Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Year Plan
- Spring Equinox
- Eclipse
- Trip to Canada
- Strategy/Tactics Talk
- Polarizing statement
- Fruits
- Tactics
- Evaluations
- Closing Blessing
Check-in
- Brandon … I'm having a great weekend … had to work a bit, but it's gone well … enjoying spending time with my family.
- Ben … I’m going to have to spend much of the day at urgent care with a pain in my side that makes it impossible to breathe deeply.
Opening Blessing
Spring is on its way. It reminds us that even when there are cold, dark times, those don't last forever. May we find comfort and draw strength from the reminders of the seasons. --Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
Ongoing
- <s>Brandon … Bedtime is 9:30 every night with alarm at 5:30, enroll Shelley in it</s>
- <s>Brandon … spend 15 minutes every day on Machine Learning</s>
- <s>Brandon … make a daily 1 minute video check-in for Ben and Eric</s>
- Brandon … Meditate regularly with Eric
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day on Flight in a Cage
- <s>Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did</s>
- Eric … Watch videos and make mine at 8:45pm before Ben calls
- Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry at least 15 minutes a day
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon
Sometime soon
- Brandon … research our legal status as an informal religious organization
Time-specific
- <s>Ben … check with Aunt Ruth about space in the house for the eclipse … by tomorrow</s>
- <s>Brandon … check with Eric, Rico, and Shelley about whether 7:30 works for the service next week … by today</s>
- Brandon … add Nag! Or something similar to phone … by today
- <s>Brandon … check with Ted about his daily practice (can I do it with him somehow?) … by today</s>
WW(W)s
Ongoing
- Brandon … Bedtime at 9:30 every night, wake up with alarm at 5:30
- Brandon … spend 15 minutes every day on Machine Learning
- Brandon … make a daily 1 minute video check-in for Ben and Eric
- Brandon … Meditate regularly with Eric or Ben
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day on Flight in a Cage
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did
- Eric … Watch videos and make mine at 8:45pm before Ben calls
- Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry at least 15 minutes a day
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon
Time-specific
- Brandon … add Nag! Or something similar to phone … by today
- Brandon … see if I can switch meditation times with Eric … by today
- Brandon … talk with Shelley about the eclipse, Summer solstice, and September trip … by next call
- Brandon … research our legal status as an informal religious organization … by next call
- Brandon … put together a plan for a YouTube ad … by next call
- Ben … look up sushi places for the Equinox … by next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Brandon, Rico, Shelley
- February 25 Service: 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 EST … Eric
- February 26 Business Call: 8:00 PM PST / 11:00 EST
Year Plan
Spring Equinox March 20th
It's a Monday … we'll celebrate the Saturday before
- March 18 Sanders will come to Seattle … up and back on Saturday … in Seattle noon-7:30
- Walk in Ravenna Park
- Storytelling
- Sushi
Eclipse August 21st
- Ben will be in a rented house with relatives near Deschutes National Forest, Thursday the 17th through Tuesday the 22nd
- The Sanders might be able to camp in the backyard, or just drive to Salem
Fall Equinox September 22nd
The Sanders and Ben will travel to visit the Saumurs and Buckleberry somewhere around this time
Strategy/Tactics
Polarizing statement
Brandon has done some processing on this
- Every religion and social movement has a spectrum from fundamentalists to "postmodern relativists" (ecumenicalists in the case of religions) … SolSeed will have that spectrum
- We should try to shape what our fundamentalism might look like, and welcome the fact that we'll have that
- Accept the fact that we have some spectrum already with just the 4 of us
- Brandon tried out a fundamentalist position and found that it doesn't work for his family, although they can be more fundamentalist than Ben or Eric
- They now have a stronger stance that some things are more right than others, and that some of the grandparents' beliefs are incorrect
- Brandon and Shelley accept that they will shape the boys' exposure to ideas along SolSeed lines, although they will be free to change their minds when they grow up
- Rico might turn out to be the most fundamentalist of all of us if he joins
- Ben will continue to believe that some things are right and some things wrong, but not believe that it is “wrong” to not want to colonize space.
- Are people who don’t accept our story about the importance of spreading life immoral in some way?
- Processing that … most often the story is not visible and not a “live option”
- Is it worth being urgent about the need to have life beyond Earth really soon that might be able to survive a collapse of civilization on Earth and maybe help rebuild afterward? E.g., Musk's Mars city, Lifeboat Foundation's space station
- Eric thinks this is something that could work
- Brandon thinks the main value of this idea is to help spread the story quicker, which is an end in itself for the next 200 years
- The outcome itself would also be valuable, but even failure could be positive if the story spreads … it would make some people less attracted to the story, but others would be motivated to try again
- Ben’s position is leaning toward the idea that we don’t have time right now to make it work, and that the only people who are likely to be able to rebuild after a crash are people on Earth. If humanity goes extinct on Earth in the next 100 years, then a space colony won’t be able to survive.
Fruits
Brandon added an outline to the wiki on the Strategy page, with a link to a new Fruits page
- Also added a red link to LatentUs: people who are already us, but don't know that the SolSeed Movement exists
- E.g. people who might identify with the Panspermians in Blue Remembered Earth
Tactics
- Brandon: Facebook and YouTube have very high potential for us
- We have 1300 Facebook likes because we spent about $1300 years ago … they're not LatentUs, but they're about 2 steps removed from that
- We should learn from how the World Pantheist Network is growing so fast … maybe hire an 18-year-old to put together a Facebook post for us every day
- YouTube: We haven't created any videos that have gone viral, but if we advertise on other people's videos (e.g. Symphony of Science), we could draw people in that way
- Brandon wants to start running experiments like this again, just throwing some money at the problem
- Ben wanted to mention that although connecting with Pagans has been interesting, there may be a better (or at least another) group to focus on. One that generally agrees with cherishing the Earth and is also full of space enthusiasts, and is defined by the fact that they embrace science.
Evaluation
- Brandon … fun, exciting
- Ben … maybe I don’t need to go to urgent care after all … thank you SolSeed faith healing :-p
Closing Blessing
Spring is coming. Birds will be flying North, calling hope back into the world. May we embrace the metaphor of the growing light as we seek to grow a new strategy for working toward our highest aspirations. -- Blessed Be