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QuestionsAsking questions takes courage because they open up a future we cannot
control. There is the daring personal courage of the question: Why are you
so angry with me? There are those questions, often not actually voiced,
which threaten our settled pattern of life. Is it time to stop hosting the
family Christmas? or Is the useful life of this group or organisation I
have been so committed to coming to an end? or Is it time to move, to
break old ties? or Has the time come to start a new group or
organisation? Even if the answer is no the question can never And then there are the big hopeless questions about war and hunger and inhumanity , such as: What is the good way forward now in Iraq? .. In Palestine/Israel? For our own British underclass of virtually uneducated, unskilled young people? It takes courage to keep on asking these questions because the door is then opened, yet again, to compassion and anger which cannot necessarily find satisfaction in action or any clear conclusion. That is the trouble with questions. No wonder the old advice to those entering the army or a new job or even school was to keep your head down and ask no questions. But there are deeper human questions which can be even more disturbing the basic questions about purpose and meaning to our brief lives on this earth. There is the desperately hard question as to why evil so often triumphs and why the good suffer. There is the cry from the heart Has the life of a person like me any real value? However, I suppose the most frightening question of all is Does anything really matter? Allowing the real possibility that life has no ultimate meaning, that it makes no real difference what we have done or how we have lived, requires great courage. These last questions touch the heart of human life and are therefore common ground for brave people of all faiths and none.
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