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General => Current Events => United States => Topic started by: Whitney on January 20, 2010, 06:47:30 AM

Title: Fellowship of Freethought
Post by: Whitney on January 20, 2010, 06:47:30 AM
I will be updating this post later with more info but I'm just too excited to wait till I have all the information that needs to be posted.

We started a new non-profit community owned/run open source organization here in Dallas, TX called the Fellowship of Freethought.  The idea behind it is to offer the community that many freethinkers miss after leaving church without all that bs associated with dogma, worship etc...and without "church" in the name (if anyone is familiar with ntcof, you know what I'm talking about).

Meetup:  http://www.meetup.com/FoFDallas/ (http://www.meetup.com/FoFDallas/)

Website:  http://fellowshipoffreethought.org (http://fellowshipoffreethought.org)

Go fan it on facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fellowshi ... 7827190091 (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fellowship-of-Freethought/417827190091)

Follow it on twitter: @fofdallas

I'm excited and that means you should be too....right?  :bananacolor:
Title: Re: Fellowship of Freethought
Post by: kenh on January 20, 2010, 01:39:58 PM
Interesting.  Nice use of the pansy in your logo.  Too bad I don't live in Dallas or I would probably be a member.
Is this affiliated with the North Texas Church of Freethought?
Title: Re: Fellowship of Freethought
Post by: Will on January 20, 2010, 10:04:44 PM
This is a very good idea, Whitney!
Title: Re: Fellowship of Freethought
Post by: Whitney on January 21, 2010, 02:51:36 AM
Quote from: "kenh"Is this affiliated with the North Texas Church of Freethought?

Let me put it this way....NO!!! :)

(pm me if you want an explanation; I don't want to post it online)
Title: Re: Fellowship of Freethought
Post by: Whitney on January 21, 2010, 02:53:51 AM
Quote from: "Will"This is a very good idea, Whitney!

Thank you...we hope that other cities will like what we are doing and do the same (with their own spin)....once we get ourselves up and running smoothly we're going to put together a sort of how to start your own FoF package that others can use with no strings attached for free.
Title: Re: Fellowship of Freethought
Post by: Whitney on January 21, 2010, 02:56:02 AM
oh, the FoF site is operational now:  http://fellowshipoffreethought.org (http://fellowshipoffreethought.org)
Title: So...what do you do at Fell. of Freethought meetings?
Post by: Gawen on June 04, 2010, 12:40:03 PM
Title says it all. What do you do? How many usually show up? Who at this board goes to it? etc etc etc

I went to another well known meet-up (twice) a few years ago and wasn't impressed. What will impress me about the Fellowship of Freethought that would make me want to keep coming?


And, I'll ask the same questions of Ft. Worth Free Thinkers as well.
Title: Re: So...what do you do at Fell. of Freethought meetings?
Post by: MariaEvri on June 04, 2010, 06:26:34 PM
we dont have those things here: cypriot atheists are not not very organised (or at all)

but even if we did, I dont think I;d ever attend one. I hate crowds, even when its about things IM intereste din
Title: Re: So...what do you do at Fell. of Freethought meetings?
Post by: Whitney on June 05, 2010, 12:52:33 AM
Quote from: "Gawen"I went to another well known meet-up (twice) a few years ago and wasn't impressed. What will impress me about the Fellowship of Freethought that would make me want to keep coming?

I don't know what you like so how am I supposed to tell you if it is something you'd want to attend?

You must be talking about either North Texas Church of Tim or Metroplex....FoFD and FToFW are not really like either of those.
Title: Re: So...what do you do at Fell. of Freethought meetings?
Post by: Gawen on June 05, 2010, 01:09:00 AM
Well, I mean, what do you do? Talk about? Where do you go? Is it just a gathering setting or activism or what or both or what? I'm interested in both places I listed above. NTCoFT I'm not so interested in.
Title: Re: So...what do you do at Fell. of Freethought meetings?
Post by: Whitney on June 05, 2010, 01:20:35 AM
Video of FoFD trip to dino valley (you can see exactly what they talk about): http://vimeo.com/10896933 (http://vimeo.com/10896933) links to more of the videos including the monthly meetings can be found on the side bar.  All the info is on meetup http://www.meetup.com/FoFDallas/ (http://www.meetup.com/FoFDallas/) or the main website.

I haven't been to an FToFW event other than the joint DFWCoR Picnic and the halloween party in a long time due to living so far away and trying to cut down on expenses...they are really laid back and fun to hang out with.  They have dinner, go to bars, have pot lucks go to museum...Meredith (the organizer) will basically host anything people like doing.
Title: Re: So...what do you do at Fell. of Freethought meetings?
Post by: Gawen on June 05, 2010, 12:48:14 PM
Thanks Whitney. I've been to the park several times now. Funny, but I've never seen a park ranger there. Been to the Creation museum as well, twice, but it was closed both times.

I reckon, eventually, I'll catch up with y'all sometime.