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+The CMU Humanist League holds weekly discussion meetings, on a variety of which are chosen to promote deep yet positive conversations.
+This semester, we are meeting in Wean 5302 on Wednesday at 4:30pm.
+All CMU students, faculty, and community members are invited!
+New members are always enthusiastically welcome.
+Our first weekly meeting will be on September 1st.
+To hear about the topics of our weekly meetings,
+[Suscribe to our weekly meetings email list!](http://eepurl.com/D695H).
+You can also check out some of [our previous topics](discussions.md).
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+We invite speakers to talk about topics of importance to humanity and our shared well-being.
+We have events several times a semester, which are open to absolutely everyone!
+We'll post about them here, or you can join [our events mailing list](http://eepurl.com/dLsc7A) to just hear about our speaker events.
+The weekly meetings list also hear about the speaker events.
+You can also check out some of [our previous speakers](speakers.md).
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+For anything else, you can send us an email at cmu dot humanists@gmail dot com (Sorry for the indirection, spam is annoying).
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