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Philosophy Circle / PC Group @ Facebook

07/11/2010

Attendance:Mac, Adroit, Steve, Michael Wormley, Chris Buchta.

Topics:
  • Mac is scheduled to attend the TED conferences next year(2011).
  • Cheap self-esteme. Advertising for breast cancer using pink wristbands.
  • Ancient American Aggressive Political Advertisements from Reason.tv : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI
  • Re-growing brain cells and brains.
  • Governments in space.

    Question:
  • Where do you get your rights from?

    • 07/10/2010

    Attendance:Alyssa, Adroit, Stephen

    Topics:
  • Medicinal narcotic experiences.
  • Numbers
  • Larger than life VS. smaller than life.
  • Doctor Jack Kevorkian(aka Doctor Death)

    Quotes:
  • "They're doing it wrong!" - Doctor Jack Kevorkian's take on other doctors.
  • "You cannot transgress natural rights." - Doctor Jack Kevorkian

    Videos:
  • Doctor Jack Kevorkian interviewed on Fox News by Neil Cavuto.
    [ via YouTube: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 ]

    • 02/10/2010

    Attendance:Adroit, Mac, Kim, Stephen

    Topics:
  • Dreams
  • Waking Life
  • People in dreams.
  • Dream Territories:
    1. Remembering Dreams
    2. Lucid Dreaming
    3. When Lucid Dreaming affects real life perceptions and behavior.
    4. Moments of Ascension.
    5. Allowing characters(or aspects) in dreams to be lucid in your dreams.
    6. "Dreaming Out Loud"
    7. Gaining rational benefits through "wake dreaming".
    8. "Vacationing with friends."
    9. To intentionally dream about dreaming.
  • Free will and determinism.
  • Story of Mac's "Dreaming Out Loud" experience in Chicago.

    • 30/09/2010

    Attendance:Mac, Adroit, Alyssa, Stephen

    Topics:
  • University Zine @ university Mac attends.
  • Individually Wrapped "X"
  • Candy Coated Drugs. Skittles+LSD="Taste the rainbow."
  • The 5-Flags + 1 Flag.(PT, H.G. Hill)

    Readings:
  • PT by H.G. Hill

    • 25/09/2010

    Attendance: Adroit, Stephen, Mac, Alyssa

    Topics:
  • Rhetoric. Psycho-linguistics. Verbal gymnastics.
  • Political Systems:
    • republic
    • democracy
    • communism
    • socialism
    • fascism
    • nationalism
    • totalitarianism
    • authoritarianism
    • capitalism
    • utilitarianism
    • libertarianism
  • Technology eliminates jobs. NOT.
  • Debt to society. NOT.
  • Violence begets violence. NOT.
  • Negotiation - The easy way out.
    • Dealing with unreasonable people.
  • Deeper understanding of the idea, "an eye for an eye".
  • Human action = life in motion = property. - Paul Rosenburg
  • Cannibalism: PROs and more PROs.

    Readings:
  • Mindless Slogans by Paul Rosenberg

    Insides:
  • Dirty minds. / Dirty brains.
  • Top-level domain jokes.

    • 12/09/2010

    Attendance: Adroit, Juss, Gues User, Steve, Kim, Nathan, Michael Wormly, Jenna, Spencer, Danny Divine

    Topics:
  • John's LSD social fun.
  • Social Networking.
      Attention-seeking whores with lame announcements.
  • Can you think without language?
  • The Agnostic Bible by The Adroit Oblivion
  • Artificial Life, Craig Venter
  • Discussions of dreams.
  • Instinct Vs. Thought

    Quotes:
  • "Extrinsic motherfuckers." - Mac
  • "The first hole that's ready important." - Nathan

    • 05/09/2010

    Attendance: Mac, Adroit

    Topics:
  • Righteousness Plus Force
  • Progressivism and Collectivism
  • Bolshevik Atheism and social conservatism
  • Laws of Past + Future
      Size + Specialization Ruin Understanding
      Departmentalization + Compartmentalization
  • The Flynn Effect(in reference to IQ)

    Quotes:
    "You're not qualified to think." - upper management 'How many people are still capable of independent action?" - anyone

    Vocabulary:
  • polymath
  • polyglot
  • polyhistor

    • 01/09/2010

    Attendance: Mac, Stephen, Kim, Adroit, Mystery Guest, Juss

    Topics:
  • Severe physical trauma
  • Memory
  • Discovery Channel Terrorist
  • Levels of knowledge. More than intellectual. Wisdom.
  • Philosopher song proposal.
  • IRL Philosophy Circle proposal.

    • 29/08/2010

    Attendance: Mac, Adroit, Nathan, Kim

    Topics:
  • The Fido
  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine
  • Ion
  • The American Revolution
  • Philosopher Hair
  • The Habit of Thought
  • "Flow"/The Perfect

    Quotes:
    "Virgin Territory is getting FUCKED!" - Mac

    "Jews invented Capitalism." - Mac

    "The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth,
    and not to be under the will or legislative author of man,
    but only to have the law of nature for his rule." - Samuel Adams