{"id":14328,"date":"2023-10-25T03:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=14328"},"modified":"2023-10-30T21:54:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:54:42","slug":"2023-10-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-10-24\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Humanism and Critical Thinking&#8221; &#8211; The Time is Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/humanists.org_2023_10_29_ben_wade_meetup.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14329\"\/><figcaption>Ben Wade<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Ben Wade<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., October 29, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join the Humanist Forum at the Mountain View Senior Center, where Ben Wade will present to us, OR join us on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Ben will briefly overview the definition of critical thinking and some of its skills, attitudes, and dispositions. He will examine, in some detail, the disposition of flexibility, especially concerning older persons. Finally, Ben will suggest actions that Humanists can take to support and encourage critical thinking in the general populace.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Wade has been a student and practitioner of critical thinking for many years. He holds a Masters Degree in Critical Thinking from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/879246074?h=948ad151c2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/879246074\">10\/29\/2023 Ben Wade<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will continue to present our forums <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Zoom. To join and be able to ask questions and make comments, click here<\/a>.<br>No password is needed &#8212; our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer (if it&#8217;s not already installed), and then take you to the meeting. You can also install the Zoom app on your computer or smartphone, and then enter:<br>Meeting ID: 816 5389 0712<br>Passcode: 250634<\/p>\n<p>You can also call any of the following phone numbers and then enter the above Meeting ID and the Passcode in order to join the meeting by phone.<br>+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)<br>+1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)<br>+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)<br>+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)<br>+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)<br>+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)<br>+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)<br>You can find international phone numbers to call <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/u\/afYkAuvE6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>RSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/296943524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>\nShare to your Linkedin account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/scottwakefield1_humanism-and-critical-thinking-the-time-activity-7122790395553476608-PeEe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>\nCheck out the Humanist Community web site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-10-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>\nRetweet our announcement on the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HumanistCommSV\/status\/1717022598134215091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>\nAdd this event to your Google Calendar<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/event?action=TEMPLATE&amp;tmeid=NzhmbjdiZnNrMGNvZWRrN2wxNGpmZDhvZDYgOGhnajVqYmVndXZjb2RuMDlvYTU5azFwOTBAZw&amp;tmsrc=8hgj5jbeguvcodn09oa59k1p90%40group.calendar.google.com\" rel=\"noopener\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/images\/ext\/gc_button1_en.gif\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wade 11 a.m., October 29, 2023 Join the Humanist Forum at the Mountain View Senior Center, where Ben Wade will present to us, OR join us on Zoom. Ben will briefly overview the definition of critical thinking and some of its skills, attitudes, and dispositions. He will examine, in some detail, the disposition of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-10-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Humanism and Critical Thinking&#8221; &#8211; The Time is Now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14328"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14357,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14328\/revisions\/14357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}