How to Organize an Official FF Meetup

Before you hold an official FF Meetup ™, you must follow a few guidelines.

First, request the necessary application forms from the Filipino Freethinkers secretariat. After filling up the necessary documents, have them notarized and sent to our official headquarters. Your meetup proposal will go through an approval process, which may take 1-2 months.

But seriously.

There are no official steps or prerequisites.

But there is one guideline — during the meetup, you must use Reason at all times. This means that anyone who promotes the RH bill or any other socialist propaganda is an irrational, illogical, unscientific mystic pirate promoting a culture of death. Farting is strictly prohibited.

OK, OK, now I’m serious. Just had to let that out of my system (freely).
Actually, there’s nothing special about meetups.

All you need is a venue and at least one other person. If you’re blessed enough to have more than two guests, you may want to set an agenda and assign a facilitator. We’ll get into these details in future posts, but if it’s your first meetup, just wing it. Introductions and the discussions that develop from them will take up most of your time anyway.

Now go to the forum and post a call for freethinkers in your area. Once you have enough participants who have agreed on a venue and schedule, let us know. We’ll post meetup announcements on all of our online channels.
And don’t forget to take pictures (especially a group picture toward the end). Ending a meetup without a photo op is bad luck.

17 comments

  1. "This means that anyone who promotes the RH bill or any other socialist propaganda is an irrational, illogical, unscientific mystic pirate promoting a culture of death"

    …No mention of ninjas? T_T

  2. Cebu – FF is coming out!! ( I guess)..a member wrote to me that he is organizing a meetup..so I gave him my itinerary..I hope this materializes this year..I am also fixed in my itinerary, so he has to squeeze it in..
    Hello can you come out here also?

    • Once the schedule is set, let's see if some of us can visit Cebu for the meetup. Or maybe by the time it's set the Cebu chapter will be big enough to justify a forum 🙂

    • I think there will be a Cebu meetup this Saturday. I'm still waiting for responses, but so far two people have responded in the affirmative, and we are discussing time and place.
      @narsdoctor, do you think you can make it?
      I'd be leaving the country as soon as some documents are in order so I'm really sorry for the short notice. But I think in the future, meetups can be organized when a lot of people can come 🙂

  3. waw, parang CSI, magkakaroon na ng mga branch spin-offs soon 😀
    FF-Davao's off to a good start, hope to see more locales too.

    and why are our group shots always soo… formal? wala bang jumpshots dyan? 😀

  4. "anyone who promotes the RH bill or any other socialist propaganda is an irrational, illogical, unscientific mystic pirate promoting a culture of death"

    Now that made me laugh!

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