Posted by Xander on 5 July, 2010 – 8:00 am
A fabulous subject for raising with the competitive. Debate, long used to determine who has the better argument, who’s in the stronger position… however isn’t it all just meaningless hocus pocus which could just as easily be replaced by the pudgel stick system from the TV series Gladiators.
In a debate there are manoeuvres and tactics designed to lead your opponent down a certain path so you can verbally and mentally ambush them later with your killer come back. There’s winners and losers and people deciding this fate sitting as impartial judges on the process. But isn’t this a logical process? Aren’t the great debaters seen as having sharp minds and an excellent grasp of logic?
A bunch of hooey… and I’m only being polite because this is public.
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Posted by Xander on 18 January, 2010 – 4:16 pm
I find this a bit of an injustice in the UK, us smokers are being targeted like criminals. Apparently it would be poor taste to show gruesome injuries on a child who’s been hit by a car but it’s perfectly fine to plaster every pack of cigarettes in the land with detailed pictures of diseases and cancers all of which they proclaim as being linked to smoking despite it being phenomenally difficult to actually pin down which carcinogenic caused what.
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Posted by Xander on 18 January, 2010 – 12:38 pm
For some reason I’ve been struggling to find a format for media that I want to share with people. I always manage to work things like film quotes or lyrics into conversations, sometimes unknowingly, and I figured I really could do with having a place to both share my favourite tracks, quotes and clips but also so perhaps others can comment, things to store next to those memories… things to recall later (okay so maybe I’m feeling a little sentimental okay?).
So please do checkout the Music and Great Quotes pages. I can’t promise they’re suitable for everyone But I like them none the less… I’m irreverent like that.
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Posted by Xander on 15 January, 2010 – 1:34 pm
Most who know me know I frequent forums. Usually I have a favourite which I visit more than the others, usually exclusively. However I now find myself nipping into old forums cause people said hello when I went to add the site to my password manager. The thing is not one of them grabs my interest.
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