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weaktwosToday was a good day, and it seemed to go by rather quickly.
-I continued to debate a friend on the Social Security revamping issue. There's a gap here between our argumentation styles. I like to seek out and offer evidence in support of my claims. He seems to not. The whole objective of argumentation is not to just blurt out opinions that are baseless, but to share knowledge and either arrive at a stronger understanding of your own opinion, or learn and potentially embrace a new opinion that you may find to hold better merit.
Furthermore, if you are going to assert that "Social Security is a big pyramid scam." to an individual who knows the various elements of a pyramid scam, and that Social Security lacks all those elements to be a pyramid scam, you should either admit that you were wrong, admit that you were joking, or come up with a really clever and interesting argument. Saying that you used pyramid scam "perhaps in overemphasis because it seems you took me way literally", is, in my opinion, a cop out. Unless, of course, you wish to tell me how "pyramid scam" would be used as a metaphor or simile. Yes, I risk offending someone who may read this, but if you are going to make faulty statements, I'm going to challenge you on them, just like I would hope that someone challenges me.
-I had a hair appointment.
-I went over to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
patricks's abode and helped catalog over 500 comics that we will be putting up on ebay as soon as I start gathering entering them up for sale.
-I went to Magnolia hifi with some dvds and cds to test out sound quality. I compared various speakers. Two sets were within my desired price range, but there was a $300 gap between them. I listed to them several times over. I couldn't tell the difference. So I got the cheaper set. For my room size, i don't really need any more than what I acquired.
-I continued to debate a friend on the Social Security revamping issue. There's a gap here between our argumentation styles. I like to seek out and offer evidence in support of my claims. He seems to not. The whole objective of argumentation is not to just blurt out opinions that are baseless, but to share knowledge and either arrive at a stronger understanding of your own opinion, or learn and potentially embrace a new opinion that you may find to hold better merit.
Furthermore, if you are going to assert that "Social Security is a big pyramid scam." to an individual who knows the various elements of a pyramid scam, and that Social Security lacks all those elements to be a pyramid scam, you should either admit that you were wrong, admit that you were joking, or come up with a really clever and interesting argument. Saying that you used pyramid scam "perhaps in overemphasis because it seems you took me way literally", is, in my opinion, a cop out. Unless, of course, you wish to tell me how "pyramid scam" would be used as a metaphor or simile. Yes, I risk offending someone who may read this, but if you are going to make faulty statements, I'm going to challenge you on them, just like I would hope that someone challenges me.
-I had a hair appointment.
-I went over to
patricks's abode and helped catalog over 500 comics that we will be putting up on ebay as soon as I start gathering entering them up for sale.-I went to Magnolia hifi with some dvds and cds to test out sound quality. I compared various speakers. Two sets were within my desired price range, but there was a $300 gap between them. I listed to them several times over. I couldn't tell the difference. So I got the cheaper set. For my room size, i don't really need any more than what I acquired.
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Date: 2004-12-30 07:30 pm (UTC)I think that you would be hard pressed to find a first world populace less informed than ours. It's amazing how dumb we are collectively. I'm not even sure we can be considered a first world nation with our low life expectancy and high infant mortality rate.
Rather than address our crappy health care system (I was without health care for 6 weeks after I started my postdoc), we debate gay marriage, flag burning and other trivial topics.
Plutocracy, here we come.
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Date: 2004-12-30 07:37 pm (UTC)