This thread is for discussing the potential of adding a regular Zoom for those who want an introductory level approach.
Our current meetings are as follows:
- Our First Monday session is a once per month meet and greet targeted at new participants.
- Our Wednesday night EST meeting have been devoted to status updates on recent threads on the forum and going through the fragments in Bryan's work on Usener's Epicurea.
(Our Twentieth session is only available for Level 03 and higher, and is a once per month commemoration of Epicurus and other early Epicureans, and we've been using it for advanced level general discussion of how we've pursued applying Epicurean principles over the last 30 days).
The thought is that we need a regular series for those who mainly want to get "introduced" to the basics of the philosophy
We've done several series in the past on the Principal Doctrines, the Vatican Sayings, Frances Wright's Book, DeWitt's book, and Emily Austin's book.
The Principal Doctrines would likely be a good organizing theme for the topics, but we need to work in explanations from the other sources so the doctrines will be more clear to people new to the framework of ideas.
We need to think about whether to do one per week or exactly how many per month, plus decide a time.
Potentials include:
-- "Second Sunday PD's Study Group" - Second Sunday of the month at 1pm ET (which should work for European time zone members and anyone in US who likes that time)
-- "Last Monday or Last Tuesday PD's Study Group" - Last Monday of the month at 8pm ET
-or-
-- change the "First Monday" to start a half hour earlier - meet and greet for the first half hour, and then proceed to PD's study group.
Let us know your thoughts on this here in the thread and we'll continue planning.
) that isn't going to solve our need for something to offer people who can't make our eastern-US centered time zone.
This cuts into dinner time and PBS Newshour time for some
