ONLINE: Our Lives, Our Dreams, Our Minds: What brings you inspiration?

This is the Monday night meeting for Orlando Stoics. It's online.

This is a special presentation. StoicDan will review the most inspiring quotes from 3 amazing videos by Carl Sagan, Alan Watts, and Will Smith. This discussion was originally created for the “year-end meeting” for Orlando Stoics in 2019, intending to give us inspiration for the new year. However, we will now review these thought-provoking videos to renew our inspiration in 2021.

Reading material

As usual, I'll prepare an outline of discussion points, so you don't have to read the articles or watch the videos in advance.

Pale Blue Dot (Carl Sagan), 3.5 minutes
https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g

The Dream of Life (Alan Watts), 3.5 minutes
https://youtu.be/wU0PYcCsL6o

Managing your Mind (Will Smith and other speakers), 6.5 minutes
https://youtu.be/MrfR1A8w-xs

Zoom Info

Meeting time: 7PM Eastern, 6PM Central, 5PM Mountain, 4PM Pacific.

CLICK TO START MEETING - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82659560546

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Our group enjoys open-minded, respectful conversations on Stoicism and how it relates to science, culture, philosophy, other belief systems, and even pop culture (books and movies). Sometimes "we agree to disagree", but the long-term goal is to improve our minds via group discussions.

In general, Stoicism teaches us how to handle difficult people and events, how to avoid anger and worry, and overall to use moderation in all aspects of our lives.

This meeting is free and open to the public.