discussion

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

Ecologist Paul Ehrlich stressed that people who hold opposing opinions need to engage in open discussion with well-reasoned dissent. Positions should be questioned and criticized, not the people who hold them. Personal attacks preclude open discussion because, once someone is put on the defensive, fruitful exchanges are impossible, at least for the moment.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas bought in - a trial-and-error system. This method was a result of the fact that science was already showing itself to be a successful venture at the end of the eighteenth century. Even then it was clear to socially minded people that the openness of possibilities was an opportunity, and that doubt and discussion were essential to progress into the unknown. If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar...doubt is not to be feared, but welcomed and discussed.

It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could improve me than to just waste time discussing irrelevant things.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice.

Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. _ __mall acts partner small houses and small minds'.

So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm....

She is ugly_ end of discussion!

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.