22nd April 2003, 10:46 PM
Pardon? Well if by "heat up" you mean getting down to stupid name calling and total disrespect for other's points of views, yes I just leave when that happens. And yes, often I do refuse to participate. You seem to think that's actually a bad thing.
On another note, regardless of what you think of me, remember this. "Wisdom even from the mouth of a fool is still wisdom." In this particular case, what I do (or what you think I do) can't really have any effect on the truth of what I said.
You really seem to think the worst sin a person can commit is to not give their opinion. You actually TOLD me you think not sharing one's thoughts is wrong. Yeesh, of course one's actions always reveal how much one believs something, but do you honestly believe that to truly believe something means you ALWAYS fight EVERYONE on something? What a stupid idiotic "slim shady", currenty skinny punk kid, people getting killed for no reason, horrible rude and evil way of thinking! (No offense.) Such a "I'll fight over my opinion at EVERY oppertunity, whether that threat is real or not" mindset is what starts wars and gangs.
What is the point of this debate anyway, if you can call it that? We post why we believe what we do, but you seem to actually want us to change our minds.
Is your goal to get us to change our minds?
On another note, regardless of what you think of me, remember this. "Wisdom even from the mouth of a fool is still wisdom." In this particular case, what I do (or what you think I do) can't really have any effect on the truth of what I said.
You really seem to think the worst sin a person can commit is to not give their opinion. You actually TOLD me you think not sharing one's thoughts is wrong. Yeesh, of course one's actions always reveal how much one believs something, but do you honestly believe that to truly believe something means you ALWAYS fight EVERYONE on something? What a stupid idiotic "slim shady", currenty skinny punk kid, people getting killed for no reason, horrible rude and evil way of thinking! (No offense.) Such a "I'll fight over my opinion at EVERY oppertunity, whether that threat is real or not" mindset is what starts wars and gangs.
What is the point of this debate anyway, if you can call it that? We post why we believe what we do, but you seem to actually want us to change our minds.
Is your goal to get us to change our minds?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)