Just asking...............

 

Here's a wonderful way to avoid an argument—simply ask questions.  Instead of jumping in and disagreeing before you know any more about the subject under discussion and the other party, ask the person to state his case, specifically, and to define his terms.  People who like to argue, and will at the drop of a word on any subject, are people who enjoy ruffling the feelings of others.  Willard Sloan once wrote an article entitled, "Arguments Don't Win Friends" in which he points out that arguments are useless and largely ridiculous.  They're more a matter of temper than temperate conversation and discussion.

-Earl Nightingale, as excerpted from The Essence of Success

On feedback..........................

 

.............................................learning.

Richard Dawkins....................

 ...................asks some important questions:

Who are these cringing little wimps whose ‘safety’ requires protection against free speech? What on earth do they think a university is for?

-back story is here

his clarion call.............

 Pundits immediately lauded President Biden's brilliant plan, with MSNBC heralding it as the most transformative economic initiative since the New Deal. "Biden simply asking the economy to be better is nothing short of genius," said Rachel Maddow. "Economists are out there playing checkers, and Joe Biden is here playing chess, what with his clarion call to give everyone more money and make everything cheaper. Why has no one thought of this before?"

-The Babylon Bee has the full story

examining the wallpaper of life........

      We pass a herd of elephants feeding on the combretum veld.  "They like to feed now.  Do you know why?"  Ren turns to ask me.
      Before I can answer, he continues, "I think it's because the branches have dew on them and so they like how juicy it is.  That's what I think."
      It's a question I have never even thought to ask, and it contains an insight into a weakness of mine:  I tend to just accept what I see.  Ren always looks closer, he always asks why.  He has gift for examining the wallpaper of life.
      The art of the way of the tracker is the way he can look at something he has seen a thousand times and always see something new.

-Boyd Varty,  The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

This rule of reason......................

“Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.” 


-Charles S. Peirce

About The Truth..................

"Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them..."

-Benjamin Rush