This book club is devoted to reading and discussing nonfiction books- biographies, history, travel, economics, current events, and more. Meetings are held once a month for our friends in the city and in the greater metro NY area. Nonfiction lovers of all ages are welcome if you are willing to make a good faith effort to read the book so that your comments will add value to the conversation. Come join us for rousing discussions and be not afraid of lively debates!

Let's go to the movies. Each month a film will be chosen either by the organizer or by our members through a poll and they will then have the opportunity to attend the showing at a local Long Island N.Y. theater (Westbury, Seaford, Farmingdale, Levittown etc.) We will meet in the lobby of the specified theater where we will individually pay for our own tickets. Immediately following the film we will head on over to the nearest diner or coffee shop to discuss and ponder the merits of the movie we …

We are about a variety of Christian friendly & Christian Produced social activities and volunteer opportunities for today's progressive and set on fire for the Lord Christian Singles/ Couples/ Single Parents!  We also engage in: * Biblical based discussions on various topics important to us as Believers!  *Helping those in need is a call for all believers so volunteering in our  community is both fullfilling and a blessing! We are a ministry of Principle, Passion and Purpose! We are about believ …

We’re a discussion group with a focus on rationality, philosophy, science, technology, skepticism and ethics. We choose members who are friendly, intellectually curious, intelligent, non-religious, and rationally-minded – meaning that we’re more interested in figuring out the truth together than in proving ourselves right, or in arguing for the sake of arguing. Our members are young, almost all in the range of 20 to 35 years old. Our meetings are usually informal group discussions at someone’s a …

It is not easy for the western mind—accustomed to its Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Sartre, Hegel, Nietzsche, and so on— to determine whether yoga is, or is not a philosophy. Yoga is philosophy, because there is no doubt that, with a deep love and great reverence for the Truth, the ancient seers developed one of the most extraordinary philosophies that mankind has ever known, But, at the same time, yoga is not a philosophy, in the sense that there are no topics for debate or discussion and no engagemen …

The purpose of this group is to meet other people suffering from bipolar disorder. To discuss symptoms (and how they effect our jobs, activities and relationships), moods, medications, natural solutions, and treatments in a group that attempts to be as neutral and positive as possible. And maybe even make some new bipolar friends. I started this group because I was dissatisfied with other groups I had joined in the past. Certain discussions at such group(s) seemed to veer off into inappropriate …

Junto is a monthly meeting which focuses on libertarianism, Objectivism and investing. The NYC Junto was founded in 1985 by investor Victor Niederhoffer, who hosts each meeting. Information about Victor and his activities is available at his website dailyspeculations. This Junto is inspired by the Junto hosted by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia from 1727 to 1757. Like Franklin, we bring together intelligent people to discuss intellectual issues in a respectful manner. Our meetings are held i …

There are many Bangladeshis/Bengalis live in five boroughs of New York City. Many of us may want to meet with others. I was looking for a group here ... couldn't find one ... thought, it might be a good idea to create one. You are welcome to join. There are people from other nationalities who are interested in Bangladesh/Bengali related issues. If you are curious, you are welcome to join too. What will we do? well, I am not sure yet but we certainly will meet, talk and eat. Besides, we can do v …

We have have two alternating meetups every Thursday for people who have left or are leaving Christianity, as well as occasional fun get-togethers. In everything, we mostly do two things: Provide a kind and thoughtful community for people who are leaving or who have left Christianity. You may find that this is the one place where people not only understand your struggles and isolation, but also get your communion wafer jokes. Engage in serious but OPEN conversation about theological, philosophic …

This group is for anyone looking to do fun things with great people! We do SO MANY types of activities, you will certainly find something you enjoy: dinners, bars, picnics, museums, trips, volunteering... even down to the most obscure things. The purpose of this group is to introduce foreigners to Americans, so we can all learn about each other and one another's culture. MONTHLY DUES: $2/month (to cover organizational expenses) WARNING You will be removed from the group for any of the followi …

These are not your typical software engineering events. Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend.  Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python. We reach out to the entire New York metropolitan …

The mission of the International Debate Education Association (IDEA) is to promote mutual understanding and democracy globally by supporting discussion and active citizenship locally. Founded in the City of London in 1755, the Cogers is the oldest free speech forum in the world. IDEA brings this tradition to NYC with the introduction of the Big Apple Cogers, which typically meets the first Wednesday of each month (locations vary) for a lively open debate on current events. Here's how it works - …

These meetups will be hosted by Backbase. We are a portal software company focused on superior User Experience, particularly in the Financial World. Being that we are located in downtown Manhattan, one of the Financial Capitals of the world, it would make sense to get a meetup going with people interested in Bank 2.0, Bank Innovation, User Experience in Enterprises, etc... Initially I hope the meetups to be networking events but hopefully we can branch out and have some community presentations, …

Learn with us—Explore the Films, Fora, & "Arts That Spark" our ideas, discussion, debate. Arts and creative spirit delight and entertain us. They also open our minds, show us different worlds, immerse us in another's culture, and challenge us to learn and explore the great questions of human society— the past, the present and the futuristic. Welcome all students • artists professionals • entrepreneurs Who should attend? If you are keen to explore, think and share, then we welcome you! Join ou …

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Want to meet other INTJs? INTJs are the rarest (1-2% of general population) and perhaps the least understood of the MBTI personality types. Able to deliver opinions of devastating honesty and absorb criticism with absolutely no blow to their egos, INTJs may find certain business or social situations confusing due to the host of trivial small talk and tribal rituals that mask these situations. Deep inside our grey matter however are competing models of the world fighting for supremacy through w …

Speak English easily with us! Explore Arts & Ideas with new friends and a real ESL Teacher. Welcome all international students • artists professionals • entrepreneurs Arts and creative spirit delight and entertain us. They also open our minds, show us different worlds, immerse us in another's culture, and challenge us to learn and explore the great questions of human society— the past, the present and the futuristic. Improve your English while learning about Arts and Culture, with us. Explore …

Learn with us—Explore the Films, Fora, & "Arts That Spark" our ideas, discussion, debate. Arts and creative spirit delight and entertain us. They also open our minds, show us different worlds, immerse us in another's culture, and challenge us to learn and explore the great questions of human society— the past, the present and the futuristic. Welcome all students • artists professionals • entrepreneurs Who should attend? If you love to learn, think and share, then we welcome you!  Join our fri …

We serve over 40 Right & Center NYC metro political groups with events & free online resources -Our February-April Political Event Directory lists 13 events for Right & Center NYC groups -Join us to get the Monthly Event Directory sent to you -We’ll promote your Right & Center events – Send us your event URL & your email address. We will feature events as meetups & in the event directory -Speak at our upcoming events – Send us your topic, email address, group/event URL -Student Debate Club - …

researchers often fail to allocate enough upfront time for surveying a problem domain and getting a sense for the current state of the field as a whole. what are the most pressing questions in the community at the moment? what are the latest publicly available data sets? how to ensure that one's work will, in fact, uniquely contribute to the literature and be useful to the community as a whole? rather than organize more meetings where researchers present their particular work in granular detail …

The Legal Services Innovators Group brings to the fore a healthy debate & consideration of ideas, technology that can move the legal services sector forward. There is a intrinsic value in the legal profession but, like everything else, it must adapt and move with the times. There is no place better than NYC to discuss & debate the issues. Join with peers, colleagues, innovators & creative disruptors as we explore the role of technology, new delivery methods and suggestions for a new era in law t …

This is a group for anyone interested in finding out why "free will" is the ultimate in nonsense and insanity. The NO FREE WILL meetup will be a discussion group that will help spread all the reasons why free will is impossible and how a society based on the no free will model can be and will be a much better society and world to live in.

CWW Brooklyn Literary Salon at Wild Ginger Pan-Asian Vegan Café 112 Smith St (between Dean St & Pacific St) Brooklyn, NY 11201 Neighborhoods: Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill http://wildgingeronline.com/ APPLY: https://cww.submittable.com/submit/19153 www.cambridgewritersworkshop.org CWW hosts and discussion leaders: Diana Norma Szokolyai, Jonah Kruvant, and special guests Meetings: Saturday 1-3 pm, 2nd and 4th Saturday of March - May 2013 Location: Wild Ginger Teahouse, 112 Smith St., Brooklyn, NY 1120 …

We are a group of young (20's and early 30's) boozy book readers who believe that life is too short to always be too serious. We therefore would like to get together once a month to discuss and debate a short (

Be honest… how often do you Google yourself? We’re a New York-based group of personal branding and digital identity enthusiasts (yes, really) and we KNOW there are more of you out there. We’re intrigued by the evolving concept of “identity” and the fact that more and more components of our individual identities are shifting online. Social networks now represent more than second lives; they are the second halves of our selves, and increasingly taking the place of face-to-face interviews when re …

NY Tech(no) Dance Party is a social-ONLY event for the NY Tech community. There are hundreds of events and meetups to demo products, network with investors, debate python Vs. ruby, or wax poetic about font types. That's not what we're here for. If you want to pitch your latest startup idea, DON'T COME. If you're looking to GET DOWN with some awesome people in the tech community, we look forward to seeing you there! In partnership with Host Committee, we promise to bring you wild parties at great …

Tech Town Hall is a live, open forum discussion on the latest trending topics in tech that matter the most to the community (we take the online conversations and debates from the tweets to the streets). Like the classic town hall meetings, Tech Town Hall will give members of the New York tech community the opportunity to explore the complex issues surrounding what we do and to have face-to-face, constructive dialogue about the ideas, politics and events that effect us all. It's your tech communi …

Mission: Startup Championship brings Tech Startups together to pitch and compete in front of a large crowd and a mature judge panel of investors. The winner pitch will get a large sum of cash and exposure to NYC investors. Championship Details: Meetups will be held in form of tournaments where everyone with a startup will get an opportunity to pitch and get exposure, feedback, access to investors, discounted services and cash prizes. Each championship will be split over a series of small meetups …