Okay whats up with the debate table

[Thy Geekdom Come]

I actually really used to like politics, but now it drives me nuts...I mean, I have my opinions, but discussing them drives the greatest wedges between even the closest people.

I think I'm done discussing politics. I want to discuss morality instead. If we all just lived moral lives, and I think we all agree more on this board how to do that, maybe it will spread and there will be no more need for politics. I think morality is to politics as love is to the law...if we love, then we will be free from the law, because we will live by its precepts anyway and it will not hold us down. In the same way, if we live morally and let that spread, then there will be no more need for politics because everyone will live the right way anyway. No more need for welfare, because the rich will willingly help out the poor. No more need for government healthcare, because doctors will willingly treat the sick for free. No need for abortion laws, because everyone would recognize the inherent evil and would want their children, etc.

Morality will likely never bee spread completely, just as love won't be...some will always reject it, but we need to go for it and make it a priority.

[goldenchild17]

Umm guys? Are we really debating why the debate table is slow? I'm sure we could find something more important to talk about...

[StColette]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Nov 15 2004, 03:55 PM'] I'm with Jen (surprised? ).
[/quote]
I'm completely shocked

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='goldenchild17' date='Nov 15 2004, 05:04 PM'] Umm guys? Are we really debating why the debate table is slow? I'm sure we could find something more important to talk about... [/quote]
You're right...

The Emperor Caligula was named after a type of shoe. Discuss.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='StColette' date='Nov 15 2004, 05:05 PM'] I'm completely shocked [/quote]
Since you guys seemed to be editing so much, I edited all proof of what you said in the quote I made of you...

*pulls out neuralizer and flashes*

However, I really do agree with you on a lot, and I'm really beginning to hate politics...

[Kilroy the Ninja]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Nov 15 2004, 04:06 PM'] You're right...

The Emperor Caligula was named after a type of shoe.  Discuss. [/quote]
Actually it wasn't a type of shoe, caligula meant "little boots".


And it was a nick name, not his given name.

Edited November 15, 2004 by Kilroy the Ninja

[goldenchild17]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Nov 15 2004, 04:06 PM'] You're right...

The Emperor Caligula was named after a type of shoe. Discuss. [/quote]
Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Um I don't know what Caligula means or if this was his real name so, I agree.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Kilroy the Ninja' date='Nov 15 2004, 05:12 PM'] Actually it wasn't a type of shoe, caligula meant "little boots".


And it was a nick name, not his given name. [/quote]
Actually, "caliga" was a type of boot worn by footsoldiers with leather straps which would be laced together at the top and had spikes sticking out of the sole, unlike most other Roman shoes. Nonetheless, a boot is a type of shoe.

And yes, it was a nickname, but he went by it his whole life, so I consider it his name.

[StColette]

lol here we go a debate over shoes

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='StColette' date='Nov 15 2004, 05:21 PM'] lol here we go a debate over shoes [/quote]
And it involves a man...never argue etymology with a classicist...

[Thy Geekdom Come]

Confer "The Caliga," page 135 of Warry's [u]Warfare in the Classical World[/u].

[StColette]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Nov 15 2004, 04:24 PM'] And it involves a man...never argue etymology with a classicist... [/quote]

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='StColette' date='Nov 15 2004, 05:28 PM'] [/quote]


:wub:

[ironmonk]

[quote name='goldenchild17' date='Nov 15 2004, 06:04 PM'] Umm guys?  Are we really debating why the debate table is slow?    I'm sure we could find something more important to talk about... [/quote]
You win... I wanted to see how long I could keep this one going...

Debating to debate... LOL


We should debait why the debate table is slow and I can't believe you don't think it's important!?! What is wrong with you?! Don't you like to argue?!


Do you think I'm serious?! You should! Because I'm not.

lol
God Bless,
ironmonk

Edited November 15, 2004 by ironmonk

[Lil Red]

[StColette]

lol I think this is one of the best thread I've seen in the Debate Table, it just gets too serious in here sometimes lol

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='StColette' date='Nov 15 2004, 05:39 PM'] lol I think this is one of the best thread I've seen in the Debate Table, it just gets too serious in here sometimes lol [/quote]

[cmotherofpirl]

Ok
Put your dukes up.
I want to debate the debate about the debate!

[ironmonk]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Nov 15 2004, 09:09 PM'] Ok
Put your dukes up.
I want to debate the debate about the debate! [/quote]
It's [b]de-bait [/b]not debate about debate!

Because you must bait people...

[Don John of Austria]

[quote]Besides, maybe debate is just dead because Don hasn't been around in a LONG TIME.
[/quote]

It hasn't been THAT long about 12 weeks or so ( I'm a teacher I measure everything in units of weeks) but it still seems dead, the only debates areones we have had over and over and over and over, more than that there seems few to argue them.

Anyway I am back at least for a while. hopefully we can make it interesting enough.