Freethinkers Anonymous

Frederick Allen Jones (Courtesy Freethinker Archives) The Freethinkers Institute welcomes you to its home page. Freethinkers Anonymous was founded in 1953 by poet, author, and original Freethinker Frederick Jones. For a comprehensive biography of Jones, we recommend Reginald Starkie’s Hey You Kids! Get Away From That Donkey--The Life of a Freethinker. Originally founded for reasons which remain obscure, the new mission of Freethinkers Anonymous is to find and provide a little humor to those who need it most. The legend of Fred Jones is, itself, almost as obscure as the origins of his weekly distribution list. Born in 1870, he had a series of misadventures around the globe, always going somewhere and never really getting there. After settling down in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), he founded the Freethinkers Institute, then disappeared into the jungle, never to be heard from again.

Freethinkers Anonymous, as well as Freethinking in general, was revived in 1995, along with the weekly distribution list. Feel free to subscribe to the weekly list, or you can read the latest offerings online, as well as browsing through the Freethinker Archives.

Just What Is a Freethinker, Anyway?

The man most qualified to answer that question is lost in the dense jungle of Sri Lanka. However, it is rumored that Fred Jones is still alive, and that he continues his crusade against...er...that he’s still fighting to stamp out...um...well...any further questions, comments, complaints, should be directed to Frederick Jones himself.

Freethinkers Issues

1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010

January 7, 1999: "Happy New Year!"
January 22, 1999: "Poe Folks"
January 29, 1999: "What Was Your Question?"
February 5, 1999: "Das Ist Verboten!"
February 12, 1999: "It's about time!"
February 19, 1999: "Give Me That Old Time Religion"
February 26, 1999: "Jurassic Stock"
March 5, 1999: "The Frugal Gourmet--Southern Style!"
March 19, 1999: "We Don't Need No Education"
March 26, 1999: "Kafkaesque"
April 2, 1999: "April is the cruellest month..."
April 9, 1999: "Celebrate this!"
April 16, 1999: "Abs Of Steel, Nerves of Glass"
April 23, 1999: "You Want To Do WHAT With My Credit Card?"
April 30, 1999: "What's Next, the Circus?"
May 7, 1999: "Keep Off The Wet Grass"
May 14, 1999: "Not Exactly Blinded by Science"
May 21, 1999: "What Would George Orwell Think?"
May 28, 1999: "What Do YOU Use 'Em For?"
June 4, 1999: "Why 2K?"
June 11, 1999: "We're havin' a heat wave"
June 18, 1999: "We're Not Really Related"
June 25, 1999: "Your Secret's Safe With Me"
July 2, 1999: "I Love The Smell of Gunpowder In The Morning"
July 9, 1999: "I Wish I Could Become Comfortably Numb"
July 16, 1999: "Down With Dumbells"
July 23, 1999: "Mouths wide shut"
July 30, 1999: "Nobody Got An Eye Put Out"
August 6, 1999: "Not Waving But Drowning"
August 13, 1999: "The Year Of Living Vicariously"
August 20, 1999: "Tune in, turn on, hang up"
August 27, 1999: "This ain't kosher"
September 3, 1999: "Life's Little Emergencies"
September 10, 1999: "Died In The Wool"
September 17, 1999: "Lost In Translation"
September 24, 1999: "Start Spreading the Insecticide"
October 1, 1999: "Survival of the Fattest"
October 8, 1999: "Everybody's A Critic"
October 15, 1999: "The Blithe Nineties"
October 22, 1999: "Doctor Strangelove"
October 29, 1999: "Just When You Thought It Was Safe..."
November 5, 1999: "No Hyenas Were Harmed"
November 12, 1999: "Christmas is Coming"
November 19, 1999: "Take My Advice: You Don't Need It"
December 3, 1999: "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
December 10, 1999: "Mass Consumption"
December 17, 1999: "Shop 'til you drop"
December 31, 1999: "Look Back In Lunacy"

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