The SE Louisiana Nonbelievers Group (NOSHA)

We are excited to have this joint program with the New Orleans Sierra Club!

**Doors open at 2:30pm for socializing; program starts at 3pm.**

What does it mean for us, as human beings, to be part of the Earth community? What does it mean for us to be an awakened part of that community? What are our practical responsibilities at this particular point in Earth history?

We are emerging from the Cenozoic Era, literally, the era of “new life” on Earth. With the coming of the sixth great mass extinction, we are entering what we might call the Necrocene, a new era of death on Earth. To what extent are we responsible for this momentous change in the direction of Geohistory? To what extent can we help change this direction?

Our speaker will be John P. Clark is a philosopher, activist, writer, and educator. He lives in New Orleans, where his family has been for thirteen generations. He is Director of La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Loyola University.

The restaurant serves breakfast until 11:30am, so you are welcome to eat during our activity. **Please place your order at the counter when you enter the restaurant if you plan to eat.**

Our Freethinkers Fika is a small, friendly social gathering for humanists, atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers to engage in free discussion with like-minded others in a coffee-shop atmosphere.

As always, we ask that you are serious with your RSVP, and update it on Meetup if your attendance status changes.

Secular Humanism is a philosophy that seeks to make sense of the world using science, reason, and shared values; we reject attempts to explain the world in supernatural terms. This philosophy forms the basis for our affiliation in NOSHA, and thus will necessarily inform the perspective from which topics are discussed.

The Fika is not a formal moderated discussion or debate; attendees can raise whatever issues they wish to discuss. The only requirement is that we all treat each other with courtesy and respect, even if disagreements arise. We do want to include everyone who wishes to speak in our discussions, so individuals are discouraged from dominating conversation to the exclusion of others. Attacks or proselytization will not be permitted.

** Read the Post-1986 Edition! **

In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom.

Important: The full book as written by Burgess has 21 chapters. At American publishers' insistence, the final chapter of the novel was omitted from U.S. editions published before 1986. Be sure to get a later edition that includes the 21st chapter. **

Challenged for: sexual violence, objectionable language