Manhattan Lectures & Conversations

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SOCIALIZE with INTELLIGENT FRIENDS from AROUND the GLOBE @ our MARATHON SATURDAYS!
our Discussions have ran for 16+ hours✨✨💥
If you crave stimulating conversations, discussions, debates, socializing with interesting international friends,
and/or ..
You feel lonely,
Are an insomniac,
join us!
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We will engage in some mental warm ups together; stimulating each other’s minds with questions, topics of interest, concerns and thoughts..
I would open BREAKOUT rooms to provide everyone with an enjoyable fulfilling evening!
Discussions will include a variety of topics presented by our members;

• Various branches of philosophy

- Political philosophy
- psychology & Human behaviour
- metaphysics
- science , artificial Intelligence & etc.
- metaphorical philosophy & Poetry
- happy Room! Meet intelligent International friends,
And.. there’s always more.

Come and go as you wish.
Make new friends from around the globe or spend time with us;the regulars ;)
It is meant to lift our spirits and help us forget about all the serious issues we deal with during the week.
Please
Bring your light heart and sense of humour :)
We engage in life’s matters in productive comprehensive ways suitable for almost all curious.
Whether you enjoy the every day language of tackling life dilemmas OR analytical philosophyor maybe just need some company to engage in meaningful conversations, you may join and enter a breakout room with .. the other birds.. of a feather!
We cover everything from politics to spirituality, body to soul and.. all else.
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Let’s traverse a number of amusing concepts; horror scope ; the amalgamation of the water and the earth. A game of hot potatoes with the moon ! And...!
Can you sing? Or.. whisper a song you don’t even know the words to? I can and will !
Maybe you can run your anxiety ridden fingers on the trembling strings of a violin, a guitar..!
Or.. maybe you feel a need to engage us in a sensationally beguiling confabulation! Bring it on!
And If none of the above is of your desire to partake in, come light to meet and mingle!
This is an evening of fun and friendly get together and light conversations! :)

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The one seeing, hearing, touching, etc. influences the concept of “beauty “!
Feelings,
Thought,
Experiences,
and all else which have formed the person to become who they have, will determine the level of “beauty “ in what the senses receive!
Or.. does it?

Socrates sees beauty not to be subjective but, rather inline with the inherent curiosity and longing for the finding of the “truth”!
Aristotle, in “Metaphysics”, states that “The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree,”

In the second session of this series : philosophy of Beauty, the “I” of the beholder,
We will examine the motives of human’s pursuit of beautiful and aesthetically pleasing women!

We will discuss; why we look for beauty in women and what is the beauty we look for .. in a woman!
From hair to skin to voice!
Real to faux,
What is it that we chase and why?

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You DO NOT NEED tO be an academic philosopher to attend these meetings. Please feel welcome to join with your gift of wisdom and life experiences. You can listen or you can share! Do as you’re comfortable.
invite your friends and family for a fulfilling experience!
See you soon my friends!

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So a pet peeve of mine has been unrealistic thought experiments. When chatting with some friends over philosophical topics we started discussing thought experiments as one of my friends introduced an ultra unrealistic thought experiment, and as we talked through the scenario, I realized that unrealistic thought experiments actually teach the wrong lessons. I will go through why thought experiments should be based on realistic scenarios, and that ultimately we should trust our innate sense of right and wrong more than unrealistic thought experiments. I have a specific unrealistic thought experiment that uses a proof by contradiction to make this point that unrealistic thought experiments can teach the opposite of what we should be learning from them.

Format: Lecture and discussion

Note: social time for our community 15 minutes before the presentation.

Host:
Garrett is a programmer turned award-winning software inventor turned entrepreneur (PlateRate.com is his company). His hobby is writing and discussing practical philosophy, and he does life coaching on request to help people live happy, moral lives. He is also the executive director of The Free Thinker Institute (http://freethinkerinstitute.org/), which aims to create a community that helps members increase happiness and decrease harm for themselves and those they can influence.

To get familiar with our past events, feel free to check out our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmixGB9GdrptyEWovEj80zg

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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
To be the speaking participant you must RSVP via Calendly:
https://calendly.com/cezaryfv/citizen-office-hours

All others are welcome to join to listen, use the chat, use the breakout rooms, and comment at the end.

About Citizen Office Hours:
If the Citizen is to be the highest authority in democracy, should we not have office hours to make ourselves available and accountable to our fellow citizens? The answer is YES – yes, we should.

Also, in a democracy, there is no power without responsibility. If the citizens do not accept the responsibility of being citizens, then we do not really have any power. Therefore, all responsible citizens should make themselves available at their own "Citizen Office Hours".

This event is a publication of my Citizen Office Hours. I am making myself available to discuss any of my or your ideas in Egora. Please be already registered for Egora before our meeting, https://Egora-ILP.org.