Getting them to undermine their own argument, often times defeating it for me just to stay contrarian? Works surprisingly often.
Getting amusement? Works nearly everytime, and when it doesn't its because I fuck up and get a lesson to learn from.
Actually accomplishing anything? Never, people here are as NPC brained as most Leftists and cannot deviate from their programming enough to even engage with an argument outside of repeating buzzwords, points they got from Talking Heads, and doing everything to avoid admitting fault.
Ah, then not the definition of worked I was hoping for.
I do miss the old timers that were more for debating, few that they were. (even if I never participated)
Or perhaps that is just nostalgia, haha
Still it is a shame that people do not try to think about the talking heads are saying, to find flaws in it and adjust their view accordingly. (although the few talking heads I have talked to have similar problems.) I have had to do it many times and places such as this should be the best place to lose, since you are a nobody and there is no prestige to gain here, nor any worthwhile fame, nor comrades to truly lose. It is as little risk such a thing can have and still possibly hone it. Yet they cling to it. Why does the internet nomadic style not help them shed it?
They should release that each time they are shipwrecked that their past ideas does not matter nor their reputation and by now they should have wandered through many fields of ideas, which some should have influenced them? Is true humility something you are born with? Or is something only the beaten learn, haha
Just ignore my rambling, I just needed to type it out.
I know you do this not to convince the other but has it ever accidentally worked?
Depends on what you call "worked."
Now you intrigue me, what is this definition of worked that it did accomplish?
Getting them to undermine their own argument, often times defeating it for me just to stay contrarian? Works surprisingly often.
Getting amusement? Works nearly everytime, and when it doesn't its because I fuck up and get a lesson to learn from.
Actually accomplishing anything? Never, people here are as NPC brained as most Leftists and cannot deviate from their programming enough to even engage with an argument outside of repeating buzzwords, points they got from Talking Heads, and doing everything to avoid admitting fault.
Ah, then not the definition of worked I was hoping for.
I do miss the old timers that were more for debating, few that they were. (even if I never participated) Or perhaps that is just nostalgia, haha
Still it is a shame that people do not try to think about the talking heads are saying, to find flaws in it and adjust their view accordingly. (although the few talking heads I have talked to have similar problems.) I have had to do it many times and places such as this should be the best place to lose, since you are a nobody and there is no prestige to gain here, nor any worthwhile fame, nor comrades to truly lose. It is as little risk such a thing can have and still possibly hone it. Yet they cling to it. Why does the internet nomadic style not help them shed it? They should release that each time they are shipwrecked that their past ideas does not matter nor their reputation and by now they should have wandered through many fields of ideas, which some should have influenced them? Is true humility something you are born with? Or is something only the beaten learn, haha
Just ignore my rambling, I just needed to type it out.