"What are your questions?" A moderator asked of

  our little bunch.  Mostly colleagues but also a couple strangers.  Strangers with some of the shared basic credentials for (i)intellectual conversation(i).  A girl decided from a little list and explained, "Before we got switched up again as groups, we were really getting into motivation factors." Everyone was thinking about war.  So we have questions like, (i)Why harm someone?(i), and (i)What's your future seem like it might be(?). 

  The questions were delivered into another room of tables like fresh meat. 

  Some goofy, overtired moments.  Someone started singing "We are the world," and someone spewed from what had been the Soviet Union sang, (i)We are a tink tank(i). 

  And spontaneous letloose talking like grappling hooks.  "So you say billions and billions of peoples but each on their own for getting money and food?!"  An American not yet attached to an org or corp gulped.  "Yep." 

  People exchanging articles of clothing as currency.  "Have a date night?"