Random Thoughts of Members (anything goes...well with in forum rules)

[Musashi Padawan]

And we can dance.
Dances!
Ah we can go when we want to the night is young and so am i
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And surprise 'em with the victory cry
I say we can act if want to if we don't nobody will
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And i can act like an imbecile

You did it alone
You did it for fun
You did it for everyone who's on the run
You're not just a friend
You'll be born again
We'll be in this race until the very end
He lives on the phone
He cheats on his clone
You'll never believe me 'til you're on your own

[ThreadJack]

You did it alone
You did it for fun
You did it for everyone who's on the run
You're not just a friend
You'll be born again
We'll be in this race until the very end
He lives on the phone
He cheats on his clone
You'll never believe me 'til you're on your own

That's a different song entirely.

[Obese Wan Kenobese]

I suspect that dehumanizing your opponent means you've truly lost the argument. Categorization make dismissal easy. Yet, they remain a person worthy of consideration even if wrong. Think about that when you label someone. If you're so right, why do you have to call someone a name?

Be it a curse word in anger or a political label in a disagreement, it's an expression of how one limits another in one's view. And limiting them allows us to disregard them while keeping us feeling superior verses them. But, in truth, we've become less humane by dehumanizing them.

[bigBear]

I may have an interest in a new group chapter in Maine. let's see what else comes of 2019.

[Infinit01]

I suspect that dehumanizing your opponent means you've truly lost the argument. Categorization make dismissal easy. Yet, they remain a person worthy of consideration even if wrong. Think about that when you label someone. If you're so right, why do you have to call someone a name?

Be it a curse word in anger or a political label in a disagreement, it's an expression of how one limits another in one's view. And limiting them allows us to disregard them while keeping us feeling superior verses them. But, in truth, we've become less humane by dehumanizing them.

Exactly. I stopped being friends with someone who mistaken something on his end in which he started cursing at me and calling me names rather than trying to figure out what he mistook.  The funny thing is that he's quite older than I am but carried himself in a juvenile way and although I was upset that he behaved and treated me that way, I was firm and direct until he called and started screaming.  Maybe it was a reaction he wanted or maybe it was just how he is.

Some people think that when they curse at you or call you a name, you're suppose to feel hurt or something.  We're not in elementary (and this is how children pick up those bad habits and do it to others at a young age), there's a way to get your point across without doing so which ends in the aggressor being the lesser of the two in my opinion.

I may have an interest in a new group chapter in Maine. let's see what else comes of 2019.

Congrats bB. Keep us updated.

[Jev Moldara]

I suspect that dehumanizing your opponent means you've truly lost the argument. Categorization make dismissal easy. Yet, they remain a person worthy of consideration even if wrong. Think about that when you label someone. If you're so right, why do you have to call someone a name?

Be it a curse word in anger or a political label in a disagreement, it's an expression of how one limits another in one's view. And limiting them allows us to disregard them while keeping us feeling superior verses them. But, in truth, we've become less humane by dehumanizing them.

Exactly. I stopped being friends with someone who mistaken something on his end in which he started cursing at me and calling me names rather than trying to figure out what he mistook.  The funny thing is that he's quite older than I am but carried himself in a juvenile way and although I was upset that he behaved and treated me that way, I was firm and direct until he called and started screaming.  Maybe it was a reaction he wanted or maybe it was just how he is.

Some people think that when they curse at you or call you a name, you're suppose to feel hurt or something.  We're not in elementary (and this is how children pick up those bad habits and do it to others at a young age), there's a way to get your point across without doing so which ends in the aggressor being the lesser of the two in my opinion.

Ah the old ad hominem fallacy. Gotta love it.

In my opinion, if you have to resort to name calling and personal attacks in a debate, you have lost the debate entirely.

[ThreadJack]

I've only done that once, but the guy was undebatable anyway. He was just trying to bate me into calling him names and I obliged because I was in a bad mood and didn't care.

[ed_ification]

Exactly. I stopped being friends with someone who mistaken something on his end in which he started cursing at me and calling me names rather than trying to figure out what he mistook.  The funny thing is that he's quite older than I am but carried himself in a juvenile way and although I was upset that he behaved and treated me that way, I was firm and direct until he called and started screaming.  Maybe it was a reaction he wanted or maybe it was just how he is.

Some people think that when they curse at you or call you a name, you're suppose to feel hurt or something.  We're not in elementary (and this is how children pick up those bad habits and do it to others at a young age), there's a way to get your point across without doing so which ends in the aggressor being the lesser of the two in my opinion.

Congrats bB. Keep us updated.

There's little honor in winning a battle where the other side is unarmed - especially when it's a battle of wits.

[Rapine]

[Darth Logos]

Are you kidding, you take more pride in your humility than any one I know. 

So true. People sing songs about how humble I am.

[Jev Moldara]

So true. People sing songs about how humble I am.

Like this one?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIpbYyR0OOI" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">Sorry...</a>

[Darth Logos]

Like this one?

Sorry...

Fire wall is still a beotch. Can't view.

[Master Seblaise]

So true. Angels in the sky sing songs about how humble I am.

Corrected

[Lady Agana Kath]

Corrected

Lololol

[Rapine]

"THATCHED ROOF COTTA-GES!"