Mission Statement

We aim to represent the scope of human diversity, foster respect for the differences among us and build on the common ground beneath us. Our goals are to:
  • Encourage and maintain a high level of balanced dialogue,
  • Strive for truth,
  • Promote common courtesy,
  • Learn about each other in order to discover other viewpoints,
  • Investigate political and social issues from all perspectives,
  • Collectively develop new ways of thinking, and
  • Open pathways for community action.

October 15, 2006

Miscellaneous

At our October 15 meeting, with five people in attendance, the discussion focused on many political - and a few non-political - ideas:
  • The occupation of Iraq and what we could do about it,
  • Nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran and what we could do about it,
  • The sense of biological-economic-nuclear apocalypse and whether it's overblown,
  • September 11th and its political uses,
  • Immigration problems and if in fact there is an immigration problem,
  • The ability to trascend age (living longer than ever) and the space-time continuum (time travel),
  • The social restraints on applying and distributing these various technologies, and
  • Other points of discussion to come out of the Idea Festival (a recent gathering of different visionaries and scientists to discuss the future of science).

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