What is constructive spiritual dialogue?

What is constructive spiritual dialogue?
How do we get to have constructive inter-personal spiritual dialogues?
What is the nature of conversations in the area of spirituality which make a difference to the people involved in those conversations?
Does it make any difference to "trade opinions"?
How do you go beyond "trading opinions" without ending up in fights about disagreements?

What is kindness?

What is kindness?
How can I be kinder to myself?

Am I getting bored of questions?

Why have I posted so few questions to this blog lately?
Am I getting bored of questions?
Is it time for some answers?
Are questions more useful or are answers more useful?
Or do we need a balance of questions and answers?
Are questions good for some things but not so good for others?
Are answers good for some things but not so good for others?

What meaning does Martyrdom have in the age of generation X-factor?

Dorchester Dorset Martyrs
Originally uploaded by Hazel Tsoi

What meaning does Martyrdom have in the age of generation X-factor?

What is good service?

What is good service?
What is bad service?
Is good and bad service just a matter of opinion,
or is there something objectively measurable about good and bad service?
Does good service matter?
Should I expect good service?
Or should I just be grateful and surprised when I get it?
Should companies that provide bad service be allowed to operate?
How much chance should they be given to improve?
As much as the market will take, or should their be more control than that?

What is selfishness?

What is selfishness?
What is the difference between selfishness and meanness?
What is the benefit of being selfish?
What is the benefit to myself, what is the benefit to friends and family, what is the benefit of selfishness to society at large?

Am I doing my utmost for a world at peace?

How clear is my conscience?
Am I doing my utmost for a world at peace?
Is there something more I could do that I am not doing?
Are my words and actions creating peace in the world?
Could I say or do something that would bring about peace sooner?
Could I say or do something more that would reduce the suffering of others?
Am I being a part of the solution or a part of the problem?

What is important and what is not?

What is important and what is not? What matters? What does not matter?

What do you want?

What do you want?
What do they want?
What do we want?
What do I want?

Should freedom of speech be protected when it risks offending or upsetting people?

To what extend should freedom of speech be protected when it risks offending or upsetting people?

Why is there anything rather than nothing?

Why is there anything rather than nothing?
Why should there not be?
Why is there SO MUCH rather than nothing?
Why is the universe SO (unnecessarily) BIG?
Is someone whose name begins with "g" trying to make a point about their magnificence? 8-)

What is the difference between "opinions" and "facts"?

What is the difference between "opinions" and "facts"? Is there a difference? Can a "fact" exist in isolation without an accompanying agenda? Or does it only occur at all from the perspective of a particular agenda? Can a fact not ever be agenda-neutral? Are some facts more fact-like than other facts?

What would be a useful way to cast the difference between opinions and facts? Could it be useful to draw out a distinction between opinions and facts? What might it be useful for?

If I could introduce you to the person you are going to become...

If I could introduce you to the person you are going to become in 10 years time, what would they have to say to you?
If I could introduce you to the person you are going to become in 20 years time, what would they have to say to you?
If you could speak to the person you were 10 or 20 years ago, what would you have to say to them?
If I could get to meet the person I become in 10 or 20 years time, what would they say to me?
If I could speak to the person I was 10 or 20 years ago, what would I want to say to them?

What is it that commands our attention?

What is it that commands our attention?
Can the world learn to pay more attention to the peacemakers and less to the war-mongers and terrorists?
How can this be achieved?
How can the world's media learn to give more attention to the people who are making the world better, and less attention to the people who are causing trouble, conflict and suffering?
What would be the outcome of this, if they did?

What new words are needed to invent a new vocabulary of god?

What new words are needed to invent a new vocabulary of god?