Agnostic Parents

We’re getting together to figure out what Gnosticism looks like when you strip away the old hierarchies and bring it into modern-day NYC. This isn’t a church or a lecture; it’s just a group of people hanging out in a coffee shop to talk about "Gnosis" and alternative spirituality without the dogma. We’re fully LGBTQ+ affirming and open to anyone, whether you’re religious or just curious. The goal is to see what this ancient path becomes when it's led by a community of peers rather than a leader. Come grab a coffee, share your perspective, and help us build a space where the only authority is your own experience.

Brooklyn Ethical is presenting this discussion group on Death and Dying, via Zoom, on the 3rd Thursday of each month, from 6:30 to 8:30. We invite people from all backgrounds and ages to join us to talk about this often difficult subject. In so doing we hope to lessen the fear and isolation that surrounds this inevitable event in everyone’s life. We aim to create a safe place where all ideas are welcome, all fears can be expressed, all hopes can be supported. This is a hybrid event. To join us on Zoom, please RSVP at: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-and-death-discussion-group-tickets-429485311127](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-and-death-discussion-group-tickets-429485311127)

**Newcomers are always welcome!** To join, please RSVP to Youth Programs Director Audrey Kindred at [ethicalfamilies@nysec.org](mailto:ethicalfamilies@nysec.org). For more information about our youth and family programming, please visit [ethical.nyc/youth](http://www.ethical.nyc/youth). **About Young Ethical Explorers** YEE is our Humanist Sunday school, designed for youngsters from ages 4 to 13, and takes place concurrent with our Sunday Platform meetings. Sessions raise issues of personal identity and integrity, appreciation and respect for others, and knowledge of religions, philosophies, and social concerns. Topics are explored in an age-appropriate way through discussion, storytelling, dramatization, music, art, games, and field trips. RSVP is essential to guarantee your place and for planning purposes. If you are enrolled for the season or are members of Ethical NYC your spot is guaranteed. To RSVP as a guest, become a member, or enroll in season, please contact Audrey at [ethicalfamilies@nysec.org](mailto:ethicalfamilies@nysec.org). Newcomers and visitors are always welcome!

Dear Brights, Pastafarians, Guardians, Tru's, We're still "Walking and Talking," and our monthly meeting is live again. Every first Sunday from 1pm-5pm at the American Museum of Natural History. All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Mature, public behavior is assumed. Our members should be registered with (at) OR at least interested in understanding, exploring, and participating together, the principles of The Brights. Read and understand them at... (My related groups should be understood as well, if so inclined.) [https://www.the-brights.net/](https://www.the-brights.net/) Museums (real ones), libraries, educational institutions (public and private institutions of learning), and similar repositories of knowledge, culture, and confirmed, evidential information, and the continued exploration for it, are sacred. These are dangerous times for science, reality, naturalism, humor, wit, and critical thinking, free speech, the sharing of and access to knowledge, public education, civil protections and redress, legality and human rights, privacy, advocacy, personal property and ownership, and so much more is threatened. The list goes on. The threat to these things continues and must be addressed as pervasive, tenacious, dedicated to distortion, erasure, revision, and deviousness. We find, confirm, and celebrate knowledge, art, literature, culture, and the free access to them. Meet, explore, witness, understand, be reminded, know, and celebrate with our like-mindedness, together. Tangibly plan and connect with others. Assemble. Learn. Reenforce. Share. Defend. Explore and confirm evidentially. Maybe even evolve. We only need two like-minded, knowledge-seeking people to do it, but we are legion, voracious, and demanding. We have mind and consciousness. Use and direct it. Find others who agree, support, and invigorate further exploration and elucidation of natural truth and reality. That necessary includes freedom and democratic rights, process, and the free exercise thereof. Join us, find others, or do it yourself. Every first Sunday from 1pm-5pm at the American Museum of Natural History. Meet us inside at the Central Park West Main entrance. Find us under a dinosaur. Look for my flags. Bright cheers, Charles Alexander Zorn 917-309-2322 [charles.zorn@gmail.com](mailto:charles.zorn@gmail.com) We follow the rules of the museum, are responsible for ourselves, our own health and behavior. There is no liability implied by inviting or attending. I reserve the right to discontinue any association or interaction with a group or individuals who I feel are misbehaving or disruptive, attending my Meetup groups (-s). As well to report them to the authorities of the institution. Public decorum and appropriateness will be expected and observed. "In general people are not born stupid. True stupidity is achieved only through great effort, such as the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY." -Giddian Beer, a Brights Leader, is http://itanjo.com/... (http://itanjo.com/) and Atheist Axioms at Cafe Press p.s. Again, ANBU-TRU is a registry for groups (individuals may sign up as official liaisons and tell their respective groups about it) We explore parallel to The Brights and TRUs and Pastafarians. Just write me for info.