I attended a discussion on "What is that thing called Love?" at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Blue%20Moon/103/233/23. It is a fair sized group, I have been to a couple of poetry readings, misc events, and the turnout was me, that;s it, just me. It is exciting to see a group at all, but this one actually has 20+ people. The lecturer showed some videos of thing that had to do with love, like the jubilee project and some movie trailers. What this ended up being was more a philosophy lecture and discussion, or maybe that was intended from the start, but it wasn't clear to me. I think that this type of forum, sitting in a secondlife "lecture hall," has more value for education than the content he was talking about. A professor can give a lecture remotely to students not in the same place as each other. I had an odd nostalgic feeling attending this, like I was in a classroom again, something I haven't done in about two years.
Below is the quote that got me started thinking of it as a philosophy lecture.
"Diotima taught in Plato's Symposium that love is a ladder . . . the ladder of learning. And while our souls climb that ladder they will learn the secret of eternal beauty.
A universal beauty that is deep beneath all layers of appearance."
Also, the speaker mentioned universal love, as well as romantic love, and focused on that for a little bit.
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