The Gateway Objectivist 

The monthly newsletter of the Gateway Objectivists, St. Louis, Missouri 

January 2001 

Vol. 9, No. 1

Newsletter Editor:  Jon Litton


January Meeting:
Objective Law Game Night

Our next meeting will be a night of objective law. We will play “Judge for Yourself – The Game of Real Life Courtroom Dramas” on Saturday, January 20, at 8 p.m.Our meeting will be at the home of Joy & Jeff Kiviat. Call (314) 469-2723 for directions.

The game involves real life court cases for which the players, acting as jurors, discuss and debate the cases with fellow jurors and guess whether the verdict was for or against. We will then look at the cases and verdicts for possible alternatives from an objective law perspective.

Join us for an evening of legal entertainment and plenty of snacks and discussion in our first meeting of the new year.

…And there goes another millennium

At our last meeting, we celebrated the year and the millennium with our annual holiday party. After enjoying a delicious potluck dinner, we shared our choices for the 2nd Most Influential and/or Important Person of the Millennium, as well as the reasons why we chose that individual. Our criteria was rather loose: positive or negative influence, general or specific importance, etc. Our list included (in no particular order): George Washington, Johann Gutenberg, Adam Smith, Isaac Newton, Ben Franklin and Homer Simpson.

While we each had trouble picking our person, we found it much more difficult to decide on the most overrated individual of the millennium.

We plan to make this a recurring meeting topic at the end of each millennium.

Camp Indecon in 2001

This summer, Camp Indecon will be held in beautiful Colorado at the Blue Mountain Ranch surrounded by the Pikes National Forest. The ranch is in Florissant, just west of Colorado Springs, near the Garden of the Gods, the Cave of the Winds, Pikes Peak, and the Florissant Fossil Beds Monument.

Camp Indecon, developed for adolescents ages 13 to 16 and children ages nine to 12, teaches the campers how to think independently and be responsible for their decisions based on their nature as human beings. The camp instills independence and confidence (hence the name inde-con) through discussions on topics such as nature’s rules and free will, confidence building activities like high ropes courses and mountain climbing, as well as traditional camp recreation.

The 2001 sessions will run from July 17 to July 24. Visit www.campindecon.org for more information.

 

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