@thor
Austria, a smaller word for a smaller country.
Australia, a bigger word for a bigger country.
@thor
Or maybe the year didn't start in January.
@thor
I think it might be root-ah-beg-ah
@thor
The average human isn't my friend either. I don't plan on being friends with everyone.
@thor
You ask whether it's about being correct or friends. I answer: it's about having the discussion, because it's the best way to assess who might be correct, even if we might not discover who is correct.
@thor
I expect of my friends to be able and willing to hold conversations. It's what I appreciate in people. It's what makes me want to be friends with someone in the first place. Sometimes those conversations are debates. I'd like to hold those conversations too, even if we never find a common ground.
@thor
I'm not in the camp of "ignorance is bliss". If you want to live your life with just "nah, I disagree" it's your choice, and I obviously can't stop you. But technology wasn't invented with just "nah, I disagree" so it's not something I can respect.
And this position of yours, where you automatically assume you're right, when you're not even willing to put the effort in to think and explain a position, now that's insulting.
@thor
The more you dissect a statement, the more you explain your position, the longer the argument is gonna get.
It's easy to say "nah, I disagree". It's hard to actually explain why you disagree, to point out why you are right, and to try to make yourself perfectly understood.
@thor
I never considered you an idiot, but it's not the first time I see you posit that a short argument is somehow proof that a person is correct, and it does make me scratch my head.
An atheist can spend days explaining why the Bible is self contradictory, historically wrong, immoral, and just plain wrong.
A Christian can say "It's true because the Bible says so, and I trust the Bible because it says god, a perfect being, wrote the Bible, so it must be true".
The latter is significantly shorter. By your reasoning, chances are it's the correct position.
@thor
You haven't participated in many good conversations, have you?
@thor
I disagree. I'm not insulting you by not calling you king. Just because there are titles that you might find more prestigious and desirable, me not calling you by them, because you haven't achieved them, is not insulting. I'm not calling you a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, an actor, a singer etc. Those are all prestigious titles in today's society, but people won't call you that if you haven't earned them.
A lady, an actress, doctor, singer etc. are all still women. It's just that I can also say at times "that actress over there", to help me be more specific.
@thor
Lol, that's not my understanding of the relationship between "woman" and "lady". It's just that "woman" fits anyone, including the more brash, rough, ugly, uncultured, mean, evil individuals of the female sex. Lady is only used for the most refined, intelligent and beautiful individuals. The same goes for "man" and "gentleman". It's not that "woman" or "man" are insults, it's just that you logically can't use "lady" or "gentlemen" for someone who hasn't earned the title. Something like "uncultured lady" is an oxymoron. You can only say "uncultured woman".
@SoyMagnus
Mental gymnastics implies they even have a brain that can perform such tasks. I truly believe this is nothing more than a very basic, trance-like, religious act. Their "progressive" famous person, that they idolize, told them they must own the bigots by exposing their kids to these shows, and they acted accordingly.
I've seen the same kind of incoherent babbling before, that the fatter one exhibits fully. It was from religious fat rednecks, that the "liberal left" would laugh at 10-15 years ago. When they were confronted on why they're sure god is real, or about various tenets of Christianity, they would be completely unable to explain anything. Just an incoherent mess of random buzz words they heard from a pastor, but when pressed on it, it became blatantly obvious they didn't understand a thing.
The same thing with these women here. Just a bunch of buzzwords, that they didn't actually process in their brains.
@gear
Doctor of feet.
@IcyGrillz
I think you might be gay.
Just another random person passing by.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...