Existentialist's Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

The Existentialist's Survival Guide, Gordon Marino, PhD....

Kierkegaard on depression and despair.
Good commentary on Kierkegaard.
http://sorenkierkegaard.org/

AT THE GRAVESIDE can be read online.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.504972/page/n87

Will start with hands-on demonstration of the Astrolabe, an early Greek navigation and timekeeping device of the third century BCE, based on earlier Egyptian and Babylonian instruments and in worldwide use until the time of Columbus when it morphed into the sextant! Handle history with us!
There are Life Roads that carry us all and they can turn sudden corners, maybe especially in the autumn of life. And where they go can't be seen from here.

The existentialists chose to try to make sense of it and so our current time and text is so relevant. Remember the existentialists wrote over the last three centuries and those were turbulent times...as NOW.

10:30 on 3rd and 4th Thursdays ... and here's our schedule for this month:

October 17---TAKE ONE: Lecturette and discussion of chap. 2 "Depression and Despair" in our text, The Existentialist's Survival Guide, by Gordon Marino, HarperCollins (Barnes & Nobel, Amazon, etc.) We'll also have a working model of the ancient scientific instrument, the Astrolabe.

October 24---TAKE TWO: Chap. 3, "Death" (So when someone asks what you're reading, you can say "Death...and last week we discussed depression and despair...it's a FUN group"). Also we continue with our Open Table Talk or "All Things Considered" (with a nod to NPR) and it's been suggested we discuss Impeachment as a philosophical concept.
Reading assignment, chap. 2, "Depression and Despair" in The Existentialist's Survival Guide. The chapters are brief but the implications are huge and the enjoyment of the discussion only needs YOU.