Question Requirements

This is mostly a maintenance page, but I wanted somewhere to point to when anyone asks whether they can contribute questions. The short answer is "Absolutely" and the long answer is to please follow the following guidelines:

• Questions on any topic are welcome. The current topics I am writing questions for include (but are not limited to) religion, philosophy, politics, modernity, death, community, and randomness. 
• If you want to suggest a question, please email me (swpwinner@gmail.com) or send them via Facebook. 
• Please let me know where you would like a link sent so that I can attribute the question properly.
• Write more than just the question. If you read through my questions, they include explanations, background, stories, or just extra tidbits.

That's all for now. I may add more later, but if I do I'll post linking back here.

A minor change in procedure.

I decided today that instead of doing a major roundup each Sunday, each day's comments will be highlighted in a new post, with additional commentary from me, the following week. This eliminates the issue of Monday getting 6 days to the roundup while Saturday only gets a single day.

Check back tomorrow for another great question!

Also, if you would like to submit questions, they can be sent two ways: either simply send the basic question and let me fill in the details, or let me know you'd like to do something a little more complex and we can work out a guest post.

Thanks!
Dom

Method to the Madness

Although it may not seem like it, there is a method to chaos of the questions I've selected. I am intentionally doing a wide variety of questions, while trying to keep things time-related (a question about Egypt can't really wait until next year, a question about philosophic interpretations of breakfast cereals can). With that in mind, I write down any questions that I'm either really curious about hearing answers or that I think will inspire conversation or one that I feel needs exploration or input. Then, each day I select somewhere between 6 and 20 questions that I find are the most relevant or interesting, and I roll the dice, letting fate decide. This means that some questions will never be asked, while others may be written and selected the same day. That's ok with me.

If you have questions that you think I should be asking, feel free to send me an email: swpwinner at gmail. Or leave a comment on a Non-Question post like this one.

What it is All About

This blog exists primarily for three reasons:

1. I'm trying to find a answers to questions of modernity, faith, belief, hope, souls, salvation, eternity, philosophy, life, happiness, honor, truth, justice, politics, and so forth. As such, this blog is built to address anything and everything, but is built around a particular format:
2. Question and Answer: The idea of this blog isn't to simply post my own ideas, but rather to post questions meant to inspire responses. While some may be inflammatory, they are meant to be insightful and to build community that addresses deep ideas and fosters communication and deep understanding instead of shallow responses and flaming commentary. 
3. This is my Blog Project for my seminar. As such, although it predates the Blog Projects, anything that I request others do with their blogs I will be doing with this blog. While I certainly do these things with other blogs, the idea here is to prove the concept that building community and establishing a following can certainly lead to success. 

With these three things in mind, the format will be as follows:

Every day (except Sunday) I will post a question. This question may be either simple or complicated, intense or relaxed, depending on how I feel that day. Every day I will post a response to the question on the blog I use that I feel is most fitting for the response. This blog will usually be used, but occasionally I will use one of my other blogs. If I do so, this blog will link to the post on the other one, just in case someone isn't following it.

If your comments are short, feel free to simply post them. If they are longer, you should repost the question and your answer on your own blog and link to the particular question, then comment with a link back to your own blog. This will allow the community to expand, readers to learn more about each other, and enhances the group environment as a whole. This also allows you to more easily comment directly on someone's response, either with a simple comment or another linked post. The first question will be posted shortly.

Finally, on each Sunday I will post a summary of the questions and links back to my own personal favorite responses. This post may end up being long, but I hope it helps tie things together and encourages people to check out questions and answers they missed during the week.