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Why are you interested in debating?
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Draka
Wonder Woman
In matters of how to shave your ape, we know you are the expert, don't you worry about that.
Draka
Wonder Woman
You're the expert.
Debating, for me, is a way to learn: 1. Learn about other faiths, 2. Learn about non-faith, 3. learn about anti-faith, 4. Learn about what people of various religions have to say about their faiths, 5. Learn how or what the non-religious see/view about various faiths, 6. Learn about various misconceptions of various faiths and those without faith, 7. Learn about how people interact with each other. 8. See how other things and religion interact with each other via other people's experiences (I don't like to just see about mine). And much more. Edited to add: I forgot to add that I learn a lot about my own faith.
Not really a simple question and I don't think it has a simple answer, either.
outhouse
Atheistically
This place could use more RIGHT
It seems that everyone believes that he or she is right when they post: It's just that not all of them have the need to believe that everyone else sees their posts as right.
It might be different if we KNOW we are right. 
It seems that everyone believes that he or she is right when they post: It's just that not all of them have the need to believe that everyone else sees their posts as right.
Or know the other is wrong.
Alceste
Vagabond
It seems that everyone believes that he or she is right when they post: It's just that not all of them have the need to believe that everyone else sees their posts as right.
Yeah I agree. Another issue is that people don't seem to differentiate between facts, opinions and experiences. Facts are either right or wrong, and there's no point debating something you can just look up. Experiences are subjective. The "expert" in expressing an experience is the person who had it, and if you want to argue about it with them, you're a moron. Only opinions are worth debating, and are by nature not "right or wrong" anyway. They are either "persuasive" or "not persuasive."
Monk Of Reason
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Won't let me frubal you.
Part of the problem is that everyday speech is horribly inaccurate, constantly using words that aren't accurate to the idea trying to be expressed. What most people don't realize, I think, is that such inaccuracy colors how we think of ourselves, and of the world around us.
We all, whether we are willing to admit it or not, live within our own little "bubbles". Whether that be withing our communities, our religious organizations, or just within our own heads. Debate is an excellent way of "popping" those bubbles.
I think a great way of testing an idea to see if it has merit, or is something that can only survive withing my own protective bubble is to throw it out here and see how people are able cut it to pieces.
I think a great way of testing an idea to see if it has merit, or is something that can only survive withing my own protective bubble is to throw it out here and see how people are able cut it to pieces.
outhouse
Atheistically
I said wee need more RIGHT.
What people believe has nothing to do with RIGHT or wrong.
And generally uneducated opinion is dead wrong, we need less fanaticism and more fact. We need more RIGHT.
outhouse
Atheistically
fantôme profane;3976117 said:
yes bubbles deviate from reality.
Some bubbles remain much closer to reality then others.
Some bubbles are so far away, they have no business talking about things they have no clue about.
This is an exercise in lack of communication skills. Most humans fail here.
It is revealing that you take parts of posts only. It is the same process you use to understand History. It doesn't work and it isn't honest.
All this talk about being "right" when debating. Yeah yeah yeah...I much prefer being left anyway.
So true!
outhouse
Atheistically
Im sorry you miss the boat in context.
Yes I always do. Don't I? Do you remember I suggested you might take a break from History to study a little English? Never mind that. Try statistics.
Alceste
Vagabond
I completely agree. I'm a language skeptic too. I'm interested in piecing together the puzzle of what people mean. The words are just clues. Sometimes words are just slogans memorized by rote to protect the ego. Finding meaning in there often calls for a sledgehammer approach.