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Oftentimes, we think of '''dialogue''' perhaps as a better conversation, but there is much more to it. Genuine dialogue is a conversation with a center, not sides. It is a way of taking the energy or our differences and channeling it toward something that has never been created before. It lifts us out of polarization and into a greater common sense, and is thereby a means for accessing the intelligence and coordinated power of groups of people.[http://trinitize.blogspot.com/2007/07/dialogue.html#links]
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To finite man [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]] embrace the full [[revelation]] of [[divinity]] reality. As this love-comprehension of [[Deity]] finds spiritual expression in the lives of God-knowing mortals, there are yielded the fruits of divinity: [[intellectual]] peace, social progress, moral satisfaction, spiritual joy, and cosmic [[wisdom]]. The advanced mortals on a world in the seventh stage of light and life have learned that love is the greatest thing in the universe--and they know that God is love.[http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper56.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper56.html&line=180#mfs]
A '''dialogue''' (sometimes spelled '''dialog''' (n., v.) The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993 is a reciprocal [[conversation]] between two or more [[Entity|entities]]. The [[Etymology|etymological]] origins of the word (in [[Greek language|Greek]] διά(diá,through) + λόγος(logos,word,speech) concepts like ''flowing-through meaning'')) do not necessarily convey the way in which people have come to use the word, with some confusion between the prefix διά-(diá-,through) and the prefix δι-(di-, two) leading to the assumption that a dialogue is necessarily between only two parties.[[http://www.bartleby.com/68/17/1817.html]]
==Platonic dialogues==
The philosopher [[Plato]] wrote a series of dialogues, mostly between [[Socrates]] and some other person. In all these dialogues there is an explicit or an implicit disagreement, and the purpose of these dialogues is to resolve the disagreement. The typical way is for [[Socrates]] to probe his partner for further [[beliefs]] until a contradiction is reached with the disputed belief or [[hypothesis]] by implication. In this way the [[interlocutor]] is made to see the impossibility of his hypothesis, and then tries some other hypothesis, which is again subject to the same scrutiny. Most of these dialogues break off without a final resolution—as in real life.
