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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 11:20 am
It also amuses me how people can lose their cool, but I'm not talking about here...I'm talking about in general, any place. I used to lose my cool more, but I've always overall been a 'cool character' or whatever.
I think this is a cool place as in it's chilled out, but it's also beyond fucking cool as in cool in the sense of...AWESOME! 
And you'll never find me losing my cool here. I never do on the internet, well I haven't since I was 15...and I'm 21 in 3 days time 
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 11:39 am
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(September 2, 2009 at 10:41 am)Retorth Wrote: That is a good saying...honestly, there is no end to debating...Nobody is going to change anyone's perspectives at the end of the day... we need to take a chill pill every now and then and just try to live in harmony for a change =)
I change my perspective to new information quite often  The debate format is one of the absolute best for learning... because you hear more than one side of an issue, each side presents their respective evidence, and one can choose between those, or an entirely different side of the issue.
(September 2, 2009 at 11:20 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: It also amuses me how people can lose their cool, but I'm not talking about here...I'm talking about in general, any place. I used to lose my cool more, but I've always overall been a 'cool character' or whatever.
I think this is a cool place as in it's chilled out, but it's also beyond fucking cool as in cool in the sense of...AWESOME!
And you'll never find me losing my cool here. I never do on the internet, well I haven't since I was 15...and I'm 21 in 3 days time
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/complete agreement, and more congratz's for your 21st.
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 11:42 am
Well said.
I fucking adore debates. I just wish the average person was more willing to debate more often
I fucking love it here.
Humility is a very important virtue indeed in my view. And as the years have gone by, the more and more important I've viewed it to be. Humility helps you learn big time, and arrogance is like a huge blockage.
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I love this place myself And i completely agree with you about humility.
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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(September 1, 2009 at 8:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "9-11 was a faith-based initiative.
-- Bill Maher."
That's racist.
(September 2, 2009 at 11:42 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Humility is a very important virtue indeed in my view. And as the years have gone by, the more and more important I've viewed it to be. Humility helps you learn big time, and arrogance is like a huge blockage. That's very philosophical Evie
And congratz on the 21st too 
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 2:57 pm
(September 2, 2009 at 2:49 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: (September 1, 2009 at 8:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "9-11 was a faith-based initiative.
-- Bill Maher."
That's racist.
(September 2, 2009 at 11:42 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Humility is a very important virtue indeed in my view. And as the years have gone by, the more and more important I've viewed it to be. Humility helps you learn big time, and arrogance is like a huge blockage. That's very philosophical Evie
And congratz on the 21st too
9-11 has absolutely nothing to do with race... how is it racist?
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 3:47 pm
(September 2, 2009 at 2:49 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: (September 1, 2009 at 8:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "9-11 was a faith-based initiative.
-- Bill Maher."
That's racist. How is that racist? You are worse than bozo! I fail to see how a person's religion has anything to do with their race. Not all muslims are arabic, not all Christians are white, not all Jews are Jewish (as in the religion)
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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It's a bland assertion intimating the racial classification of the enemy - and also making religion the enemy, instilling hatred where it isn't justified.
No doubt it's as bad on the other side, but that doesn't justify it.
9/11 was a capitalist initiative.. hows that? Probably more accurate. Greed inspired the war, on both sides, one side only has the option of tactical assault, and we call that terrorism. One side slaughtered 10'000 men in one strike, and polluted the country for centuries, yet this we call 'just'.
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 4:10 pm
How is it intimating the racial classification of the enemy? He said "faith based initiative", not "arab based initiative". I don't see why you bring religion into it; religion has nothing to do with race!!!
I agree, it's an anti-religious statement, but not a racist one.
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RE: Why it matters
September 2, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I thought it was clear that for 'Arab' read > 'Faith'
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