Zaadz: Think Tank - Questions and Reflections (QaR)

Re: Is there God?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:55:10 -0000

So, I'm new to this "community" and I only accidentally got into it because I wanted to apply to the scholarship...in fact I was just about to try and delete my gaia profile thing (which I still don't know how to do, if someone could explain that to me it would be great) when this question caught my eye...I must say I do believe there is a God and that God is the Christian God of the Bible.....I get the feeling this may not be a popular idea here but I'm definitely welcome to some discussion (at least before I figure out how to delete my accidental profile)

Re: Is there God?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:05:30 -0000

Hi Chase, you will find a discussion on the subject here
link http://pods.gaia.com/is_there_a_god
Happy trails

Re: Taking Q&R Further

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:26:55 -0000

Hello All, here is a suggestion for a question to be asked in Q&R
I tried it myself to inspire my writing and got interesting results
Question : If you had a way of passing on a short message to every sentient being on this planet, What message would you like to give?

Re: Is there God?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:07:36 -0000

thanks

Re: Taking Q&R Further

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:41:21 -0000

Mike: Ooh. Nice. I think we've asked the same question for people on the planet, but never "all sentient beings." I'll add it to the list!

Think...Media Clarity

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:21:39 -0000

Zaadz.com/ Gaia community website now has a new group to discuss my blog, Media Clarity. The blog and group have been created to bring about discussion on topics of media consolidation, media policy, telecommunications issues, media analysis, media justice, media literacy and communication theory.

MEDIA CLARITY THE BLOG IS HERE

This blog infuses heavy discussion on race issues in America around the world, gender politics and the American narrative.
For more on film allegories and how media has changed the "American message" and our idea of heroes check out my other blog.

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HERO WORSHIP

The Gaia community blog is called Media Clarity: Let's Reach It!!!! so check it out and lets talk about media as a spectacle, as a persuader and what this is doing to our experiance as humans. Let's see beyond text and image to agenda.

Re: Think...Media Clarity

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:09:50 -0000

Sounds like a worthy endeavor; I especially like your last sentence. There must be a Board in the Gaia Lounge Group that would get more readership than this Board here which is proposals for Q&R. Try also announcing in Gaia Groups Community Group, Gaia Community Vision Group, and perhaps even in Gaia Networking Group. On whatever Water Cooler or Bulletin Board Boards they might have.

Blessings, OM Bastet

Re: Think...Media Clarity

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:29:01 -0000

Beautiful ideas OM.

Mera, here's the place in the Gaia Group Community where you are invited to introduce yourself and your Groups.

That's a good place to spread the word.

Re: Questions and Reflections: Here's Mine...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:37:21 -0000

Either in your life or, in human history...

name the person(s) least deserving of forgiveness and for bonus points, twll why they should be anyway or shouldn't be at all?

I Dare Ya!!

~Journey Well, In Peace~

Changing My Mind, Changing The World.

Charles (Kolt4JC)

Re: Questions and Reflections: Add yours!

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:42 -0000

...i came across this funny ( & how true ! ) quote in a daily :

" What women want : To be loved , to be listened to , to be desired , to be respected ,

to be needed , to be trusted , and sometimes , just to be held .

What men want : Tickets for the world series !! ."

-- Dave Barry

This quote set me thinking --and so my questions are quite simple :

1) What women want in life ?

2) What men want in life ?

-jagadish

Re: Questions and Reflections: Add yours!

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:03:16 -0000

All!

I just wanted to pop in and say that I do read each of these and that I love the creativity and curiosity of so many of them. It's important to me that the questions that get sent out in the Q&Rs stay relatively positive and forward-thinking and uplifting or supportive (it feels to me that it's easy to hear "what's wrong with the world" in day to day conversation) and that they're fairly introspective, too (I do get curious about what everyone's eaten for breakfast, and have thought about doing a Q&R series that was a little more Q and a little less R, but for this particular incarnation I like those best that push for a bit of a deeper discovering). So if your question hasn't appeared, that's likely been the reason... :)

I've just started a Question and Reflection Group, though, where you can pop in and post your own questions, and answer those that others have posed. Please pop by and check it out, and if you've already proposed a question here, I'd be fabulously grateful if you came and contributed it over there as well.

Re: Questions and Reflections: Add yours!

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:37:09 -0000

Woo hoo! Thanks Siona, I'm in and hope to see everyone else there too!

Love,

Nicole

Question and Reflections: The Group

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:56:56 -0000

Hello all you beautiful inquisitive questioning seekers!

It's been over a year since the first Q&R was posed to the site, and, at long last, we've gone ahead and created an entire Group dedicated to the Questions and Reflections. Instead of waiting each day to see our daily query, you can wade through an abundance of community-contributed questions. You can post your own, and respond to others, and play about in boards with different varieties of questions and replies. I'm excited to see how it'll grow.

Just jump over here to join in. We'll see you there. :)

Questions and Reflections: The Group

Re: Question and Reflections: The Group

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:15:22 -0000

Will the original link still work and be on the Wisdom tab, Siona?

Thank You!

Re: Question and Reflections: The Group

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:56:58 -0000

Ladybear: But of course! This isn't meant to substitute for the Q&Rs, which are blog posts and operate a little differently. It's just meant to be a play-space and container for those of us who are question-addicts. :) The dailies will still keep coming, though. I haven't seemed to run out yet.

Re: Question and Reflections: The Group

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:04:50 -0000

The dailies will still keep coming, though. I haven't seemed to run out yet.

Nor shall they run out, I suspect, with so much creative power going into that pod.

(are you going to attempt to convince me that the pod is not a nefarious conspiracy to replenish your question-bank? hmmm?)

:)

Re: Question and Reflections: The Group

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:19:29 -0000

Kewl, Siona! Thanks for the reply, and jeepdog, you are on to something there!

I find myself at exactly midnight sometimes, running to check the new Q&R!
:-)

Re: Question and Reflections: The Group

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:22:56 -0000

(are you going to attempt to convince me that the pod is not a nefarious conspiracy to replenish your question-bank? hmmm?)

jeepdog: Goodness. There's another good idea; I hadn't thought to put in a 'nomination' area in that Group. I'd thought instead it'd be a good place for rich questions that might differ a bit from the usual Q&R, and give a chance to get more out there so people don't need to wait months for the ones they offer to show up in the queue.

I wish you were here to see my Monty Burns impression, though.

:rubs hands together:

Excellent.

Re: Questions and Reflections: Add yours!

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:37:58 -0000

What don't you know?

Re: Qestions and Reflections: Add yours!

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:11:27 -0000

Good Question, Denim! That one's got me stumped!

How do we know what we don't know?

How many things do we think we know that we really don't?

How many things do we think we don't know that we really do?

Great question, Denim... I think it's a koan.

namaste,
ananda