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									GainesvilleHumanist.com Forum - Recent Posts				            </title>
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                        <title>New Meetup Group</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/new-meetup-group-attn-jim-sanders-shauna-tucker-chris-ickler/#post-20</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[A Meetup group for the Gainesville Humanists is up and running:Meetup for free, if you&#039;re not already a member, and then add the group to &quot;Your Groups.&quot;Our first meeting is announced there, ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Meetup group for the Gainesville Humanists is up and running: https://www.meetup.com/gainesville-humanists/<br />Join Meetup for free, if you're not already a member, and then add the group to "Your Groups."<br />Our first meeting is announced there, so join and sign up for it.</p>]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Jack Kulas</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Gainesville Humanists, please check in here.</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/gainesville-humanists-please-check-in-here/#post-19</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Joined and checking in. &#x2705;]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joined and checking in. &#x2705;</p>]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Chris Ickler</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Political Comics</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/political-comics/#post-18</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Not necessarily political, but I want to own put one of these at the next Republican convention:]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not necessarily political, but I want to own put one of these at the next Republican convention: <br /><br /><br /></p>
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						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Peter Murray</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Fascism over crosswalks</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/fascism-over-crosswalks/#post-17</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[We can copy/paste pictures!!!]]></description>
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						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Peter Murray</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Fascism over crosswalks</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/fascism-over-crosswalks/#post-16</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[And yet when I see chatter about gay/LGBT+ Republican groups, I have no idea what is going through their heads. How could you support a party that is actively going your interests and trying...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And yet when I see chatter about gay/LGBT+ Republican groups, I have no idea what is going through their heads. How could you support a party that is actively going your interests and trying to erase you?</p>]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Ryan J. D. Rushing</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Adopt a Road</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/adopt-a-road/#post-15</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[This one is pretty close to where I live. It goes through what I think is a lower income area, which might be good from a diversity/inclusion perspective.]]></description>
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<div><strong>SW 61st St. From SW 20th Ave to SW 8th Ave.</strong></div>
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<p>This one is pretty close to where I live. It goes through what I think is a lower income area, which might be good from a diversity/inclusion perspective.</p>
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						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Ryan J. D. Rushing</dc:creator>
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                        <title>The America You Knew is Not Coming Back</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/the-america-you-knew-is-not-coming-back/#post-14</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Article from Medium:]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Article from Medium:</p>
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<div class="original-url"><a href="https://sjgenco.medium.com/riding-the-trump-train-to-the-end-of-the-american-line-74a4ff0173e8">https://sjgenco.medium.com/riding-the-trump-train-to-the-end-of-the-american-line-74a4ff0173e8</a></div>
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						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Bud Jones</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Adopt a Road</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/adopt-a-road/#post-13</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I sent out an email today with 4 candidate roads to adopt, with maps.
Here they are.
East University Ave. From NE 55th Blvd(HWY 26) to SE 74th St.
 
NE 27th Ave. From NE 39th Ave to NE 5...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>I sent out an email today with 4 candidate roads to adopt, with maps.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Here they are.</strong></p>
<div data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody"><strong>East University Ave. From NE 55th Blvd(HWY 26) to SE 74th St.</strong></div>
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<div><strong>NE 27th Ave. From NE 39th Ave to NE 55th Blvd(HWY 26)</strong></div>
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<div><strong>NW 53rd Ave. From NW 34th Blvd to NW 13th St.</strong></div>
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<div><strong>SW 61st St. From SW 20th Ave to SW 8th Ave.</strong></div>
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<div><strong>Rank-choice your favorites and let me know if you didn't get the email.</strong></div>]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Jack Kulas</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Fascism over crosswalks</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/fascism-over-crosswalks/#post-12</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[FDOT decided just a minute ago that rainbow crosswalks are a safety hazard! Oh, and BTW, sidewalk painting next to roadways is also DANGEROUS!  Sarasota had to remove sidewalk art:]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FDOT decided just a minute ago that rainbow crosswalks are a safety hazard! Oh, and BTW, sidewalk painting next to roadways is also DANGEROUS!  Sarasota had to remove sidewalk art: https://www.yourobserver.com/news/2025/jul/28/sarasota-street-art-ban/ </p>
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						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Jack Kulas</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: What is Humanism? Who are the Humanists?</title>
                        <link>https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/main-forum/what-is-humanism-who-are-the-humanists/#post-11</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Here&#039;re the first several paragraphs of the book Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope, which provide a number of interesting alternative answers ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here're the first several paragraphs of the book <strong>Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope, </strong>which provide a number of interesting alternative answers to the question:</p>
<p>What is humanism?” That is the question posed, in David Nobbs’s 1983 comic novel Second from Last in the Sack Race, at the inaugural meeting of the Thurmarsh Grammar School Bisexual Humanist Society—“bisexual” because it includes both girls and boys. Chaos ensues. <br /><br />One girl begins by saying that it means the Renaissance’s attempt to escape from the Middle Ages. She is thinking of the literary and cultural revival conducted by energetic, free-spirited intellectuals in Italian cities such as Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. But that’s not right, says another of the society’s members. Humanism means “being kind, and nice to animals and things, and having charities, and visiting old people and things.”<br /><br />A third member replies scathingly that this is to confuse humanism with humanitarianism. A fourth complains that they are all wasting time. The humanitarian bristles: “Do you call bandaging sick animals and looking after old people and things a waste of time?” <br /><br />The scathing one now puts forward a different definition altogether. “It’s a philosophy that rejects supernaturalism, regards man as a natural object and asserts the essential dignity and worth of man and his capacity to achieve self-realisation through the use of reason and the scientific method.” This is well received, until someone else raises a problem: some people do believe in God, yet they call themselves humanists. The meeting ends with everyone more confused than they were at the start.<br /><br />But the Thurmarsh students need not have worried: they were all on the right track. Each of their descriptions—and more—contributes to the fullest, richest picture of what humanism means, and of what humanists have done, studied, and believed through the centuries.</p>]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://gainesvillehumanist.com/community/"></category>                        <dc:creator>Jack Kulas</dc:creator>
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