Thursday 29 January 2009

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?

Thursday 22 January 2009

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?

Sunday 18 January 2009

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?

Monday 5 January 2009

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

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