Dinner Meeting
Start: 2013-07-28T21:00:00Z
Location: Old Great Wall Restaurant

Dinner Meeting

Jul 28, 2013 · 5:00 PM
Old Great Wall Restaurant

Hello Everyone,

Mark your calendar for the upcoming Dinner Meeting to be held at 5:00 PM, Sunday, July 28, 2013. In keeping with the “Humanist” component of our organization, we feature educational programs at our monthly Dinner Meetings that cover a broad range of topics of interest to the membership.

This month’s featured speaker is Dr. Timothy Maloney who will be presenting on proposed new technology in energy generation. The energy sources our country currently depends on include the following:

1. wind

2. solar

3. hydro

4. fossil-fuel power plant

5. nuclear power plant

Dr. Maloney advocates employing a revolutionary means of energy generation in nuclear power plants that would use the chemical element “thorium” instead of “uranium” which is currently used in nuclear reactors. Count on being enlightened by Dr. Maloney’s presentation on the Cost Effectiveness and Numerous Environmental Benefits in Thorium-Fueled Nuclear Energy.

Speaker Profile:
Dr. Maloney is a retired professor of Electronics Technology, Monroe County Community College. He has a BS in Engineering, a MS in Electrical Engineering, and a PhD in Educational Psychology.

He has author several books and publications, including "Modern Industrial Electronics" - eds. 1-5, Inventor of "Digital Method for DC Motor Speed Control", and IEEE Transactions on Control Instrumentation, Feb 1976, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Dr. Maloney had also been Chairman for a panel discussion on "Thorium-Fueled Nuclear Energy" at the 2012 Left Forum Conference as well as for a panel discussion on "Post Oil, Wind, Water & Solar or Liquid-fuel Thorium, and on What's Our Best Hope? at the 2013 Left Forum Conference.

Dinner and Socializing will be from 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM.
Presentation will start at 6:30 PM.

Old Great Wall Restaurant (Private Banquet Room)
4832 W. Saginaw Hwy.
Lansing, Michigan 48917
(517)[masked]

Click on http://maps.google.co... interactive map. (Not to be confused with the World Buffet Restaurant on the same strip mall, located west of Mall Drive that runs N-S between the 2 restaurants)

Menu Options:

Buffet $9.65 incl. tax (beverage extra except for hot tea)
Order individual entrée from the menu

RSVP appreciated by email and/or on our Meetup website http://atheists.meetup.com/453 to provide an approximate headcount.

Join us for another evening of discussion and fun, and get acquainted with new members who have joined us in recent months.

Jim Hong, Director
Mid-Michigan Atheists and Humanists
American Atheists Affiliate
(517)[masked] cell

"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."
---Carl Sagan

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Eva

Professor Maloney gave a very excellent and convincing presentation for the case of using thorium reactors as compared to traditional nuclear reactors

1 · July 29, 2013
dean r.

nice presentation

0 · July 28, 2013
Will

But when we are properly informed -then who is there to listen?

0 · July 27, 2013
Robert S.

Flint's Gang of Five(?) is coming...

0 · July 27, 2013

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The Mid-Michigan Atheists & Humanists Meetup Group

Lansing, MI

Founded Sep 21, 2005

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Mid-Michigan Atheists and Humanists is a proactive, social, educational, non-profit, organization whose central goal is to promote the welfare of society by defending the wall of separation between church and state and protecting our First Amendment Rights. We monitor ongoing political events and provide information to our membership when we observe a breach forming in that wall. We write letters to the editors and legislators. We hold protests and initiate legal actions when necessary.

Additionally, our organization provides a community for those who subscribe to scientific and natural explanations in regard to the nature of reality. The goals of this community are:

1. To raise concerns over issues of State and Church Separation.

2. To challenge claims of supernatural or paranormal phenomena by providing scientific and natural explanations.

4. To provide selected topics and speakers at formal meetings.

5. To provide informal events to foster friendships and community building.

6. To be a presence in the community by participating in social programs.

7. To cooperate and collaborate with other organizations of similar ideology and pool resources when necessary for achieving mutual objectives.

Our membership is open to Atheists, Humanists, Brights, Freethinkers, Agnostics, Skeptics, Rationalists, and others who share the ideals of our organization.

HUMANISM AND ITS ASPIRATIONS
Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933*

Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.

The lifestance of Humanism—guided by reason, inspired by compassion, and informed by experience—encourages us to live life well and fully. It evolved through the ages and continues to develop through the efforts of thoughtful people who recognize that values and ideals, however carefully wrought, are subject to change as our knowledge and understandings advance..

This document is part of an ongoing effort to manifest in clear and positive terms the conceptual boundaries of Humanism, not what we must believe but a consensus of what we do believe. It is in this sense that we affirm the following:.

Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis. Humanists find that science is the best method for determining this knowledge as well as for solving problems and developing beneficial technologies. We also recognize the value of new departures in thought, the arts, and inner experience—each subject to analysis by critical intelligence..

Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change. Humanists recognize nature as self-existing. We accept our life as all and enough, distinguishing things as they are from things as we might wish or imagine them to be. We welcome the challenges of the future, and are drawn to and undaunted by the yet to be known..

Ethical values are derived from human need and interest as tested by experience. Humanists ground values in human welfare shaped by human circumstances, interests, and concerns and extended to the global ecosystem and beyond. We are committed to treating each person as having inherent worth and dignity, and to making informed choices in a context of freedom consonant with responsibility..

Life’s fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of humane ideals. We aim for our fullest possible development and animate our lives with a deep sense of purpose, finding wonder and awe in the joys and beauties of human existence, its challenges and tragedies, and even in the inevitability and finality of death. Humanists rely on the rich heritage of human culture and the lifestance of Humanism to provide comfort in times of want and encouragement in times of plenty..

Humans are social by nature and find meaning in relationships. Humanists long for and strive toward a world of mutual care and concern, free of cruelty and its consequences, where differences are resolved cooperatively without resorting to violence. The joining of individuality with interdependence enriches our lives, encourages us to enrich the lives of others, and inspires hope of attaining peace, justice, and opportunity for all..

Working to benefit society maximizes individual happiness. Progressive cultures have worked to free humanity from the brutalities of mere survival and to reduce suffering, improve society, and develop global community. We seek to minimize the inequities of circumstance and ability, and we support a just distribution of nature’s resources and the fruits of human effort so that as many as possible can enjoy a good life..

Humanists are concerned for the well being of all, are committed to diversity, and respect those of differing yet humane views. We work to uphold the equal enjoyment of human rights and civil liberties in an open, secular society and maintain it is a civic duty to participate in the democratic process and a planetary duty to protect nature’s integrity, diversity, and beauty in a secure, sustainable manner..

Thus engaged in the flow of life, we aspire to this vision with the informed conviction that humanity has the ability to progress toward its highest ideals. The responsibility for our lives and the kind of world in which we live is ours and ours alone.

* Humanist Manifesto is a trademark of the American Humanist Association—© 2003 American Humanist Association.

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