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Critical thinking is a rare skill

  1. Originally posted by Lanny Observations are fine, "most people I interact with seem to have poor critical reasoning skills by metric X" would be something I'd have no grounds to argue with, but you've made a statement about "most people" without those qualifications. Do you think that difference constitutes "the smallest detail" here?



    The point here was really kind of secondary. I do think you're privileged but that doesn't discredit your position. I'm saying that your status as a high GPA student or as a recipient of unearned advantage is really irrelevant to your thesis, they don't change its truth value.

    If you don't enjoy this activity, and don't have any other reason to continue to engage in it, then I suggest you stop. I'd like to think I maintain an open mind on the proposition that "most people have poor critical thinking skills" and indeed I've told you what you need to do to change my mind but you don't seem eager to go down that road. Frankly I'd bet against you changing your mind on the matter. I'm here because it's fun but you seem to be getting frustrated. If that's the case then there's really no reason for you to continue.

    I'm frustrated af but not because of this argument
  2. Lanny Bird of Courage
    So uhhh, can I just stop replying now or are you going to go off and cry if I don't respond in the next eight hours? I'm not really sure what's left to say at this point
  3. lol. im done with it
  4. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Originally posted by greenplastic Because I can be a fucking dick and argue for days down to the smallest detail, even when I know I'm wrong, like Lanny is doing here.

    Well I'd like to not be like how I am now. I don't have any empathy for anyone a lot of the time, plus I spent a lot of time alone with my gf just getting high and tripping on acid and MXE and walking around at night and having sex over the past couple years which allowed me to be a weirdo and not give a fuck about other people, and now that's all gone so I'm stuck in this weird place again where I have to fake my personality if I want to not be alone, and I don't really know if I can do that.

    You should take some time to get in touch with yourself.
  5. Originally posted by Open Your Mind You should take some time to get in touch with yourself.

    yea...probably...
  6. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    If you knew for certain that you had a terminal illness - if you had precious little time left to make use of your life and consider who you are, you'd not waste time on self-indulgence or fear, lethargy or ambition. Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
  7. Originally posted by greenplastic You know you're the smartest person on this website

    Well, obviously but how does his dick taste, greenspastic?
  8. Originally posted by greenplastic Jesus christ dude. I'm starting to realize why people hate arguing with me. I think I'm going to change my life.

    Hahahaha... destroyed with ease.
  9. Originally posted by greenplastic Because I can be a fucking dick and argue for days down to the smallest detail, even when I know I'm wrong, like Lanny is doing here.

    Well I'd like to not be like how I am now. I don't have any empathy for anyone a lot of the time, plus I spent a lot of time alone with my gf just getting high and tripping on acid and MXE and walking around at night and having sex over the past couple years which allowed me to be a weirdo and not give a fuck about other people, and now that's all gone so I'm stuck in this weird place again where I have to fake my personality if I want to not be alone, and I don't really know if I can do that.

    LOL.

  10. aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    Originally posted by greenplastic INB4 "oMg bUt gRaDeS dOn'T nEcEsssarilY meeN uR smaRt!!! #420." Yes they do. They're a measure of your ability to learn something and apply it and actually do it.

    fuckin lol

    they're a measure of being able to remember and regurgitate information, that is all.
  11. I dropped out of school because I couldn't find my locker.

  12. mmQ Lisa Turtle
    I never had a problem finding my locker because I was always locked in it. *heavy sobs*
  13. We actually don't have lockers in Germany. You protect what you bring.
  14. mmQ Lisa Turtle
    That seems annoying, unless you don't bring anything. For one I don't want to have to bring my jacket with me around all day long, though I guess that wouldn't be THAT inconvenient. We had pretty large textbooks for each class so unless I wanted to walk around with 50 pounds worth of books in my backpack and have sclerosis by the age of 15, I was able to use my locker which I think was created for pretty much that very reason.
  15. Lanny Bird of Courage
    When I was in primary school we had these "cubbies" or open-front stacked boxes so your stuff was perpetually accessible to everyone. In four years someone got something stolen once, the teacher sat everyone down and went on a tirade on how terrible stealing is and during it the kid who stole whatever (it was like a gameboy game or something) starts crying and admits to doing it. Felt kind of bad for the kid, he ended up getting suspended anyway and he was already pretty badly bullied.
  16. One kid in my class collected lunch money from the younger kids by putting a plastic bag over their faces until they couldn't take it anymore and gave up.

    I got stabbed twice in school. Never took my jacket off.
  17. In 9th grade I didn't even have a backpack. Nobody touched my books.
  18. mmQ Lisa Turtle
    Yes I am familiar with the cubbies, though I think we had them from kindergarten through 2nd grade or something like that. The ages when you're generally too innocent to think about vindictive stealing. I'm trying to think of the first thing I genuinely stole out of pure selfish devious reasons. I know I took a comb from a cosmetics store I was at with my mom but I was like 4 years old and oblivious to what I was doing.

    I guess I probably stole a pen from a classmate or something. Fucking pens man. In middle school I think is when I started more regularly stealing pens from k-mart and wal-mart. I fucking love a good pen, maaaaaaan. That's about the age I started regularly stealing in general, mostly shoplifting minor items. Good times.
  19. Lanny Bird of Courage
    All my life I've had this wierd relationship with pens. When I have N>1 pens I lose them steadily until I have exactly one pen left. Then magically I manage to hold onto that pen for like years until it runs out of ink. Then I go by a dozen new pens and lose 11 of them in a week. Spooky shit mang.
  20. Originally posted by Lanny All my life I've had this wierd relationship with penis. When I have N>1 penis I lose them steadily until I have exactly one penis left. Then magically I manage to hold onto that penis for like years until it runs out of ink. Then I go by a dozen new penis and lose 11 of them in a week. Spooky shit mang.

    Read that and don't move your face at all.
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