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  How a Service Meeting presentation went horribly wrong

  by undercover in

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  slightly nsfw.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udamzu5z9cu.

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  My questions for YOU

  by Terry in

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  i'm curious about human intelligence and beliefs as a natural phenomenon.. i've long suspected that even the most "normal" and well-educated person harbors "fringe" beliefs.. the purpose of this thread is not to mock beliefs of any kind.

  rather it is for all of us to toss in to a pile our own unprovables so .

  we can, as a group, evaluate how natural and non-neurotic such thinking might well be.. .

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  Obama's speech writers used the strawman fallacies yesterday

  by moshe in

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  seems they liked using that fallacy a lot--.

  president obama has an, at times, well-deserved reputation for delivering his speeches well.

  certainly, the president made an impression today when he delivered his second inaugural address calling for a bolder, more expansive government that would be committed increasingly to the principles of liberalism, with characteristic soaring rhetoric.. unfortunately, another characteristic was also in evidence in obama's speech: namely, his tendency to argue against positions that nobody holds (and by extension, to mischaracterize his opponents' views so as to make them easier to argue against).

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