{"article":{"id":90959,"heading":"Humanism and freethought at CSULA","author":"Humanist Association at CSULA","created":"2003-10-27 03:05:14","modified":"2003-10-29 22:31:11","last_modified":"Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:31:11","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>On Tuesday, October 28, the Humanist Association at Cal State Los Angeles will present Lois Lyons, Vice-President of the American Humanist Association and Co-President of the Humanist Association of Los Angeles, who will present a talk on \"Developing Your Mind With Freethought.\" <br><br> Lyons, a writer and editor from a Catholic background who is now an atheist, believes that freethought opens one's mind to creative, rational thinking, while belief in the supernatural, including God, lessens one's development as a rational thinker. <br><br> Following an introduction by Reverend Paul Sawyer of Throop Memorial Church, Lyons will speak for half an hour followed by a half-hour question and answer period and then a one-hour reception with food and drink (non-alcoholic). This event is free and open to the public. <br><br> 6:00 to 8:00 PM in the Los Angeles Room A on the third floor of the University-Student Union, CSULA. Contact: Ron Spriestersbach, (323) 876-1767, <a href=\"mailto:rspries@mindspring.com\">rspries@mindspring.com<\/a> <br><br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Lois Lyons will talk about rationality vs. superstition.","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/10\/90959.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":91054,"heading":"Freethought","article":"&quot;Developing your mind with Freethought.&quot; Is that before or after the bongo solos?","author":"Sammy","parent_id":90959,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-27 19:10:22","modified":"2003-10-27 19:10:22","fileurl":""},{"id":91058,"heading":"&quot;... while belief in the supernatural, including God...","article":"... lessens one's development as a rational thinker.&quot;\r\n\r\nYes, of course, all these Christians were absolute morons:\r\n\r\nRoger Bacon\r\nLeonardo da Vinci\r\nNicholaus Copernicus\r\nLouis Pasteur\r\nGregor Mendel\r\nGeorge Washington Carver\r\nParacelsus\r\nJohann Kepler\r\nGalileo\r\nBlaise Pascal\r\nIsaac Newton\r\nJoseph Priestly\r\nJoseph Lister\r\nWilliam Kelvin\r\nMichael Faraday\r\nJames Simpson\r\nGeorg Ohm\r\nAndre Ampere\r\nAlessandro Volta\r\nJohn Dalton\r\nAntoine Lavoisier\r\nGottfried Leibniz\r\nRobert Boyle\r\nWilliam Harvey\r\nTycho Brahe\r\nAmbroise Pare\r\nAndreas Vesalius\r\nNicholas of Oresme\r\nJean Buridan\r\nWilliam of Occam\r\nRobert Grosseteste","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":90959,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-27 19:52:53","modified":"2003-10-27 19:52:53","fileurl":""},{"id":91064,"heading":"Mor freethought","article":"Are all you guys going to be hippies for Halloween?","author":"Sammy","parent_id":90959,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-27 20:40:51","modified":"2003-10-27 20:40:51","fileurl":""}]}