Billings Spiritual Philosophers
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Agenda is to discuss the meaning of life! Wide open, but here are some ideas:
What gives life meaning to you?
The nature of existence – creator or manifest nature itself?
-Is love as manifest as gravity?
Love as the nature of existence – what does it mean to be in harmony with it?
-Personal outlook, way of life, compassionate, loving
Love is a primal, intellectual, sociological, holistic need.
-Existence points in this direction.
-Innate meaning.
-“Each like a coal drawn from the fire” – community must exist?
Hierarchy of values
-Wants and desires that do not provide meaning?
-Can we live without a hierarchy of values?
Understanding and wisdom – does it have an endpoint?
-Knowledge – intellectual, emotional, experiential (what it’s like to be/experience), participatory (how we participate/roles we have), etc
Romantic love – what we desire in another and in ourselves.
-If we desire the superficial, will others desire superficial in us?
Spiritual enlightenment – what does this look like?
-Buddhist Ox herder metaphor
-Comfort/Adventure and spiritual growth
Were all religious founders saying the same thing?
Power and the corruption of spiritual thought.
-What power structures do we live within and how do they affect our lives/corrupt us? Ishmael and the taker civilization.
-Materialism and the simple life.
-Order through force or love? Does order through love require sacrifice?
The nature of sentience, evolution, sociability and love.
-Can our level of intelligence exist without sociability and love?
-Can deer or starfish be evil?
-Could alien civilizations be evil?