In the heart of one of the most over-sexualised countries comes a group for you, the asexual. I created this group for my fellow Aces to discuss whatever is on our minds, inspire one another with intellectual conversation, and generally just hang out. Each of our events will have a theme in order to kick off a conversation. They won't be locked into a specific topic, as I believe a good conversation must veer off course once in a while. Pull up a chair, grab a pint, and enjoy the company!

A Matryoshka doll or a nested/nesting doll is a Russian doll or toy which features a set of dolls in decreasing sizes nested within one another. I chose this name for the group because I believe everyone is complex and has many layers to their personality and discussion can be a tool to explore the many facets that exist in others, thus creating true intimacy and camaraderie. I feel that is missing today. The Nested Doll is a group for those who really enjoy great conversation and deep and hone …

Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to providing Humanist public education, media representation, and cultural resources for African American non-believers and their allies.  BSLA’s programming and initiatives seek to promote greater awareness and understanding of African American secular humanist, freethought, and atheist traditions, beliefs and practices in Los Angeles communities of color and beyond.  Since 2010, BSLA has hosted roundtables on secul …

Orange County Science Readers is a book club for people who enjoy learning about the physical and social world through published science. The book club does not assume that readers have any prior experience with a given scientific subject; the only assumption is that readers genuinely find the topic interesting and that readers enjoy exploring their curiosities with others. While some (many) topics may warrant critical discussion, the primary purpose of this group is to have fun and to encourage …

Greetings! Welcome to Westside Geeks & Nerds! "Westside Geeks & Nerds Logo" - Allyson N. Jason © 2013 Come join us and get together with other nerds, geeks, and dorks who meet up doing engaging and stimulating things mostly at locations all around the westside of LA proper. Some of the most popular events, among newbies & regulars alike, are: Game Fest & Potluck - monthly gaming & potluck extravaganza The Geeky Salon - monthly gatherings of deep discussion on various stimulating topics Westsid …

Friendly people from the Right, Left, and Center meet to discuss current political and social issues.

The best reading club has struck the Earth and it's reaching your cranium!!! Booze and reading nuff' said!!! If you like reading and drinking this is the book club for you! We enjoy several books and we read books that are similar to: -Professional, Drive, Hyper Space, Mexican-American Mojo, Parallel Worlds, The Black Hand, Incognito, Malcolm X, The Female Brain, You just don't understand, The Life of PI...just to give you a sense of what our reading pallet is like. Open to anyone who is friendl …

Reasonable Faith Los Angeles Area Chapter We are a group of Christian believers who study and discuss apologetics, as well as philosophical and theological issues. Our springboard is the scholarly work of William Lane Craig and his book "Reasonable Faith".

A group dedicated to helping people lose their faith*, fears, and superstitions through music, art, and literature. *faith - to pretend to know things you do not know.

Sorry folks it’s to troublesome to maintain two groups so please join us at “Southern California History & Culture” which has the same historical events plus many cultural activities. Michele and I hope to see you soon - thanks! http://www.meetup.com/SouthernCaliforniaHistoryAndCulture/ Closed Group - Please Join “Southern California History & Culture”

Long Beach RetroGeeking What is Retro-Geeking and who is it for? Do you find yourself geeking out over 70's/80's/90's music, classic computers (Apple II/Commadore 64/IBM-PC/TRS-80), cartridge-based game consoles (Atari 2600/NES/Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis), D&D/strategy/board games, or the scientific feasibility of technology found in comics/books/movies/TV shows? You have come to the right place!!! RetroGeeking provides the opportunity to (re)experience retro pop-culture in various forms with …

Do you love history, historical places and cultural events? Please join us in touring the best Southern California has to offer while meeting interesting new people along the way. We look forward to seeing you - thanks!

Toonkies is a unique friendly social group of people in their 20s and 30s in the Belmont Shore, Long Beach, CA area. If you enjoy meeting friendly people, having friendly conversations regarding a wide selection of topics, making new friends, and trying out new things, Toonkies is for you. You are welcome to join whether you'd like to participate in events, host some of your own, or you're just curious. If you'd like to host an event with Toonkies, please contact the organizer. PLEASE NOTE: …

Can you identify a major, vexing, obvious, easy to solve problem in your society or community? Do you view its resolution as straightforward and highly beneficial? Are you ever amazed at the roadblocks you face as you defend your position? Your arguments simple and plain, aren’t they? Your opponents don’t get it and you often wonder why, don’t you? Your opponents come up with arguments so poor that you can immediately dismiss them, right? Also, you would be willing to change your mind if you en …

Science is fun again! The Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) is a world-wide think-tank and scientific organization whose members have one thing in common: they have studied very thoroughly mainstream science including relativity, the big bang, plate tectonics, and have concluded that there are fundamental flaws in these theories that must be rectified. The NPA's goal is to seek truth in science while allowing for competing theories to co-exist letting the best to grow and flourish through the un …

Compton Elite Communicators is a Toastmasters Club that has been helping people improve their communication and leadership skills since 1999. We provide a friendly, mutually supportive atmosphere where forward-thinking people gain the skills necessary to advance in their professional, personal and social lives. At our one-hour meetings, members gain practice in making prepared speeches, and are given helpful feedback to help them improve.  We also do Table Topics, which teaches how to think on y …

This is a Dinner Club, what do we do? We eat dinner together! We meet at local restaurants, we sit and chat for the first half hour while people who are late are still arriving, then we order. As the event host i would like to talk about current events, shows, outings etc. so if you have anything you would like to share with the group, anything.. anything at all (even a coupon for the spaghetti factory) please inform me so i can share it.

To promote an organized unity in the Persian Community. Encouraging all Iranian/American individuals to join-in and meet, mingle, discuss, debate, be funny, make fun of, gossip, be in vogue, be opinionated, have fun, eat, drink, sing, dance, network your business, debate, solve, dissolve, blame, cooperate, collaborate and elaborate towards a unity in our community; Of course with a touch of humor!… Open to all Farsi speaking individuals. All suggestions and recommendations towards a unified goal …

This group is a newly formed hub for the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality, in particular a new spiritual teaching called Evolutionary Enlightenment, recently synthesized into a book of the same name written by spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. Our most basic goal is to host regular gatherings and events that convey the essential ideas of this new spiritual perspective. Towards this, the core of our meetup will focus on discussions using excerpts or chapters from the book as starting poi …

Welcome to IMPART . . . The Institute for Mediumship, Psychic, Astrological, and Reiki Training! My name is Dr. Anne Reith, and I have dedicated my life to the training of others as a full-time metaphysical and healing arts teacher. I am a psychic, medium, channeler, astrologer, Law of Attraction coach, teacher, author, Reiki Master/Teacher, and Karuna Reiki® Master/Teacher. I have over 30 years of teaching experience, including as a tenured faculty member at several major universities. My goal …