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About RET
Rationalists of East Tennessee is an organization created to benefit people by expanding understanding of the universe through the use of empirical and rational methods. Our purposes are as follows:
- To foster an environment suitable to free speech and exchange of ideas.
- To promote free inquiry into the nature of the universe and of human societies.
- To encourage critical thinking on all aspects of human life.
- To emphasize the importance of the scientific method.
- To explore ethical and intellectual alternatives to supernatural beliefs.
- To model humanistic ethics through service to the greater community.
- To provide a fellowship for people who share these purposes.
Visitors are Welcome
Parents who bring children may choose to hear and see the speaker from an adjacent room.
How Do I Join RET?
We welcome you to attend our meetings to find out more about us. Find out what we're doing next by browsing the calendar at left or by sending email to info@rationalists.org. Once you've decided we're a group you'd like to associate with, either download our brochure and fill out the blank or print the HTML application found here.
Reminder: No roundtable this Sunday
We traditionally do not hold a roundtable discussion on the first week of July so people can attend the Lake Hypatia celebration. More details on that in the July Newsletter due out tonight.
Posted by dbuck
June 30, 2009
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RET Roundtable: The Sinking of the Titanic
Join us Sunday to hear Dr. John Muldowny, from UT, discuss the cultural phenomenon surrounding the sinking of the titanic.
As usual, the roundtable starts at 10:30 at Pellissippi State (see rationalists.org for directions). Come early for coffee, snacks, and socializing.
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Posted by dbuck
June 18, 2009
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Book Club this Sunday!
Skeptic Book Club will discuss, "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin. If you decide to buy the book, please consider clicking on the book on the RET homepage and buying it from Amazon. RET gets money from any products purchased after going through our website first.
Discussion Leader: Joan Omarzu
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Location: Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 8029 Kingston Pike
Posted by dbuck
June 09, 2009
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Frankenpig, Mr. Potato Head, and the Ethics of Eat
Come join us this coming Sunday for another member-led roundtable discussion. Daryl Learn Houston will discuss food on several levels; perhaps whetting your appetite or causing you to consider changing your diet. Daryl writes,
"Michael Pollan, in a book entitled "The Omnivore's Dilemma," outlines the conundrum the omnivore faces. In a nutshell: if your body is equipped to digest most anything, how do you decide which things to eat? This problem operates at a very basic level in that we must figure out what won't kill us. But as our culture over thousands of years has left us a pretty good record of what is safe to eat, the problem, for those who choose to consider it, becomes a matter of ethics. For example, how do we justify eating meat at all, since we can extract protein and fat from other food sources? What about the ethics of culinary decadence in the face of starvation, even in the first world? These points and a number of others concerning cultural aspects of eating habits will form the topic of the discussion."
As usual, the roundtable is at Pellissippi State from 10:30 to 12:30. Of course, come early for snacks and coffee!
Posted by dbuck
June 01, 2009
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June 20, Summer Solstice Party
SUMMER SOLSTICE PARTY - Saturday, June 20th, 5:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. - Ledendecker’s home (2123 Stonybrook Road, Louisville, TN 37777)
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Posted by pking
May 26, 2009
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Reminder: Roundtable Sunday - Defining Religion
This Sunday our roundtable discussion leader is Mark Hulsether, PhD.
Mark's thesis argues that Sam Harris' definitions of religion are too narrow-- "admittedly they stick against some kinds of religion and admittedly this is important, but we also need to think about a whole range of expressions of religion for which it does NOT work and contexts in which it is not particularly constructive, even judged by Harris' own stated goals."
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Pellissippi State Technical Community College
Goins Administration Building, Annex to the Cafeteria.
Come early for coffee and snacks.
P.S. Did you all read the letter to the editor addressing RET?
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/11/logic-alone-cannot-account-humanity/
Posted by dbuck
May 14, 2009
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