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.
hi mag kano naman po ang tshirt bawat isa? bawat sizes?
we now have FF-UP, FF-Davao and the upcoming FF-Cebu
what do we call ourselves?? FF-Sb?? FF-WH??
D'original FF? =)
"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
I'll be sure to somehow include ninjas in the next one 🙂
I think you forgot to include hippies and hedonists
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 🙂
Let us know when it's scheduled. It might coincide with my going home to visit.
If this happens this month, I might be able to make it. I will wear my FF shirt ^_^
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 🙂
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? 😀
OK, for you Wes. Our next group pic is going to be a jumpshot 😉
Can the groups pics be just multiple money shots from all sides?
Your group shots are so formal because you drink coffee…unlike us Davao folks who drink beer during our meetups. Hey Igme, want to transfer to Davao? 😀
that's because the group shots are done before the drinking spree. LOL
"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!