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Politics, Mature and taboo => Political Pundits => Topic started by: Calavera on December 16, 2011, 02:52:06 AM
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Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry on The Ten Commandments (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm1l7o-S8P4#ws)
Christian morals my ass.
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By the way, anyone noticed
IntelligenceSquared.com
in there? :autism:
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I like the way these people present their arguments. I do. In the company of such succinct and well spoken people I nod enthusiastically and fater when i speak. Ideas sound but words fail in a race to keep up.
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I like the way these people present their arguments. I do. In the company of such succinct and well spoken people I nod enthusiastically and fater when i speak. Ideas sound but words fail in a race to keep up.
Yea, I wish I had that vocal and verbal talent myself. Would've made life much easier for me.
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I like the way these people present their arguments. I do. In the company of such succinct and well spoken people I nod enthusiastically and fater when i speak. Ideas sound but words fail in a race to keep up.
Yea, I wish I had that vocal and verbal talent myself. Would've made life much easier for me.
Ironically I actually do Ok in being persuasive and presnt myself well enough in logical discourse BUT it depends on what type of person I am speaking to.
I am slow and measured in what I say and speak with an Aussie drawl which doesn't help at all.
In a fast flowing debate i keep up mentally and process as it flows but to interupt and think through my answer and then articulate takes time and this is not what a fast flowing debate is like. The ideas will be sound and given time to lay it out will make intelligent and meaningful response but again in a room with people who both follow the debate and fire well informed and thought out answers in clipped articulate responses, I am completely out of contention for worthy input.
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I like the way these people present their arguments. I do. In the company of such succinct and well spoken people I nod enthusiastically and fater when i speak. Ideas sound but words fail in a race to keep up.
Yea, I wish I had that vocal and verbal talent myself. Would've made life much easier for me.
Ironically I actually do Ok in being persuasive and presnt myself well enough in logical discourse BUT it depends on what type of person I am speaking to.
I am slow and measured in what I say and speak with an Aussie drawl which doesn't help at all.
In a fast flowing debate i keep up mentally and process as it flows but to interupt and think through my answer and then articulate takes time and this is not what a fast flowing debate is like. The ideas will be sound and given time to lay it out will make intelligent and meaningful response but again in a room with people who both follow the debate and fire well informed and thought out answers in clipped articulate responses, I am completely out of contention for worthy input.
It sounds as if you acquit yourself far better than I would, at least you think of answers!
In confrontational situations I tend to go blank and lose all confidence. :hide:
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I can debate in real life quite well if it's about a topic I'm obsessed with (despite my slow speech). But when they talk politics and cars and stuff, I tend to stay quiet and try my best to understand every word they;re saying from the first go (which I fail to do so I blank out, too).
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I loove how both Hitchens and Fry get sick of her stupid assed questions and leave. 8)
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Looks like you watched the full video because I don't remember Fry leaving in that clip.
By the way, she sounds funny, doesn't she?
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This video contains content from Channel 4, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
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Looks like you watched the full video because I don't remember Fry leaving in that clip.
By the way, she sounds funny, doesn't she?
sure does.