Now that was fun!

A few months ago I stumbled onto an atheist meetup group that has a bout 340 members and a few meetings a week. I've been to two dinner meetings with them now. Tonight was just the second one and there were about 35 folks there. I had a blast! Mostly just listening but, they talked about the same stuff I read, the same blogs I see and lots of the same kinds of stuff I'm interested in. Not everyone agrees on some of the politics but they are a really diverse bunch. They are all very bright and I can learn a lot there. The most amazing thing to me was how unhindered their conversations are. We all sat at a long series of tables so I talked mostly with different folks than I did at the first meeting. Over all there was about a 50% mix of people that were at the first meeting I attended and different folks this time. One guy I met must be a very rare bird indeed - an Aggie atheist - old school Unix administrator. There were lots of geeks and a neuroscientist or two. Although I didn't have a lot to say and mostly just listened and was by far the oldest in the room, everyone seemed to go out of their way to say come again. I'll be doing that.