What we’re about
Atheists in the Asheville / Buncombe area...come chat with this new group. Relax and spend time hanging out with people who, like you, don't believe some god is watching and judging us.
Even though this is a relatively new group we have 99 signed up here at Meetup so far. Of course not all of them come to the meetings.
We usually get together every Sunday at / around 10AM for coffee. Until further notice that is at the cafe at Earth Fare in Asheville, just off Patton.
We also have a book club that meets two times a month and an evening event in Hendersonville once a month. Locations may vary, so please check this space and/or your email for updates. We welcome your suggestions.
Please RSVP if you plan to come to an event. And feel free to tell your contacts about the group.
Would you also like to join our Trivia team "Asheville Atheists"? It's a fun way for us to hang out and get to know each other better. We can let you know when we're going to local trivia contests. There are some in this area most weekdays (but not usually on Fri-Sat-Sun).
Future plans: Maybe a hiking club, movie club and/or game night.
PS Just for fun, let's also talk about phrases we can use in place of "Thank heaven", "Holy cow" etc.
Upcoming events
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Book Club: Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer
Standard Pizza, 755 Biltmore Ave., Asheville, NC, USOur next meeting is Sunday, October 26, 5 p.m. at Standard Pizza, 755 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville.
Look for us inside, n the back room.
We will continue our discussion of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, by science writer Michael Shermer. We will focus on the first three chapters. At our first meeting, we enjoyed a lively discussion. We agreed that this subject matter feels very timely and look forward to what Michael Shermer has to say about this subject.
From the forward: Considering humans and our potential for both "the most unspeakable horrors and the most heart-winning acts of courage and nobility": Only two possible escapes can save us from the organized mayhem of our dark potentialities. Moral decency provides one necessary ingredient but not nearly enough. The second foundation must come from the rational side of our mentality. For, unless we regularly use human reason both to discover and acknowledge nature's factuality, and to follow the logical implications for efficacious human action that such knowledge entails, we will lose out to the frightening forces of irrationality, romanticism, uncompromising "true"belief, and the apparent resulting inevitability of mob action. Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency."
Note: Newcomers are welcome!
We would like to keep each meeting to a max of 10 people. Please RSVP if you do plan to come.3 attendees
Past events
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