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Темы для дискуссийАнглийский Коммуникационный Клуб на Арбате: http://www.englishclub.org.ru/ Участники сидят за столом и обсуждают предложенную тему. Есть возможность выбрать группу и тему. Общение организуется лидером. Уровень - средний и продвинутый. Встречи - каждую пятницу в семь часов вечера. Продолжительность - два часа. Плата небольшая. Вход без предварительной записи. Всю необходимую информацию можно найти на сайте клуба. Это - написанные мною темы, которые уже дискутировались в нашем клубе. Можете ими пользоваться, если найдете собеседников. Если вы еще не набрали пассива и переходить к дискуссиям вам рано, то, как понимаете, я с удовольствием помогу вам. И инструменты, и описание, как с ними работать, и мое заинтересованное участие - всё к вашим услугам. DemocracyAll governments call their power democratic; but can anybody tell us, what the real democracy is? 1) Democracy and servitude, can they coexist?
What are our dreams?1) Are you sure you are not dreaming now? Perhaps you are sure, but why?
Happiness1) Do people have the same needs? Do needs of different people vary?
Conflicts and guilt1) Is it true that in any conflict both sides are always guilty?
Men and women1) Why do people say that women are mysterious?
Advertisement1) What is more important today, high quality of the product or just advertising and public relations?
Are you happy to be Russian?1) Does Russia deserve to be respected? Yes, it does, because it has nuclear weapon?
Can money make you happy?1) Do you need to earn money to prove others or yourself that you can do it? What do you need more wealth or respect?
Can we create our own business?1) Will you prefer to build your own hierarchy to head it, or to enter an already existing one and make carrier in it?
Do you want to start your own business?1) Will you prefer to build your own hierarchy to head it, or to enter an already existing one?
Can you be a psychologist to yourself?1) Do you want to be a psychologist to yourself? You will have a psychologist always and for free! Isn’t it cool? 2) There are three universal questions to begin self-exploration. Do you ask yourself these questions? Which of them most frequently? Why can't I do better what I am always trying to do better?
3) Can you suggest other universal questions to begin self-exploration?
10) Creating your own business. Isn't it the best way to become a real psychologist?
Chiefs and Subordinates1) Do you like to be led, to obey? Do you like to lead, to command?
Circumstances1) Here we see some life strategies. Which of them is the best one? Do other strategies exist? What is your main strategy? To go where the circumstances are better
2) Do you prefer to do what you can do easily, or to overcome difficulties and hardships?
Communication1) Why do you communicate with people? ~ To relieve your feelings?
2) Who is more sociable, communicable - men or women? Why?
6) What do you read?
9) What are advantages, sociability gives a person?
Communication 21) Do you like to make new acquaintances?
What motivates us to conflicts?1) What makes people conflict? Is it only the results or do people enjoy the process itself?
The Crisis1) Is it a play of forces of nature or is it being done deliberately by some group of people?
Death penalty1) Does the society have a right to kill people? You are not God, why should you take such a responsibility?
Do we deserve to be respected? Entrepreneurs attack - can you defend yourself?You don't deserve to be respected if you don't respect yourself. Do you really respect yourself? Let us pass through some questions... 1) You are a slave if most part of you life you do what you don't want to. Freedom is not what is given - freedom is what is taken. It is not your right - it is you duty, to be free. If you are not free - it is your guilt. 2) You are a slave if you have a boss (it's better to say: your boss has you). It was your choice to become a subordinate, wasn't it? 3) If you earn your money, you sell your life (and so you are a miserable creature). Big money can't be earned. It can be only made. In fact, workaholics are lazybones who ready to make stupid work for years but never ready to think. 4) You are probably proud of having a diploma, but institutes never give their students real, practical knowledge, they just prepare slaves. 5) Your value can be measured by money you get. Specialists like accountants, physicians and teachers don't get much money because nobody really needs their job. 6) One, who says he doesn't want to have big money, is a liar. 7) If you have to count your money, then you are a beggar and it is your fault and your guilt. And if you are a male, then what kind of male you are? Who will ever love you? 8) Your life depends entirely on you. You are the only cause of all your misfortunes. You could change your life but you don't want to look down upon yourself. You must be responsible for your life and blame yourself for your misfortunes. 9) If you are not successful yet, it's because you don't want to pay to masters who could teach you. If you are not successful yet, it is because of your greediness. There are 1 700 Google results for If you are so clever, show me your money. There are 157 000 Google results for Если ты такой умный, почему ты такой бедный?. Take into account that English Internet is much bigger than Russian. It’s Russian saying, not American, isn’t it? Entrepreneurs say:
Ecclesiast said:
Drugs1) Are drugs the absolute evil? Can they be used for something positive, not only for self-destruction?
English teachers and tutors1) Talking about studies, what can we do by ourselves and what cannot?
Entrepreneurship - Responsibility and Guilt1) Are poor people poor because they deserve to be poor?
Entrepreneurship and Comfort1) Does having successful business mean comfort for everybody?
Entrepreneurship and Freedom1) Is it right that there does not exist another possibility in our life but to be either master or slave?
Entrepreneurship and Status1) Does an employee deserve to be respected? He is a subordinate person, isn't he? Why did he choose to be a subordinate and not a master?
Family1) Who needs who more, men or women?
Foreign Languages1) How fast can we study new languages?
Hippy, what should we take from them?1) Make love, not war! Is it a good principle? If it is good, why people don't follow it? Do you follow it yourself? What about making love? What about making war?
One edited text from Internet: Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by the mainstream. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a wide audience. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in a myriad of forms - from health food, to music festivals, to contemporary sexual mores, and even to the cyberspace revolution. Free time1) Do you have free time? Do you need it?
Home clubs net1) Those are always successful who know how to study and how to communicate, aren't they?
Image-making1) To make our positive image should we present our real advantages or does the image have nothing to do with the reality?
Internet-communications1) Everyone says internet is so interesting! But what is so interesting in it for you?
Leadership1) Do you want to be a leader? The desire to be a leader, where does it come from?
~Trying to be the first one?
6) What do people like more, to obey or to command? What do you prefer? Is it natural for you to be a boss?
Life after life1) Does life after life exist? Why do you think so?
Magic1) Do you believe in vampires, goblins and so on? What about energetic vampires? What about fortune-telling, hoodoo and so on?
Manipulations1) Is it right that any communication is a manipulation? What do we need the "word" manipulation for?
Mastering our dreams1) Everyone is supposed to have dreams. Do you remember yours?
Friendship, love and marriage1) Can there exist just a friendship between a man and a woman? Do you have such friends?
ModeralismLet's look critically at its principles 1) Our needs must be moderated and we will be happier with the minimum we have.
Here it the link to the very controversial materials of Александр Бурьяк:
Money and self-respect1) Do you need to earn money to prove others and yourself that you can do it? What really matters wealth or respect, or self-respect?
Money and comfort1) Does big money make our life simpler or more difficult?
Openness and ReticenceTo be an open person means to be communicative, sincere, and honest. Don't we miss something? 1) Is it a good idea to always say the first thing that comes into your mind?
People, be open!Let us discuss some controversial suggestions: 1) Naturism is normal so it must be propagandized. If you are not a nudist, you are a neurotic.
Psychoanalysis1) Why do Americans visit psychoanalysts while Russians almost never do it?
Psychologists1) Do we need to discuss our problems with somebody? Pros and contras, please.
Reading1) Do you read? If yes, what do you read?
4) What books have influenced your life?
6) What is reading for you first of all? ~ Just a fun?
7) How do you look at the author, from beneath or from above, as a critic or as a pupil?
10) Have you ever tried to read like an actor, like an announcer? Have you ever recorded your readings?
Religions and Tolerance1) Is it right that all religions are good? Is it right that all religions are evil? Does the only right religion exist?
Rich Dad, Poor DadKiyosaki is becoming popular, but what do we want ourselves? 1) Do you want to never work, have a lot of money, and not feel shame for such a situation?
~Employee?
4) Let's talk about other opportunities ~Do you want to belong to elite, to be one of those who orders laws and print money?
5) What is happiness for you? ~Unlimited consumption?
6) How do you prefer to study, in institutes or by yourself?
He (Robinson Crusoe's father) bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind. Russia and the WestNow we are proposing some controversial statements. Please, comment on them.
1) The West is at work upon producing, consumption and strengthening their positions. Russia is always experimenting. It used to take after Germany in time of Peter the First, after France later. Now it is trying to become America. Will Russia ever succeed to become America? 2) Being in need to choose between conscience and law, Russians will choose conscience. Westerners will prefer law. 3) Russians work to earn their free time. Westerners use their free time to earn money. They plan to live eternal and rich life after getting retired. 4) Russians would choose collectivism, cooperation, dedication. Westerners would choose individualism, competition, defending their own interests. 5) The marriage for Russians is a love affair. For westerners it is some kind of a business by a contract. 6) Russians are friends who violate the rules of friendship. Westerners are enemies who seldom or never violate the rules of war. That is why their community is more stable. 7) Russians see their happiness in creative work. It is high level of consumption what makes westerners happy and self-confident. 8) Russians try to find the truth and the truth for them is an absolute and universal solution of all problems. Westerners practice psychoanalysis and never are absorbed with questions of truth and real justice. 9) Russians are open. Westerners are reticent, reserved. 10) Russians choose between monarchy and anarchy. Westerners choose democracy. 11) Not like westerners, Russians never try to choose effective leaders. In Russia those become leaders, who can impose their leadership by force, or those who are assigned by the power. 12) Russians exported the truth (as they saw it) and were responsible for others. Westerners just exploited their colonies. 13) Russian language is built around nouns and adjectives. English is built around verbs and adverbs: it has more tenses, so English speakers feel actions and results of their actions better than Russians, but Russians better than English speakers understand feelings and sex relations. 14) Russians can't do without acts of bravery. The westerners develop and use their techniques. 15) Russian sexuality is different from that of westerners, isn't it? What's the difference? 16) The West is afraid of Russians because Russian spirituality is of higher level. Russian mentality, being more human, is bound to win and so to destroy the primitive way of life of the western people. Or are Westerners afraid of Russians because Russians always wanted to impose their power by force? Sex, marriage and adultery1) Is it normal to have only one sexual partner for all your life?
Sexual freedom or morality, what should we choose?1) The only principle we ought to follow is that one: live your life and let others live theirs. So, sex is a good thing providing it is safe. -- If people don't restrain themselves and others, the society will go to debauch and collapse. 2) Sex is beautiful, wonderful and so on. -- Sex is dirty and disgusting. 3) One can find in sex extreme, transcendental and transforming experiences. -- Sex leads to emptiness and self-destruction. 4) Sexual need is one of basic needs. It must be satisfied. One can't do without sex. -- Sex is allowed only in family and only for bringing babies. If someone needs wantonness, it's only his (her) own problem. 5) Communism has collapsed because people didn't have sex, so they didn't want to protect the system which deprived them from their basic needs. -- It was wantonness what destroyed the communism. 6) We should try everything. It is natural to try homosexuality, because homosexuality is natural. Homophobia is destructive for the society. -- Homosexuality is a perversion, so it should be banned, and homosexuals must be punished. 7) It would better to practice sex from the age we have sexual need. -- The later you start with sex the better. 8) Nudism is natural. -- Nudists are people preoccupied with sex. What they need is everlasting lewdness. 9) Pornography is a harmless amusement, creativity and sexual education. -- Pornography must be banned because it is offensive and dirty. 10) Puritans are losers, impotents and people with hidden hatred to everyone. -- Puritans are normal and spiritual people. Puritans are saints. 11) Love between young people and elderly people is absolutely normal and natural. Youngsters need experienced partners. -- Such kind of an intimacy is a rape or, at least, an attempt to a rape. It's the worst of crimes. Should communism be condemned?Should communism be condemned and banned? There may be many definitions of communism. Here we shall talk about the project Russians tried to embody after the Great October Socialist Revolution. We have in our group: 1) Judge, who leads the case.
Criminal charges: 1) Communism is a utopia. Being an artificial construction, it can never be embodied in something normally working.
Speed Reading Principles1) Back-skipping, regressions... Go only ahead. What are the minuses and the pluses of that principle? How can this principle be used not only in reading?
Speed Reading1) Do we need to read a lot? Do we need a lot of information? Today it is more actual to protect ourselves from excessive information, isn’t it?
Supermen1) Is it normal that the strong always uses the weak?
Foreign languages and educational books(tutorials, manuals, textbooks and so on) 1) What do we need teaching books for?
The Ten CommandmentsThe Ten words The Decalogue The Ten Tables 1) I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me.
The Family1) Who needs who more, men or women?
The world conspiracies1) Do you believe in world conspiracies and plots?
To understand or not to understand?1) Would you like to be able to read other's thoughts? What are the pluses and the minuses of that ability?
Truth and lies1) Do there exist people who never lie?
Violence, Horror, Erotica, Porno1) Sex and violence, how did it happen that such opposite things are associated one with another?
What are our dreams?1) Are you sure you are not dreaming now? Perhaps you are sure, but why?
Hello, how are you?Name - club - job - languages - free time - topics - traveling - politics - never asked NameWhat is your name?
ClubHow long have you been visiting this club?
JobWhat is your occupation?
LanguagesWhat languages do you speak?
Free timeWhat do you do in your free time?
TopicsWhat are your favorite topics?
TravelingHave you been to other countries?
PoliticsHow will the situation is Russia develop?
Never askedWhat sexual practices are most interesting for you? Which of them would you like to practice?
Work and motivation1) What do you work for?
Work and self-organizing1) If your productivity should become a little bit lower, would anything terrible happen? What terrible can happen in that case?
Work and social status1) If someone works overtime, does it mean that he is not competent enough to finish his work in time?
Working and Studying1) Are working and studying the same for you? Should we take them apart or should we intertwine them?
Are insane people responsible?1) Are lunatics, mentally sick, insane people accountable for their deeds?
Where and how can we rest and entertain in Moscow?1) Where can we go in Moscow if we have free time for ourselves?
Do you like people? Do you love people?1) Do you like people? What about children, men, women? Do you love them?
Do we need a revolution?1) Does the current situation with our state suits you?
Why did you come to our world?1) Why did you come to our world? Did it happen somehow by itself without your participation?
Gurus1) Do we need gurus or teachers? Should we try to find some one?
Self-development1) Should we care about our self-development?
Mini-seminar Accelerated ReadingHere are some very wide known principles of speed reading 1) We can read faster and understand better. To some people it is given by nature, but everyone can develop one’s facilities. There is a lot of evidence that people who visit speed reading courses improve their skills. If you believe it, why don’t you practice it?
Now, tell us about your experience of speed reading.
Mini-seminar: NLP; Neuro-linguistic programming(Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, Robert Dilts) You can submerge everyone into trance without even asking for his (her) consent.
What is trance? (catalepsy, dissociation, concentration, hallucinations, amnesia)
Working on consciousness, motivating to trance
Is it dangerous to study psychology and explore our life?1) And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
"See here, Jonathan," said his father, not unkindly. "Winter isn't far away. Boats will be few, and the surface fish will be swimming deep. If you must study, then study food, and how to get it. This flying business is all very well, but you can't eat a glide, you know. Don't you forget that the reason you fly is to eat." Jonathan nodded obediently. For the next few days he tried to behave like the other gulls; he really tried, screeching and fighting with the flock around the piers and fishing boats, diving on scraps of fish and bread. But he couldn't make it work. What would you do if you became almost omnipotent?1) Would you take power into your hands?
Isn’t feminism a crime against humanity?1) Who is a better worker by nature? Should it be compensated by society, being handicapped by nature?
Boyfriends, girlfriends1) Is it a good idea to have sexual relation before marriage? What do you think of extramarital relations?
Coming back to the thirties, who are we going to elect?We are in the thirties now, and we have an election. It’s up to us to decide who will be the leader of our country. Bolsheviks have just offered Stalin. After our discussion, we are going to vote for Stalin or for somebody else. Who is better than Stalin? 1) Stalin took very poor, almost illiterate agrarian country and turned it into a cosmic superpower.
Democracy versus communism1) Only democratic regimes have a right to exist. -- Only communism is the real democracy.
Alimony1) -- Children don’t have to suffer, so alimony must be paid by a parent who leaves the family.
1) -- Only if a parent does not support a child he or she may be sued. It’s up to him (her) to decide what his (her) child needs. 2) -- Alimony is created to support children.
3) -- Men must help women and their children, and so women don’t have to be grateful for men’s support. If men don’t want to help women, they must be forced to do that by law.
4) -- One quarter of a salary is not a big sum of money.
5) -- A child is a burthen. The one who suffers from having to live with a child must be compensated by one who enjoys a happy life without a child.
6) -- Sex is a bestial joy, men, not women, want to have sex, and as a result of sex women inevitably have babies they would prefer never to have. So men are guilty and must be punished.
7) -- Contraception is never safe. Men and women are equally responsible for her unwanted pregnancy.
8) -- Women should have rights and should not have responsibilities. It’s her body and it’s up to her to decide whether to abort a baby or not.
9) -- Family is a woman and her children, and men are not always necessary for normal family.
10) -- It is more natural that children stay with women.
11) -- Women always try to keep the family, so if divorces happen it is all because of men’s guilt.
12) -- You can’t separate a mother and a child, so a father is the one who has to leave in case of divorce.
13) -- If divorces happen it is because men are bad.
The U.S. Constitution: Amendment - Slavery Abolished. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Thus the only way that Alimony could therefore be legally justified is as punishment! But, punishment for what? What is the crime? The International Labour Organization's Forced Labour Convention of 1930 defines forced labour as "all work or service, which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily." Animal experimentation1) -- It is necessary to experiment on animals if we want to develop medical science and new drugs. If we don’t test drugs on animals we have to test them on humans. Is it normal to test drugs on men, women, children? What about testing on criminals?
1) -- Who said that human rights are more sacred than animal rights? If humans want to experiment on somebody, let them experiment on themselves. 2) -- There exist human ways of experimenting: avoiding unnecessary experiments, using anesthesia, creating good conditions for experimental animals and so on.
3) -- If we are going to protect animal rights, we have first to forbid slaughter of animals that is practiced always and everywhere.
4) -- Experiments on animals protect humans from a lot of suffering. If you have drugs you can save children, if you don’t have drugs, children will dye.
5) -- The only way to develop science and medicine and prolong human life is making experiments on animals and then on humans.
Why do people lie?1) Do people who never lie exist in nature? Is it possible not to lie at all?
What is lie?1) If you try to lie through your body-language (to play a self-confident person, for instant), should it be considered a lie?
Should all religions be tolerated?1) What’s the difference between ideology and religion?
Karma1) Do you believe in reincarnations?
Uncommon relationsSome of those relations seem to be very strange, queer and suspicious. We usually dislike some of them. But why should we dislike them if they don’t interfere with our life? Or do they interfere? 1) Young man and mature woman
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