What We See

Join the Humanist Community online this Sunday to watch and discuss three seemingly unrelated videos on things that make it difficult to see what’s real.
The Origin of Countless Conspiracy Theories (4:20 min.) presents the Ramsey theory, which tells us that however random a collection of elements is some non-random patterns will always exist in it, looking like secret messages.
In What the Irish Wake Teaches Us about Living and Dying (17 min.), Kevin Toolis talks about how we have a cultural inability to look at death that has actually increased our fear of death.
In 1984 by George Orwell, Crash Course Literature 401 (14:27 min.), John Green introduces us to the fictional totalitarian government that tries to control what people can think by modifying the language and remove words for unacceptable ideas.

You can watch The Origin of Countless Conspiracy Theories at https://www.ted.com/talks/patrickjmt_the_origin_of_countless_conspiracy_theories.

You can watch What the Irish Wake Teaches Us about Living and Dying, at https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_toolis_what_the_irish_wake_teaches_us_about_living_and_dying.
You can watch 1984 by George Orwell, Crash Course Literature 401 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ipRaLa4Jw.
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Attend in Person:
We have not been able to arrange a room to meet this week. We hope to see you in person next Sunday, because on the first and third Sunday of each month, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View, CA 94040.
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