I considered posting this in the essay thread, but i figured this was different enough to warrant its own thread. the difference being primarily that essays are written for an audience, and notes are for your own benefit. that and thought thought of writing an essay does not sound fun as it brings to mind long nights having to bullshit up a paper to meet a bullshit page/word minimum.
allow me to elaborate on the aim of this thread; i want you to watch your favorite documentaries, read your favorite historical books, just do what you normally do in your search for historical knowledge, but write down the bits that seem important to you. dont worry about grammar or spelling, just write down what you think is important. now how this thread comes into it is that, first off pretty it up a little bit maybe so that its intelligible to others, then post those notes here for what you could call a peer review and peer elucidation; let others read what you've got and see if it is indeed true, and maybe others can glean some knowledge out of it themselves.
to get you in the mood for writing notes, listen to this; 1/3 of all the unbiased primary sources that we have on stoicism are nothing more than the notes a student took of conversations with his teacher. Were it not for arran taking these notes, we would be that much more ignorant of an entire philosophical school of thought that is as old as Platonic thought itself, and was influential in the proliferation of Christianity throughout rome. if you wanted to be cheeky about it, you could even bump that up to 2/3 as one of the other two sources is a man writing notes on how to live his life.
since ive already got some relevant notes, ill be posting them shortly.
tfw you accidentally loaded a new page before posting and lost the original post that was absolutely better than this one.