Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists

Look at all those weirdos.  That’s us.

When I told one of my friends that we’d be having pizza at our meeting, she said that people would just leave right after eating.  That’s not true, I said, because our meetings are fun to attend.  She did not believe me.

Announcements

There is going to be a final meeting during finals week for anyone willing to attend.

Meetings next quarter will be at the same time, at 5:00 pm on Fridays, though they might not be in the same room.

Meeting discussion

Deja and Paul visited a Scientology museum about psychiatry. Scientologists really do not like psychiatry. They entered a padded room, where they learned that psychiatry will kill us all. There was a clip of old men crying because their son had died of an overdose (I’m told this is hilarious, but I think you had to be there). Apparently psychiatry is responsible for Hitler and 9/11. Scientologists also reject the idea that man is an animal (“Horses don’t make cars!”). That’s all a lot of nonsense, but the museum sure is well-curated.

Matthew said that if Scientology becomes successful in gaining followers, it could be a good argument against religion. There was a lot of disagreement about this.

Another topic that came up in our brief discussion: The Bilderberg group is a bunch of rich people who like to meet. But some people think they’re planning the New World Order. So Joe asked, “Why aren’t people protesting golf tournaments?”

And then we played skeptical Pictionary! I wish I had some photos of this.

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