AI pushed in our FACE! Choice? & Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion.

PICTURE to the right above - 14 attendees (one behind camera), Sun. Dec. 14th, 2025.
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WELCOME ALL SKAGIT, WHATCOM & SNOHOMISH COUNTY FREETHINKING SKEPTICS & SECULAR HUMANISTS!
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Topics: Along with our usual interest in Current Events or attendee's latest personal happenings, activities or passions to share, we have the following topics to cover:
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1) What's with the "In Your Face" push to use A.I. on our computer screens and phones with no clear means to end or discourage it?

Let's share our personal experience with this phenomena and our opinion on this and in general with the A.I. rollout in all things both IN YOUR FACE and unannounced in the background "Baked In".

If you have links to articles or videos related to above subject, please email to me to add to this meetup announcement at SecularWorld@aol.com
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2) Related to above discussion, watch and listen to: Yuval Noah Harari: (47 min.)

Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4l1fr-t3ZE

Or scroll down, press "more" and select to watch one of his topics (list below):

JUMP ahead in the video to preferred topic by clicking on blue minutes in front of subject titles:

0:00 If humans are so smart, why are we on the verge of destruction?
1:45 Why is the quality of our information decreasing?
2:19 The rise of alien intelligence - (Reference to A. I.)
14:20 How information technology shapes society
19:52 The rise of inorganic information
28:21 The importance of human institutions
37:09 Information isn’t truth

Read the video transcript ► TRANSCRIPT© Freethink Media Inc., All Rights Reserved.
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- SecularWorld@aol.com -.

Our Bellingham car pool location is in a shared business parking lot area with Starbucks - 3101 Old Fairhaven Pkwy, on the SW corner of lot.

Take last south Freeway Exit #250 (Old Fairhaven Pkwy), turn right (west) onto Old Fairhaven Pkwy, and immediately turn right into parking area, or immediately right past Starbucks, and right again into parking area.

We leave 10:25 AM from that parking area to Burlington Haggen meet.
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For those driving strait to meeting location:

Take I-5 exit 230 - Hwy 20 exit, take a right and very briefly head east and take a right on Hagen Dr to the store.

To find the room, enter the Main entrance to Hagen's Grocery Store, turn left, walk down past the registers, and to your left will be the community meeting room with big glass windows and a door in at the end of the windows. ALWAYS, THANK YOU CLYDE ALLEN FOR FINDING THIS VENUE FOR US!

Hagen provides the community room at no charge, so in kind feel inspired to pick up hot or cold lunch and and drinks in the Hagen food and beverage area - both are welcome in the meeting room. Or, on the way out, pick up some needed groceries.
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FOR THOSE WHO'VE PROVIDED THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS WILL GET UPDATED TOPICS IN A FEW DAYS. Email me at - SecularWorld@aol.com - if you wish to add your name to our email list!
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THANK YOU ALL FOR SUGGESTED TOPICS!

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If you have a topic for us to consider for this meeting, please email me at - SecularWorld@aol.com -. If you have an article to share or a short video to watch, send me the link to both. Feel free to bring and share the latest book you may have read to the meeting!
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Monty Vonn - Event Coordinator for 3 local counties
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We encourage attendees to share their life story that lead their journey to the 'Land of Freethought', Free Inquiry and Skepticism towards cultural norms, traditions and stories.

Freethought encourage creative solutions, but then this group uses reason, evidence and the scientific method as the only reliable means to prune down answers to our probing questions and common sense solutions to humanity's current problems.