DeWitt Book Discussion - Session 1

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This event is an individual, ad-hoc, informal Text/Voice chat to discuss Chapter 1 of Norman DeWitt's "Epicurus and His Philosophy. Please keep in mind that this chat is a first "test" of whether we can make this work, and we'll have many kinks to work out. The event isn't planned or blessed formally by the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Page, the Society of Epicurus, or anyone else! ;) In the future we may hope to put together formal meetings and presentations, but this one is mostly a test run to work out kinks.

The above address at Discordapp should work as the address - let us know if it does not. At this location is both a DeWitt-Book-EAHP-Meeting Text Channel and a DeWitt-Book-EAHP-Meeting Voice Channel.

When the meeting starts, if you aren't already there, click on the DeWitt-Book-EAHP-Meeting Text Channel to see what people are typing, and also click on the DeWitt-Book-EAHP-Meeting Voice Channel so you can hear what people are saying.

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