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How do you live a meaningful life? What is the self? Do you have free will or is everything determined? What will make you happy? What is happiness? Why is there so much suffering in the world? Does anything have any meaning? If not, why do you value some things more than others? We explore these and similar questions with lectures and discussion on history, theology, philosophy, religious studies, comparative religion, neuroscience, and more.

Participants include regulars and first-timers of different backgrounds who share a commitment to life-long learning and a passion for exploring the ideas that philosophers and theologians have wrestled with since ancient times.

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Apocalypses and Apocalypticism

Apocalypses and Apocalypticism

Why do we continue to obsess about the end of the world and how ancient myth is now retold as aliens and nuclear wars. FREE OPEN LECTURE From nuclear war and superplagues to asteroids and alien invasions, popular culture continues to obsess about the idea of the world's destruction. We're look at the first mythological predictions of the end and see how the popularity of apocalyptic writing influenced Judaism, Christianity, and the Western world ever since.
The History of Free Will
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The History of Free Will

Do we really make choices or our behaviour is predetermined? The debate from antiquity to our days. From the ancient Greeks to the present-day, philosophers have debated whether we have the capacity to freely choose between possible alternatives paths or whether our apparent choices have already been determined long ago by our nature and upbringing. We’ll trace the long history of the debate and outline its present state today.
A Brief Biography of the Devil

A Brief Biography of the Devil

A Brief Biography of the Devil
A Brief Biography of God

A Brief Biography of God

Whether religious or atheist, most people today have a picture and a sense of the character of God. What's the origin of this image and how different is it from the way people envisioned God in Biblical times?
A History of the Calendar

A History of the Calendar

A History of the Calendar
A woman's view of the middle ages

A woman's view of the middle ages

A woman's view of the middle ages

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