Minutes and Agenda for Oct 3rd meeting

Agenda:

    1) Theme- Collective Unconscious
    2) Electing Officers
    3)Online Posts
    4) Facilitator for next meeting
    5) Discussion Theme for next meeting

Minutes:

1)
Theme- The Collective Unconscious

       >Reference to the YouTube video "Powers of  Ten"
              *"we are passengers on this spaceship Earth"

       > Reference to the book "The Desire of Botany" or might be "The Botany of Desire" (club member was not sure)
              * book was brought up to make the point that things are not linear. Things are all intertwined in a web.
       
       >We feel certain vibes that help us connect to how others are feeling on a given day
              *This may be too tied down by geography

       >It is pointing to our need to help other people
              *is the collective unconscious good?


       >Inventions
              *Is economic prosperity the common factor that humans share?
              *Capitalism: Ideally individual does forward and as a consequence others reap the benefits
              *BUT the collective unconscious exists within other fields other than inventions i.e. spirituality and culture

      >Natural systemic change is the collective unconscious.
                *"when it starts to seem familiar then you have to change"

      >Self-fulfilling prophecies
             *"the end" is coming because we were promised an end.

      >Collective Premonition
             *In Nicaragua during WWII there was a general feeling among people that evil had to be conquered in Europe.
              *a random number generator that is sensitive to people's thoughts and emotions showed spikes in its graphs days leading up to 9/11.
              *"we all know a piece of the puzzle"- A study showed that when large numbers of groups were asked an exact number the average of every one's number was seen to be exact.

      >Opposing View:
              *common questions will get the same answer
              *long range weapons in North America and Europe developed from the need to kill from far away

2)
Officers
President--- Uri
Treasurer--- Rodrigo
Secretary--- Marisabel

3)
Online Posts
Serves to put specific links to concepts and ideas mentioned in the meeting or for consideration of next week's discussion

we have a Facebook Page just look for MDC Philosophy Club (unless I'm wrong and in that case comment with the link)

4)
Facilitator for next meeting:
Edward
     *Facilitator/Moderator will keep track of who will speak in the order that people raise their hands so that everyone has a chance to speak. He/She will not partake in the discussion. This is a rotating position so that everyone has the opportunity to speak.

5)
Theme for next week's discussion
CULTURE


      






    

Our first meeting is Tuesday October 23rd in room 3327 at 2:30
Be there.


Rodrigo.

I Had a Great Idea

We don´t have a meeting time yet, since we´re waiting for people who are interested to let us know, and mainly because we´re all worried about our schedules.

Please post the time you are available to meet, this will surely speed up the process for us to get in accordance with each other.

Rodrigo.

Philosophy Club is taking shape!

So far there are about ten "members" confirmed. We need to set a meeting time that will fit all of our schedules, including people who are not in the Eastern Philosophy class.
Anyone interested is welcome.
We are in the process of getting recognized by the school, so we will have our own room to meet and certain supplies. We are looking for a President a Vice president and a Treasurer.

There used to be a Philosphy Club before, but as I was told, the people who were in it all graduated.
That means that this is a completely new thing for us to build.
So join and share ideas, post something if you are interested.


Rodrigo.

Starting Philosophy Club

Hello, this is Rodrigo, as we talked about in class, I suggested creating a blog for our soon to be Philosophy Club.
I am sure we are all excited about this.

Christian, Johnathan, Herlan and I were talking a bit after class and have a rough idea of how we would like to move through topics.
We were thinking about progressing about on subjects, rather than on author, which I think is great.
This is actually the way Intro to Philosophy is taught.

So anyway,  Hopefully you guys like this little space.

I was thinking about some interesting intro questions.

What is philosophy to you?
Where do you see philosophy in daily life?
Where do you NOT see philosophy in daily life?