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Participant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=CDMA ENG]Right now…
I am listening to some beautiful Gaberial Era Genesis… Feeling the nice ocean breeze through my home…
And laughing at you guys for wasting such precious time on incredibly long and unwinnable debates…
I suggest you laugh at yourselves… Drink some nice wine and listen to something beautiful of you own choice…
We will all be dead soon enough and to waste time trying to convince one another of each other view point is worthless…
CE
As the human torch says “Flame on!”[/quote]
wasting time? this is the whole point of living!
Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method) is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to European and Indian philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in the Socratic dialogues. The dialectical method is discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter guided by reasoned arguments.[1]
The term dialectics is not synonymous with the term debate. While in theory debaters are not necessarily emotionally invested in their point of view, in practice debaters frequently display an emotional commitment that may cloud rational judgement. Debates are won through a combination of persuading the opponent; proving one’s argument correct; or proving the opponent’s argument incorrect. Debates do not necessarily require promptly identifying a clear winner or loser; however clear winners are frequently determined by either a judge, jury, or by group consensus. The term dialectics is also not synonymous with the term rhetoric, a method or art of discourse that seeks to persuade, inform, or motivate an audience.[2] Concepts, like “logos” or rational appeal, “pathos” or emotional appeal, and “ethos” or ethical appeal, are intentionally used by rhetoricians to persuade an audience.[3]
The Sophists taught aretē (Greek: ἀρετή, quality, excellence) as the highest value, and the determinant of one’s actions in life. The Sophists taught artistic quality in oratory (motivation via speech) as a manner of demonstrating one’s aretē. Oratory was taught as an art form, used to please and to influence other people via excellent speech; nonetheless, the Sophists taught the pupil to seek aretē in all endeavours, not solely in oratory.[citation needed]
Socrates favoured truth as the highest value, proposing that it could be discovered through reason and logic in discussion: ergo, dialectic. Socrates valued rationality (appealing to logic, not emotion) as the proper means for persuasion, the discovery of truth, and the determinant for one’s actions. To Socrates, truth, not aretē, was the greater good, and each person should, above all else, seek truth to guide one’s life. Therefore, Socrates opposed the Sophists and their teaching of rhetoric as art and as emotional oratory requiring neither logic nor proof.[4] Different forms of dialectical reasoning have emerged throughout history from the Indosphere (Greater India) and the West (Europe). These forms include the Socratic method, Hindu, Buddhist, Medieval, Hegelian dialectics,[/quote]
Best entry yet in this thread…
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CE
Participant[quote=CDMA ENG][quote=UCGal][quote=CDMA ENG][quote=UCGal]My husband is convinced he’s the sex object in our relationship. I don’t dissuade him of this notion. LOL.[/quote]
Typical Pisan…
😛
CE[/quote]
Mio marito è molto maschilismo. Lui è molto bello… nella sua testa.(Can you tell I’m acing my Italian 101 class? – I can use present tense verbs, adjectives, prepositions – and possessive pronouns.)[/quote]
Oh man… You are challenging my limited Italian…
Right now my phrase of choice is…
“CHE PUTZ BAMBINO! Oh Ma’ron!”
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CE[/quote]
I just realized I wasnt even spelling it correctly and using the slang version anyway…
Should be Che Puzza!
CE
ParticipantRight now…
I am listening to some beautiful Gaberial Era Genesis… Feeling the nice ocean breeze through my home…
And laughing at you guys for wasting such precious time on incredibly long and unwinnable debates…
I suggest you laugh at yourselves… Drink some nice wine and listen to something beautiful of you own choice…
We will all be dead soon enough and to waste time trying to convince one another of each other view point is worthless…
CE
As the human torch says “Flame on!”
Participant[quote=UCGal][quote=CDMA ENG][quote=UCGal]My husband is convinced he’s the sex object in our relationship. I don’t dissuade him of this notion. LOL.[/quote]
Typical Pisan…
😛
CE[/quote]
Mio marito è molto maschilismo. Lui è molto bello… nella sua testa.(Can you tell I’m acing my Italian 101 class? – I can use present tense verbs, adjectives, prepositions – and possessive pronouns.)[/quote]
Oh man… You are challenging my limited Italian…
Right now my phrase of choice is…
“CHE PUTZ BAMBINO! Oh Ma’ron!”
😛
CE
Participant[quote=UCGal]My husband is convinced he’s the sex object in our relationship. I don’t dissuade him of this notion. LOL.[/quote]
Typical Pisan…
😛
CE
ParticipantIdentify!
ParticipantToday is my fourth anniversary… and my son is 3 months old today as well…
Fuck the money! The ROI is incredible no matter how much I spent on my wedding.
CE
Participant[quote=kev374][quote=CDMA ENG]
DUDE! Now I am wondering about your rationality! 25K for a fairy tale wedding? LOL! Hardly a fairy tale wedding. [/quote]Dude. It’s all relative. For some $25k is small potatoes, for some it’s a huge amount. You cannot make a blanket statement like that. Each person’s financial circumstances are different.
I dislike weddings for many reasons… that’s a whole other topic but if I had my wish I would just go quietly to a courthouse and get married for the cost of the court fees, then probably have a ceremony with close friends in my backyard. Nothing more required.
I hate the wedding industry and it’s practices of price gouging… inflating all costs by 300% and frankly suckering their customers into paying.
Yes, if my partner wanted a $25k or $30k wedding I would acquiesce but only if they had something financially to contribute towards it.
And if my partner had not only nothing to contribute but on the other hand had only liabilities to bring into the marriage I would never agree to it at all.[/quote]
Brother… You make more than me… and like I said Im cheap. I agree with all your points but if you think you are getting married at City Hall… Good luck with that… And if you do… She’s a keeper..
The only way the City Hall marriage usually happens… is if she come with baggage and is on a second marriage… Or your 55 years old already and it just doesn’t matter…
So yeah I can make blanket statement like that…
BTW… I got married at 40..
CE
BTW… I should have mentioned that though me and my wife don’t have a fairy tale marriage either…
She was well worth it…
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]Actually I’m seriously thinking about opening a donut shop.[/quote]
All I can think about from this statement is Scaredy acting like Ben Stiller in Dodge Ball.
CE
Participant[quote=kev374]
But that wasn’t enough for her, she still wanted her $25k fairy tale wedding, at least a $5k ring (to her I was getting off cheap as her friends had received $15k rings), wanted to honeymoon in the Maldives etc. etc. I was disturbed by this as these expectations from someone who does not have any money in the bank is just too much!And she wonders why I bailed on her. Do you see how absolutely irrational this woman is? LOL![/quote]
DUDE! Now I am wondering about your rationality! 25K for a fairy tale wedding? LOL! Hardly a fairy tale wedding. I had a small to medium size wedding and it ran my that… It was a nice wedding but nothing that will get me noted in the society pages… 25K for a wedding is small potatoes…
5K for a ring is on the cheap side…
Again I am not a big baller and a bit on the cheap side but what you are complaining about is a normal cost by today’s standard for a small to medium size wedding…
These are the costs of “doing business”.
CE
Participant[quote=Escoguy]We did one prepaid lease with Sungevity: 3KW for $8800 about a year ago. It produces 4500 kwh/year. Avg cost/kwh= 9.5 cents.
I’m doing a second regular lease with them for a 4.9KW system. I put $1000 down and have a flat $85/month for 20 years. It will produce about 8000 khw/year on average. Avg cost 8 cents.
For two other smaller rentals, I priced 3KW systems as leases from Solar city, they were in the $55/month range. They were more competitive for small systems.[/quote]
So what happens if they go under?
CE
Participant[quote=UCGal]Not sure why I need a lightbulb that can flash, change colors, etc, though.[/quote]
You are soooo not cool! 😛
CE
Participant[quote=kev374]Sometimes I feel I should respond with my point of view but other times I feel there is no point starting some sort of adversarial dialogue.[/quote]
Don’t engage the crazy… She is trying to get you into dialog and suck you into her black hole.
Just don’t respond.
CE
NOW GO CHASE SKIRTS!
ParticipantAs a unbiased reader how has no dog in this fight I would say this.
You should almost thank her for the email.
She just confirmed everything that your inner-self knew but would not admit to.
You made good choice.
Now go act like a horny bachelor…
CE
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