Are you between the ages of 21 and 35? Are you a lesbian/bisexual/queer woman of color? Not impressed with the bar or clubs scene? Then join us! This group is for creating community for women who enjoy plays and theater, restaurants, discussions, museums, books, and much much more. If you are open to new experiences such as yoga classes, camping trips, travel, movie nights and more you are just what we are looking for! Many different interests, personalities, and expressions welcome.   Please …

Under Construction (but join!) (Note that this page as well as some outgoing links are NSFW.) This group is for people who have an intuition of something better, and who are pursuing it in every direction simultaneously. You have a sense of rightness and wrongness that cuts to the bone, and it doesn't line up with traditional religion or the zeitgeist. You're an information sponge, but you hold it all provisionally and pragmatically. You know that all truths are partial perspectives, i.e. wron …

Let's start a book club in Deerfield! I was thinking of meeting once every two months. If anyone is interested, let me know what evenings are good for you. Also let me know what book you would suggest for our first book.

Art Appreciation is the understanding of the timeless qualities that characterise all great art. So too is philosophy concerned with universality and truth. What is your relationship to art? Why is art meaningful to you? This group explores the great world of art, aesthetic experience, and its relation to philosophy.  We will be looking at all types of media from painting to music, poetry and film.   Also see these other philosophy groups in Chicago: Greek Philosophy: http://www.meetup.com/ …

If you would like to meet other ladies in the Western Suburbs at breakfast/brunch, you'll enjoy this group. Going out for breakfast now and then is a treat for me, and I especially like going with "the girls," which is why I began this Meetup. As members, we'll get together about once a month and share thoughts on current events, what we're reading or doing right now (redecorating, just moved here, working on something interesting?) and anything else that's on our minds. Ladies, girls, women, wh …

meet local humanist and amature philosophers for stimulating conversation and friendship

… Lack of understanding limits the mobility of our intellectual capabilities and stifles our growth and progression towards acceptance and understanding of one another.

The Startup Trebuchet Entrepreneurs’ Clinics create environments to explore the challenges of securing the best position in launching and maintaining a business. The groups are purposefully kept small, with 10 – 20 participants, to allow for in-depth discussion of actual issues. These are not lectures, but rather highly interactive sessions. Subjects range from entity formation, establishing co-founder agreements, protecting intellectual property and trade secrets, business assumption va …

ATTENTION!!!!!! This group is being transfered to a different site. If you want to join Chicago Veg*n Nerds, go here: http://www.meetup.com/vegNerds _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We get together for various events. They can be for social, ethical, and / or intellectual purposes. We encourage all members to suggest event ideas, on the Message board. Some events we have include: 1. Potlucks 2. Socials a …

This meetup group is a parent based support group for parents of gifted children in the Chicago area. We meet bi-monthly in a member's home to discuss the challenges, questions, complexities, and exhilarations of parenting our gifted children. Our message board contains discussions about parenting gifted kids, enrichment opportunities for gifted kids in the Chicago area, discussions and planning about and for meetups and other gifted parenting seminars, and home schooling of gifted children. …

… This meetup is not strictly for intellectual discourse, but ultimately to connect with others well-versed in subjects few are even aware of – to find friendship with like-minded individuals with some similarity of personal experience in this inner space to help provide grounding & support in one’s continued journey into more delicate, powerful, and infinitely rewarding states of consciousness. I’d also strongly like to avoid this meetup being diluted by an unfocused lumping of various ‘New Age’ …

Join us for weekly public lectures in Chicago on the Gnostic Teachings, a practical, spiritual and scientific methodology for transforming suffering and acquiring personal knowledge of the divine. Gnosis is the universal wisdom at the heart of all great religions and mystical traditions, and has manifested through innumerable teachers and spiritual guides. The principal literature of discussion is the canon of Samael Aun Weor, a modern author and expositor on esoteric topics such as Gnosticism, …

Theological education at its best creates spaces for students, faculty, & members of congregations to talk about what truly matters, the beliefs & practices that shape our lives, identities, & communities. The sheer intellectual & spiritual joy of reading & discussing some of the great texts of Reformed theology inspired us to start a new group dedicated to Reformed theology. Our purpose is to gain a deeper, more critical understanding of the texts that shape Reformed Christians, denominations, …