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 3, 2003: "Resolve This"
January 10, 2003: "What A Card"
January 17, 2003: "Fur-get About It"
January 24, 2003: "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
February 7, 2003: "Hail and Farewell"
February 14, 2003: "Somebody Else's Home Improvement"
February 21, 2003: "Canonize This"
February 28, 2003: "Digressophobia"
March 7, 2003: "Rock Bottom"
March 14, 2003: "Take My Job...Please"
March 21, 2003: "Woof [Part 1]"
March 28, 2003: "Woof [Part 2]"
April 4, 2003: "Out Of Order"
April 11, 2003: "In Jeopardy"
April 18, 2003: "One Man's Poison"
April 25, 2003: "Bungle in the Jungle"
May 2, 2003: "The Why of The Wasp"
May 9, 2003: "Candy From A Baby"
June 6, 2003: "Kicked In the Asphalt"
June 13, 2003: "A Guy Thing"
June 20, 2003: "The Good Old Days"
June 27, 2003: "Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Doooo..."
July 4, 2003: "Drink Up!"
July 11, 2003: "The Eye of the Beholder"
July 18, 2003: "Do The Swim"
July 25, 2003: "Ladies and Gentlemen!"
August 1, 2003: "Don't Bet On It"
August 8, 2003: "Some of this is true"
August 15, 2003: "Paying Through The Nose"
August 22, 2003: "Here Today, Here Tomorrow"
August 29, 2003: "Our Agenda This Week..."
September 5, 2003: "Back To School"
September 19, 2003: "Look Away, Baby, Look Away"
September 26, 2003: "Back To The Past"
October 3, 2003: "Oink"
October 10, 2003: "Dream On"
October 31, 2003: "Food For Thought"
November 7, 2003: "Reinstate The Draft"
November 14, 2003: "Freethinkers Anonymous: The Musical"
November 21, 2003: "Technophiliaphobia"
November 28, 2003: "Fork 'Em Over"
December 5, 2003: "2003-We Hardly Knew Ye. [Part 1]"
December 12, 2003: "2003-We Hardly Knew Ye. [Part 2]"

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