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  \begin{Minutes}{ Lakeside Freethinkers }
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    \participant{John de Waal, Ron Napier, John Stokdijk, Hank Shriver,Henry Laxen,
      Stephen Segall, Jim Wanamaker, Jerry Smith }
    \minutesdate{February 17, 2016} \starttime{4:05pm}
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    \author{Henry Laxen}
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End of March is the end of the term of the current executives.  John
thanks Ron and Chad.

John Stokdijk- "I am not the appropriate person to take the leadership role
because my thinking does not reflect the thinking of the majority."
Objected to bylaws when founded.

John Stokdijk- Henry send out email to group to let people know we are looking for
officers.  

Stephen - Officers are desirable but we can live without it.

Jim Wanamaker from Anchorage Alaska.  54 years in Anchorage lawyer and
judge. Religion never made sense.  Unitarian fellowship.

John de Waal - read aload and discussed
\href{http://www.nadineloveshenry.com/chapala/ft/docs/proselytize.pdf}{Proselytize.  Should atheists Proselytize?}
Written by Cameron Slater

Atheism vs Anti-theism.

John Stokdijk - 50 or 60 years ago secular forces would eventually prevail.
70s a rebound of religion.  atheists are deserving of respect.
results in polarization of society.

Hank Shriver- should have set up a state church.  It is the diversity of
religion that causes all the problems.

Silverman aggressive and promoting atheism. Trying to build something.
Madelyn O'Hare - made enemies. Reversed school prayer.

John Stokdijk - Owen Flannigan most people cannot embrace lack of meaning.
argument against a purely materialistic world view.

Ron Napier- music cabatina from Beethoven quartet in bflat opus 130

Stephen Segall - mystery awe gratitude connection = spirituality

John - distinction between physical and mental.
David Chalmers - the nature of ultimate reality - ultimate reality is
something that is not physical.

George Berkeley

Descartes -  coincidentalism - neutral monism

John - religion is a historical thing.  

John Leslie - Canadian philosopher - rational - evidence of personal
experience.

affirmations of humanism

Bill Jager




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