WARNING- THIS Статья CONTAINS SOME INFO WHICH SOME MAY FIND DISTURBING или UPSETING.
85 percent of the time, I like to think the world's a wonderful place. we have tecnology and nature all rolled into one delicious sushi-package, we all have different place to visit and new things to learn. most of the time, the world's a very pleasent, innocent place to be. But 15 percent of the time, horrible things happen. people crash planes into buildings, tecnology is faulty, nature is being destroyed and the odd teenager sometimes drops a baby bomb on her parents and boyfriend. but only very ocassionally...

This is an explanation of the procedure for the link, detailing the teams, the topic for debate, the time-line and procedure for each round. This was last edited on 19 December 2008.

Debate premise
The premise for this Дебаты - the Вопрос that the opposing sides will attempt to answer - is:

Should projects involving eminent domain require citizen approval?

For the purposes of this debate, these terms are defined as:
Eminent domain: a right of a government to seize property from its citizens in order to repurpose the land for the public good. Examples of eminent domain include (but are not limited...

Ты may be asking yourself right now, how can Evolution be a religion? или Creation a science? Such small questions, with huge answers.

First, Ты must understand me. I believe where the facts lie, that the truth is with that. Facts come first, then faith. (Yes, Ты need faith for both!)

Now mind you, sometimes facts are wrong. Facts used to say that the world was flat. But that fact was proven wrong.

Back to the questions. Evolution and Creation.
Misunderstandings on both sides have let many frustrated with arguments and conflicts. If we first get an understanding of where the other is coming...

"Hello. Do Ты know who I am? Of course Ты don't. I'm a nobody. I'd tell Ты my name, but Ты don't care. I'm just lonely. Nobody cares about me. Nobody cares what I think. People treat me like dirt. My opinion doesn't matter. Nothing about me matters. I try to say something, but nobody listens. They don't even try. I hate my life. I've never had a friend. I never even had a chance to make a friend. You're probably feeling sorry for me right now. But if Ты knew me, Ты wouldn't care anymore. I hate Ты all. My entire life is pointless and sad. It's like I'm not even there. I never get to...

Note: It's kind of late at night so this is a bit rushed & disorganized (especially regarding the points about Depp, Rowling, and DeLisle) so if anyone needs any clarification или еще context или would like to hear еще in depth about my personal feelings on each case, feel free to ask.

So this is inspired by a Последнее experience that I had with Отменить culture или an attempt at it. I have always been against Отменить culture mostly because I've had several bad experiences with it over stuff that was blown way out of proportion. It was used as a humiliation tactic and a means to try to kick me...

As of late, I've noticed several picks asking if it's murder if a crime is committed without mens rea. In all fairness, I'm paraphrasing, because none of these picks even mentions the words "mens rea" but the concept is the same.

For example, one pick asks if a priest should be convicted if he performed an exorcism which resulted in the link For that, I answered yes-- the priest should be convicted, или at least charged with manslaughter-- but not murder. Similarly, there are link seperate link concerning the legalities of a burglar/trespasser getting shot and killed on someone else's property....

On and off for the past several years, I've been working on a bunch of Статьи here on Fanpop: interviews (so many interviews....), comic articles, reviews, and various "What is..." explanatory articles. One of the ones on the back burner has been the "What is Debate?" article, and since I haven't finished that, I have to summarize some basic points about debate:

1) Дебаты is all about using arguments to support a position, thesis или statement.
2) Дебаты requires opposition: at least two sides arguing the truth или fallacy of the thesis.
3) Дебаты requires an audience to judge the effectiveness...

I'd like to start by saying that this is just my personal opinion as to what a SJW is. I've come to notice that I have used SJW quite a bit on this spot and a few people don't know exactly what I mean by that. So I kind of thought it'd be useful to make this Статья explaining exactly what I mean when I use the term social justice warrior.
Before anything else; I intend no offense to anyone at all with this article. I don't hate social justice (not by any means), I think social justice is awesome. What I don't like is what some people turned the movement into.

First and foremost when I use SJW...

My friend, an evolutionist, and I, a Christian, always Любовь to spend a few moments debating with each other about evolution, the "Big Bang" theory, and religion (mostly God).

November 7, 2008, he and I started at it again on Msn. He actually put my skills to the test, as neither of us have had no high school или college education on religion (so far), but I have gone to Church weekly, and will hopefully continue doing so. My friend, is frankly just extremely smart (I honestly can't elaborate on that....

I believe in debate, discussion, and discourse. I believe in listening. I believe in multiple sides to every issue. I believe everyone is worth listening to. I believe there can be fault on "all sides," and that we can all be guilty of misunderstanding each other.

I do not extend these courtesies to racists.

Ideas are dangerous. They are wonderful and they are disastrous. They can be used and misused as weapons или agents of peace. But when Ты are met with a truly deadly weapon, giving it the benefit of the doubt and letting it do its thing will get Ты and many others killed.

When it comes to...

link, the only feedback I received revolved around definitions of racism. Sure, the concept of reverse racism was partially what the Статья was about, but it was also about what problems nonwhites have that whites don't face. It was also a Список of grievances that need to be fixed. Those points were completely ignored.

When Ты say that reverse racism doesn't exist, white people completely ignore the problems you're saying nonwhites face and the changes Ты want to make to fight them. Instead, they do nothing constructive and just argue on behalf of whites. We - people on both sides of the debate...

Explaining What Makes America Great and Why We Must Protect It!

RUSH: Okay. Folks, let me get (for me on a Friday) a little serious here for a moment. I've had conversations in Последнее days, weeks, with liberals. Every time I mention this to you, I get, "Why are Ты hanging around them?" Well, Ты can't avoid 'em, and I'm not afraid of them. I like engaging them sometimes, because these people, many of them are just following a script. They've got their template, their narrative, and life is very compartmentalized and if something doesn't fit the little cocoon that they've woven for themselves...

While Письмо linkI became fascinated by school boards. I had been to school board meetings before the book was in my mind. They were meetings that were not too different from the one I described in fiction. They took place during the late 1970’s, at the height of a three-week teacher’s strike.

As a high school senior, I thought that the teachers were foolish for walking out on their students. I had the union president as a teacher; she used post-strike class time to pontificate the union position—and I resented it. I felt that I was being used to carry the union’s message to my parents....

I found myself typing a long reply to one of MajorDork74's Комментарии on his link. If you're too lazy to click on the link, the image is a bumper sticker which says "If it's OK to call куст, буш Hitler, then I say it's OK to call Obama Muslim."

And the general response was, "Call him whatever Ты want, but this statement doesn't make sense... how is being a Muslim as bad an insult as being called Hitler? I'm sure Ты can think of worse and еще accurate things to call Obama."

The Major returned with, and I quote: "Obama does a lot of things that people do not know about. How do Ты know he does not...

Okay, okay I admit so far communism doesn’t seem to have worked too well, what with Stalin with his work camps and his unrealistic 5 years plans или Mao with controversial philosophy and catastrophically cultural revolution. However firstly I’d like to argue that the Модели cited above don’t actually correspond to Marxism in its purest sense, at all. Mao’s theory, in fact has little или nothing to do with Marxism. Mao’s conviction is еще about the population’s ability as a whole to achieve anything through hard work and determination has nothing to do with the conventions of communism,...

The origin of life: During Чтение an interesting novel about Dawkins and his theories on evolution, I discovered this particular bit. Dawkins has no solution for how life actually evolved, или arose. Dawkins says: 'It is a complete mystery' (if Ты wish to know more, read chapter 13 of The Greatest Показать On Earth: the Evidence for Evolution)

I would like to point out that I have not really found a viable explanation for the origin of life, yet. I suppose that people assume it was the Big Bang and the consequential events following after, which caused life to erupt in the form of micro-organisms....

Idk if anyone’s noticed (lol) but I’m filthy mad about this election. Not just because of Trump himself, but because the whole thing represents, better than anything, one of the world’s most significant problem in Последнее years. We are moving away from our Enlightenment ideals - tolerance, progress, and liberty - with fanfare. Under the guise of saving western culture, we are threatening its core principles. We are neglecting the lessons of history that millions fought and died for: authoritarianism is a dangerous (yet insidious) thing, vilification of minority groups is wrong (demonstrated,...

I see the concept for Schrodinger's Rapist getting a lot of flack. People, when confronted with this idea, say things like "This is stupid. Not everyone is a rapist!" или "This is just feminist propaganda meant to instill paranoia in women and make them afraid of men."

I personally think that everyone who wants to abide by the theory has every right to do so. Let me give Ты an example:

About two years назад I was seventeen and during Хэллоуин break I was working in my Mum's office. But there was one день when my Mum couldn't drive me Главная and I had to get the bus. This was all fine - I was perfectly...

This is ALL made up but conversation is possable and in some cases has happened*


A woman was walking down the улица, уличный when she saw a man Чтение the bible.


Woman:Why are Ты Чтение that?

Man:*looks up* Because I'm Christian

Woman:Why are Ты Christian?

Man:*shrugs* Because God is the creator of all things.

Woman:*smirks* Oh really? Are Ты sure about that?

Man:*nods*

Woman:*sits Далее to him* What about bananas? They are made by people.

Man:They are?

Woman:*nods* And our words, are the words we speak to communicate to one another made by him?

Man:No, but when I ment created all things I ment...

On July 11th, лиса, фокс News' Kelly File featured a focus group to talk about the Dallas Shootings, Protests, Black Lives Matter, Obama, Race and more. This was in direct response to increasing tensions between the police and specifically the Black US population. If Ты know anything about me, Ты probably know how important I believe it is that people keep talking in a constructive manner in order to come to real solutions. This is why I do not like hypocrisy when it comes to tolerance. I just happen to believe in beating огонь with water, not with еще огонь as I believe it only fuels it and makes...