<dance music starts thumping>
awwwWWW YEAH BITCHES!!!!
but i can't have my sam adams winter lager on base
awwwWWW YEAH BITCHES!!!!
but i can't have my sam adams winter lager on base
Poll
Why do you Debate Politics?
| My viewpoints can change other people's viewpoints | 8% | 8% - 5 | ||||
| I'm smarter than most of the people in the forum | 19% | 19% - 11 | ||||
| Debating vents all my frustrations | 5% | 5% - 3 | ||||
| I want to take part in the decision making process | 5% | 5% - 3 | ||||
| I like when Lowing pisses off | 10% | 10% - 6 | ||||
| I want to make the World a better place | 5% | 5% - 3 | ||||
| Debating is in Human Nature | 15% | 15% - 9 | ||||
| I like to see other people's emotional reactions | 1% | 1% - 1 | ||||
| I want to get a ban | 10% | 10% - 6 | ||||
| Other | 17% | 17% - 10 | ||||
| Total: 57 | ||||||
I'm pictureing that "Cotton Eye'd Joe" is playing right now..
*makes techno noise and bobs head* bmp tss bmp tss bmp tss bmp tsscpt.fass1 wrote:
I'm pictureing that "Cotton Eye'd Joe" is playing right now..
et moi, that's pretty much why I got into this section... although people might have noticed a lessened participation on my part due to a new sweet job, and another new sweet influence which has just popped into my life as mentioned in my sigCameronPoe wrote:
For me: Other
1) Mental exercise - the brain is a 'muscle' too as it were - debate keeps you sharp.
2) Listening to others opinions can be beneficial to you - if you wallow in your own views all the time you allow no scope for self improvement and allow no-one to prove you wrong. I like to have my views challenged. Sitting with hands over your eyes/ears is not progressive.
3) Hopefully having number 2) apply to others.
Human nature ftw.
But is it? I'd argue that it's a learned behaviour which encourages the individual to question their own views as much as anyone elses. If you refuse to debate, even internally, then you free yourself of the responsibility of your views. And a great many people have this attitude; therefore could it not be that the refusal to engage in debate is just as much defined by human nature?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Human nature ftw.
I'm the weird one, I like seeing others reactions more than anything. Kind of use it a a rough base to gauge how out of norm I really am... though in these forums it's probably not a good idea, cause I don't think a single person on the debate forums can qualify as "normal"
The second one.
Learning behaviors is a part of human nature, and so is questioning them.UnOriginalNuttah wrote:
But is it? I'd argue that it's a learned behaviour which encourages the individual to question their own views as much as anyone elses. If you refuse to debate, even internally, then you free yourself of the responsibility of your views. And a great many people have this attitude; therefore could it not be that the refusal to engage in debate is just as much defined by human nature?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Human nature ftw.
I like to debate politics because my smarter viewpoints about a better World get Lowing emotional and then he pisses off.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Learning behaviors is a part of human nature, and so is questioning them.UnOriginalNuttah wrote:
But is it? I'd argue that it's a learned behaviour which encourages the individual to question their own views as much as anyone elses. If you refuse to debate, even internally, then you free yourself of the responsibility of your views. And a great many people have this attitude; therefore could it not be that the refusal to engage in debate is just as much defined by human nature?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Human nature ftw.
I never get too angry unless somebody's doing their best to be retarded and sending me endless, pointless PM's.sergeriver wrote:
I like to debate politics because my smarter viewpoints about a better World get Lowing emotional and then he pisses off.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Learning behaviors is a part of human nature, and so is questioning them.UnOriginalNuttah wrote:
But is it? I'd argue that it's a learned behaviour which encourages the individual to question their own views as much as anyone elses. If you refuse to debate, even internally, then you free yourself of the responsibility of your views. And a great many people have this attitude; therefore could it not be that the refusal to engage in debate is just as much defined by human nature?
I try to avoid debating politics, but rather the issues that they discuss. I'm not like seemingly everyone else on this forum, already lying to practice for being elected a politician.
It is my sworn duty to try and save as many of you as I can from the death grip of liberalism.
Seems to be a mix of the above.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
i get turned on. LOL.