debating

I don__ even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.

Look, Aerin, preparation is only half the challenge of winning a debate.___nd the other half?__e had her now. __ou have to choose the right side.___our side, you mean._ She bristled.__o, the losing side.___hat?___lways choose the weaker side.___hy would I do that?_ Doubt edged her voice, but now she was sitting erect, her feet flat on the floor.__ecause then you have further to go to prove your case._ He eased the feet of his chair down. __n a debate, there are two sides. If both make a good argument, then the less popular side wins because that side had further to go to prove its point. Simple logistics.___f you don__ care which side wins._ She frowned.__t__ a debate. It doesn__ matter which side wins.___ou mean it doesn__ matter to you._ The tone in her voice unsettled him. Or maybe it was the fact that that her criticism disturbed him at all.__t__ a class,_ he said. __he point is to flesh out the different sides of an argument.___nd you don__ care if the truth gets lost in the shuffle. Don__ you believe in anything?!

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.

A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise that debateis ridiculous....Many people shrink from arguments over facts because facts are tedious, because they require a formal familiarity with the subject under discussion, and because they can be ideologically dislocative. Many Liberals accept their opinions, ideas, and evaluations as others accept revealed truths.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You__l be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.

Our civic life is heavily marked__ndeed, pocked__y debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate__n its original sense of __o consider something, to deliberate___s impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained.

Excluding certain ideas and thoughts, calling them hate speech, is an important piece in the progressive movement__ puzzle. If you can__ win an argument logically, demonize your opponent, make him out to be a bad person and all of a sudden the ideas he stands for become bad as well.

Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.

It__ not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don__ have. Rather, it__ about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.

I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person__ argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.