This group is for people who like to mix philosophical discourse and drinking. If you're looking for carefully moderated debate, look elsewhere. These discussions are unstructured intellectual free-for-alls - the only two constants are booze and a keen interest in the nature of reality and human existence. We take philosophy very seriously, but we don't think taking it seriously demands that you act like an academic when discussing it. No formal training is necessary -  no one will be expect …

I've created this group to get people together who are seriously interested in making a positive impact on the world. The goal is to have constructive discussions that will help us build a framework for understanding and evaluating the many aspects of philanthropy. Unorthodox approaches are encouraged! The format will likely be: someone (me or whoever) presents something for like 4 minutes, and then we can discuss as one big group for a while and then just discuss anything we want together in sm …

  This group is about the evolution of human and humanism, bridging secular humanism, new creative humanism, spiritual humanism, emerging trans-humanism, and beyond. We focus on future oriented humanisms, culture, science, and technology that benefits human and society. We attempt to bridge between science and religion through philosophy, creativity, and spirituality. Community building among members and doing demonstrative trans-human level creative projects together are important for this grou …

Why join this group? In this group you will learn about Indian languages (primarily hindi), and the diversity of different Indian cultures. Members are people eager to learn (or teach!) an Indian language, share some secrets on how to make the perfect biryani, break out into a bollywood dance, philosophize upon the meaning of dharma, and much much more. Spirited discussions about India on topics such as Cricket, Hinduism, Indian ethnic dress, and your favorite Bollywood Khan etc are also highly …

This group is for all of the atheist/agnostics (whatever you would like to think of yourself as) this side of the Puget Sound. This is a group for open minded people to get together at a coffee shop (after all this IS Washington) and talk about their views of the world, recent news, philosophy, or whatever their cup of tea (or coffee) happens to be. This is also a group for atheists/agnostics who just want to be around other atheists/agnostics for a little while because they spend all day at wor …

Dedicated to those who are interested in the intelligence of machines and the design aims to create it. This includes coverage in the fields of psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, ontology, operations research, economics, control theory, probability, optimization and logic. The activities pursued in making this field useful include robotics, control systems, scheduling, data mining, logistics, speech recognition, facial recognition and many others. The host of t …

THE CENTER FOR HOLISTIC HEALTH PRESENTS ... WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT - PART II, a classroom/workshop devoted to the art and science of understanding and expressing human emotions. This educational meetup will normally be held on a Saturday afternoon (in a lovely and peaceful setting in Fremont) and perhaps on a Wednesday evening. The sessions, each 90 - minutes long, will flow from one topic to another each week, then we'll begin the cycle again. If you miss a particular session, it will come around …