Subj : Re: New to this
To : Bob Worm
From : boraxman
Date : Wed May 14 2025 10:19 am
-=> Bob Worm wrote to Alonzo <=-
BW> Re: Re: New to this
BW> By: Alonzo to Jimmy Anderson on Tue May 13 2025 05:34:52
> When I was a kid, my friends and I would do something to
> keep from being too bored - We would have debates. One
> of us would take one side of the arguement and another
> kid would take the other (even if we totally disagreed
> with it).
>
> Try that sometime. It really opens up your mind. After
> taking am opinion you didn't agree with at all and
> trying to defend it, we would sometimes go "Aha"
> and change our actual beliefs.
BW> That sounds cool and all but have you ever tried just shouting over
BW> everyone else's opinions and calling them mean names if they still
BW> don't agree with you?
BW> I am joking, of course... but these days it's hard to tell.
Just shouting "---phobic" does the trick is most circumstances.
These days, you just get offended at the opposing argument and declare victory
because you found the antithesis personally offensive.
