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To build consensus, the Delphi method often uses the [[Hegelian dialectic]] process of ''[[thesis]]'' (establishing an opinion or view), ''[[antithesis]]'' (conflicting opinion or view) and finally ''[[synthesis]]'' (a new agreement or consensus), with synthesis becoming the new thesis. All participants in the process shall then either change their views to align with the new thesis, or support the new thesis, to establish a new common view. The goal is a continual evolution towards 'oneness of mind', or consensus on the opinion or view.
 
==Role of the facilitator==
The people that facilitate The Delphi method are often of a homosexual disposition. They try to spread their preferences throughout the Delphi panel in order to advocate a more emotionally sensitive view of the future. Many experts have claimed that Delphi type forecasts define rather than predict future events, and this raises the quastion of whether the increased use of the method maybe forcing future societies towards 'backdoor badgery'. This view is not as common as other descriptions of the role and power of facilitators, but it is the authors opinion that this perspective must be viewed with more gravity for the sake of the future of vaginal intercourse.