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The Jefferson
Center 208 Oak Street, Suite
101 Ashland, OR 97520
541.488.9450
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WELCOME
TO THE JEFFERSON CENTER, A COMMUNITY
OF HUMANISTS, ATHEISTS AND OTHER FREETHINKERS
IN THE ROGUE VALLEY OF SOUTHERN OREGON
We hope you will join us in our promotion of reason, curiosity, civility and fair play through sponsorship of public lectures, discussion groups and social events.
HAPPENINGS / EVENTS
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012: The New Scientist discussion group meeting; 4 pm at Standing Stone brewery, Ashland.
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012: Monthly Salon get-together at The Jefferson Center at 4 pm.
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012: The Book Discussion Group meets at 1 pm at The Jefferson Center. The book of the month is Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman.
NOTE: For additional information about meetings, programs and directions, please click on the Programs tab to the left.
Other free-thought and humanist folk are always welcome to attend our Salons and social events as guests of The Jefferson Center. If not a member, feel free to drop in and introduce yourself. If you have some friend who might enjoy one of our get-togethers, by all means bring them along as our guests.
THE JEFFERSON CENTER IS AN AFFILIATE MEMBER OF
THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION and
AN AFFILIATED LOCAL GROUP OF
THE COUNCIL FOR SECULAR HUMANISM
The Center is located in the Historic Ashland Armory at 208 Oak Street, Suite 101, Ashland, OR 97520
Office message telephone: 541-488-9450
THE JEFFERSON CENTER is funded from Members of The Jefferson Center.
Your contributions are gratefully accepted. We are a non-profit organization with 501 (c) (3) status under the laws of the Internal Revenue Service, therefore your contributions are tax-deductible.
SOME THOUGHT-PROVOKING ITEMS
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT FREETHOUGHT:
A Resource Guide supported by the Stiefel Freethought Foundation is now available for all Freethinkers. Although Freethought is not a religion, "ReligionLink offers this source guide to help reporters tap the vast wellspring of the freethought movement. Do visit this very complete and helpful guide: "Freethinkers: A Source Guide To Atheists, Humanists and Other Nontheists" which is available at the following link: www.religionlink.com/tip_100921.php
FOR THE LATEST NEWS OF INTEREST TO
CRITICAL THINKERS, ATHEISTS AND HUMANISTS
Link to the official Richard Dawkins website:
http://richarddawkins.net
"We wonder at religion which rejects so many of the things which make life
tolerable. Perhaps it springs from an intent to make heaven seem that much
more desirable by contrast to a life from which pleasure has been largely removed."
-- Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Hand of Devils (Delacorte Press, 2007)
"We stand for nothing together...except for the importance of reason, evidence, and science in understanding the world.
We hold a common morality that ties society together, and as the more gregarious subset of the freethought community (the less gregarious are staying home) we also believe in the importance of coordinated communal activity.
We'd all like to live in a more rational world, where our leaders made political decisions based on evidence rather than faith,where secular education was paramount, where we recognized the common humanity of everyone on the planet and worked to make this world a better one, free of the illusion of another world beyond."
--- Paul Zachary (PZ) Myers
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