That's for others to judge.
Are standards rising?
No, not yet.
Should they?
I wasn't aware this was a debate with rules and standards.
Isn't this just a question and answer game?
It should be aiden. A simple question and answer game.
Agreed?
I am in total agreement.
Do they think we are back in highschool on the debate team or something?
One of them doesn't think so.
But have the questions to be meaningless?
they can be - and some people enjoy playing that way. My own preference is to try to learn something about a poster that I have been playing with for a while, seeking to know more about them as a person, , or about what they think about various issues, as I would in a conversation with a friend.
Do you think that is intrusive?
No aiden. If one question is too intrusive, one can abstain
from answering - it's not mandatory to answer.
There are no meaningless questions Francis.
Don't you think?
That's right.There are no meaningless questions unless everything is meaningless which some people think is the case.
Do you think that?
aidan's question-
Do they think we are back in highschool on the debate team or something.
What is that supposed to mean?
spendius wrote:That's right.There are no meaningless questions unless everything is meaningless which some people think is the case.
Do you think that?
No, I don't think that! Not everything is meaningless.
Who are you referring to by "some poeple"?
Well-we are on a lump of rock about 25000 miles in circumference which is circling around a quite small star which is running out of juice and nobody has yet come up with any idea about what the meaning is.If anyone has any plausible ideas about the matter I'm sure we would be all ears.The "some people" are just about every scientist in the world.
Are you not aware of that?
No. You're always harping away at the scientists.
A sore point?
It always was,is and always will be for non-scientists.It has been a sore enough point to get some of them burnt at the stake.But thankfully they triumphed and anybody who denigrates them is denigrating our whole way of life which is wholly dependent on their acheivements.
Have you any idea of the scientific foundations of your motor car?
Just being a smart alec - you know me (in reference to Spendi's question about highschool debate team) *skipped a page.
Answer my other one - Do you think it's intrusive to be curious about who people are and what people think as you begin to think of them as real people?
No I don't.It is quite natural in certain circumstances to be curious about the people one comes across.It would be intrusive to seek to know things they are not ready to tell you though.But so what.People often are intrusive.It is one of the ways of the world.Educated people wouldn't do it.
Are you having a nice day so far?
Yes, excellent so far. And no, as long as my car runs perfectly, I am happy and oblivious to its sicientific foundations.
"That figures" would be your thought now, right?
Yes.Exactly right.But suppose men for the last 400 years had opted for the luxury of that oblivion.
It doesn't bear thinking does it?
Right. You should know by now, that I'm utterly shallow.
A car is luxury to you?
In this life - kind of - I can really pretty much walk everywhere I need to go. I use my car when I want to go some place else. In my life in the US, it was a necessity.
Do Californians really drive everywhere, as those of us who don't live there or have never been there have been led to believe?
