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

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January 13, 2006: "Vowel Movements"
January 20, 2006: "Made By Acme"
January 27, 2006: "Percolate This"
February 3, 2006: "TB or not TB"
February 10, 2006: "Winter Blunderland"
February 17, 2006: "Win or Luge"
February 24, 2006: "And the password is..."
March 3, 2006: "Red Eye"
March 10, 2006: "All About The Lincolns"
March 16, 2006: "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Phone"
March 24, 2006: "Switching Tracks"
March 31, 2006: "Smell This"
April 7, 2006: "Slice of Quiche"
May 12, 2006: "A Sucker Born Every Minute"
May 19, 2006: "Tick-tock"
May 26, 2006: "Garbage In, Garbage Out"
June 2, 2006: "I Don't Know Either"
June 9, 2006: "Cuppa Joe"
June 16, 2006: "A Midsummer Night's Dumb"
June 23, 2006: "The Guy Who Came in From the Cold"
June 30, 2006: "Soccer It To Me"
July 7, 2006: "Pop Goes The..."
July 14, 2006: "Misalliance"
July 21, 2006: "What's In A Name?"
July 28, 2006: "Nuclear Fishin'"
August 4, 2006: "The Sun Also Sweats"
September 8, 2006: "And Don't Call Me Shirley"
September 15, 2006: "Mad Cow"
September 22, 2006: "Milking It"
September 29, 2006: "Gene Shalit's Wife [Part 1]"
October 6, 2006: "Gene Shalit's Wife [Part 2]"
October 13, 2006: "Gene Shalit's Wife [Part 3]"
October 20, 2006: "The Tenth Planet"
October 27, 2006: "House on Haunted Hill"
November 3, 2006: "Through A Glass By Acme"
November 10, 2006: "I Left My Body To Science, But I'm Afraid They Turned It Down"
November 17, 2006: "Off The Eaten Path"
December 1, 2006: "Color Me Recycling"
December 8, 2006: "High Resolution"

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