socrates café

i go to my local library a lot. i don't recall why, but one day last november i went to one a few miles further away. while there i found an old flyer saying a monthly philosophy discussion called socrates café would start at the library in january 2005.

i'd already missed the first 11 meetings and didn't even know if the thing was still going on. i had to ask 3 different people who worked there before one showed me a calendar that had it listed for december.

so i went. and it was good. it expanded to twice a month in january, so i've gone 5 times now.

last time we talked about justice, religion, selfishness, peace of mind, and whatever else came up. everybody took part and said what they thought whenever they wanted to.

somewhere along the way i learned it's a national thing started around 1996 in north jersey only about 5 miles from where i lived at the time, but i never heard about it then.

9 years wasted. o well. at least i know about it now.