I know that I am going to get a lot of flack for this. And let me just slap on a large PG-13 warning here for those who find this to be a touchy subject. But I feel like I needed to get this off my chest.

There are a lot of topics in this debate spot that I come up "pro-sex" on (for lack of a better term). For example, I am pro legalization of prostitution, I do not believe a consensual one night stand is morally reprehensible if both parties know the score, and I recommend that one masturbates as often as one possibly can.

Now, there are health and safety reasons why I support legalization of...

Just a neat little poem I found interesting. What do you think about it?
Written by: Harvey Ehrlich

'Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck...
How to live in a world that's politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to "Elves",
"Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves.

And labor conditions at the north pole
Were alleged by the union to stifle the soul.
Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety,
Released to the wilds by the Humane Society.
And equal employment had made it quite clear
That Santa had better not use just reindeer.
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and...

Capitalism : The New God

Trinity:


Individual Satisfaction - Father

Exploitation - Son

Purchasing power - Holy Spirit


10 Commandments

* I will make sure I maximise my profits at the cost of everything else
* Individual satisfaction must be 100% satisified even if it means I cheat on my marriage, destroy my childrens lives and end up divorced
* Exploit whoever you can for whatever you can, its survival of the fittest
* You are what you can afford
* Love thy cheap goods even if you don’t know they came from a child sweat shop
* Thou shall not worship false Gods: socialism, communism, et al
* Thou shall...

There are a lot of things that are in the world today that are right. Wars are going on in the world, Africa is a mostly poor nation, and Global Warming exists. What was that last one, Global Warming exists? Yes, but not to the extent that the United States government and the media want you to believe. Now you’re probably thinking, why would the US government tell such a lie. Why would they get some of the top rated scientists in the world to agree with them, and why are there not more scientist speaking out about this elaborate hoax. This article will explain the reason why Global Warming...

So I recently (and perhaps mistakenly) lost my temper in a thread here on Fanpop. I'd rather not link to it, as it wasn't my finest hour and I perhaps embarrassed myself.

I will say that yes, it was about Obama.

I will also say that no, it wasn't a logical discussion about Obama.

Let me begin by saying that I like Obama-- but I know he isn't perfect. I am open to criticism, and actually complimented (in a comment to my parents) right-wing politicians who held up their counter-health care proposal in silent protest during a speech on the topic. I complimented them because they were being dignified...

I've been disheartened to hear rhetoric and see actions in the media lately that show me just how appallingly sexist our so-called "modern" and progressive society still is.

Yes, I'm calling sexism on this one, and no, that's not a word I wave around carelessly.

I'm calling sexism because a number of women's issues have come up in the public forum lately, and no one seems to care A) what women think about that or B) perspectives on issues that aren't fifty years old. I recently posted link which details exactly how offensive these conversations are.

Women On The Front Lines

Let's look at the most...

Yes, I broke the original link, but that has since been link. Because no one knows how to cite and circumvent obscure made-up internet rules like I do.

And maybe this title got your attention.

Hi, I'm Cinders. Maybe We Haven't Met.

First of all, allow me to introduce myself. I'm an old-hat Fanpopper who joined this site at the tender age of nineteen. I was an open-minded college student at the time, looking for a place to geek out about things I love. One thing I loved was debate and discourse. I loved hearing multiple sides and perspectives to arguments, because I know there's always a side I...

There's been a lot of debate in this spot on the general idea of progressive "softies" who need "safe spaces" to avoid being "triggered."

The talk of these kinds of people generally devolves into hyperbolized stereotypes of wimpy college students using it as an excuse not to do their homework, for example. Acronyms like "SJWs" get thrown around, and people express their frustration about feeling like they're walking on egg shells, or censored, or having to cater to other people's over-sensitivity in order to avoid being accused of an "ism" of some sort or another. People feel like they're being...

This article is basically about something i keep seeing around the debate spot or on other debate forums and it is, in my opinion the rudest and most insulting thing you can do in debate

no I am not talking about swearing

no I am not talking about denying the existence of someone's believes

no I am not even talking about flashing your opponent to distract them

I am talking about the one line comment

some of you may be slightly confused as to why I get so annoyed by this so let me clear things up

I have no issue with people bringing up a new point that they have just summed up in a short space, I...

I was going to call them the "Ten Commandments" but felt someone might be offended by that (either a religious person thinking I'm blasphemous or a secularist thinking I'm showing a bias towards religion. Lose, lose, you see). Also, I couldn't come up with ten rules.

So instead, observe the Golden Rules of the Debate Spot.

1) RESPECT your fellow debaters. They believe what they do for a reason just like you do. As opposed to simply trying to explain why they're wrong, explain your point of view and LISTEN to theirs. If you find you simply just cannot understand their views, or that they will...

So, many of you are aware of the rumor floating arround that the world will end tonight at 6:00 PM. I just have a few things to say about these "End of The World" theories, becasue they're really getting on my nervs.

I just want to say that first off, for those of you who do belive the world will end tonight, or in 2012, or whatever, I mean no disrespect to you. I also don't mean any disrespect to people's religious beliefs that say the things I'm about to adress.



So, yesterday afternoon I heard that there is yet another prediction for the world ending. First it was the year 2000, then the...

This is a debate seed, and was last edited on 8 April 2008.

As a fan of debate, I've often railed at the absence of actual debate in the debate spot. Therefore I present a question for debate:

Are mechanical pencils or wooden pencils better?

Cinders has done a marvelous job of initiating a number of formal limited debates, so I propose a different type of debate format for this one. For this, the Great Pencil Debate, the following debate attributes will apply:

Non-judged

Open-ended

Participatory

Moderated

What these mean:

Non-judged is a debate format wherein there are no judges...

In our world today, global warming is a growing issue. Global warming (according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary) is an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. This means we must take action. This is a method commonly known as "going green." We do this by riding bikes, using public transportation, reycleing, and much more. This is common for big cities like New York City, New York or Chicago, Illionois- but what about the smaller towns?



I live in Joplin,...

I'm sorry but I think Obama has comitted plaguerism, observe:

CAN WE FIX IT - 23/12/2000
3 weeks at #1 - 22 weeks on chart

Take your places
Can we fix it
YES, WE CAN
Bob the Builder
Can we fix it
Bob the Builder
YES, WE CAN
Scoop, Muck and Dizzy and Roley too
Lofty and Wendy join the crew
Bob and the gang have so much fun
Working together, they get the job done

Bob the Builder
Can we fix it
Bob the Builder
YES, WE CAN

Bob the Builder
Can we fix it
Bob the Builder
YES, WE CAN

Time to get busy, such a lot to do
Building and fixing till it's good as new
Bob and the gang make a really good sound
Working...

#rapecultureiswhen trended on Twitter last night, seemingly sparked by Zerlina Maxwell (link) after she was told she was "overhyping rape culture."

This article is a collection of some of my favorite tweets because I think awareness is important. Many people ignore the existence of rape culture, or if they acknowledge it they do not understand its extent. So:

Rape culture is when...

any talk about rape turns into the obvious fact that "not men all like that!" instead of "too many men are like that."
link

men are allowed to travel, go out at night, get drunk, wear whatever they want--without it being...

In debate clash is when the two arguments that the opposing sides have given have to do with each other. For example if You wanted to legalize cocaine and I make the argument that legalizing cocaine would lead to increased crimes and you responded to me by saying that it would actually decrease crimes then we have clash, and the thing about clash it allows us to both present try to present better evidence. The thing about evidence is that it is based on facts so one side is going to have better facts and we can all acknowledge there facts and change our minds. But if you said that legalizing...

Why would it be awkward?
Gods created us in their image. They created us to think, behave, and look (to a certain degree) like them. It makes no sense for them to purposefully make us like them, and then give us orders not to be like them.

There can not be more than one God.
Except that there can, and there is.

I'm going to establish now God's existence.
Oookay. I'm not sure why, since no one was denying the existence of anything. But I guess this gives me a chance to play devils advocate, so I'll play.

(I know thissection was aimed more at whiteflame, but I have something to say)a God would not...

I thought I'd write about this topic because I feel strongly about it. I myself am against it, so if you don't agree, that's fine, it's just my opinion. Whether you agree/disagree is upto you. Be sure to let me know what you think afterwards.

I've known many people who say they are for or against capital punishment decide so quickly you'd think I asked them if they were a boy or girl. A minority of these people answer so quickly because they actually know the facts and therefore know where they stand. The remainder, however, don't have a clue. They either give an answer that seems the most logically...

We conceive of racism as a set of institutional conditions of group inequality and an ideology of racial domination, in which the latter is characterized by a set of beliefs holding that the subordinate racial group is biologically or culturally inferior to the dominant racial group. These beliefs, in turn, are deployed to prescribe and legitimize society's discriminatory treatment of the subordinate group and to justify their lower status. link

The common definition of racism, and the one used by people who believe in reverse racism, is just "the belief that one race of people is better than...

I found this in my notes for my English class... I figured I'd share them with you here.

In Classical times, heterosexuality, or the love of a man for a woman, was considered to be "an animalistic urge to be slaked quickly only for the purpose of reproduction" (Henry Staten, English 202 instructor) while "platonic love" or the love of a man for another man, was considered idealistic and "above the beasts."

Such close friends were in fact called "lovers," like Hercules and Hylas. To fall in love with a man was the "proper" thing to do at the time, and signified a wonderous thing.

This "homosociality"...