About
Welcome to Silicon Valley Junto.org!
Our website is here for anyone to join in and post comments and discuss what we feel are thought provoking topics in our current era. See our list of Topics on our sidebar. We hope this blog will help provide global understanding of different aspects of beliefs and views.
Originally, this blog began with people located in the “Silicon Valley” who met and discussed these types of topics. Now it is open to anyone who wish to contribute.
The word “junto” is borrowed from Benjamin Franklin:
Franklin described the Junto this way in his Autobiography:
“I should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, [1727] I had formed most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which we called the JUNTO; we met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy [physics], to be discuss’d by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory; and to prevent warmth, all expressions of positive opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.”
With the above thoughts, we hope to make this blog will be in the spirit of Ben Franklin’s Junto.
