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Gay marriage should be legal

I believe gay marriage should be legal because everyone is human regardless of sexuality. The only argument people use is religion but Jesus taught love and acceptance not hate and discrimination. So if this is true that people hate gays because of religion, you are going against the words of Jesus Christ. If being gay was a choice why would someone choose to be hated and discriminated against. No one wants to be put down. Love is a beautiful and a powerful thing. Shouldn't we embrace it, not make is seem shameful and wrong? Also two people of the same sex getting married has no effect at all on heterosexual people. Many people use the argument it hurts the sanctity of marriage but why wouldn't divorce be wrong? It is proven that heterosexual relationships have a way higher divorce rate then homosexual relationships.
Geniocracy

In this debate, my opponent and I will be arguing about the idea of a Geniocracy. I, Pro, will be arguing that many of the ideas of a Geniocracy are good ideas and should be implemented into society, while my opponent, Con, will be arguing the point that a Geniocracy is not a good idea. Here is the definition of 'Geniocracy': Geniocracy is the framework for a system of government which was first proposed by Raël in 1977 and which advocates problem-solving and creative intelligence as criteria for regional governance. Basically, it prefers intelligence over age. Here is a good example:1. In modern society, an 18 year-old idiot is allowed to vote while a 16 year-old genius is not.2. In a Geniocracy, the 18 year-old idiot would not be permitted to vote, while the 16 year-old genius would be allowed to. Now, I will lay out come rules:1. This is a serious debate. Do not accept this debate if you cannot commit.2. Proper spelling and grammar must be used at all times.3. All sources, if any, must be properly cited using MLA format.4. Arguments must be intelligent.5. Personal examples are indeed okay, due to the topic of the debate. Examples are good for a debate like this. However, do not overuse them.6. Use logic. Those are all the rules I wish to lay out, so I will now go over the rounds:Round 1: Acceptance only. Round 2: Arguments only. No Rebuttals! Round 3: Rebuttals and any remaining arguments. Round 4: More rebuttals and conclusionI look forward to this debate and hope to debate someone who is willing to debate this topic with me. Remember to not accept if you cannot commit. 1. . http://en.wikipedia.org...
oneness vs trinity

THAT WAS SO WEAK I REALLY THINK YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT FIRST OF ALL I NEVER SAID I BELIEVED IN A TRINITY ALL IM SAYING IS THAT THE CLASSIC DEFINITION FOR THE WORD TRINITY USED BY SCHOLARS they DO NOT BELIEVE IT THE WAY YOU PRESENT IT BUT THATS FINE THERE JUST AS CONFUSED AS YOU ARE. NOW YOU USED A BIBLE THAT IS TRANSLATED FROM JEHOVAHS WITNESS THAT DENY JESUS BIEN GOD SO IF YOUR GOING TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LETS GO TO THE KING JAMES WHICH IS THE MOST ACCURATE IT AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE ARGUE THE WHOLE TRANSLATION ISSUE THAT SUBJECT WE COULD IN ANOTHER DEBATE BUT LETS FOCUS ON THE SCRIPTURES. I FIND WHAT YOUR SAYING VERY DUMB Jesus is very much GOD ILL SHOW U the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ...gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity.. Titus 2:13-14. TIMOTHY 3:16 GOD CAME IN THE FLESH. God and our Savior Jesus Christ. II Peter 1:1. --Isaiah 9:6 CALLS JESUS THE EVERLASTING FATHER THE MIGHTY GOD. SO YOU SEE IN THE BOOK OF JOHN 14 JESUS SAYS iF YOU SEEn ME YOU SEEN THE FATHER . ima now go over your scriptures that dont give a trinity. you gave me where jesus got done getting baptized and the heavens opened and the spirit of god descended over him like a dove. if you notice it didnt say a different person or a different god it said the spirit of god not a different one and like a dove not an actual dove flying around in circles then it said says the father spoke this is my beloved son in WHOM i am well pleased in. wait wait notice it said in whom i am well pleased IN he was inside jesus collosians 2:9 in jesus dwelleth all the fulness of the godhead . so if you say there is a trinity and say jesus is god thats wierd becausee that would mean god prayed to another god but sorry that cant happen god dont need to pray he answers them so let me explain why jesus prayed because he was god in the flesh he was a normal man he had to pray to set the examle others wise that would make him un perfect so he too pray. plus he had no fleshly father therfore the spirit caused the conception therfore he is the son of god in referring to his humanity.
oneness vs trinity

okay first of all were talking about the biblical trinity do you know that or no? sorry i didn't lay down a better foundation on what i was trying to debate. okay you used your body for an example to show a trinity but that is not a good illustration because i mite have many roles as a human but my body is not three persons its one person. if you had a different idea on what we were suppose to argue i am sorry i will understand if you want to stop because i would like to discuss bible
oneness vs trinity

There is a trinity. A quality of something being "is" is existence. For example, Obama is a President. The above sentence implies that Obama, in his existence, has attained the title and position of President. To Obama him being President exists. The parameters of existence are two fold. Existence must either be possible in physical form or imaginable form. An example of existence in a physical form is a CD. A CD "is". A CD "exists", because I can touch it and see it and use it to interact with other objects. An example of imaginable existence is Darth Vader. Darth Vader does not truly exist in physical form. He is in an imagined world with imagined people with an imagined story. Yet we can think of him and when referenced we know whom he is and what the person referencing him is talking about. And example of what cannot exist is a circle with a 90 degree corner on it. You can think of the words and you can put a corner onto a circle, yet it is impossible to view them both together. For once you do put a corner on a circle it is no longer a circle. Therefore, a circle with a 90 degree corner does not exist. Let us examine my opponent's statement: "there is no trinity". Yet, even if imagined, I can see three things. I ca think of myself. I have a head, a body, and two legs. Yet I am one being with three specific areas of being as well. Another example of trinity could be the Platonic Government (mentioned in his book, "The Republic"). The Republic is one government, but their are three classes; the ruling class, the soldiers, and the workers. Three things working together to make one society. Even in Christianity, we can use the idea that God is three things; the father of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ himself, and a spirit which lives inside of us all. If we were to think Christianity was true, then this would be possible. Even if it wasn't true, the idea still exists.
The U.S is losing its cachet as a global superpower.

America's reputation has been tarnished within the last decade. America's reputation in the world is on a steady decline. The world didn't support America in its endeavors in Afghanistan and Iraq. They viewed America's endeavors in these regions as an extension of American imperialism. Furthermore, they saw these 'tactical strategies' as an imperial overstretch. Each successive campaign has had major implications on our armed forces. They have become weaker with each successive campaign. They are ill-equipped to deal with such problems as terrorism. America can not deal with these issues alone. America can not continue flouting the new world order. Unipolarism will not help America especially not while its power is on the decline.
Meditation before a tournament will be beneficial towards our team.

Okay so basically we are getting to some rambling about how YOU can't have a successful meditation. Well lets look at the big picture, 1. You never refuted : 1. Mediation will bring various health benefits towards the debate team, and will increase their chances of a "better performance". And since you did not I should win because this was a "dropped argument". This brings me to refuting what you posted in your last argument, In the resolution it clearly states "will be" and is talking about the future not the past, so any past problems you or any other debate member has had does not pertain to this debate. Also for your second contention of physical pain, is a headache physical pain ? Is their any evidence showing that trying to meditate causes headaches ? Basically what I am trying to say is that, learning how to meditate as a team and then meditating before a tournament will be beneficial towards our team.
Meditation before a tournament will be beneficial towards our team.

Meditation brings more stress. Whenever I sit around and just do nothing and try to relax my mind won't allow it. I sit there and then all my problems come to me and I try to think about it to come up with a solution but I just get more stressed out. Meditation brings physical pain. I have had a teacher try and help me learn to meditate. Well whenever I did this and tried to focus on this so called "third-eye" I get my eyes crossed and it gives me a headache. Therefore meditation doesn't help me as much as some would like. And I know this isn't a debate about me but I am part of the team. Also when our president on the team tried to meditate she just hurt her lungs laughing so hard, which ties into my 2nd contention.
Meditation before a tournament will be beneficial towards our team.

I'm sorry that your mediation experiences have not been successful, maybe you should get a teacher, a fellow friend, research it, or simply find a you tube video on it. Focusing on the center dot, also called you "third-eye" is one method of reaching the state of nirvana, like I said sorry to you. But this debate is not about OUR personal issues. Now for the word team, I understand it will have to be beneficial to everyone and not just most. And here is where I will refute that, - Meditation brings more stress ( refuted ) Now honestly lets say you sit down for about 10 minutes and just close your eyes, and not even meditate. Just sit there. What happens ? Your blood pressure lowers, your breathing becomes regular, your hormones level decreases, your heart rate decreases, and your metabolic rate decreases. With that said, I don't see how anyone one person participating in the "mediation" could not have positive effects on their body. I don't see how mediation will bring stress at any level, unless your stressing to be relaxed? Stress is a force from the outside world impinging on the individual. As stated by medterms. com, stress can be best managed by regular exercise, meditation or other relaxation techniques, structured time outs, and learning new coping strategies to create predictability in our lives. The management of stress depend mainly on the willingness of a person to make the changes necessary for a healthy lifestyle. Taking any amount of time to relax and let go of your nerves will bring positive effects to your body and not stress. - Meditation brings physical pain (refuted) The only possible physical pain your could bring upon your self with respect to meditation is the physical pain you bring to yourself " mind over matter " but that's a different debate. I cannot find one static or proved research that shows that mediation brings physical pain. Can you please provide me with your sources for this contention ?
Meditation before a tournament will be beneficial towards our team.

Yes meditation has been proven to work in many cases. As a matter of fact I am pretty familiar with this issue and have tried meditating many times. But while scientists have proven meditation to be beneficial to some to me its just a hazard. You see when I try to focus on this center dot and put all my stress into it i just get cross eyed. But first i would like to point out that the word team implies that it would be beneficial to everyone and not just most or some so in order to win you have to prove that it helps the team as a whole. My contentions are as follows: 1) Meditation actually brings more stress and 2) meditation brings physical pain. GOOD LUCK :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Meditation before a tournament will be beneficial towards our team.

So what is meditation, something you do in yoga? if your a Buddhist ? if you a monk? Well meditation comes in various forms, and is involved of each mentioned above. In this debate I would not like to define meditation as something to do with religion, or yoga. Meditation is a practice of concentrated focus upon a sound, object, visualization, the breath, movement, or attention itself in order to increase awareness of the present moment, reduce stress, promote relaxation, and enhance personal and spiritual growth. As you may have seen at past tournaments some debate teams do a certain "tradition" before competing, like tounge twisters for example. The reason I think having a tradition such as "meditation" before a tournament is beneficial towards our team is that, mediating will calm nerves, reduce stress, promote relaxation, bring focus to our minds, ECT. Meditating does more than just feel good and calm you down, it makes you perform better - and alters the structure of your brain, researchers have found. ( http://www.newscientist.com... People who meditate say the practice restores their energy, and some claim they need less sleep as a result. Many studies have reported that the brain works differently during meditation - brainwave patterns change and neuronal firing patterns synchronise. But whether meditation actually brings any of the restorative benefits of sleep has remained largely unexplored. ) Now with this said I would like to present my first point, 1. Mediation will bring various health benefits towards the debate team, and will increase their chances of a "better performance" I will listen to your arguments, then refute them. LET THE GAUNTLET BE THROWN :D
The United States is not the greatest country in the world.

Let me assure you that not only do other countries have electronic devices, most of these devices were invented outside of the USA. The USA consumes 26% of the world's energy. This may appear to be a good thing but it does verge on gluttony as it impoverishes other people in other countries. The US military is known to be one of the least humanitarian in the world - more so than some military dictatorship regimes. An example of this was how many civilians of Iraq complained that the US treated them worse than Suddam Hussein. If having a large amount of men who are ready to kill constitutes to a country being "great" then we have two different ideas of what it means. Conquering many nations is nothing to be proud of unless, of course, you are an imperialist. But what countries have the US conquered? Vietnam failed horribly for them. They couldn't invade Cuba. They had to pull out of Iraq. The Cold War didn't end in them gaining anything. The only overseas place that the US have got (other than Hawaii) is Guantanamo Bay where you torture people who may even be innocent. In fact, the United States intervene in foreign happenings when other countries don't want it and they mess the whole thing up.
The United States is not the greatest country in the world.

Many Americans still seem to believe that the United States of America is the greatest nation in the world. Nevertheless, it appears apparent to many Europeans and other people in the developed world that the USA's magnificence is a lie. Americans think that they live in the greatest country in the world because they are told that they do. Objective facts would argue otherwise. "Great" is described as "wonderful; first-rate; very good." On the assumption that my opponent in this debate is a patriot, I should mention that although "Patriotism" is defined as "devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty", it seems to me to be both illogical and irrational. This is because patriotism is when someone assumes their country to be better than all others simply because they were born in it. Seeing as many Americans call themselves "patriots", could it be possible that they are basing their country's greatness on the fact that it is where they live. Many laws and political policies in the United States, such as the Second Amendment and the lack of good healthcare, is looked down upon by other developed countries. I will stick with one of these examples: the Second Amendment allows almost any American citizen to carry a gun and kill whomever they please. The USA has the highest murder count in the developed world. People accuse video games and violent movies rather than guns because it inspires hatred. In Japan people play these video games and watch the same films (the same goes for the UK, France, Canada, Germany etc.) but the murder rate there is less than 10% of what it is in the USA. I could go on to talk about why firearms should be banned. Just one more thing about it: because of the way in which the Amendment is written, an American citizen is in fact entitled by it to own any arms including something like a weapon of mass destruction. I was recently talking to an American patriot who claimed that he lived in the greatest country in the world because of its "freedom." After searching about America's "freedom", I found that there are 46 countries with better freedom of the press than the USA, there are 9 countries with greater economic freedom, there are 21 countries better than the USA in freedom from corruption etc. The idea of Civil Rights is fairly new in the United States. I would go on with reasons why the USA is not the greatest country in the world but I might bring up my new arguments i later rounds. http://en.rsf.org... http://www.heritage.org...
Implanting GPS (ONLY) devices in newborns and toddlers.

Putting a Global Positioning System in any human being, whether old, young, or in between, is impractical, and unethical. Although the idea of being able to find lost children would be a great idea, the ability to abuse the knowledge of the location of children is drastically likely. Another idea is that with the transmitters, parents will be less likely to worry about their children. Without the worrying of the parents kids are more likely to do stupid and injury-causing activities. Also with todays technology, Hackers, and the government could easily hack into the GPS and find your children and do whatever they wish with this information.
Implanting GPS (ONLY) devices in newborns and toddlers.

It is my hope that every member of society has ALL of our children in their hearts. I, for one have become tired of hearing about the thousands of lost children and I believe that a small GPS (only) locator being implanted inchildren as soon as birth would begin to quell these events. I am not talking about a governmental process, I think it should be totally a private medical event, between parents, children, and Pediatricians. I want to hear what you think? Imagine the funds that are wasted trying to find children that often are never found, and then imagine the heartbreak of the parents when there are no answers. I am passionate about this but have discovered so many that believe this to be a religious manuever and I want to hear what the world thinks. Here I am, let's get started.
Implanting GPS (ONLY) devices in newborns and toddlers.

You say that many pedophiles don't think about there plan ahead of time, but then went along to say that they stalk the child and learn the child's routines. that would involve planning ahead. if they have the time to do that, then they have the time to learn how to hack and hack into the child's GPS location, and learn these exact same things without actually following them. Then there is the government. Whether you know it or not but the government is able to tap any phone line (cell or landline) and can look into anyone's computer. (Unnamed FBI Source) the government abuses alot of the things they do, so why wouldn't they abuse this? They could hack in and make sure kids are still going to school, and bust parents that take there kids out of school saying they're sick when they're not really sick. In the world of big business, the most sought after employees are cyber security employees. (COO of an unnamed Cyber Security firm) More and more people are hacking into the most random things. You said that most hackers are from the age of 16-19. well they could hack in and start stalking a girl they know that they go to school with or something like that. they could start off as a simple hacker but turn into a pedophile because of it. I conclude with the following statement, Although the idea of being able to find lost kids would be great, the ability to abuse this privilege would be substantially easy.
Implanting GPS (ONLY) devices in newborns and toddlers.

By citing my age as a factor as to why i should not be properly able to argue this topic is unprofessional. Also by assuming things about my personal life is also impractical. why do hackers hack the things they do? there normally isnt a reason. i have a friend that is only 17 and has hacked into my phone and located exactly where i was within five feet, while on the phone with me. If he can do it, why can't any run of the mill pedophile do it. All he did was watch Youtube videos to figure out how to hack. if a 17 year old can hack cant a 30+ old pedophile?
Implanting GPS (ONLY) devices in newborns and toddlers.

I believe that you are too young to object to this on any level. You haven't as yet felt the terror of losing a child, even for just a short time. A majority of parents are going to worry about their children forever and always, probably very similar to how your parents continue to watch over you and will for the rest of their natural lives REGARDLESS of your age and/or technological access. And while you make a valid point in recognizing that hackers and the like may potentially overrule a process of this nature, why would they? Perhaps in a exercise to avoid children that are "tagged," maybe. But overall children are all around us and pedophiles usually don't use alot of pre-planning to exact their cause, statistics support that as does media, ever seen "To Catch A Predator with Chris Hansen?" They don't allow thinking into the equation overall, instant gratification prevails. There are a large variety of programs that will locate people simply by their having a cell phone, usually utilized by scorned lovers and the like. Pedophiles already have access to information to help locate a child, much better than a simple GPS locating device put under the skin of a child, facebook is a primary source of a great wealth of information, why bother looking up the child's location, that could prove dangerous. We are implanting our animals and call it humane. On a DAILY basis more than two thousand children become missing, granted if one would take a look at the numbers (ie. their ages, etc) you'd see that a majority HAVE TO be runaways, but then we really don't know. But even if they are, THEY HAVE PARENTS THAT LOVE THEM AND MISS THEM. Putting a GPS tracking device inside of a child's body is NOT something that a parent is legally bound to share with his/her child, but most would, giving a child in his adult years the option to have it removed. However until the child's adult years that parent would NEVER have the total belief that the child is safe, but would always know that if the child becomes lost HE OR SHE CAN BE FOUND. That simple.