Practitioners of Critical Thought

I will be there wearing a yellow beanie; that is how you will be able to find me.

The agenda is to discuss anything with critical thought and different perspectives. Because there is no singular one or right answer to any question doesn't mean that we cannot ponder the different answers to these thoughts. We can talk about any number of things, such as but not limited to:

Spiritual background – favorite thinkers, books, movies, art?
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 holistic need: intellectual, emotional, sociological, primal.
-Existence points in this direction - civilizations and individuals can’t function without it.
-Innate meaning:meaning is not subjective: we can persist without hate but not without love.
-“Each like a coal drawn from the fire” – community and connection 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 vs Adventure and what this means in terms of 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” book and the taker civilization.
-Materialism and the simple life.
-Is perpetual order sustained through force or love? Does order through love require sacrifice?
The nature of sentience, evolution, sociability and love.
-Can our level of intelligence evolve and exist without sociability and love?
-Can deer or starfish be evil?
-Could alien civilizations be evil?