"as long as there is a black guy sitting in power"
Oh yeah, nothing political bout that.
Politics ... remember what I said?
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mrsjones5
Omg, there's a spook in the white house! How'd dat happen?
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MrFreeze
Political debates always boil down to "Your side is stupid", "Nuh-uh, your side is stupid". It is rather hilarious to watch sometimes.
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steve2
Political debates always boil down to "Your side is stupid", "Nuh-uh, your side is stupid". It is rather hilarious to watch sometimes.
Actually, with a little re-wording, this is also what religious debates boil down to, although religious thinkers generally have a greater range of insults to trade:
"Your side is [under Satan's influence, a cult, wrong, cruel,apostate, misguided, going beyond Scripture, chopping and changing,misquoting Scripture, not using Scripture, making up its own teachings, giving God a bad name, misrepresenting Christianity, blah, blah, blah....]"
"No, your side is!"
And on and on and on and on..............................................................................
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DesirousOfChange
Dear DoC,
I thought the Watchtower study a couple of weeks ago now teaches that the toes symbolize nothing.
Me bad.
Anglo-American WP is the FEET, not just the TOES.
Give me a freaking break! It's hard to keep up with all the New Lite.
Doc
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King Solomon
Steve said:
Actually, with a little re-wording, this is also what religious debates boil down to, although religious thinkers generally have a greater range of insults to trade:
Yup. The ability to conduct a reasoned debate is a lost art, but I think you can learn much about the principles of logic/rhetoric by examining others in action, if only as an exercise of IDing common fallacious arguments and faulty reasoning. I know JWs who have a hard time IDing fallacious reasoning, but only find it harder to learn the principles when analyzing material they are emotionally-invested in; instead, they'd learn the principles of logic by looking at some topic for which they are detached.
Hopefully those of you living outside the US will examine the ongoing banter, if only to hone your own analytical skills, noting the techniques used (both fair and unfair).
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Simon
Yeah sadly it seems that with American politics both sides are uber-stupid and neither wants to have a rational discussion about real issues.
It just turns in to rhetoric and then mud-slinging.
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EntirelyPossible
Omg, there's a spook in the white house! How'd dat happen?
You see, Jonesie, Bush '41 was head of the largest and most well funded spook organization in the world year ago. I am sure he had something to do with getting one in there. The thing, though, if is you know someone is a spook, their cover is blown and they lose their effectiveness, like what happened with Valerie Plame.
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mrsjones5
" It just turns in to rhetoric and then mud-slinging."
*Sigh*. Yup, that's why during American election this board tends to become quite tedious. Just today a certain person(s) is calling folks in the other party ignorant. My thing is if a person happens to not agree with your ideology it doesn't mean they are ignorant, they may just have a different perspective than your own or they may agree with you on some aspects but not all. The broad stroke namecalling seems to me more ignorant than a differing of opinions.
