some students prefer listening to music as they study, but while learning, i disagree that a student can listen to music and concentrate on chemical problems. it has to be either one of them.

i agree that music could be allowed in a few classes, maybe during gym, or art, but during classes that require full attention, i think music would only be a distraction.

except for the fact that she got too personal while debating and a few other minor faults, i think she kept the site quite upbeat with her random debates (some trolls, some witty, some extremes).

students need to study in class. and teachers need to teach. i don't think a kid would listen to what the teacher is teaching when he is listening to heavy metal in class.

and who's going to decide what boring classes are? most people hate science and maths and all the other important subjects.

they also like to keep dirty so nobody would have a doubt..

they aren't really smart, but they are as smart as they need to be in their trade. beggars around where i live place a baby on one hip and shoving the baby's face into your car's windows, beg for money.

cruel but their way of smart.

they're loyal, quite active when you need them to be, and love you as an equal or even more.

cats love their home. they'd rather stay behind if you moved. and they do look down upon you.

i agree i haven't really looked up what i stated here. that came from whatever stories i'd seen and heard. but i did look it up right now, and i don't know to what extent it is correct, because i admit i didn't do any heavy research on it. but anyway, even though it could be wrong,

lots of things. it could be a selfless act, a random act of kindness, anything that could help somebody or something or make them feel good. most things that seem insignificant to one could actually be extremely important to another person.

and students are able to listen to music (unless they are deaf). they just shouldn't be allowed to.

Music help them focusing on their works and ignoring all the noise around them like people talking,

like people talking or teachers teaching. unless teachers act out what they have to teach.

people have become ignorant of other people's feelings. while Gandhi Ji, and other persons did get a lot done out of non violence, people today are extremely self obsessed and do not care in general about the guilt trips.

people have become ignorant of other people's feelings. while Gandhi Ji, and other persons did get a lot done out of non violence, people today are extremely self obsessed and do not care in general about the guilt trips.

maximum people who you meet online are not like it offline. not all, but maximum. and you may have met somebody who doesn't come under this category. but there's always more chance of things not working out later on.

most people also say a lot of things online that they wouldn't normally say as a person. and there can be one person controlling multiple accounts on some site too. and we know that

and you can carry it off like no one else. ;)

you need to travel for a couple of months. you have five books you wanna read while you travel.

i like seeing my suitcase or bag filled with books. besides, while traveling for a few months, most people tend to buy books on the go instead of taking them with.

i guess its far better to carry a kindle.

i could agree on this. kindle does take a lot less space than material books. but that is probably its only advantage. otherwise, books are more preferable.

and they have a combination of smells too.. like one page might smell of chocolates while another could smell of shampoo.. i don't know where the shampoo smell comes in from, but its good to have it there anyway. ;)

:D charged yet? ;)

eat what you like, and when someone tells you not to, eat them too. ;)

ohkay. my arguments were based on what i'd heard and read in certain places, which were obviously not proven until recently. whoops.

i almost squinted my eyes out when it turned. damn!

never been there, never done that. ;)

theism is linked with god. (as far as i understand it).

religion whereas, is a system or beliefs, traditions and culture.

let me just go get uncle joe. ;)

and nothing gives you more joy than showing off the display on shelves full of books and in other cases games. even a folder full of games and books more than those on the shelf can't beat the pride of owning material as that..!

aw c'mon joe. you love the job and the titles it carries. ;)

i see your point.

but the feeling that you get after finding the book you'd been looking for for a long while can never be replaced by kindle.

books. preferably older ones. that's one reason i like reading classics. they smell and look amazing. especially with the hard bind. ;)

i'm not sure i could be as epic a troll as you uncle joe. ;)

i meant my post. :P the (red?) owl (i call him that) is pretty old. ;)

just now, i'm getting more inclined towards animated Disney movies. ;)

agreeably. i don't think students would want to make any more homework besides their own. ;)

its pretty old. but a favorite. ^_^

maybe you could pass on the legacy. ;)

made it to the leaderboard. except i'm only at 10th just now. :P -.-

things have been slow lately. people need to get rid of the building frustration somewhere. ;) it'll die down soon i'm sure.

literally for those scared of spiders.

effort would be needed for people who aren't..

don't think so...

all evidence points in the general direction of evolution.

i figured. :P but its sensible. die and burn in hell mosquitoes!!

i tried learning Italian once, but i couldn't really keep up the practice. no one to speak it with :/

and spanish when i was a kid. DORA!

i think they mean humans or stuff like that, but i'll go your way. ;)

its kind of saddening when you happen to come across kids with pot bellies because of their evident increase in gadgets and decrease in outdoor games.

i'm not a vegan myself and i don't, in general, support it. this could be because i'm more vegetarian and milk and its products are a necessity in my diet. occasional meat doesn't provide me with the basic proteins that i need.

i don't mind people being vegan. its annoying when they want everybody to follow their business.

the spell check provided on CD is american english type. India has been following both american and british english. so whatever i type is usually correct.

i always get a red line for -se or -ce or -ze ending words. they just NEVER match.

yeah. i figured this out a while ago, when there was another debate of a similar kind. ;)

i haven't actually ever come across the classroom debaters. and by hoards, here, i meant new users who get tired of debating easily after a while..

agreed. there should more stability around here.. but i don't thin that's possible either. oh!the laws of nature. ;)

very enlightening. :P

same could go for me. except i happened to get top only once in 4 years. and nobody remembers it. so you can guess how slow things were then. ;)

infact, i think that was the time when joe happened to have left for abuot a month or so.

according to hindu scriptures, our soul is an eternal being. and it'll soon leave the body when it doesn't like living there.

hence it would be necessary for us to keep the body clean and healthy so as to give the soul a better place to live in (and therefore it stays there longer).

this may or may not be true. but it does make people keep themselves healthy so that their souls may rest in there bodies for a longer period of time.

which in general leads to healthier people and healthier states of mind.

I've been trying lately to at least get a spot in the leader board, not necessarily top though.. but i get distracted pretty easy. even though things are kind of slow now i still can't find that push to start debating vigorously.

its usually like that when things suddenly take pace and go a bit faster than they were before(a week or so) on CD.

people probably finally find something they can fight for and things go mean for a while then on..

and then everyone soon loses all this energy that they had and things get back to going slow.

its a whole cycle that keeps repeating itself over and over again.

how did we even get to having this conversation!!?? :P

they're debating probably and not cat fighting. *

that'd probably lead to cat fights and what not. although i have thought of it, and i wonder if they're at it already.

the site could go viral and all, but i don't think i'd leave. i've come to like the closeness and tolerance amongst debaters around here.

i could go off for a while though not for ever.

besides the site does show symptoms of going viral occasionally and there's a hoard of debaters who come along, but they soon disperse in a month or two.

although i've been trolling more often than not, i think there have been more users, old and new, debating around here.

and yet you prepare for departure to hell? strong foresights? ;)

so you're sure of hell's existence? makes you more athiest-ic? :P

"are you thinking what i'm thinking?" "yeah"

smug*

must be hot as hell there huh? ;)

whichever lets you sleep at night. ;)

good work sherlock! you figured out quite well..!!

yeah. but i obviously wasn't the last. ;)

i just want to know who kept up the tradition.

i also just logged out and looked up myself as a guest user. my profile loaded much faster there. therefore, its obviously the messages and new argument activity that takes more effort. ;)

he's almost always been around. when i left, when i returned. he was there every single time. and trolling. clever trolling.

there was this one time though, when he hadn't been around for a while. maybe about a week or so. i don't remember. but that was definitely when he lost his place on the weekly leaderboard.

ii don't like snakes but i'd prefer them over lizards anyway.

the only lizards i've come across are common house lizards. and i was not impressed.

i think its because there're messages and arguments and all that extra on our own profile.

been a while since i last went to school.

A lot of things are put straight on the internet, or on the computer's hard drive of whoever is creating it now a days.

okay, agreed my point was a bit incorrect initially. i should have written almost all.

I'll say it's a moot point because both could have taught me, but the internet got me there sooner.

and a lot of information on the internet can be incorrect or misleading because it does not go through editors as books do. people can upload what they think helps which may or may not be fully experimented upon.

That's why you narrow down your search. That's like saying the library can be misleading, what with all that information there.

books do not usually mislead. they might give you extra information, but they almost never give you wrong information.

also search engines work on the amount the word in an essay or article. not on the exact topic. so all the searches of 20 pages and everything do not always have to be the information you are looking for.

Just like one individual site.

which might just give out wrong information and false prediction. not all posts on the internet are checked.

i'm beginning to doubt whether its sarcastic or not. i hope it isn't. either way, it does make me happy. xD

Do you see how that's a better argument in favor of computers and by way of them, the internet, with it's vast collection of articles, sites, quotes, pictures, etc that you could also look to while in search of the information you originally desired.

and wasn't all the information on the internet initiially taken from a set of books and manuscripts?

I know I've personally gotten side tracked while searching one thing and learned tons more than I expected to just googling something as simple as some song lyrics.

agreeably. but you will also realise you've not learnt a tonne of other things which you could have while reading a book.

besides this, the internet can be misleading. there's so much information on it that may or may not do you good.

a book, whereas, will only speak on a specific topic and articles related to it.

i don't think people are born bad or good. its their choices which define them at a certain time. but i don't agree that a person can be understood in his/her choice at one time or another. everybody makes mistakes and one mistake shouldn't be used to define their whole life.

its all filled with spaces anyway... therefore agreed! it's not of much use. we have the cheats. even new users figure it out pretty fast..

i think children are born unbiased. their choices depend on what they like or dislike. this may not necessarily be similar to your own likes or dislikes and here one may call them evil or good.

however, in both cases it's the thought that counts. so what one may think is good could be evil to somebody else and vice versa.

it might take a longer while to find something very specific, but while you're at it, you learn a bunch of other stuff which can't hurt at all.

it gives you a peace of mind. why do you think people invite others to party when they can. its happier when you share your happiness. similarly when you invite people to funerals and such, the pain does reduce considerably.

although i'm sure people will say its bad when its a piece of chocolate cake et cetera. but that's just a small part of it. ;)

you're still top though. ;) and its possible that i don't get on top at all for a while. i'm still very unstable on here..

congratulations. now the only hard part is to stay top :P

i went top once. things were slow then. ;)

i've never had to debate with him yet. but he seems to put forth all intelligent arguments. his replies also are extremely long which make it hard for any disputes to be put through.

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that way one doesn't stay in conflict with oneself whether his possessions may get stolen or lost or taken. sharing helps us lose that pressure.

and finding pleasure in materials isn't exactly helpful in the longer run.

sharing sadness halves it, and sharing happiness doubles it.

ourselves, i think.

my version is a little light with a usually black background (because the colours seem clearer with black).

the light could be of any colour. it usually depends on my mood. i try to change it to blue though. that's a calming colour. ;)

i'm sure you'll do well... gut feelings. ;)

in india, we are expected to join colleges or universities at about 18. sometimes 19(if we prefer that).

how's baby noir? still living with you in college? she must have grown. they grow like crazy the first few months. ;)

although this does seem to have possibly better aim. paper airplanes usually (in my case that is) go in the opposite direction than i want them to. .-. :P

this is a well known concept in the Hindu scripture(because i'm slightly more aware of that than others. it could be available in other scripts as well).

2 ears and 1 mouth signify more listening and less talking. this makes man more wise and helps him observe and understand people and his environment better.

isn't that based on researches and all. although i think it was, we use less than 10% of our brain.

and is this upvoter2 joe?

i see. jc was a nice guy usually. i hope it isn't him. :/

hey shout! just done with exams. waiting for my results now. i hope they'd be good enough for a college to admit me :P

i agree some emotions might be linked genetically and run in the family but the fact the environment and surroundings in which a child is brought up does alter and affect a lot of his/her emotions.

therefore it would be wrong to say that we are born evil (or born good).

but good here may be considered as innocent and impartial.

There is also research indicating that attributes commonly conceived of as "evil" or "bad" (e.g. jealousy, anger, lust) fulfill just as much of a necessary function as do those conceived of as "good"

agreeably here. what may seem good to one can look bad to another.

but speaking in general here, wouldn't being born good seem more valid?

i was just going make a debate about this. i understand when i get downvotes sometimes, but i've never really had downvoted argument all through my new argument activities.

i never really cared about the points, but its annoying me now.

do you have any idea as to who they could be?

it always comes down to one thing.

these debates pop up everywhere. and in all new forms.

although i don't think most normal mothers would have the energy to do it, i think if she can, its okay. as long as her kid isn't affected or influenced.

and young mother or old, isn't that going to about the same thing. maybe the only difference would be that older mothers would seriously be exhausted throughout and have lesser fun.

but otherwise i don't think there should be much of a difference.