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To commemorate exactly one year of Filipino Freethinkers’ existence as a free thought advocates’ collective and to further show the world that the organization loves using words that start with the letter “F”, the Filipino Freethinkers will be hosting the First Filipino Freethinkers Film Festival on February 27. This promises to be one of the largest gatherings of freethinkers with hundreds of participants expected to attend.

The First Filipino Freethinkers Forum back in February 28 jump started the organization and there have been countless meetups, provincial gatherings, symposiums, parties and other social events since then. If you’re a freethinker, join us and enjoy films on secularism, rationalism and other freethinker favorites.

The venue is quite big so bring all your freethinking friends and family along. Just RSVP via the event’s official Facebook page and we’ll reserve a seat for you. See you there!

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Humans just can’t get enough of the thrill of uncertainty. While being on a spheroid rock that is hurtling across the universe at a break neck speed is already exciting enough if you really consider all the other unknowns that could be lying in wait behind the darkness of space, a lot of people continue to push rumors and concepts to make people panic and run around like headless chickens.

Armageddon.

Apocalypse.

The end of the world.

All these terms resonates deeply with just about every person on the planet. To some, a string of earthquakes, cyclones and untimely deaths all add up to the End of Days. One cannot really fault man. Man’s memory is limited to a mere number of years. While some people can live for a century, the human brain is only at an optimum level for fifty years at the most so the quality of memories. While memories, observations and learnings of a past generation can be documented, it still doesn’t resonate as concretely as an actual experience of a current generation. This is why it’s easy to dismiss the things that have happened before and overstate the gravity of the things that are happening at present.

Just two centuries ago, Mt. Tambora in the island of Krakatoa had a largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. Imagine how scared people would have been during those times – it was mentioned in some accounts that the sound of the explosion as well as the ash was appreciated in places that were far from the source.

Millions of years ago, an asteroid miles across hit the Yucatan Peninsula. I can’t think of a single more devastating thing. And oh, if you didn’t know how the story ‘ended’, the asteroid story arc didn’t exactly conclude the the book to the apocalypse.

Worse things have happened before our lifetimes. You will have to be terribly gullible or narcissistic to even consider that OUR generation is among the last generations on Earth.

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As someone who dabbled in being in an atheist acoustic duo for over a couple of years, hearing of another similarly minded partnership makes me somehow feel warm and fuzzy inside. William of Happy Days Ahead shared their new songs at the Filipino Freethinkers mailing list and he has quickly made new fans out of us in the group.

The song See is a very witty take on how romantic relationships between religious and atheist individuals play out. Atheist undertones aside, See is a very catchy song that could most definitely make believers (pun intended) out of many people.

To listen to the song, simple go to Happy Days Ahead’s MySpace page.

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Because I’m lazy like that… and for the reason that I really like this post.

The Grand Plan to Affirm One’s Ego

To simplify it, if you orchestrated the entire time line of history to make you the king of all and the venerated on, doesn’t it make you quite an egotistic, self-centered individual (or deity) for that matter?

What’s the value of the supposed sacrifice when the trade off is immortality in the lore of mankind?

Disclaimer: This is an argument against the soundness of whole issue of “sacrifice” for mankind argument that continues to be the biggest draw of the christian faith. All cases were made on the assumption that the crucifixion and resurrection happened – since I have to engage those who believe those things actually occurred – don’t be confused though, I definitely don’t adhere to the idea that a resurrection actually happened.

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Happy Good Friday.

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Here we ago again. Preparations are now being done for the next Filipino Freethinkers Forum.

Ryan has already set up the registration page so head out to Filipino Freethinkers’ official website.

Where: a conference room in Ateneo (Katipunan) (ISO building near Xavier and Bellarmine bldg.)
When: 2-6PM – Saturday, March 28, 2009
What: Filipino Freethinkers Forum 2

“Practical Freethinking: Freethinkers in an Unfree World”
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I had to speak quickly because time was running out. haha.

For more videos and pictures, please go to Filipino Freethinkers.

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