On the vast majority of arguments that seem to happen here, people repeatedly make a pretty much unassailable rational argument and then other people repeatedly deny it without proper explanation and keep their past beliefs... |
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my 2 cents on them: |
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"Above All, Love"
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On the vast majority of arguments that seem to happen here, people repeatedly make a pretty much unassailable rational argument and then other people repeatedly deny it without proper explanation and keep their past beliefs... |
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I wonder the same thing. If you're going to argue something, but not be prepared to change your beliefs about what you're arguing about, then there's not really any point in arguing with you. It'd be like arguing with a wall. I think their reason for joining a discussion would be just to try and prove that they are right, and all other views are incorrect. |
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"Above All, Love"
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I usually get pissed when people make really bad logic jumps. |
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Just don't let them drag you down to their level. It's when they make you pissed that they win. I just ask myself, "is this random person on the internet important enough to me to get angry over?" And the answer is always no. If they are stubborn and refuse to acknowledge their jumps in logic, or certain facts, it can be frustrating, but the truth is that some people are just misinformed fools. |
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"Above All, Love"
~Unknown~
Unfortunately, not everyone thinks at the same level. You see, people come on here with outrageous beliefs- myself included.. some of those people have a closed mind, and refuse to accept anything anyone else says. Those people are...idiots. However, there are people that try to have an open mind, but human nature is to get defensive about something when it is being insulted, and I'd say about 60 percent of the members here are crude, condescending, and snide in every way. |
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Arguments are bad. We shouldn't say that factually verifiable claims are true or false, as this may offend someone. Everybody is probably right anyway. |
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What gets to me is the arrogance of people who think the presence of logic in an argument dictates whether or not a person's argument is valid or not, and that it shows their opponent's level of maturity or intellect. I see it constantly on many an internet forum. It's here in this very thread. And the people who argue that logic is truth simply don't see the fallacy in their position, and they are just as guilty of being stubbornly immovable in their position as the person they're arguing against who doesn't rely on logic. Yet i seem to be the only person on the planet who can identify this. People just don't understand that logic and science is not king for everybody. And without that understand and argument is dead before it's begun. |
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Emotional or universal truth? |
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Universal truths. I agree that the concept of logic should be used to determine universal truths, but i don't think that our current understand of the universe is anywhere near sufficient enough for us to rely on the logic we currently possess for certain truth. And i'm not saying logic has no presence in an argument, just that people should understand that not all of us believe we (the human race) actually have a system of logic that can provide definitive proof of anything. |
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"Men and people will fight you down. When you see Jah light. Let me tell you if you're not wrong; Then, why? Everything is all right." Bob Marley |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
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