(August 22, 2021 at 1:08 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(August 22, 2021 at 12:12 pm)Angrboda Wrote: That's why I no longer get caught up in these debates. They're a huge time sink. I find myself spending a lot of time thinking things through in my downtime when I debate. I just don't need that.
After almost 10 years on this forum alone, I think I've done all the thinking I need on these matters. It's just the hassle of replying to each point so that I don't then get accused of not addressing some detail leading to the other party assuming that I agree with it.
I agree with both of you. This is why I took about two years off of forums after spending over a decade intensely debating people like that. At first I found it challenging and it honed by ability to think through a subject. Plus it forced me to do more reading on certain topics so I better understood what I was talking about. But after a while it just gets monotonous and it does take huge chunks of time if you are truly researching issues and responding sincerely. Trolls and nutjobs just have to throw out any sort of nonsense in 2 minutes. It may take me an hour to properly respond sometimes. It simply is not worth it unless your collocutor is equally sincere in their intentions. But, we often see with people like winterhold, they often appear to be more like emotionally damaged people lashing out because of some sort of personal need to be heard. It's actually very sad.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller