examples of questions for loaded questions game

Dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength and discipline.īelieve me when I tell you that while scripture like Colossians 3:12-14 may sound corny to the cynical and the skeptical among us, the wisdom and effectiveness of its message has proven itself to me many times over. Let me use the wisdom of the ages to give you our foundational philosophy:Ĭolossians 3:12-3:14 MSG. We are all influenced, shaped and inspired by the works of others. We openly share concepts, credit and information, for it truly wasn’t completely ours to begin with. We do not covet information or crave credit.

With regards to baseball and baseball information, the Ranch consortium and our staff have chosen to play a different game. While vigorous debate and lively discourse is as American as baseball itself, in my opinion we’ve crossed the Rubicon and both sides are entrenched and no longer interested in the truth but instead are committed to maintaining and expanding their power and discrediting their opposition. To this day, we are still dealing with its fallout. In 2016, we all witnessed a presidential election that in many ways was unprecedented in its diversion and acrimony.

In short, no matter our skill or competence, sometimes we are going to be ahead…and sometimes we are going to be behind. In truth, no matter how brilliant we THINK we are, sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes others have a better idea. The universe has proven itself countless times to be a big enough place to harmoniously hold multiple different perspectives…even diametrically opposing ones…at the same time. Therefore, when I see someone else with a different option or a contrary view point, we give them the same respect and space we would hope they give me/us. Yet our intent and desire to ‘get it right’ has always been honest, genuine and sincere. Over the past 20+ years, many times I have found myself and/or our organizational thinking incorrect, mistaken, misinformed, misapplied andor off course. You’ll never see us involved in a Twitter war for example. While it becomes important at times to challenge and debate ideas or concepts on their own merit, at the Texas Baseball Ranch ® we intentionally stay away from allowing anything to become personal or derogatory. I spent way too much of my precious time and energy on comparison and on responding to critique and criticism. Today, almost 15 years later, I have long recognized the utter futileness and unproductiveness of that behavior. I built alliances and coalitions to counter critics or rivals. Anyone who disagreed with me or our philosophy was the enemy and the goal was to discredit their opinion. My goal was to be victorious, to win the argument…to settle the score…to present our ideology with authority. Too often I threw my opinion around like it was a weapon. Many years ago, I confess that I was often in lock step with the majority of the baseball universe. Today those confrontations can now occur almost instantaneously on Twitter and Facebook. We were offended and lashed out when we felt the other side attacked our idea, our intent or our integrity. Back in the day, we laughed and cheered when our side won a debate point on a message board. We love to see ‘our’ side really take it to the other side. Many of us really like a juicy story…a steamy drama… or a good ‘ol barn burner of an argument. The baseball universe at large is just as susceptible as any other niche to gossip, innuendo, aspersion, vitriol, slight, smear or the classic smack talk. These questions are quite often intentionally open ended and secretly call out for a critical or provocative response from me or the Ranch team. While the questions vary…the inferences are often similar. Coach W olforth, what do YOU think of _ ?

Examples of questions for loaded questions game