Inspired by the intellectual tradition of ancient Greek symposia, this two-day event brings together prominent thinkers, academics, and members of the public for meaningful discussions about some of humanity’s most important questions.

The symposium will feature four major sections, each led by a distinguished speaker:

Philosophy: Stephen Hicks

Science: Steven Pinker

Religion: Justin Sledge (ESOTERICA)

Politics: Steven Bonnell II (Destiny)

Each section includes a one-hour featured lecture, followed by a 90-minute debate/discussion and a 90-minute community discussion involving the audience.

We are currently inviting academics throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to express interest in joining our speakers on stage during the symposium discussions.

  • DBL [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    “I’d rather we judge his politics based on his words and actions about the state and the project rather than his religious affiliation.”

    I didn’t judge his politics based on his religious affiliations. I judged it based on his own quote where he states that he most closely aligns his views with that of a zionist

    • Maturin [any]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      I may not be the Kaplan expert that you are, but as others have pointed out, a significant number of living anti-Zionist rabbis are reconstructionist, which is a movement Kaplan founded, so I do not think it is a fair inference to say a religious Jew who most closely aligns his religious beliefs with Kaplan is necessarily a Zionist. Unless you are saying Judaism and Zionism are the same thing.

      • DBL [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        11 days ago

        I’m happy for those rabbis who were able to pull their heads out of their asses but we’re decades into the formation of the zionist entity and years into a genocide and if his self-professed ideological stance is, “I closely align with a fascist and their fascist, settler-colonial ideology” without so much a peep decrying the zionist entity then I’m not going to give him the benefit of the doubt. And I don’t understand why you have an expectation of me to do so. Sorry your youtuber is probably a fascist piece of shit.

        • orlando [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          4 days ago

          i get the impression that his invitation was on the basis of a private correspondence confirming his zionism to the organizers, or else why would they see him, a man that wrote marxian literature, as compatible with the others?