Topic: Atheist Ad Campaigns
Positive or Negative?
Based on area, they can be either.
•    $25,000 (donation) spent on subway campaign in NYC
•    Campaign in Indiana – Similar message
How might that money be better spent?
•    Youth programs
•    Education
What do these achieve?
•    In a major metropolitan area, these may not serve much purpose other than awareness.
•    In smaller areas, [...]

Topic: Intellectual Property Rights
Example: “Happy Birthday”
o Written by a school teacher in 1800s
o Now rights are owned by Time Warner until 2020
Should ideas become property? What might be the motivations?
o Jealousy, greed
o Profit
o Societal benefit
o Distribution
Is creating a work of art purely for profit something that can be considered manipulative?
o In this case, should they be given the right to intellectual [...]

It is considered conventional wisdom that groups should probably wait a few days or even a week before really getting started with meetings. Today however, SBU Freethinkers proved that notion completely wrong. We started on the first day of classes and the outcome was incredible. Here are a couple pictures from the meeting: (click here [...]