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Greeter: Hi, stranger! Welcome to the monthly meeting of the "We All Agree!" Club. You look new here. Is this your first meeting?
Visitor: Yes! I got an invitation. I'm looking forward to it.
G: Happy to have you.
V. It will be so nice to be in a Club where We All Agree. Not like that last club I was in! I thought we all agreed, but nobody did. So much yelling! In the end, we were at each others' throats.
G: Well, that won't happen here. Because We All Agree! We'll be getting started shortly.
V: Are you expecting a lot more people tonight?
G: A few more. But don't worry - only those with whom We All Agree!
V: That sounds nice. But what if some people show up with whom We don't Agree?
G: We don't let them in, of course.
V: But what if they're really insistent on getting in and trying to join?
G: Then We kick their asses! Don't you Agree?
V: I Agree? I am confused. How do We know if We Agree with them unless We let them in and talk to them first?
G: I don't understand the question. If We Agreed with them, then they'd already be in the club. If they were in the club, then We'd already Agree with them! Why would they want to come to a meeting of the "We All Agree!" Club unless We All Agree with each other?
V: I don't know. Because they're not clear on the "All" part?
G. Not clear? "All" means All!
V. But does it refer to the "who," to the people We let in? Or does it refer to All the particular things that We Agree about, the "what"s? Or instead does it to refer to the "how"s and "why"s that are behind who We are and how We All individually happened to arrive at All that We Agree about?
G: What's the difference! You are complicating things. Did you forget the name of the club? It's so simple: We All Agree!
V. Yes, I saw that on the sign on the door.
G. Yes! The "We All Agree!" Club!
V. So We will talk about All that tonight?
G. All about it! Though We do find that the more We talk in our Club about All the "what"s, and about All the people who are in the Club and who's out, then We are a lot less likely to get into arguments about the "how"s and the "why"s. We don't so much get into that. Works for you?
V: I think?
G: After all, don't We All Agree? Since we do, mustn't it be because We are All here - that We All Agree! - for the same reasons?
V: I guess?
G: Who invited you, again?
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