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Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Commission meets at 9 a.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here. Meetings stream live on the Flagler County YouTube page.
The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets at 6 p.m. at the meeting hall building behind the Town Hall, 2735 North Oceanshore Boulevard (State Road A1A) in Beverly Beach. See meeting announcements here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
In Coming Days: Oct. 10: Groundbreaking for Fire Station 26 in Seminole Woods: Palm Coast government hosts a groundbreaking for the future Fire Station 26 at 72 Airport Commerce Center--the road opposite Ulaturn Trail in Seminole Woods--at 9 a.m. The public is invited to attend. The brief ceremony, lasting approximately 30 minutes, will be held at the site. Parking will be available along Airport Commerce Center Way, and attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable walking shoes due to the site’s terrain. Wharton & Schultz is the lead construction firm for the project, which is expected to be completed within 12 months. Funding for Fire Station 26 comes from fire impact fees and a $5 million state appropriation of public dollars. Oct. 10: Town Hall with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri, 6 p.m. at the Southern Recreation Center, 120 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. This event is free and open to the public. Attendees are welcome to ask questions and discuss issues that matter to them in an open forum. Residents are encouraged to join this important conversation to help strengthen community ties and ensure that every voice plays a role in shaping the future of Palm Coast. Pontieri will discuss economic development in the city and answer questions from attendees. Don’t miss the opportunity to engage and share your thoughts. Oct. 16: Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night is organized and hosted by Flagler Cares and other community partners as a one-stop help event. Representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and many other organizations will be available to provide information and resources. The event is open to the public, free to attend, and will offer assistance with obtaining various services including autism screenings, tablets (low-income qualification), fair housing legal consultations, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, SNAP and Medicaid application assistance, behavioral health services, and much more. Flagler Cares is a non-profit agency focused on creating a vital, expansive social safety net that addresses virtually all the health and social needs of our community. Flagler Cares works with clients to identify needs and create solutions that address those unique needs. Flagler Cares is proud to have a wide range of community partners who are committed to providing high quality services to those who need them most. Flagler Cares is also passionate about filling gaps and bringing needed services into the county where they did not previously exist. For more information about this event, please call 386-319-9483 ext. 0, or email [email protected]. |
Notably: Every once in a while I struggle through one of Plato’s non-Republic dialogues, especially the more obscure ones, at least to see what I’m missing in What Must Always Be Known. Most of the time I come away disappointed, partly by my stupidity, because three quarter of the exchanges pass so far above my head that Fire Flight could catch them and fly them to Halifax hospital’s trauma unit, and partly by Socrates’ unbearableness: the guy really was a prick. There’s no way around it. A funny prick, a smart prick, a mind-twisting prick, but a prick nonetheless, and judging from the number of times his interlocutors call him a prick, if in not so many words (Plato being a prick and a prude), Plato knew it, and loved to point it out. Callicles calling him out in the Gorgias is priceless, so is Voltaire in his article “Angel,” in his Questions on the Encyclopedia: “Socrates, as we know, had a good angel. But it must’ve been the bad one that drove him. Only a very bad angel would have a philosopher running from house to house to tell people, by questions and answers, that the father and the mother, the tutor and the child, are all ignorants, are all imbeciles. The guardian angel then has all sorts of trouble keeping his ward from the hemlock.” So I’ve been trying to make my way through the Euthydemus, a very funny riff on sophists that really should be a pleasure to read especially in our ecology of Foxes and Carlsons. But I’ve had a rough time. So as I usually do when a book seems a bit more impenetrable than usual, I turn to Goodreads, that hyper-democracy of reading that would have driven Plato up his cave walls, and where I’m always rewarded. I found this, by one of the readers: “I fear other readers may also find this extended satire on Sophism longer than strictly necessary. In order to help busy people make better use of their time, I offer this new translation, where I have taken the liberty of abridging and modernizing the dialogue in a few places:
EUTHYDEMUS: My brother and I are the greatest philosophers in the world. Ask us anything.
CLEINAS: Like what?
EUTHYDEMUS: Okay, here’s your starter for ten. Is a thing the same as itself, or is it a different thing?
CLEINAS: Huh?
SOCRATES: [whispers] You’re supposed to say it’s the same as itself.
CLEINAS: Ah… it’s the same as itself.
EUTHYDEMUS: I shall demonstrate to you that you are wrong. Consider a door. Do you maintain that it is always a door?
CLEINAS: I do, of course.
EUTHYDEMUS: But what about when it is ajar?
[General applause for EUTHYDEMUS’s brilliant philosophical insight]
EUTHYDEMUS: I’ll let my brother do the next one.
DIONYSODORUS: Why do elephants paint their toenails red?
CLEINAS: I do not know.
DIONYSODORUS: It is so that they can hide in cherry trees.
CLEINAS: But, I have never seen an elephant in a cherry tree?
DIONYSODORUS: Proves it works then!
[More applause]
CRITO: Are these clowns real philosophers?
SOCRATES: Hey, you’re smarter than you look.
—P.T.
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Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
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They talked about the past, really always about the past.
Even the future seemed like something gone and done with when they spoke of it. It did not seem an extension of their past, but a repetition of it. They would agree that nothing remained of life as they had known it, the world was changing swiftly, but by the mysterious logic of hope they insisted that each change was probably the last; or if not, a series of changes might bring them, blessedly, back full-circle to the old ways they had known. Who knows why they loved their past? It had been bitter for them both, they had questioned the burdensome rule they lived by every day of their lives, but without rebellion and without expecting an answer. This unbroken thread of inquiry in their minds contained no doubt as to the utter rightness and justice of the basic laws of human existence, founded as they were on God’s plan; but they wondered per-petually, with only a hint now and then to each other of the un-casiness of their hearts, how so much suffering and confusion could have been built up and maintained on such a foundation.
—From Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Old Order” (1944).
Pogo says
@Lest we forget
https://www.google.com/search?q=socratic+method
Elsewhere, a ray of hope, thank you, Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo:
“Are Florida Republicans breaking from DeSantis? Divide grows as GOP ‘wish list’ fades
John KennedyCapital Bureau | USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA…”
“…A long lineup of failures
In the Legislature, efforts appear dead that would:
Ban cities from removing Confederate monuments or putting up Pride flags.
Enact new workplace restrictions on the use of personal pronouns.
Impose term limits for all county commissioners.
Let 18-year-olds acquire rifles, shotguns and AR-15s.
Require driver licenses to display a person’s gender at birth, not how they identify…”
“…Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo: A significant stop sign
Senate President Kathleen Passidomo has emerged as a significant stop sign, with the Naples Republican showing no interest in the hard-right agenda advanced by the Florida Republican Party…”
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/04/supermajorities-florida-legislature-dont-help-republican-wish-list/72805649007/
And a bitter cup, from the usual prick(s):
“Legislation for Toxic Secret chemical 1,4-dioxane dies in Florida House
Local lawmakers hoped to regulate the allowable amount of the chemical, which has been found in drinking water in Seminole County
By Kevin Spear | [email protected] | Orlando Sentinel…”
“…Florida legislation to prevent a repeat of Seminole County’s unpublicized mass exposure to the toxic chemical 1,4-dioxane has been largely ignored by the House of Representatives and appears to have no chance of passage…”
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/03/03/legislation-for-toxic-secret-chemical-14-dioxane-dies-in-florida-house/
Something of value:
Elect Debbie
https://www.debbieforflorida.com/