Seeker630

In my area I did meetup with a group that was listed, but it gave the wrong place and time. When I actually got there, they told me they knew they had been listed at the "meetup" site, but had no idea how as they had nor submitted anything to that site.

The group is the Humanists of the Sarasota Bay Area, and is quite active.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Well, I'm here in Cincinnati visiting a friend and will go to the scheduled meeting tonight - eleven people have signed up - I'll let you all know how it went.

BTW, there was a total of about 1,800 people signed on two or three weeks ago when I found the site, and now it's up to over 2,000 or so. At this rate it will be around 5,000 at the end of 2003.

marylandnaturegirl

Was their a host signed up for your meetup? Without a host its nearly impossible for people to find eachother without having to wander around asking random people if they are here for the "meetup" or if they are an atheist.

All the ones I have hosted in 2 different cities have gone very well but likely because I signed up as host.

The venues at this point are NOT necessarily even aware of meetup.com. Meetup.com is new and I think they are first plugging venues in and waiting for things to get going and I am guessing that later on is when they will start hitting up the venues for the advertisement money etc.

So don't expect the venue to know what is going on UNLESS someone signs up as host and notifies the venue of the event. If its a place that doesn't take reservations its doubtful the host would even bother with calling ahead, unless its going to be a HUGE group or something.

Javaman

I'd really like to go to a meeting once but my wife wouldn't like it. Don't get me wrong, she's a heathen too... but she just doesn't care. She's like I was a couple of years ago and has just let everything unpleasant go past her without batting an eye since we moved to Nebraska. There's no doubt in my mind that it's all due to her being English. When we lived in England, we weren't bombarded by religion in any way... hell, I even went to church a few times, albeit for funerals, but even that didn't feel like Church.

So I'll just hope there are some Nebraskans out there enjoying a good meeting sometime and thinking of me

marylandnaturegirl

Gosh, you make your wife sound pretty controlling.

I belong to a secular humanist group in DC and most of the guys there are going to the events on a regular basis without their wives. (I often wonder if their wives are religious or just don't feel like going or what)

But if their wives give them a hard time about it they surely don't say anything about it.

If you went to a Howard Dean for President meetup and she was a Liberman supporter or just apolitical would that bother her too?


Is it just that she doesn't trust you out without her? Is she afraid that meetups are a big pick up scene and that you might wander off with some hot young atheist babe? Well, I hate to be the one to break it but its more an intellectual and support group type thing then a pick up scene. Sure, if people are single, they may well find someone to date.

But women are in the minority at these events and with all the tons of single atheist guys at the events, the chances of the few single atheist women honing in on the "taken" or married guys is highly unlikely. She should go to just one to check it out and then she won't be so paranoid.

I feel bad for you that she doesn't trust you or that she is keeping you from doing intellectual things you'd enjoy or that
she gives you a hard time for being civicly active.

I hope its not that she's afraid of you being publicly outed as an atheist, cause that would just be backwards.

Sorry to be harsh, but you didn't give us any clues as to why she'd be mad, upset, unhappy with you going?

Javaman

My fault about not being clear. The only point about her really was that she is completely disinterested about both her lack of belief and mine. My wife and I get along great. She would just think I'm making too big of a deal about something if I wanted to go to a meeting. She'd probably roll her eyes and say something along the lines of, "for someone who doesn't have any religion, you sure do make a big deal about it."

beth

The witches meet ups are great fun. The pagans are great! I wonder if the atheist meet ups would be as fun...But then again, I know most of the big wig pagans in my area, so it's easier to cut up with someone familiar.

EverLastingGodStopper

Regarding the Atheists Meet Up :

Don't give up! Even if the scheduled Meet Up is cancelled, go anyway! Maybe someone will show. LOTS of cities have very active MeetUps; I go to Philadelphia's. (I may start one in South Jersey. Right now, only Cherry Hill is listed, and that's more north of me than Philly is...)

I made about 6 versions of a MeetUp flyer, you can email me directly at <godstopper@atheistnetwork.com> and I'd be glad to share.

Also, we Philly folks shared email addresses and we stay in touch with each other. (We're even meeting at someone's home for a quite little wine and snacks thing in April.)

Godless unity is not a lie. When I see posts like these, I try to remember who is looking for whom, and where, so please speak up in your searches for likeminded folks.

Yay us! And, to MD Nature Girl: *KISSIES*

Fiach

They meet every evening at O'Neill's or Murphy's Pub. Up in the North of Scotland, the majority are atheists. So on any give night, espcially Saturday night, the average northern Scots pub will have a quorum of atheists. There may be a theist or two, but being a minority now, they don't cause any trouble.


Fiach

PopeInTheWoods

I just voted for the next (4/15) Rochester Atheist Meet-up (for Jeremiah's Tavern on Monroe near Culver). I'm willing to go even if we don't get five people.

Andy