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I am writing to open a deeper inquiry among the Democratic Underground.
Given the opportunity to speak to your fellow citizens, what three questions would you ask them? Mind you, this is not an opportunity to rant and complain, to insult and deride, but to ask the three questions you believe the answers to could change the course of things. The three questions can concern politics, economics, or education, the environment, the culture, or the personal character, respectively. You may not address, however, more than one issue. Mind that the three questions you ask should enable us all to determine what most concerns you and why…what you believe will make a great and glorious turn for the better...for all of us.
I don’t pretend to have given you all an effortless task, as we narrow down our opinions and points of view to a central and/or singular idea.
No answers, please! (smile)
Just questions: questions that make all the difference...
My questions:
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous quote, “Life consists of what a man is thinking of all day," parallels our nation's educational and cultural decline. In unadulterated truth, in the scope of an average day in your life, what do you find yourself thinking about most of the time?
“The Golden Rule” is a universal law within religions around the world: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Strangely, outside the grievances against the insidious influence of the Church and religion, lies this “first principle“ of Judeo-Christian doctrine that has borne little if any influence within Western political and economic systems. If the Golden Rule were to be implemented within democracy and capitalism, how would those two systems be altered in theory and practice?
In your life, as long as you can remember, what has been the longest, strongest most enduring belief you’ve held? Be it faith in God or love of country, that love is all you need, or that family/friends are most important, that the world will ultimately self-destruct/triumph, people inevitably disappoint/surprise you, etc., what is that one belief no amount or variety of experience, no exceptions or examples to the contrary, has ever or could ever, make you denounce?
What are your three questions?
I am truly appreciative to anyone who takes the time to read and respond to this post...
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