Giordano
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Parents. End of debate/topic/argument/whatever. Acting out of place was so dangerous as a kid because we had to face our parents later. And that was bad. Now, what are parents going to do? A slap on the wrist because they can't punish their "princess". This whole attitude that children are angels and not people in need of guidance/teaching is killing the youth.
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The idea of humans mistaking aliens for Gods is a sound one. It makes much more sense than the current religion crap. The buildings are irrelevant though; I only see this theory as Godly aliens, not their landmarks.
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[hide] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem In a nutshell, it's using a quality of someone against their arguments. Ahh, gotcha. Too much of that crap's been going 'round TIF. OT'ers love to throw around terms like ad hominem and strawman even when they aren't using the words in the right context. They're political debate buzzwords here because people think using them is a way to devalue other people's arguments. I cringe when I see people posting ad hominem here. How are you expected to give a proper rebuttal when they twist your words or just keep insulting you? I agree that it can get a bit excessive, especially when someone makes a valid point with a few trivial flaws on the side and then the other debater just shouts, "Logical fallacy!". But sometimes it's necessary. I don't mind seeing the words used but most of the time they aren't used correctly here, that was my point. [/hide]It all started over this summer I think. I remember before, "troll" was used very rarely. A stupid person wasn't considered a troll, just a stupid person. Now everybody and their mothers are called trolls; debate terms were hardly used neither, TIF debates were casual with some heating points but not some formal political debate on national TV. :roll: I wish certain people on TIF wouldn't spend their time scheming a way to denounce an opposing view by using terms but by making an argument.
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[quote name='Jes' date='05 November 2009 - 07:26 PM' timestamp='1257478009' post='3953890' Like: I would never deny my God, Roffle.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem In a nutshell, it's using a quality of someone against their arguments. Ahh, gotcha. Too much of that crap's been going 'round TIF.
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What does ad hominem mean anyway? :unsure:
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Because we can't read people's minds?
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Are you sure about that? "I plan to uh, make the new uh, bill pass through the uhhh, Congress. Uhh." Actually, I hate when politicians give speeches. It sounds like my English class reading out loud. It seems our standards for success have been lowered dramatically. :lol: Obama has done nothing yet, as in, he hasn't done horrible nor great things. Right down smack in the middle.
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Public transport...? Strike...? What are you guys talking about?! There's so such thing where I live. :razz:
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As a Demo you gotta know where to put stickies too; you can't put them in the middle of a floor where somebody could shoot it. A lot of demomen just put them in a random order across the floor thinking they got a back wall protecting them.
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People have already given you advice. You just don't take it. It's entirely your choice that you're antisocial. But you don't sound like you're like him. You might sit in the corner, but at least you aren't the guy nobody likes. You're just the one nobody knows. I'm antisocial, and it's not that I don't talk to people, I've tried talking to people, all they care about is football/how big a girls boobs are/being a troll irl. I refuse to change myself to be like them. I just can't relate. People tell me that I just matured faster than them, and that I should wait for them to grow up. People like myself tend to have it hard in school years, but have it easier later in life. Or at least, that's what I've been told. Can all the anti-social people stop crying victim? It's getting a bit annoying. I'm not too social, but you don't see me crying about others being idiots. I hate showing my previous posts, as if I'm trying to gloat, but this is really bugging me. [hide]Today I went to school and noticed the people around me, remembering this thread. And it's amazing to see how much I progressed. It was a year or two ago, I felt school was a filled with a bunch of idiots. That *I* was better than all of them in some moraled sense. But I had to think critically. Who's the guy who has more friends? Who has a girlfriend? Who has achieved something? Not me. So it couldn't be that I was better than them, because if I was, wouldn't I have at least all these positions filled? So obviously, I wasn't better than them (In the social sense, disregarding morals/criminal activities, etc). I was thinking something like this last week too, before this thread was made according to Dizzle. I was asking the question, "Why should I bother in achieving anything great socially?" After all, schools do have a lot of idiots in them and I was falling a bit back into my previous thinking. And for some reason, I thought of Samwise's quote in LOTR: "That there is some good in the world, blah blah." Then on Thursday, we had a earthquake drill; so an hour standing in the football field doing nothing. Naturally you can't keep a school of teenagers amoung classes for long before they spread out to chat with friends. So it was then, I was hanging out with my best friend and some of his minor friends, that I somewhat knew. And it was then that I realized, using Samwise's quote, that there IS good people in the worldschool. The guys and girls I was there with me in the football field were overall-good moraled people, weren't douches, and weren't socially outcasts; but rather, socially acceptable and successful. And I knew there were more out there like them throughout the entire school, so that reassured me.[/hide] From the People Around Me thread. So can we please deal with the fact that those "idiots" are somehow happier than you and live on with life? *I don't want to come off as an [wagon], I respect the anti-social people in all ways (considering I am one), but please don't go against society.
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"How much memory did you say this holds...?" "Um, 250 GB." "OMFGWTFBBQ~!!!!!!!!!!" I think i saw this in the Back to the Future series. Biff ;) Though i'd do the same thing... So would I. :twisted:
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I'm pretty sure you can't talk about politics and religion in school (teacher to students). Will cause brainwashing they say. :roll:
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[bleep]. 8:22, first Trick-or-Treaters. :-(
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I was talking about the "observer effect" scientific principle (see: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle). But yes, you are still affecting the things around you. You still have mass and take up space. Depending on how far back you go even that small amount could change everything. Say you are in a crowd as an observer, you are standing next to people. Maybe you stand next to some guy where previously a girl came up to stand next to him, and where previously they started to talk and eventually lived together and had kids they never meet. The ramifications of that one action on a timeline of a year may not be huge, but in 20-30 years almost everyone in the world would be affected in some way (7 degrees of separation between 95% of the world's population). It could be the difference between total world war and total world peace. :blink: :mellow: <_< Okay fine, you have a point. But I still think if you take caution and try to observe from a point nobody was on or can change something, there's a tiny chance you will change history.
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That sounds like I should consult the Zombie Invasion thread!
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I'm still going through that process. 7PM and no trick-or-treaters yet. This may be the best H'ween ever.
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They did allow us to say words like "damn" and "[wagon]"... "Damn, baby, your [wagon] is fiiiiiiiiiine. Lets go make some [babies]!"
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I learn and see experiences from a variety of people in a variety of places. A second opinion is always the best option.
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You can't observe anything without affecting it. What? Staying out of the way, being part of the crowd, will affect the outcome?