FreeThought Music: First Aid Kit

First Aid Kit is the Swedish indie/folk band of the Söderberg sisters Johanna and Klara. These young ladies with their sensuous chords and dulcet tones started composing in 2007 with their first EP, Drunken Trees, being released in 2008 followed in January of this year by their full album The Big Black & the Blue. [...]

Mitch Daniels IN Gov. full of Faith, Delusion, and Ignorance.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels recently went public with his ignorance of American history and paranoia about Athesist destroying the “real world”. Click here. He wants Atheists to “think very carefully”.  I have the same advice back at you Mitch my boy!  I have thought very carelfully, and it is precisely becasue I think that I [...]

On Purpose

The desire to develop a purpose and/or meaning to one’s life is not a necessary requirement to living that life.  Even if life has no meaning, it does not mean you don’t get to live it.  All 7 billion of us have already hit the genetic lottery by simply being born into the dominant species [...]

New Event – Lunch Group

This coming Tuesday 12/15 at 1 p.m. will be the first ever lunch meetup for FreeThought Fort Wayne at the Dash-In, 814 S. Calhoun St. (Click here for a map)
This is the first event of its kind, but hopefully we will be scheduling these on a regular basis.
The Dash-In also has a page on facebook [...]

November Meeting. Robert Ingersoll overview and much more

[ November 11, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
FreeThought Fort Wayne’s November meeting will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 11th at 7 PM in meeting room B at the Main Allen Country Public library.  The meeting is open to new comers.  I (with the help of Rae and Sandie) will give a very short overview about Robert Green Ingersoll,  (The Great Agnostic).  We [...]

University students celebrate blasphemy

This Wednesday, the 30th of September, we at the Campus Atheists and Agnostics of IPFW (Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne) will be having our first Blasphemy Day International celebration. We’re joining other secular groups, including the Center for Inquiry, in protesting the United Nations Human Rights Council’s decision to adopt a non-binding resolution that indicated [...]

Freethought + Free Markets?

While there is no predetermined political affiliation for freethinkers, I’ve noticed that many, if not most, identify as either liberal (both socially and fiscally) or libertarian (socially liberal, fiscally conservative).    Michael Shermer falls into the latter category, and has published several pieces recently extolling the virtues of free market capitalism and the private sector.
I’ve read [...]

Freethought Music: “Die Gedanken Sind Frei”

Music doesn’t get much more freethought-friendly than this:

 
Die Gedanken Sind Frei, 19th c.
 

Die Gedanken sind frei, wer kann sie erraten,
sie fliegen vorbei wie nächtliche Schatten.
Kein Mensch kann sie wissen, kein Jäger erschießen
mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!

Ich denke was ich will und was mich beglücket,
doch alles in der Still’, und wie es sich [...]

FreeThought Zoo Day! (updated)

[ August 30, 2009; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] FreeThought Fort Wayne’s first day at the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo is Sunday, August 30th at 10 AM. Let’s meet just inside the gate at the prairie dog exhibit

Freethought Music: Cantus Buranus

Back in May the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, in conjunction with IPFW and the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, performed German composer Carl Orff’s setting of the Carmina Burana, a piece I love for reasons I explained, alongside a little history of the piece, in a previous post. (At that link you can watch [...]