Fuck You China

[Professor S]

Typhoid, I'll leave you with this, and I say this in all seriousness. If you ever want anything you say, opinion or no, to be taken seriously, start informing the opinion.

The doctor comparison was valid. If you have an opinion on something as complex as world politics, why wouldn't you want to base it on facts. My analysis of world politics comes from careful analysis of news, both mainstream and otherwise. A doctor's opinion comes from years of study and practice. I am not claiming the expertise of a doctor, but I do take pride in my study of world events and using them to enlighten my opinions and challenge those opinions I disagree with. You seem to think that facts are subjective and evdience is not needed when it comes to opinion. Fact is NECESSARY for thought probvoking and enlightening opinion. Do I often cite the facts that I mention in my posts? No, not any more, but I used to consistently and accurately. But then again, I have a pretty good track record of not bullshitting the facts I post to support my opinion. I don't feel the need to cite every little piece of evidence anymore. But any time you'd like to challenge what I say with fact or citation, feel free. In fact I encourage you to do so. You very well could find something that I had missed that could change my opinion. It has happened more than once on this forum.

If you don't want to take the time to validate your opinions with fact and evidence, why would you bother posting them? Its masturbatory. You post them just to have them in writing.

I post political opinion, because I want to share that opinion and help others grow from it. I also read others opinions to help myself grow as well. There are all kinds of ideas and facts that have been posted here that have helped me form better ideas and opinions, even if its just researching them and finding flaws, if there are any. The act of being challenged causes the growth.

All opinions are NOT equal. There are idealists, philosphers, pragmatists and opinions makers. There are also fools. I beg you to avoid the latter.

[Ginkasa]

Originally Posted by Neo

Originally CamFu and Crash intended GameTavern to be a family-friendly kid-orientated place, but I agree we've all grown up and I don't think any of you are going to become corrupted because of something you read here. I don't mind having the censors off as long as people don't start abusing it. We can all behave like adults and use whatever words are appropriate for the situation. Now if every one of your sentences contains a "f#ck this" or "f#ck that" then yeah I'll probably turn the filters back on.

As far as the personal arguments go, you guys are old enough to not need babysitters. I'm content to let you guys work out your own disputes, as I think you learn more that way then by someone forcing you to break it off and make up. However, I will say that resorting to personal attacks often hurts you more than the other person. I have a hard time taking anyone seriously who has to resort to insulting others to get their point across, regardless of the merits of their position.

So, I was wondering why you and Prof. S quoted me then said basically the same thing I did, when I realized I forgot to put the "not" in "is not just going to stumble upon."

So, if you interpreted my post as sarcasm deriding the lack of a filter, its not what I meant.

And if you really did know what I meant and were just reiterating, ignore me. I'm not very smart.

Anyway...

[The Germanator]

Did anyone read the issue of Vice magazine about Iraq? It was a very personal and intriguing touch on a war we usually just see through the TV...Good insight to how people actually feel about Americans, and it's not good. They jokes that used to make about Hussein they now make about Americans. Obviously this was a small segment of the population interviewed, but it's a pretty good read.