Like to argue, debate or otherwise show off your depth of knowledge on a wide range of topics? Then this is for you.
The College of Complexes — which I assess, based on Internet browsings, has been popular in Chicago for decades — has come to Dallas, and organizers are holding their weekly "free speech forums" at Highland Park Cafeteria each Saturday. I ran into one of said organizers, Tom Berry, at Starbucks Casa Linda the other day. He did a pretty good job of explaining the thing to me — it’s a weekly lecture about controversial topics where attendees listen for a set time and then respond/ argue. Sounds fun — I am partial to some of the phrases used to describe the group on the Chicago College of Complexes site, for example: "the legendary forum for free-thinkers and iconoclasts", "not for the overly-sensitive or politically correct", and "rabble rousers who argue the pros and cons of everything".
Anyway, there are some very heated topics on the upcoming schedule including:
June 6: The Travesty of Daytime Curfew Laws— Nathan Davison, will discuss the recently passed Dallas daytime curfew law.
June 13: Eyewitness To The Kennedy Assassination— Ernest Brandt, who stood only 15 feet from President John F. Kennedy when shots rang out, will discuss the chronology of events that day as they happened in front of him, some of the conspiracy theories that have resulted, and in his view, what actually happened.
June 20: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About 9/11—Joe Stokes, 9/11 Researcher, will show a 30 minute film by AIA architect Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, presenting the impossibility of the “official” story of 9/11 events, and will discuss the main points and evidence.
Think you have something to say about one of these topics? The presentations are Saturdays at 6 p.m. at the Highland Park Cafeteria in Casa Linda Plaza. The three-part programs consist of a speaker, questions and answers, followed by remarks and rebuttals and last until whenever, depending on attendance and intensity of the discussion.
