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| Relationship: | Single | Income: | Less than $25,000 | |
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| Looking: | No Answer | Religion: | Christian |
| Activities: | Golf, chess, reading, bike riding, |
| Beliefs: | Life is one big contradiction. The trick is to accept the contradiction, while still holding 'beliefs,' 'moral judgments,' 'religion,' 'spirituality,' etc, so that you don't go nuts, and so you are not a complete jerk who is unable to associate with those in your life. |
| Books: | Human, All too Human, The Castle, The Myth of Sisyphus, Language, Truth, and Logic, Moby Dick, East of Eden, Ecclesiastes, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men (obviously a Steinbeck fan), Fight Club, Choke, Being and Time, Freedom Evolves, Hamlet, Tarzan of the Apes (gotta love turn of the century racism and sexism), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Of Laughter and Forgetting, ummm... it's a long list, so I'll stop there. |
| Movies: | Top 5 movies: High Fidelity Office Space The Firm Fight Club Jeremiah Johnson |
| Music: | Josh Ritter, Andrew Bird, Cannonball Adderley, Smashing Pumpkins, Flogging Molly, Wilco, Cake, once again, this could be a long list, so I'll leave it there |
| Quotes: | I want to learn more and more how to see what is necessary in things as what is beautiful in them - thus I will be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from now on! I do not want to wage war against ugliness. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse the accusers. Let looking away be my only negation! And, all in all and on the whole: some day I want only to be a Yes-sayer! -Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Sports Teams: | St. Louis Cardinals, U of Illinois basketball |
| TV Shows: | South Park, The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development, The Simpsons |
| College: | Millikin University, Undergraduate Class of 2010
Decatur, Illinois, United States
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| High School: | Mahomet-Seymour High School, Class of 2006
Mahomet, Illinois, United States
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The principle of empirical verifiability by David Hume is flawed.
The principle of empirical verifiability by David Hume is flawed for several reasons. First, Hume's theory of language seems to exclude large amounts of data that is otherwise considered to be meaningful. For example, the existential claim that false vacuum exists (unified forces vacuum) would be meaningless under Hume's theory of language. In a more familiar setting, if I claimed that there was a rabbit in what appeared to be a rabbit hole, my claim would be meaningless until I verified my clai...
Parents should be legally identified and held responsible [2]
The full resolution is: "The parents of each child should be identified as a legal requirement and the parents shall be held responsible by the government for the costs of raising the child." Parents should be held responsible for the care of their children. Unidentified fathers cannot be held responsible. The problem is growing due to the large number of births outside of legal marriage, many with unidentified fathers. In the US in 2007: * Number of live births to unmarried women: 1,52...
Is the media justified in releasing celebrities and politicians personal affairs?
The media is fully justified in releasing personal information about celebrities and politicians as it lets people know who they are really seeing on the television....
US ought to submit to the jurisdiction of an IC designed to prosecute crimes against humanity
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The general thrust of Mangani's statement is accurate.
In the comments to my last debate, Mangani made a number claims. I contend that the general thrust of Mangani's statement is wrong. Statement as follows. ------------------------- "Irony is evolution in the bible: Genesis 3:6-7: Man did not know he was naked and became aware after eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil= Homo Erectus/Habilis, etc. evolves into Homo Sapiens. Both tell of how man "did not know" or "was not aware", and later became or "evolved" into "awareness"...
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| Debate Statistics | |
| Debates: | 6 |
| Lost: | 2 |
| Tied: | 1 |
| Won: | 3 |
| Win Ratio: | 60.00% |
| Percentile: | 91.26% |
| Elo Ranking: | 2,171 |
| Statistics based on completed debates. | |
| Activity Statistics | |
| Forum Posts: | 13 |
| Votes Cast: | 3 |
| Opinion Arguments: | 0 |
| Opinion Questions: | 0 |
| • | Abortion | |
| • | Affirmative Action | N/O |
| • | Animal Rights | N/S |
| • | Barack Obama | N/S |
| • | Border Fence | N/O |
| • | Capitalism | N/S |
| • | Civil Unions | N/O |
| • | Death Penalty | Con |
| • | Drug Legalization | |
| • | Electoral College | N/S |
| • | Environmental Protection | Pro |
| • | Estate Tax | N/O |
| • | European Union | N/S |
| • | Euthanasia | Pro |
| • | Federal Reserve | N/S |
| • | Flat Tax | Con |
| • | Free Trade | N/S |
| • | Gay Marriage | Pro |
| • | Global Warming Exists | Pro |
| • | Globalization | N/S |
| • | Gold Standard | N/S |
| • | Gun Rights | Pro |
| • | Homeschooling | N/S |
| • | Internet Censorship | N/S |
| • | Iran-Iraq War | N/O |
| • | Labor Union | N/O |
| • | Legalized Prostitution | N/S |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | Pro |
| • | Medical Marijuana | Pro |
| • | Military Intervention | N/S |
| • | Minimum Wage | Pro |
| • | National Health Care | N/O |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | N/O |
| • | Occupy Movement | N/S |
| • | Progressive Tax | Pro |
| • | Racial Profiling | N/O |
| • | Redistribution | N/S |
| • | Smoking Ban | Pro |
| • | Social Programs | N/O |
| • | Social Security | |
| • | Socialism | N/S |
| • | Stimulus Spending | N/S |
| • | Term Limits | Pro |
| • | Torture | N/S |
| • | United Nations | Pro |
| • | War in Afghanistan | Pro |
| • | War on Terror | N/O |
| • | Welfare | Pro |