CLUB CONVERSATIONS: Voluntary Simplicity & Exploring the Art of Living Well?
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Event Details:
Tuesday Night on Zoom:
Steve Flemming's
CLUB CONVERSATIONS:
Voluntary Simplicity & Exploring the Art of Living Well?
Are you feeling stressed? Over worked? Tired? Feeling disconnected? Confused? Wanting more balance in your Life? Wanting to improve the overall health and joy in your life? Or perhaps you simply just want to connect with other minded people who value personal growth, positive living and meaningful conversations?
If you said yes to any one of those questions; then please join us for a lively, interactive conversation as we explore the values behind "Voluntary Simplicity" and furthermore the Art of living our lives well.
*An optional read below on some of the idea's behind Voluntary Simplicity?
We will explore these and other questions as we look at life now in 2023.
So please join us if you can
*Camera's on please to help us feel more connected with each other-Thank you :)
Please arrive between 9:00-9:05 if you can (no one else will be added to the zoom discussion past 9:15)
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No Fee for this event :)
*A small tip is welcome to support this initiative if you like
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password : Organizers name?
"steven" (all lower case letters)
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Sincerely,
Steve Flemming
Organizer/Host
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Zoom link:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/495043928
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(Optional Read on Voluntary Simplicity)
Voluntary simplicity,** furthermore, does not mean indiscriminately renouncing all the advantages of science and technology. It does not mean living in a cave, giving up all the benefits of electricity, or rejecting modern medicine. But it does question the assumption that science and technology are always the most reliable paths to health, happiness, and sustainability. It is certainly better to accept rather than reject the advantages, though so dearly bought, which the invention and industry of humankind offer – provided, of course, that they are genuine advantages. But often with such ‘modern improvements,’ as Thoreau warned, there is ‘an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.’ Voluntary simplicity, then, involves taking a thoughtfully skeptical stance in relation to technology and science, rejecting those aspects which, all things considered, seem to cost more than they come to. Clearly, this is far from being primitive or regressive. Just perhaps our modern technocratic societies will one day come to see that there is a sophistication and elegance to the clothesline, the bicycle, and the water tank that the dryer, the automobile, and the desalination plant, decidedly lack. On a similar note, perhaps it will one day be widely accepted that there is a certain primitiveness to technological gimmicks or that a blind faith in science can itself be ‘anti-progress.’ In the words of the great Leonardo da Vinci: ‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.