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Winning Position: Its situational.
I was wondering what you guys think. I dropped out in January when I was 16 and turned 17 Last April. I started working at a drive in restuaraunt two months ago, and now I'm being trained as an assistant manager with a good starting pay. I also have my ged now. So I ask, could dropping out be quicker?
Winning Position: Philosophy = ?
I myself love philosophy, I'm just wanting to know what you guys think about it! If so who's your favorite. If not, why do you disapprove of it?
Winning Position: THE END OF THE WORLD
(when i mean world, i mean which ever way you take it. It could be the loss of all life forms, or simply the human species. Even the world, etc. )How exactly do you think the world will end, and why do you see it ending that way. If you believe the religious ending, explain how that prophecy could occur.My idea:I think eventually the world will be ruled by 1 county over time. Once that power takes over and leads, there will be everyone else trying to prevent that country. Which also correlates with what i think the third world war will be and why. I think that will be the beginning of the eventual end.My reasoning:Every country desires to be prosperous and untouchable, we're naturally competative. The thing about prosperity in one place, is that it causes anothers downfall.ie: Two people locked in a room, one apple. One person eventually prospers and gains food, while the other one pays the price. It's the same thing in a larger scale. Our species sense the beginning of our existence have prospered and never stopped. Eventually Someone will have it all, and become prosperous. Naturally those who paid the price still naturally desire prosperity, and will fight to obtain it once again. Than a war begins, but a war of the size seems to me to be the beginning of the end. (I'm not saying i'm right, this is just what my opinion is! i really want to know everyone else's prediction, or explination of a prophecized end.)
Winning Position: Agree
What opinion do you guys have on the teachings of this philosopher? If you agree with his rational, why? If you disagree, why? I just recently finished reading all of his recorded teachings, and his teachings in my opinion rationally clarified where i was going wrong with how i viewed life.
Winning Position: Justice
What is true justice? Also, does it cause more problems than it solves?
Winning Position: Is everything relevant?
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Is everything relevant?
Irelevant statements are usually viewed as off topic. I see everything to have relevance if you think about it. If you're one person is conversing about colors. Then all of a sudden someone changes the subject to shapes, the other would find your statement to be irrelevant. For instance the person who first started the subject about colors, randomly brought the topic up. See, in the persons mind he thought of something that made him think about the color subject. Wouldn't that make it irrelevant to the person who recieves the conversation. If everything is irrelevant to one another wouldn't that create the possibility of everything being relevant as well?
Winning Position: Should the healthy be killed for their organs?
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Should the healthy be killed for their organs?
Suppose Bill is a healthy man without family or loved ones. Would it be ok painlessly to kill him if his organs would save five people, one of whom needs a heart, another a kidney, and so on? If not, why not?
Consider another case: you and six others are kidnapped, and the kidnapper somehow persuades you that if you shoot dead one of the other hostages, he will set the remaining five free, whereas if you do not, he will shoot all six. (Either way, he'll release you.)
If in this case you should kill one to save five, why not in the previous, organs case? If in this case too you have qualms, consider yet another: you're in the cab of a runaway tram and see five people tied to the track ahead. You have the option of sending the tram on to the track forking off to the left, on which only one person is tied. Surely you should send the tram left, killing one to save five.
But then why not kill Bill?
Winning Position: Are you the same person you were before reading this?
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Are you the same person you were before reading this?
Consider a photo of someone you think is you eight years ago. What makes that person you? You might say he she was composed of the same cells as you now. But most of your cells are replaced every seven years. You might instead say you're an organism, a particular human being, and that organisms can survive cell replacement - this oak being the same tree as the sapling I planted last year.
But are you really an entire human being? If surgeons swapped George Bush's brain for yours, surely the Bush look-alike, recovering from the operation in the White House, would be you. Hence it is tempting to say that you are a human brain, not a human being.
But why the brain and not the spleen? Presumably because the brain supports your mental states, eg your hopes, fears, beliefs, values, and memories. But then it looks like it's actually those mental states that count, not the brain supporting them. So the view is that even if the surgeons didn't implant your brain in Bush's skull, but merely scanned it, wiped it, and then imprinted its states on to Bush's pre-wiped brain, the Bush look-alike recovering in the White House would again be you.
But the view faces a problem: what if surgeons imprinted your mental states on two pre-wiped brains: George Bush's and Gordon Brown's? Would you be in the White House or in Downing Street? There's nothing on which to base a sensible choice. Yet one person cannot be in two places at once.
In the end, then, no attempt to make sense of your continued existence over time works. You are not the person who started reading this article.
Winning Position: What exactly are numbers?
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What exactly are numbers?
We use numbers every day, but taking a step back, what are they, really and why do they do such a damn good job of helping us explain the universe (such as Newtonian laws)? Mathematical structures can consist of numbers, sets, groups, and points — but are they real objects, or do they simply describe relationships that necessarily exist in all structures? Plato argued that numbers were real (it doesn't matter that you can't "see" them), but formalists insisted that they were merely formal systems (well-defined constructions of abstract thought based on math). This is essentially an ontological problem, where we're left baffled about the true nature of the universe and which aspects of it are human constructs and which are truly tangible.
Winning Position: Logical..
Seeing how the popular debate recently is the "god," theme. I thought i should post.
Winning Position: No, be nice.
I have learned that he doesn't debate, he argues. I would like to warn all of you to avoid his topics... If he disagrees he will only down vote you.... be careful
Winning Position: Weekly leader board, *name* = most
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Winning Position: We must stand
We can see mnay issues in life, is it logical to debate and ponder the topic. Perhaps we should think rationalize and act, all this disputing is meaningless without putting it into actions. You tell me, should we live life knowing what is correct but biting our tongue, or perhaps make a world that is ours.
Winning Position: Do humans possess free will?
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Do humans possess free will?
Winning Position: Yes
I have adhd and prescribed mass amounts of amphetimienes. Do you think the governments solution towards people like me is wrong? I have taken synthetic meth given by the government since the age of 11... I find it hypocritical, they lock people up for marijuana etc. Than prescribe kids with synthetic forms of hardcore drugs. It angers me how corrupt they are.
Winning Position: No
The holocaust through the creation of hitler, killed millions. The worlds present population increases by roughly one billion each year. I'm not asking if he is justified, or if it was wrong or right. Simply asking, did this not slow the acceleration of the population. If those millions never died, wouldn't that population have made todays population atleast, 12 billion rather than 7 billion? 5 billion people would create a higher unemployment rate, acceleration of natural resources and more. Or... do you think that a higher population today could have been more beneficial, if so why?
Winning Position: No
Living in a society in which people are engraved in history, having money to do as they please. Money is what we've created in order to survive. Everyone fights to have the most money possible, a "weapon of survival." Those who are rich exemplify the fittist. Now on the other hand you can visit a major city, realizing people live in society, yet some eat garbage and lay in boxes. Money being the tool of survival also shows how, 3rd world countries suffer and die through starvation. Is this not survival of the fittest, rather it be physical it is now today applied mentaly.
Winning Position: Life, a losing battle?
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Life, a losing battle?
You live life through expectations of success that are created, once succeeded have you truly won? Success is valuable because it creates acceptence. You won the false game, and entitled yourself with some college degree and people see you as successful. Doesn't that mean you simply lost, you played a game created by society. On the other hand, if you care nothing about success but you survive, and learn "truth." Ask questions and rationalize what reality truly is avoiding being a pawn in societies game. Doesn't that simply means you're playing your game of what you have percieved reality as. The thing is, each path never ends. Where is the finish line, what is the finish line..? Does the finish line exist or, do you keep playing the game you've percieved as reality. To fight and fight, to avoid losing, yet the goal is out of sight. Does this not mean we simply keep on fighting a losing battle?What do you think true victory is?
Winning Position: False because,
The enslavement that we all know of, is defined as; a person who is a legal propety owned by someone and always obey. Okay keep that definition in mind while thinking of present day society. The major banking industries creates money through loans from the federal reserve. The bank corporation then promises the money back. From that money is created, but if money was first created by debt how can they pay back with money that wasn't created through debt. A system which relies on debt. The banks create money from nothing, give loans so you can survive. Once you have a loan you have a job to pay that debt. We work for the bank and none other. The laws created today states we're free, so possesion of slavery would make it legal. We're on their land, they own everything because they are the source of what funded architecture etc. We endure a debt created from nothing, than we are told to work to pay off. We can't refuse or disobey because it's illegal. The banking industry creates out of thin air... we take it, because that is what we know for survival... we work and pay them for something they didn't own in the first place. "There is two ways to enslave, one by sword the other through debt."
Winning Position: Check my friend's rap out
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Check my friend's rap out
Listen to the lyrical value, he's much like me. Tell me what you think.
Tied Positions: His wrath must be displaid. vs. God deserves no worship!
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His wrath must be displaid.
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God deserves no worship!
Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
12 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”
Then Satan went out from the presence of the LordHypothetically speaking, if the bible is to be correct.... Doesn't this reveal a god that shouldn't be worshiped. Here is a part of the story for those who are unaware of this story."
Winning Position: Blunt honesty.
From what my fellow community has inquired about me, Do you think i am somewhat ideal for only being 16 roast me! Or if you'd prefer enlighten me to broaden my horizions. I'm seeking honesty that progesses my though proccess.
Winning Position: Down-voting trolls?
Anyone else got someone donvoting almost every argument posted? It's funny as hell lol.
Winning Position: God is dead