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What are the most useless Christmas gifts?
First your real life - what have you gotten or given which was useless? And then second - what hypothetically useless gift would you give to your peers on CreateDebate?
My most useless gift was this....I don't even know what it was, it was like my Aunt just found it in a closet and gave it to someone to get rid of it. It was a porcelain cat head with it's mouth open connected to a sock thing.....I guess it was to hold coins? Although the description sounds really dirty.
My parents when I was a teenager gave me a game board designed like a cheap bad pool table, and then my nephew 10 years younger unwrapped an actual pool table from his parents. It was surreal. It's odd when other family members come up later and say wow you really got shafted.
My parents also for years gave me English Leather cologne. At one point I had four untouched bottles accumulated even though I had told them I wasn't using it.
My big sister, during a phase in college when everyone knew I could barely afford to survive, sent me one of those fragile wicker cheese baskets with those tiny foil wrapped uber processed cheeses. The whole thing bought and shipped probably cost her $75, but the crap cheese was nearly inedible and if stacked without packaging would be about equivalent to one pack of Kraft American slices. It would have been better to send the money, or Kraft cheese.
Love it. Do I get to pick a picture? Or is it going to stay at the profile that was set up? I think I'd get you a monthly tap water from around the world subscription. It was either that or beer.
At the top of the list is the religious leaders who say that all religions lead to the God, then with some quotes from bible, quran and gita, say that Hinduism is the best one. (Hinduism is very decentralised, so sadly, they don't represent it.)
I hope you are not taking offence at this again, but you simply don't act smart enough in front of me to understand. I wonder why, because you generally don't seem stupid enough apart from that.
Though you can attempt asking about any of it. There is usually a very specific meaning to them, but that is a common feature of languages either way. You can complete the abandoned linguistic project if you dare to.
But, I'm against someone who would probably have absolutely no idea what any of this is about (that's you.)
It's like you were a primitive attempt at creating intelligence. Better than many, but not good enough.
I am not offended
I hope you are confident about not being offended here.
Yes, there is usually a very specific meaning to the words you use. Those meanings are not the meanings you use, though. Using the dictionary to decorate your shelf is not really using the dictionary.
Words have a range of meanings, not that specific.
But in a context, unless it is a play on words, there ought to be a specific meaning on words.
That's the problem when you don't actually read what I write, or are not smart enough to understand it. But, unlike some others here, you can deliberately think and improve.
I said it here.
that is a common feature of languages either way.
Languages are elastic.
I can suggest you - Philosophy of Language. It is an entire branch of philosophy dealing with such questions. So that, even as a little peasant, you can see far enough. It's already established that you'd be willing to, at least.
You aren't good enough to point out my 'flaws'. If they are present, they're there only for my convenience, and perhaps for some fun playing with your little brain.
If you did that you would be smart. Instead of pointing out that you already said something, you insist that you already said it, then you argue about something unrelated. Then you say something really dumb and hurt all of your credibility. So, my advice to you is to actually prove any of your claims including your claim that you already said something. The great thing is that you won't listen to me and you will keep looking like a fucking tool. Good luck.
Don't worry about my luck. It is great enough that your attempts can't do anything to it. I'm already lucky enough to have already said anything you ask.
I already did point out where I said it, even though it was originally obvious enough - except for you. And I've said even that already.
If only you were smart enough to understand, you'd appear much less of an idiot.
You do realize that it only helps me if you don't listen to me, right? If you took my advice I wouldn't be able to debate you any more. Thank you so much for reading my prediction of your behavior and behaving exactly as expected.
I don't even have to predict your behaviour (even though you didn't - you merely said how I would look from a viewpoint of absolute idiocy.)
I've already done that enough times, and you're almost always consistent with that. It is rare for you to say something worthy against me - so rare that it might potentially work as an example for those 'low probability, therefore God' arguments.
Stubbornness doesn't make you correct. Ignoring good advice is not a good idea. Continue acting like an idiot. It only makes my position look better. I hope I am able to read your first good argument. Can you message me when you make one?
Congratulations on completely ignoring what I said. How can you really be sure I haven't refuted your arguments if you completely ignore what I respond with?
Fun. Another one of your great assertions without a single justification.
Though I wonder why you would believe that. I clarify anything that I haven't already said (or implied enough) already.
It is hilarious that you wonder why I believe something that I just explained to you while repeating the same lie that clarify anything. No one is even talking about you clarifying anything and you bring it up in a discussion to prove you don't ignore someone. You are a funny guy.
Though you'd seem smarter than that, I can dismiss all those observations as biased. Just like I dismiss your ignorant questions.
You are such a wonderful person. Stop it. There is no need for you to defeat your own arguments, I am doing a bang up job myself without any help. But I do appreciate "I don't ignore things" and "Just like I dismiss your ignorant questions." being in the same argument. Thanks.
No, it isn't an accusation, it is a fact. You are the idiot who thinks people say things and don't mean anything, so it is ridiculous for you to call anyone else an idiot.
Actually, it does. It proves you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. It also proves you are an unbelievable piece of shit. You think you deserve clarification when you don't ask for it, and you believe you should never give clarification even when it is asked of you.
There is, though.
I am not sure I can trust a piece of shit like you to determine that.
Dismissing something is a much more deliberate act than ignoring it,
Not if someone is as arrogant as you.
Most of the time, they're just you inserting random topics.
That's your bread and butter. Everything you do involves inserting random topics.
Actually, it does. It proves you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. It also proves you are an unbelievable piece of shit. You think you deserve clarification when you don't ask for it, and you believe you should never give clarification even when it is asked of you.
I guess I said that by mistake.
It was supposed to mean, Doesn't matter if you didn't notice rather than Doesn't matter whether I did or not, but it seems to have been unclear.
I am not sure I can trust a piece of shit like you to determine that.
That's your free choice whether you want to trust or not.
Not if someone is as arrogant as you.
Doesn't make sense. Dismissed.
Everything you do involves inserting random topics.
I don't really value things more than what they are worth.
What did I receive... I wonder about that, there are many things that I liked but proved worthless in the long run. There's the pen that I lost, a toy gun that was quick to break, the religious books that I abandoned.
As to what to give, that depends on the person I'm giving to. For example, I'd give some sort of a collected christian fanfiction to you.
Cartman - A series of difficult puzzles, perhaps? Solving which he'll understand what the gift is.
NowASaint - Some Antitheism subscription.
Jolie - A boring book of jokes with a nice cover.
FromWithin - Some Anarchism books.
Dermot - Something saying how atheism is 'bad'.
Hellno - Theology journal subscription.
Shoutoutloud - Mainstream titles about US politics.
KNHav - Complete Rigveda (OUP translation, 2014)
Addltd - Something conservative that discourages arguments, something about unquestionable reliance on authority - either patriotism or religion.
If I wanted something very specific in a specific store, only then is a gift card justified, because otherwise it's just so lazy and boring. It's like saying ''hey, here is a gift you have to go out and buy yourself.'' Uhm yay.. I'm so happy that after all that horrible christmas shopping I have yet one more errand to run. Thanks.
You socialists and your entitlements... gift cards are practically like cash, I'd think you'd love that. JK. Gift cards aren't personal, but I like 'em.
As a kid I got a seashell from my step-grandparents who obviously didn't know I was coming to their house... and I guess it was all they could find. LOL
