RE: Rule Changes + New Restrictions
November 13, 2013 at 8:18 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2013 at 8:21 pm by ManMachine.)
(November 13, 2013 at 8:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(November 13, 2013 at 7:59 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I always thought being deliberately provocative was the entire point of socratic debate.
For some values of "provocative", yes. It's my understanding that Socrates intended to stimulate critical thinking, not incite a beatdown.
... and yet he got the ancient Greek version, a beatdown in a bottle.
Anyone for tiffin?
MM
(November 13, 2013 at 8:02 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Yo, if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it right!
None of that 'stop before you're properly dead' nonsense.
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The version I began with was much longer, it needed a snip to get under the avatar radar. I left the Tarantino bits in though.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
