Four-letter word debates

"Debate" is 

a 4-letter word?
Why are we afraid of

 having open debates?

consider the following ideas to stimulate healthy debate:

• Offer praise every time someone raises a dissenting opinion. 

• Not every one of your ideas are going to be gems. 

• You need to be able to hear criticism

• dissension is important.

• not a synonym for discuss. 

Can it get confrontational? Yes.
Can it get heated and passionate? I hope so.

  step1) Now focus on task. Be ready for
             our 4-letter word data:

         Write yr  real personal fav  4-letter word.
          __ __ __ __

fool, gods, real, calm,  

cool, full, best, dudetime, 

play, help, chill,  

game, tale, lies, joke

   step2)  From these two quotations on LIFE, 

        How close are they to your views? Elaborate.

1- “….it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
              - Macbeth  (William S.)

2- "They lived und laughed ant loved end left." 

     -  Finnegans's wake  (James Joyce)

  step3) What is at once  ....

• more amorphous than art, 
• more single-minded than science, and 
• more philosophical than philosophy itself?  

    a)  Remorse,   b)  Forgetfulness,        c) Love       d)  Freedom

 Brainpickings  by Maria Popova

Made yr Valentine?  Not yet!


 "For happiness I pine, 

  so come and be my Valent...ine"

What Is Love? 

Stendhal in his fantastic 1822 treatise on love:

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. … there are no age limits for love.

Ambrose Bierce, with the characteristic wryness of The Devil’s Dictionary:

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Katharine Hepburn in Me : Stories of My Life:

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.

Mathematician Bertrand Russell, in The Conquest of Happiness:

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky puts it even more forcefully in The Brothers Karamazov:

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.