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Patricia Volonakis Davis

We're Not Powerless

In 2002, the man I love lost his 19-year-old son to a car crash. Six months later, I had to face the growing evidence that yet another beloved family member was suffering from a mental condition which was causing him and those who loved him a great deal of emotional pain, but for which he was...

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California legalizes same-sex marriage

You know what? Thank goodness for California. Today, California ruled that its state law that limits marriage to a union between a man and woman is unconstitutional. By doing so, California is now the second state to legalize same-sex marriages. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a much-anticipated ruling...

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And The Winner Is...

On the May 19th edition of Time magazine, it projects that they are pretty sure this time around. I don't have a problem with that even though I am a stach Clinton supporter. What I have a problem with is the Obama/Clinton dream ticket has not materialized yet. Both candidates need to stop...

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Freethinkers (public group)

A Vox group for those looking to discuss, use, and exercise critical faculties. This group uses t... Read more
A Vox group for those looking to discuss, use, and exercise critical faculties. This group uses the definition of freethought found on Wikipedia (as of April 1, 2007), "Freethought holds that individuals should neither accept nor reject ideas proposed as truth without recourse to knowledge and reason. Thus, freethinkers strive to build their beliefs on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of the factual/logical fallacies and intellectually-limiting effects of authority, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmatic or otherwise fallacious principles."

Note: The group photo is of the English Philosopher Anthony Collins who, as far as I could find, coined the term freethinkers. 
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