{"id":7648,"date":"2022-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/on-dialogue\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:08","slug":"on-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/on-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"On Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to fulfill its purpose, dialogue, in whatever matter, requires us to have several attributes. For instance, it requires us to be: \u201c1- free people within whom the interests of the world do not resonate; 2- people for all; 3- people who give precedence to the common good above everything that we think is true; 4- people who believe in the right of others to be different; 5- people who are consistent in frankness, who do not agree with the others in their faces, and oppose them behind their backs; 6- people who do not project dark thoughts on others; 7- people who cannot be prevented, by anything, from recognizing the Truth, wherever it appears; 8- people of peace; 9- disciplined people who put a limit to everything that drives us to establish our position on the ruins of the world; 10- people who really know that history is full of curses and holds in fond remembrance only good people and saints\u201d. Friends, always bear in mind that the human being is a dialogist. However, do not set out for any dialogue, before you first prepare yourself to its attributes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to fulfill its purpose, dialogue, in whatever matter, requires us to have several attributes. For instance, it requires us to be: \u201c1- free people within whom the interests of the world do not resonate; 2- people for all; 3- people who give precedence to the common good above everything that we think is ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1602,2733,1590,2735,2734],"class_list":["post-7648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-virtues","tag-dialogue-in-christianity","tag-orthodox-christian-values","tag-peaceful-communication","tag-truth-and-dialogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}