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DESCRIPTION:How the Godless Can Create Meaning in Their Lives\n\n \n\nEast Bay 
 Atheists’ August meeting features a talk by Dr. Eric Maisel, author of 
 The Atheist Way, on how people can create meaning in their lives without 
 god(s).\n\n \n\nAlthough among the most important of human phenomena, 
 meaning is also among the most difficult to “get a handle on.” This 
 helps explain why it is so rarely studied.\n\n \n\nHow much meaning do you 
 actually need? Rather than waiting for meaning to arrive or seeking meaning 
 somewhere “out there,” how can you go about making meaning? What can 
 you do when meaning vanishes?\n\n \n\nDr. Maisel calls his new philosophy 
 Noimetics. It breaks with traditional philosophies and religions by 
 identifying meaning as a psychological experience that can be self-created, 
 rather than as a reward for correctly aligning with gods or the 
 universe.\n\n \n\nNoimetics offers anyone who has found traditional 
 philosophies and religions lacking in substance and logic a more accurate 
 view of human reality, an integrative vision of the connections between 
 meaning and value, and concrete strategies for increasing the experience of 
 meaning.\n\n \n\nDerived from noima, Greek for meaning, Noimetics is an 
 integrative philosophy that studies human subjectivity, human aims, human 
 values—the range of human experience—and the part that meaning plays in 
 our experience of life.\n\n \n\nPlease join us for this talk and the 
 ensuing discussion.\n\n \n\nAfterwards we will go to dinner at King Dong 
 Restaurant, 2429 Shattuck Ave. (near Haste) in Berkeley. Please join 
 us.\n\n \n\nWhen: Sunday, August 28th, 1:30 - 3:30 PM\n\n \n\nLocation: 
 Berkeley Main Library, 3rd Floor Meeting Room, 2090 Kittredge St., One 
 Block From Downtown Berkeley BART\n\n \n\nBART Access: From the downtown 
 Berkeley BART Station, walk 1.5 blocks south on Shattuck Avenue, then turn 
 right on Kittredge. The library is a half block down the street on the 
 left.\n\n \n\nParking: The city parking lot at Allston & Harold Way, a 
 short block from the library, is $5 for the entire day on Sunday. If you 
 don’t mind walking, take University to MLK, turn right and then instead 
 of proceeding left on Allston to the parking lot, turn right. In several 
 blocks you will see parking on the side streets.\n\n \n\nInformation: Larry 
 Hicok, Coordinator: 510-222-7580\n\nSki Grabowski, Treasurer: 
 510-652-8350\n\ninfo@eastbayatheists.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/08/22/18688383.php
SUMMARY:How the Godless Can Create Meaning in Their Lives
LOCATION:Berkeley Main Library, 3rd Floor Meeting Room, 2090 Kittredge St., One 
 Block From Downtown Berkeley BART
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