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[Breloomancer]

i never liked the idea of a debate club. you are given a stance and you have to argue for it, and if you aren't convincing enough, you lose. such an ersian style of debate is merely an intellectual exercise to sharpen your rhetorical skills, but it cannot lead you to the truth. the very concept denied the idea of truth, or at least that it can be found through debate, and it encourages bad habits by disallowing interlocutors from reconsidering their position in the face of new evidence

 

a debate where the only point is to convince an audience that your side is right --rather than to attempt to work with your interlocutor to find the truth, even if that truth differs from your initial stance-- is useful for politics, but worthless for personal growth

[TB]

Why is searching for truth worthless for personal growth?

[Breloomancer]

it's not searching for truth that is worthless

[TB]

Oh, I misread your sentence

 

accidentally typed a post about politics but urgh i don't want to talk about that even though it is interesting

 

 

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2 hours ago, Breloomancer said:

a debate where the only point is to convince an audience that your side is right

So you’re suggesting that debating exercises the same mental gymnastics that’s used in coping mechanisms? That’s one way of looking at it

 

It’s essentially an opinion crash course, but you’re right about it being easy to get lost in the sauce. I guess we’re all just naturally built to take it seriously

[TurboSimmie]

Good evening my friends! 😊

[a937539]

9 minutes ago, TurboSimmie said:

Good evening my friends! 😊

Hi hi hi, how are you two?

 

[TurboSimmie]

We're doing well! 😁 We went on a very hot walk today. 🌞 The power went out at our house for over an hour but it's back now.

[a937539]

12 minutes ago, TurboSimmie said:

We're doing well! 😁 We went on a very hot walk today. 🌞 The power went out at our house for over an hour but it's back now.

Are these related? You walked so hard you shut off the power.

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The power went out in the place I work for the first time in years just yesterday, actually