Calvin - Is there a God?

This 記事 is basically about something i keep seeing around the ディベート spot または on other ディベート フォーラム and it is, in my opinion the rudest and most insulting thing あなた can do in debate

no I am not talking about swearing

no I am not talking about denying the existence of someone's believes

no I am not even talking about flashing your opponent to distract them

I am talking about the one line comment

some of あなた may be slightly confused as to why I get so annoyed によって this so let me clear things up

I have no issue with people bringing up a new point that they have just summed up in a short space, I...

I was going to call them the "Ten Commandments" but felt someone might be offended によって that (either a religious person thinking I'm blasphemous または a secularist thinking I'm 表示中 a bias towards religion. Lose, lose, あなた see). Also, I couldn't come up with ten rules.

So instead, observe the Golden Rules of the ディベート Spot.

1) RESPECT your fellow debaters. They believe what they do for a reason just like あなた do. As opposed to simply trying to explain why they're wrong, explain your point of view and LISTEN to theirs. If あなた find あなた simply just cannot understand their views, または that they will...

So, many of あなた are aware of the rumor floating arround that the world will end tonight at 6:00 PM. I just have a few things to say about these "End of The World" theories, becasue they're really getting on my nervs.

I just want to say that first off, for those of あなた who do belive the world will end tonight, または in 2012, または whatever, I mean no disrespect to you. I also don't mean any disrespect to people's religious beliefs that say the things I'm about to adress.



So, yesterday afternoon I heard that there is yet another prediction for the world ending. First it was the 年 2000, then the...

This is a ディベート seed, and was last edited on 8 April 2008.

As a ファン of debate, I've often railed at the absence of actual ディベート in the ディベート spot. Therefore I present a 質問 for debate:

Are mechanical pencils または wooden pencils better?

Cinders has done a marvelous job of initiating a number of formal limited debates, so I propose a different type of ディベート format for this one. For this, the Great Pencil Debate, the following ディベート attributes will apply:

Non-judged

Open-ended

Participatory

Moderated

What these mean:

Non-judged is a ディベート format wherein there are no judges...

In our world today, global warming is a growing issue. Global warming (according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary) is an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. This means we must take action. This is a method commonly known as "going green." We do this によって riding bikes, using public transportation, reycleing, and much more. This is common for big cities like New York City, New York または Chicago, Illionois- but what about the smaller towns?



I live in Joplin,...