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Comment by Sonja on June 5, 2009 at 9:30pm

http://charlestonwv.craigslist.org/forums/?forumID=78

I've never perused craigslist before and was feeling a tad bored - check out what i found.

Comment by Richard Wolford on June 5, 2009 at 3:16pm

Thanks for the yahoo group Sonja, I just submitted my request to join. It would be great to head into a few meetups of like-minded individuals. My wife is a somewhat theist; it's not a major problem and she doesn't try to force any religion on our 3 year old. So far so good, and my family doesn't give me too much flak about it, but still, not enough atheists/agnostics around here for me (at least not that I know of).

Comment by Sam in WV on June 5, 2009 at 3:11pm

The Morgantown Brights are having a meeting on June 5 at 6:00 at Bubble@Sikaku. It is the Japanese tea house beside Habichi's grill, behind Boston Beanery. See See the Morgantownatheists Yahoo group for more information

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/morgantownatheists/

Comment by Neece on June 5, 2009 at 1:59pm

I love the idea of flyers posted around. I'm going to bring that up to my group. Hey, don't think it can't eventually make a difference. Even if a handful of like minded nontheists get together to hang out once a month, you never know where that can lead, or how much just having like minded socializing can help you. :)

Comment by Neece on June 5, 2009 at 1:57pm

I'm not the one in charge of the billboard campaign here in Morgantown, but I'll try to find out how hard it is. I think that the FFRF just really needs one person to find the right billboard company, get prices of different billboards, and then be a "local" to ask for it. I'm sure they'd help with how to handle the media as well. Personally I like the American Humanists billboard better, but I don't think it's as easy to get them or get it sponsored like FFRF does.
I'll keep you posted if I get more info on it.

Comment by Sixfeetunderthegun on June 5, 2009 at 1:17pm

However, I like Richard's idea. I just don't want to be the one interviewed by the media. haha

Comment by Sixfeetunderthegun on June 5, 2009 at 1:16pm

Not wimpy at all, Sonja. My girlfriend isn't an atheist. She's not a theist, but more along the deist lines. She can't deny god at this point in her life, so we just ignore it for the time being. The more involved I become, the more agitated she gets. I wrote a letter to the editor in the Herald-Dispatch with a non-theist theme and received a pretty hardcore verbal backlash . Although I'm "out" as an atheist, publicly displaying my name again isn't something I want to do right now. I'm not really into "evangelizing". I just want to attract the non-theists who are out there, but in the closet. Giving everyone a place to be honest is a good start.

Comment by Sonja on June 5, 2009 at 1:02pm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/West_Virginia_Atheists/?yguid=191438089

Here is the address for the yahoogroup WV Atheists. THey meet about once a month in Charleston. I live in Hurricane. I haven't been able to get to any of the meetings yet but would love to at some point. One of the stumbling blocks in my path is hubbie isn't atheistic and I'd feel kind of weird doing something without him like this. I know, I know - I'm wimpy.

Comment by Richard Wolford on June 5, 2009 at 12:31pm

A grass roots effort may work, but we're too scattered and fragmented IMO to make a big difference. Why come out as an atheist in a small town full of True Christians (TM)? But maybe it's just me, I tend to think too big sometimes :) But if the cost wasn't prohibitive, a banner on I64 between Charleston and Huntington wouldn't be a bad idea. At the very least, it would get you on the news where you could talk to a larger audience in a sound byte of some sorts.

Comment by Sixfeetunderthegun on June 5, 2009 at 12:22pm

I think that simply printing a one-pager and putting copies up around our respective towns would be great. We could advertise our group on this site or start a new one (that's quite a bit of work, though). This site is a great place to get everyone together and organize. Granted, we all probably can't drive to one meeting place and get together, but even if we organized town by town...

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