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LogGrad98 said:
No it doesn't.
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Yes it does, there is no fire to argue.
There is a little in the way of contradiction, but no substance in the argument arena.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
 
franklin said:
Here's an argument. BlueStalker is nowhere near the HuffPo clone Vinylone is. He's doing a good job tricking everyone into thinking he's VO though.
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Maybe the are two personalities of the same person.
I bet Jason lets people have multiple accounts if they have multiple personalities, but only if they have some sort of signed documentation to prove it.
 
LogGrad98 said:
You have a lot to learn about arguing. You need to say something someone will disagree with.
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That's not what arguing is at all, Einstein. Disagreement is optional. It is more important to attack someone's character, regardless of the matter at hand.
 
JazzSpazz said:
Yes it does, there is no fire to argue.
There is a little in the way of contradiction, but no substance in the argument arena.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
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I'm sorry, your five minutes are up.
 
OK, here's a riddle.

You have been captured by Mitt's morons and locked in a steel cube. There are two doors. One, if opened, will suck you into a tube where you will be fed into a the Useless Eaters' Processing Plant which turns you into little green cookies. The other one will get you back on the street with restored Constitutional rights, a sort of super "citizen". The steel panels are twelve inches thick, and lined with two inches of glass on both sides just for spite, because of all the criticism about those chain-link/barbed wire pens they used in Guantanamo. For sport, they hired the devil himself to guard one door. And Mitt got St. Peter himself to guard the other. The devil has sworn on the sulfurous cauldrons that he will never succumb to the tempation to tell the truth again, and St. Peter has sworn on the throne of heaven to never tell a lie again. But in order to secure the Ron Paul vote for Mitt's team, Ron Paul made him promise to give every human swept off the streets into the American Gulag one chance to get himself out. . . . one chance to choose which door he will pick as his chance to leave the AG, and two questions he can ask the guards.

How can you know which door to choose? Remember, the devil can appear as an angel of light, or anyone else he wants to look like, and you only have an intercom anyway to ask your questions.

And OK, so I've become a skeptic and don't believe the devil will keep even his own promise, and it's really quite a tall order to even remember what the truth is sometimes, especially when you're doing your best to lie all the time. And most of us will believe our own lies after telling them a hundred times, and the devil isn't much different. And St. Peter is older than I am, and even I have problems sometimes telling the same story twice, even if I think it is true. And I guess if we can't count on St. Peter, there's no hope anyway. . . . but logically speaking, assuming that this is still somewhat a predictable universe, what would you ask the two guards? And how would you figure out how to make your decision?
 
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babe said:
OK, here's a riddle.

You have been captured by Mitt's morons and locked in a steel cube. There are two doors. One, if opened, will suck you into a tube where you will be fed into a the Useless Eaters' Processing Plant which turns you into little green cookies. The other one will get you back on the street with restored Constitutional rights, a sort of super "citizen". The steel panels are twelve inches thick, and lined with two inches of glass on both sides just for spite, because of all the criticism about those chain-link/barbed wire pens they used in Guantanamo. For sport, they hired the devil himself to guard one door. And Mitt got St. Peter himself to guard the other. The devil has sworn on the sulfurous cauldrons that he will never succumb to the tempation to tell the truth again, and St. Peter has sworn on the throne of heaven to never tell a lie again. But in order to secure the Ron Paul vote for Mitt's team, Ron Paul made him promise to give every human swept off the streets into the American Gulag one chance to get himself out. . . . one chance to choose which door he will pick as his chance to leave the AG, and two questions he can ask the guards.

How can you know which door to choose? Remember, the devil can appear as an angel of light, or anyone else he wants to look like, and you only have an intercom anyway to ask your questions.

And OK, so I've become a skeptic and don't believe the devil will keep even his own promise, and it's really quite a tall order to even remember what the truth is sometimes, especially when you're doing your best to lie all the time. And most of us will believe our own lies after telling them a hundred times, and the devil isn't much different. And St. Peter is older than I am, and even I have problems sometimes telling the same story twice, even if I think it is true. And I guess if we can't count on St. Peter, there's no hope anyway. . . . but logically speaking, assuming that this is still somewhat a predictable universe, what would you ask the two guards? And how would you figure out how to make your decision?
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The answer is obvious: WWTD?


(He'd fake a heart attack, lure the guards into the cell, cram his fist up their butt holes, grab hold of their throats, and pull them inside out. He'd then casually stroll out of the cell while praising Allah.)
 
babe said:
OK, here's a riddle.

You have been captured by Mitt's morons and locked in a steel cube. There are two doors. One, if opened, will suck you into a tube where you will be fed into a the Useless Eaters' Processing Plant which turns you into little green cookies. The other one will get you back on the street with restored Constitutional rights, a sort of super "citizen". The steel panels are twelve inches thick, and lined with two inches of glass on both sides just for spite, because of all the criticism about those chain-link/barbed wire pens they used in Guantanamo. For sport, they hired the devil himself to guard one door. And Mitt got St. Peter himself to guard the other. The devil has sworn on the sulfurous cauldrons that he will never succumb to the tempation to tell the truth again, and St. Peter has sworn on the throne of heaven to never tell a lie again. But in order to secure the Ron Paul vote for Mitt's team, Ron Paul made him promise to give every human swept off the streets into the American Gulag one chance to get himself out. . . . one chance to choose which door he will pick as his chance to leave the AG, and two questions he can ask the guards.

How can you know which door to choose? Remember, the devil can appear as an angel of light, or anyone else he wants to look like, and you only have an intercom anyway to ask your questions.

And OK, so I've become a skeptic and don't believe the devil will keep even his own promise, and it's really quite a tall order to even remember what the truth is sometimes, especially when you're doing your best to lie all the time. And most of us will believe our own lies after telling them a hundred times, and the devil isn't much different. And St. Peter is older than I am, and even I have problems sometimes telling the same story twice, even if I think it is true. And I guess if we can't count on St. Peter, there's no hope anyway. . . . but logically speaking, assuming that this is still somewhat a predictable universe, what would you ask the two guards? And how would you figure out how to make your decision?
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Just to ruin this for you, anyone that watched the movie Labyrinth would know the answer.

You ask one of them which door the other one would tell you to take to get back and not become a cookie.
You do the opposite of whatever answer you get.

If you ask the Devil, he will say St Peter will tell you to take the Devil's door.
If you ask St Peter, he will say the Devil will tell you to take the Devil's door.

Either way, you do the opposite, and win your freedom.

Have a good night.
I hope you thought it was fresh!
I'll be here all week.
In fact, I'll be here for my whole life. 365 days a year, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Halloween, Kwanzaa.
Please don't forget to never spay or neuter your pets.
 
JazzSpazz said:
Just to ruin this for you, anyone that watched the movie Labyrinth would know the answer.

You ask one of them which door the other one would tell you to take to get back and not become a cookie.
You do the opposite of whatever answer you get.

If you ask the Devil, he will say St Peter will tell you to take the Devil's door.
If you ask St Peter, he will say the Devil will tell you to take the Devil's door.

Either way, you do the opposite, and win your freedom.
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Just as long as you don't declare it a "piece of cake" afterwards.

...was just about to post the Labryinth video
 
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