What Kind Of Seminary Is This?

[Winchester]

Now I think it's a bloody shame someone started a snit match and hasn't responded to my return snit...

[Anomaly]

[quote name='Winchester' post='1094429' date='Oct 17 2006, 08:50 PM']
Now I think it's a bloody shame someone started a snit match and hasn't responded to my return snit...
[/quote]
May if offer profuse apologies if it was I, who failed to carry my portion of snit.

[Winchester]

No, no, it was Socrates. He went down the (usually unwinnable, poor dear) definition road. It was cute.

[Anomaly]

I love the definition route! It is very winnable. The trick is to get the other person to define, and then you rip it apart if it isn't a dictionary definition. Subjective opinion is such a shakey foundation.

Does drunk mean 'impaired' or simply above the legal driving limit? What is the extent of 'impairment? What is the age, maturity, and experience of the observer? The level of "drunkeness" I may display in a social setting where over 17 teens are would be different than at an all-adult party that I'm not driving.

In this thread, the points that concerned me were:
Minors drinking to the point of observable behavior changes.
Comments by persons that this activity was both typical of seminaries and common.

In today's world of priests that have a crippled sexual maturity, an over-sexed common public culture, the damage that scandal has already caused, the cultural attack on moral and decency...

But I was expecting to see snit flying.

[Winchester]

The problem with the dictionary route is the plethora of dictionaries. To cover your bases, you'd best have several copies, or you look kind of dumb.

Part of debate is ironing out definitions. It makes one look unfamiliar with this if the argument looks like something ripped out of a Scrabble tournament.