All Freethinkers CLUB Meetings and Events are held at:

 

On Top of the World Hobby Building Event Room

9125 SW 98th Street, Ocala 34481

2025 Sunday Meeting Dates:

 

January 5th and 19th

 February 2nd and 16th

March 9th and 23rd

April 6th and 20th

May 4th and 18th

June 8th and 22nd

July 6th and 20th

August 3rd and 17th

September 7th and 21st

October 5th and 19th

Novermber 2nd and 16th

December 7th

 

 

 

  PROGRAMS FOR APRIL

 

APRIL 6, 1-3 PM

GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER AT OUR FREETHINKERS "SPEED MEET & GREET!"

 

This is a fun way to get to know each other as our group continues to grow. After the Meet & Greet, two of our participants will talk about how they came to be Freethinkers. Some of us grew up in non-religious households; others of us came to know gradually that the dogma of the church we were raised in didn't make as much sense to us as maybe it once did, and we started our journeys using critical thinking to look for a new way. And yet others are just beginning to question and look for a community to help them. Regardless of where you are in the process, come be inspired by two of our own.

 

SUNDAY APRIL 6, 4-8 P

DEATH OF A GANGSTER
NOMA Black Box theater at the Reilly Arts Center
Tickets: $60
4 PM: Cocktails, Clues & Characters
5 PM: Buffet Opens
5:30 PM: Show Begins

A notorious gangster’s life ends…WHO DID IT? WHO CAN YOU TRUST? You are part of the investigation—maybe even the KILLER! Can you and your fellow detectives solve the crime before it’s too late? Enjoy dinner  at “Estella Dolce Vita” Restaurant for an evening of fun, glamour, deception, and danger. As dinner is served the mystery unfolds. Come in your Roaring 20’s flapper dresses, zoot suits, fedoras, boas, pearls and headbands! Themed attire is optional—just come and have a good time.

   Yes! We know it is on the same day as our Freethinkers Meeting!  Yes!  You can attend both and leave by 3 PM  And it's for a great cause: The Estella Byrd Whitman Wellness and Community Center provides much needed health access in a historically Black community in Marion County.

  Please notify Allie Gore at freethinkersotow@gmail.com when you purchase tickets so we can arrange to seat our group in the same area. It's going to be great fun!

 

SUNDAY APRIL 20, 1-3 PM

VIDEO PRESENTATION BY SETH ANDREWS

We will watch a Seth Andrews video, The Brick Wall Brain: Why Aren’t Facts Changing Minds? which will certainly generate a great discussion given some of the changes we are facing in our country today. Seth Andrews is an atheist activist, author, and national speaker. He just gave the keynote speech at the FreeFlo (Freethought Florida) conference in Orlando. After a ten-year career as a fundamentalist christian radio host, he saw the light and decided to build an online community for those interested in the application of rational thinking to such topics as supernatural healing, afterlife, and religious dogma. Let's find out why 75 million people in the U.S. voted for an administration which denies basic human and civil rights and what keeps those people from changing their minds.

 

 

BANNED AND WOKE BOOK CLUB

Here it is, hot off the press (well, not really since it was published in 1949), we will be taking a deep dive into 1984 by George Orwell. As a banned book, and relevant to some of today's political ideologies, we are likely to run out of time when we have our discussion on Monday, April 28. You know the procedure: get the book, read the book, take some notes. It is available through Amazon, Thrift Books online, the local library, and just about any used book store. It might even be on your bookshelf!

 

Thanks to all of you who suggested books for our next meeting—1984 was mentioned a number of times. And special thanks to Glenn Cohen and Mel Cox who do such a great job of coordinating the Banned and Woke Book Club. Please let us know if you will be participating by replying to freethinkersflorida@gmail.com.