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Know Thyself: Exploring Gnosticism – Sept. 10
Hey yins:
Don’t miss this month’s Pittsburgh Secular Freethinkers Meetup.
Here is the description from Andrew the organizer:
For September, we will discuss Gnosticism, a belief system in which knowledge or “gnosis” leads to salvation. This isn’t scientific knowledge or rational knowledge, nor is it philosophy. It is an awareness and understanding of reality that goes against much [...]
Pittsburgh’s Skept-plosion
A recap of my six-month journey into Pittsburgh’s secular community.
My first experience with Pittsburgh’s skeptic community was via the first-and-only meeting of the now-dissolved Pittsburgh Atheist Meetup. The Atheist Meetup was great. We talked about everything from Monty Python’s Life of Brian to our own personal conversion stories (which all seemed to start with either [...]
