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Post by Mary on Jun 23, 2006 13:38:40 GMT -5
But pew, I've tried to answer your question, but I still disagree with your premise and you never addressed that. Are you assumign that it's impossible to be an "independent" thinker if your positions line up across the board with standard positions of the left or right? Please explain. I wouldnt say its an absolute, but it's definately a possibility and even rather likely. I've see way too many knee-jerk reactions from liberals which have totally turned me off from them. I've seen way too many instances where they adhere to what I call the Liberal "party line" without actually going over the issues in any open-minded way. Then there are also those who DO research the oppositions argument, but do so with their minds already dead set against it and only researching the argument so they can outmanuver their right wing counterparts in the ridiculas game of Gotcha politics they play--a game whose main purpose is to Ego-boost oneself or as a release for one's Hatred. For instance, you listed a number of RightWingers who you have researched. But if you went into the research with your mind already made up on the issues, then is that really being open-minded? In otherwords if there was a Zero percent chance that any of these folk's ideas were going to change your own stance, then you are not really being totally open-minded. So tell me pew - what would you say is the percent chance that we're going to change your mind about abortion? |
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Post by sisyphus on Jun 23, 2006 14:10:57 GMT -5
Exactly. I find it awesome that a drunken Matheus is 1000% more intelligible than a completely sober pauledwardwagemann. Anyone told you lately that you rock Matheus? Well you do so true.... and pew, i'm also anxiously awaiting your answer to mary's query. are YOU open-minded enough to change YOUR postiion on abortion? |
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 23, 2006 15:20:11 GMT -5
pew, i'm also anxiously awaiting your answer to mary's query. are YOU open-minded enough to change YOUR postiion on abortion? So tell me pew - what would you say is the percent chance that we're going to change your mind about abortion? If you give me convincing reasons, then its 100%. I actually was pro-choice before, but to be honest I had never really given the matter much thought. I alwasy figured, well itst eh ladies body, she can do with ti what she wants. But then over the last ten years I've put more thoguht into the issue and have realized that the issue is much more complicated than that. The life of a human being is at stake here, so I've slowly been converted to pro-life. But I'm open-minded enough to be pursuaded in the other direction if the facts are there to support the pro-choice position. There are always opinions out there that I have not yet heard and possibly arguments that I have not yet heard. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 23, 2006 15:34:08 GMT -5
The issue is not complicated at all, paul.
You are pro-life now. that's it. There's nothing more to it than that.
It's cool man. You were pro-choice once, now you're not. No big deal.
It works for you. It's not complicated. Go w/your Pro-Life self, man.
MOve on to other topics, like.
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Post by shin on Jun 23, 2006 15:54:42 GMT -5
Um, excuse me? Cute animal pictures?
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 23, 2006 16:03:21 GMT -5
Um, excuse me? Cute animal pictures? How's this?  or maybe you prefer this:  |
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Post by Galactus on Jun 23, 2006 16:13:07 GMT -5
Dude, not cool.
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Post by Galactus on Jun 23, 2006 16:15:45 GMT -5
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Post by shin on Jun 23, 2006 16:23:03 GMT -5
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Post by rockysigman on Jun 23, 2006 16:30:10 GMT -5
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Post by Adam on Jun 23, 2006 17:35:04 GMT -5
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Post by rockysigman on Jun 23, 2006 17:46:40 GMT -5
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Post by shin on Jun 23, 2006 18:22:40 GMT -5
Aw, it's our babies!
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Post by sisyphus on Jun 24, 2006 8:11:04 GMT -5
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Post by strat-0 on Jun 24, 2006 14:29:58 GMT -5
I fixed your code for ya, Sis.
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