On Wednesday, November 30th at 7PM Dr. Chris DiCarlo will be giving a presentation at the Rowntree Theatre at Georgian College. This award winning presenter will talk to us about how to ask the right questions and how to spot bad answers. Dr. DiCarlo will tell us about the important big five questions: What can I know? Why am I here? What am I? How should I behave? What is to come of me?
The event is free for members. The public is welcome to come with a food donation for the Grocery Assist Program or pay a $5 charge
On Wednesday, November 30th at 7PM Dr. Chris DiCarlo will be giving a presentation at the Rowntree Theatre at Georgian College. This award winning presenter will talk to us about how to ask the right questions and how to spot bad answers. Dr. DiCarlo will tell us about the important big five questions: What can I know? Why am I here? What am I? How should I behave? What is to come of me?
This dovetails beautifully with last January’s video presentation of Sam Harris’ book “The Moral Landscape.” Ethics, free will, and critical thinking are corner stones of Dr. DiCarlo’s lively and engaging presentation. His book, “How To Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass” will be on sale. A must have guide for all budding critical thinkers.
Many new members and guests to the Central Ontario Humanists don’t remember the last time Chris DiCarlo came by to entertain and inform us. When speaking to some members, one said he had Dr. DiCarlo as a professor and that he was a great speaker and teacher. I soon got word that another person in that conversation went home and looked him up on YouTube. She immediately said she understands why Chris DiCarlo is held in such high regard by humanists when she saw a video of him debating the existence of God with William Lane Craig. It’s easy to see why he was Humanist Canada’s 2008 Humanist of the Year.
On Wednesday, October 26th at 7PM the Central Ontario Humanists are pleased to present Dr. Monika Havelka, biology professor from the University of Toronto. Dr. Havelka is a fantastic speaking having multiple nominations for TVO’s Best Lecturer of the Year. Make sure to invite your friends to hear as Dr. Monika Havelka tells us that aging is an inescapable fact of life — or is it? This talk examines the biology of aging among a variety of organisms and explores mechanistic and evolutionary theories of why we age, raising questions about whether aging is inevitable, preventable or even reversible. We meet at the Barrie Public Library. Guests are welcome.
Doors open at 6:30, and the presentation starts promptly at 7 PM. As is our tradition, we will be meeting for dinner and discussion at 5 PM at Swiss Chalet on Bayfield St. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have any questions about our pre-meeting dinner, please email me and ask. Guests may visit us 3 times for free before buying a membership or paying per event.
On Wednesday, September 28th at 7PM the Central Ontario Humanists will have will talk COHA image, branding and message; grapple with a moral dilemma activities and finish with a consideration of the collective humanist agenda. Should be quite a night; be prepared to share your ideas. We meet at the Barrie Public Library. Guests are welcome.
Doors open at 6:30, and the presentation starts promptly at 7 PM. As is our tradition, we will be meeting for dinner and discussion at 5 PM at Swiss Chalet on Bayfield St. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have any questions about our pre-meeting dinner, please email me and ask.
This month: Living without the Sacred (Video Debate)
On Wednesday, May 29th at 7PM the Central Ontario Humanists will have a video debate with Peterson and de Sousa on Living Without the Sacred. We meet at the Barre Public Library. Guests are welcome.
Doors open at 6:30, and the presentation starts promptly at 7 PM. As is our tradition, we will be meeting for dinner and discussion at 5 PM at Swiss Chalet on Bayfield St. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have any questions about our pre-meeting dinner, please email me and ask.
Have you considered bringing your friends to one of our meetings? Guests are free on their first visit!
On Wednesday, May 25th the Central Ontario Humanists will have Wanda Morris of Dying with Dignity in to talk about end of life issues including advocating for medically assisted dying and what Dying with Dignity does to support people at the end of their lives. After her presentation she will take questions from the audience. We meet at the Barrie Public Library. Guests are welcome.
Doors open at 6:30, and the presentation starts promptly at 7 PM. As is our tradition, we will be meeting for dinner and discussion at 5 PM at Swiss Chalet on Bayfield St. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have any questions about our pre-meeting dinner, please email me and ask.
On Thursday, April 28th we will discussion social issues form a Humanist perspective.I encourage anyone who wants to give a 3 minute presentation on their views of their reading to contact me. Here are the topics we are considering. I hope and expect some of these to be controversial with people having different opinions on the subject.
Justice System
What should it look like?
Non-violent crime
Sex industry: Prohibition/Legalization
Recreational drugs: Prohibition/Legalization
Restorative justice
Political
Patriotism
Change “O Canada” to be more inclusive
Limits of free speech
Doors open at 6:30, and the presentation starts promptly at 7 PM. As is our tradition, we will be meeting for dinner and discussion at 5 PM at Swiss Chalet on Bayfield St. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have any questions about our pre-meeting dinner, please email me and ask.
This Monday, March 7th (please note the date change) we will be meeting at the Barrie Public Library for a presentation by Paula King the Executive Directory of the Elizabeth Fry Society in Barrie, where she will discuss their work and some of the innovative approaches they take to justice, assistance for those in need. Doors open at 6:30, and the presentation starts promptly at 7 PM.
As is our tradition, we will be meeting for dinner and discussion at 5 PM at Swiss Chalet on Bayfield St. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have any questions about our pre-meeting dinner, please email me and ask.
This month: Sam Harris on “Can Science Determine Human Values”
On Monday, January 31st (UNUSUAL DAY!) we will be meeting at the Barrie Public Library for a video presentation of a talk Sam Harris gave about his book The Moral Landscape. There is mixed reaction to this controversial work and I’m looking forward to hearing everyone’s opinions on them. We have two copies of this book that you can pick up for a minimum donation of $20. Doors open at 6:30, and the presentation starts promptly at 7 PM.
As is our tradition, we will be meeting for dinner and discussion at 5 PM at Swiss Chalet on Bayfield St. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have any questions about our pre-meeting dinner, please email me and ask.
The Central Ontario Humanist Association (COHA) is a local Barrie/Simcoe county affiliate of the Humanist Association of Canada. We are a group for atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and freethinkers to explore the our society and world from a rational, natuarlistic point of view. This website is powered by WordPress Website design and hosting by Semantic Computing.
