Philosophers Stone
This is my idea for a club, a forum, a melting point for ideas, the growth of the heart, mind and soul.
We have a group of people duh! (thats the least we can have) they meet once a month or so, or maybe when ever they have a quorum, (drink wine and get layed haha now woudnt that be nice). Jokes apart the idea is to get somebody to speak on a topic they have some authority on. Someone say, Chidambaram the finance minister of India on India and globalization, or anything he wants to speak on, The rising cost of camel shit on the arab market anything he feels like talking about. Maybe a retired chief justice on a certain law point, maybe a sportsman on the state of the game or how he played his game, maybe a business man on laws that need to be changed, or maybe even a film actress on her roles in the movies or an author about a book. A foreign affairs expert on the countries relations with SE Asia, an IAS officer, a politician, a financial expert on world currencies, an editor, a beggar.......The possibilities are endless.
After the person has spoken, the club just breaks up into smaller groups, what ever they are comfortable with, to discuss the issue, their ideas, their opinions etc. Everbody might just form one big circle or break up into smaller groups of their liking. You could just stop by a discussion on your way out and just listen to an interesting point being made, and then jump into the debate. I am not thinking of moderators to move conversations, its a free for all, fight anybody with ideas, build on anyones ideas or just soak in ideas.
It will be called philosophers stone, I see evenings melting into nights, with people discussing world politics, science, history, art, literature at one end, and sharing opinions on love, hate, god, religion, beauty on the other. People sharing ideas, ideas being created, people mulling over these ideas over time and maybe maybe even, something concrete coming out of it.
It will not be a critique about the speaker, or how he spoke or what he could have spoken about, the speaker is just the ignition, where the fire goes from there is up to everybody, walk around the room or park or hall, find a conversation that suits you, find an orgy of ideation which you would like to be a part of, hear and be heard. Leave the combine with ideas swirling in your head, let this be where you come for an inspiration, it doesnt matter if there were two people sharing ideas or 200, ideas were shared.
remember
small minds discuss people
average minds discuss events
great minds discuss ideas
Its almost like an underground gettogether, maybe we dont even need a speaker, maybe its jsut about the youth of the country comign to gether wth ideas of change. It could be elitist oropen to all, I jsut cant get the picture out of my mind, people up till the wee hours of the morning discussing arguing talking sharing ideas. I am not saying that it will change the world, or the country even, if it even sparks one ignition in a single person it would be worth its salt.
We have a group of people duh! (thats the least we can have) they meet once a month or so, or maybe when ever they have a quorum, (drink wine and get layed haha now woudnt that be nice). Jokes apart the idea is to get somebody to speak on a topic they have some authority on. Someone say, Chidambaram the finance minister of India on India and globalization, or anything he wants to speak on, The rising cost of camel shit on the arab market anything he feels like talking about. Maybe a retired chief justice on a certain law point, maybe a sportsman on the state of the game or how he played his game, maybe a business man on laws that need to be changed, or maybe even a film actress on her roles in the movies or an author about a book. A foreign affairs expert on the countries relations with SE Asia, an IAS officer, a politician, a financial expert on world currencies, an editor, a beggar.......The possibilities are endless.
After the person has spoken, the club just breaks up into smaller groups, what ever they are comfortable with, to discuss the issue, their ideas, their opinions etc. Everbody might just form one big circle or break up into smaller groups of their liking. You could just stop by a discussion on your way out and just listen to an interesting point being made, and then jump into the debate. I am not thinking of moderators to move conversations, its a free for all, fight anybody with ideas, build on anyones ideas or just soak in ideas.
It will be called philosophers stone, I see evenings melting into nights, with people discussing world politics, science, history, art, literature at one end, and sharing opinions on love, hate, god, religion, beauty on the other. People sharing ideas, ideas being created, people mulling over these ideas over time and maybe maybe even, something concrete coming out of it.
It will not be a critique about the speaker, or how he spoke or what he could have spoken about, the speaker is just the ignition, where the fire goes from there is up to everybody, walk around the room or park or hall, find a conversation that suits you, find an orgy of ideation which you would like to be a part of, hear and be heard. Leave the combine with ideas swirling in your head, let this be where you come for an inspiration, it doesnt matter if there were two people sharing ideas or 200, ideas were shared.
remember
small minds discuss people
average minds discuss events
great minds discuss ideas
Its almost like an underground gettogether, maybe we dont even need a speaker, maybe its jsut about the youth of the country comign to gether wth ideas of change. It could be elitist oropen to all, I jsut cant get the picture out of my mind, people up till the wee hours of the morning discussing arguing talking sharing ideas. I am not saying that it will change the world, or the country even, if it even sparks one ignition in a single person it would be worth its salt.
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