Author Archives: Tara

SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for March 5, 2012

SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for March 5, 2012   Start: 5:35pm End: 6:40pm   Attendance: 21   Tonight’s meeting featured our second MU guest speaker, Dave Muscato. Dave Muscato is a 28-year-old musician, LGBTQ-, human- and animal-welfare activist, and … Continue reading

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SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for Feb 27, 2012

SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for Feb 27, 2012   Start: 5:30pm End: 7:05pm   Attendance: 18   Tonight’s meeting featured a MU guest speaker: James Pflug. James is an evolutionary biologist, current entomology researcher at MU, and was the … Continue reading

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SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for Feb 13, 2012

SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for Feb 13, 2012   Start: 5:35pm End: 7:10pm   Attendance: 14   Announcements: February 14, 2012 @ 8pm will be the first official meeting of the UCM Philosophy Club. Anyone interested in all things … Continue reading

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The Power of Prayer: Christians Praying for Trivial Crap

While I may be an atheist, I have many real life friends and acquaintances whom are religious; given that I live in middle of the Bible belt of Missouri, the religion of choice is Christian. Thus, it is not surprising … Continue reading

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SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for February 6, 2012

Start time: 5:30pm End time: 8:45pm   Attendance: 16   Tonight was the Central Skeptics’s first social of the semester. While we weren’t able to have the Wii hooked up after all due to a lack of TV, we had … Continue reading

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SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for January 30, 2012

(Sorry for the late post of minutes. By not posting right after the meeting like I usually do, I completely forgot that I did not have these done yet.)   Start Time: 5:40pm End Time: 6:45pm   Attendance: 16   … Continue reading

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SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for January 23, 2012

Start Time: 5:35pm End Time: 6:15pm   Attendance: 15 (including one new attendee and one troll)   Annie opened up the meeting with introductions and hello to all our returning members and all our new attendees.   An announcement was … Continue reading

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A Quick Thought On Accountability

I am  proud to be part of a movement that thrives on accountability. The idea that no one gets a “free pass” just because they are part of this movement is liberating. The idea that if one of our own … Continue reading

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Honesty and Backlash

A few months ago,  I got a phone call from a relative who was very unhappy with me. Among other things, I was asked if it was true that I had said I did not believe in God in front … Continue reading

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I am an atheist, not a rebel without a cause

I am an atheist. Not one of those “I am young and rebeling against everything so I decided to say I’m an atheist” atheists. Not one of those “My life has been shitty so fuck God, he’s fuckin’ fucker and … Continue reading

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