Even were one not to change anyone's mind, and apart from the exposure to new information and new ideas to which the Green-Eyed Monster has referred, there is yet another value to debate which i suspect Reyn is unwilling to recognize. That is the value of the exercise itself as exercise. If you want to keep your heart healthy and sharp, you go for regular, long walks. If you want to keep your mind healthy and sharp, you exercise your mind similarly, and there are few better exercises than vigorous debate.
Setanta wrote:....there is yet another value to debate which i suspect Reyn is unwilling to recognize. That is the value of the exercise itself as exercise. If you want to keep your heart healthy and sharp, you go for regular, long walks. If you want to keep your mind healthy and sharp, you exercise your mind similarly, and there are few better exercises than vigorous debate.
Perhaps so, as is my choice.
A tough game of chess will accomplish the same thing.....and the outcome is unargueable.
I can think of few things so boring for me than a game of chess.
Setanta wrote:I can think of few things so boring for me than a game of chess.
As is your choice. I would find debating boring.....and pointless.
<gives Set a big hug......and turns the other cheek>
<Ellpus sees the other cheek and gets strangely aroused>
Aren't you coy . . . close the door on your way out . . . voyeur . . .
It was a case of speed editing, Set.
I'm learning to type very quickly now that they have changed the rules.
I, knowing literally nothing about chess, subscribe to debate in the service of keeping one's neurons in tip-top form.
I do play a spiffy game of bridge, which I also think is helpful in maintaining one's brain power, in the wake of ever increasing age.
I don't see that a debate/discussion must necessarily result in a definite conclusion or a conversion to another's point of view. The airing of views and ideas is good in itself.
Tomkitten wrote:I don't see that a debate/discussion must necessarily result in a definite conclusion or a conversion to another's point of view. The airing of views and ideas is good in itself.
IE: anything pertaining to Philosophy.
Phoenix32890 wrote:in the wake of ever increasing age.
Phsaw! You don't look a day over 33! :wink:
I realized BBB was right.
the smartest bumble bee around
now I'm off to the subscriber forum to pray mightily for an ignore button - and for the return of hearty debates about porn and politics
There is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent me from publicly stating my belief that you come here for the high page rank, and to troll for recruits--and i suspect you use e-mail, since you wouldn't have the avenue of PM with new members. I also am not going to be prevented by you from stating my belief that you are responsible for the influx of bible thumpers here.
