Posts Tagged ‘community’

Drinking Skeptically, October 22

If you haven’t made plans to attend the Edmonton Skeptics’ Pub Night tonight, there’s still time. See you there.

Full text from October 22, 2008 by Brad
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Edmonton Skeptics

I’ve very excited that over the course of the summer our little effort to convene a collective of local skeptics has resulted in lots of new interest, a couple meetings, and some upcoming community education projects. It looks like things are taking off. If you are finding this page because of a search for Edmonton Skeptical groups, or groups in and around Alberta, look us up on either Facebook or (for the time) Meetup.com and come out to a meeting.

As a dad to a little girl who is really starting to build up those cognitive functions, I’m looking forward to having some great community support in the coming years around critical thinking and skepticism.

Check out our new webpage at www.edmontonskeptics.org

Full text from August 26, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Community Skeptics, Meta-Skepdad

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What is Skepticism?

If you have stumbled upon this blog from some random web search looking for (as the otherwise-anonymous statistics suggest) information on playing music to your baby in the womb, optical illusions for kids, or even (on rare instance) banjo lessons, you may be wondering what exactly you have found in this site. I’ve tried to explain my own interpretation of capital-S Skepticism in my own little About Page by writing: Defined, skepticism is a method of rigorous thought where one suspends judgment, systematically doubts, and thinks critically about new ideas before accepting them as truths. But others, far more seasoned than I, have elaborated and pontificated much more deeply than I on the topic.

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Full text from January 21, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Community Skeptics, Skeptical Mindsets

Talking Critical Thought

Some readers might be interested to know that a fellow skeptical father has recently set up a community discussion forum specifically devoted to topics that run parallel to the goals of this blog. A small handful of people have recently signed up. I think that as much as it is important to give readers the opportunity to comment and respond to things I write here, building a small community around an equal platform is a great idea, too. I’ll be checking in regularly to join discussions where able, and I hope more skeptical fathers sign up and help build a strong and balanced community.

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Full text from January 15, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Community Skeptics

Argument for a Local Skeptical Society

I must admit that the efforts of other united groups of skeptics around the world has recently given me the hope for the future of rational thought and the strength to pursue my own efforts at a higher level. I’ve spent a number of years struggling towards a goal that I had previously been unable to name or associate with a particular movement. In the past six months, I’ve stumbled upon and found a kind of kinship with an international skeptical movement and moved from a simple passive participant towards being someone who seeks to be more actively involved.

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Full text from October 25, 2007 by Brad
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THE SKEPDAD BLOG is a place for rational, science-minded fathers to express their thoughts, opinions, and ideas about bringing up kids to be critical thinking adults in a world filled with superstition, mysticism, and pseudoscience.

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Brad adds: As of October 2007, I'm soliciting interest for skeptics in the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada area who are interested in forming a skeptical society to contact me. Please do so through this blog or via Facebook (through the Edmonton Skeptical Society Group).

Or visit our new website: www.edmontonskeptics.org
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus