BeIR/webis-touche2020 huggingface dataset:
Autumn Is The Best Season

Your welcome for the debate. I will rebut my opponent's stances and explain further as to why mine or still valid. "It's cold in the morning then it could be hot in the afternoon…The weather is also dependent on location…In the Midwest Autumn means it could be 70 degrees one moment, and snowing the next." Summer is exactly the same in this perspective. Depending on the location of a person, it could be comfortably being between 75 and 85 degrees or it can be scorching hot at 90-100+ degrees. The variation occurs in any season. However, my claim is that any temperature between 50 and 70 degrees is rather comfortable. It can rain in any season also, so that is irrelevant. Regarding snow, this only occurs towards the end of the season because winter comes next in the cycle. "…There are some of the greatest moments and holidays" No, not everyone like the holidays. But as a whole, there are more people who celebrate the holiday's then people that don't which are why during these holidays, the stores are packed with people and the stores make so much profit around the holidays compared to other days throughout the year. "So autumn rather, is NOT one of the best seasons, because of Yom Kippur." The reason my opponent gives and explanation behind why Yom Kippur is not a festive holiday is very opinionated. In his particular household, they may not celebrate it much. However, others may. Therefore, this is not warranted as refuting my claim about the numerous holidays during the season of autumn. "…We have the best scenery to observe" "My opponent is correct that autumn brings nice stuff to look at…But underneath all that niceness are reasons that make autumn not a nice month…" First off, just to clarify, autumn is not a month. It is a season as my opponent incorrectly points out. To further my argument, I too will list all the benefits to why fall is a better season. There are many opportunities in the fall as there are in the summer. However, most would agree that the weather is much more complimentary. We do a lot of the things we do in the summer to avoid the boredom of the summer since there's no school, to stay cool, or to waste hours of daylight for we have nothing constructive to do. First Day of school is a great experience for those who actually like school. Halloween Thanksgiving Making scarecrows Playing in the leaves outside Sweatshirt/Hoodie Weather Pick Apples Carve a Pumpkin Bake Pumpkin Bread or Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies Volunteer as a screamer at your local haunted house Go on a hayride Brew cider Go kayaking/rafting Make chili and invite neighbors over to watch football on TV Build a fire and snuggle at night Plant bulbs for spring Take a road trip Organize a neighborhood bonfire Attend your high school's homecoming game and parade Spirit Week at School Go Camping All of these things are fun to do during the fall that people don't recognize.
Autumn Is The Best Season

I will first rebut a few of my opponent's reasons for liking autumn, followed by reasons why autumn is not a good season. I will then conclude with reason why some other season is better. "…Autumn is the best season due to the weather. " "Its weather ranges from approximately 50 degrees to 75 degrees. " And that weather range may occur over the course of just one day. It's cold in the morning then it could be hot in the afternoon. It can make it tough to plan for the day as well as making many people uncomfortable. The weather is also dependent on location. In the Midwest Autumn means it could be 70 degrees one moment, and snowing the next. Autumn is a very inconvenient season. "…There are some of the greatest moments and holidays" I'll concede to this point my opponent makes. But it requires that one like holidays and not everyone does. "Jewish people have Yom Kippur" In the 28 years I've been Jewish I have not once heard anyone say they were excited for Yom Kippur. For those who aren't aware, Yom Kippur is ‘a day of atonement'. It's essentially a period of 25 hours where everyone who is able, must fast. Most of the time is spent praying with the understanding that we are being judged for our deeds of the past year. It's a very serious holiday without much celebration. So autumn rather, is NOT one of the best seasons, because of Yom Kippur. [1] "…We have the best scenery to observe" My opponent is correct that autumn brings nice stuff to look at. (Even if not as nice as the stuff during summer, mentioned in my opening round) But underneath all that niceness are reasons that make autumn not a nice month and so I will begin various points why autumn is not a nice season: Spiders and mice begin their mating season. (But not with each other) Leaves are piling up everywhere. Wet leaves get tracked around everywhere and need to be cleaned. Gutters need to be cleaned out. Winter is looming. School is beginning. It's warm then its cold. It's cold, then its warm. Many colors may be offensive to the color blind. Yom Kippur. No Christmas, Hanukah, or Kwanza. Canada geese spread former meals indiscriminately throughout the land. *Summer is the best season because*: I can dress for it to be warm the entire day. I can go to the beach without it likely being 40 degrees by the end of the day. Vacation. People can wear fewer clothes. No Yom Kippur. It's warm. Baseball. Ramadan. There's nice stuff to look at. NFL minicamps begin. The sun provides free tanning. It's rarely icey, or snowing. Gas prices go up. (For the Communists who like that sorta thing) Hobos are more comfortable. Hippies start occupying parks and private property, creating free entertainment for onlookers who can watch them getting tasered and arrested. I'll leave it there for now.
Autumn Is The Best Season

Actually Autumn is the better season. I will now expand on my thoughts as to my reasons for why I selected Autumn. Also, I'd like to point out that my opponent decided to take a rather offensive, irrational decision as to why summer is better then autumn. Therefore, that last remark should not count as being one of significance. First off, I believe autumn is the best season due to the weather. Out of all the other times of year, the weather is most pleasant. Its weather ranges from approximately 50 degrees to 75 degrees. This weather is most comfortable. We can go outside in just a t-shirt or only having to wear a light sweater or jacket. Also, people are not dripping wet from sweating as they would if it were summer. They aren't drenched in water because of the consistent rain we get during the spring. Most of all, they aren't freezing cold, getting frostbite and pneumonia from the frigid winter. Also, within autumn, there are some of the greatest moments and holidays. During fall, students are starting or returning to school. Halloween is in October for all children and adults to have a great time dressing up in costumes, having parties, and going trick-or-treating which makes a wonderful time for families to also have some bonding time together. Furthermore, Jewish people have Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah to celebrate in the month of September. For Catholics, we have All Saints and All Souls Day in November as religious holidays. Last and most highly recognized of all, we have Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is one of the most sincere, heart-felt, family/friend-oriented holidays. We learn to share with those who are less fortunate and give thanks for the things we do have rather then dwell on the things we desire to possess. It is in fact a day that makes the fall such a special time for all. My final primary reason for why I feel fall is the best season is because during autumn we have the best scenery to observe. The beginning of fall is the most beautiful time in nature to take photographs and explore nature. The trees are all losing their leaves slowly. However, the amazing bright colors of red, orange, green, and brown are absolutely breathtaking. There is no greater visual then to be driving around the side of a mountain and overlooking across you spot another mountain and all you see is thousands of colorful trees. It is a lovely sight.
The Eastern Orthodox Church was founded by Jesus and accepts His true teachings

Like the Catholic church, the Orthodox church does not follow the Bible. Interpretation: The Bible is interpreted by 7 councils with a hierarchy of bishops. The Bible interprets itself by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Orthodox Christians also practice Sainthood as they practice veneration towards an icon or human being. The same argument can be applied to the Orthodox church. Furthermore, Orthodox Christians have someone almost equivalent to the pope known as a "Metropolitan bishop." It is clear that the Orthodox church is not of Jesus. Links: http://christianity.about.com... http://christianity.about.com... http://en.wikipedia.org...
The Eastern Orthodox Church was founded by Jesus and accepts His true teachings

A Metropolitan bishop is not nearly as important as the Pope. They only have influence over churches in a certain area. They are not even the leaders of the church. The Orthodox Church is ran by a Patriarch. The difference between a Patriarch and a Pope is that every country has a Patriarch and there is no Patriarch that has influence over more countries, while the Pope is the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Pope is also considered infallible, a Patriarch isn't. "Orthodox Christians also practice Sainthood as they practice veneration towards an icon or human being." They do, but the Orthodox Church teaches that God is the one who decides who is a saint and who isn't, while the Catholic Church claims it can decide on God's behalf who becomes a saint.
God does not exist

1.The con is obviously trying to not include some very obvious information about the bible. He is also not trying to acknowledge my counterpoints to some of his arguments like why maybe somebody other than a Christian(say a Muslim) might not believe in the bible. This is obviously pointing out that my opponent doesn't know who to respond to my rebuttals and accepts the fact that I am right and doesn't deny it because he doesn't know how to say otherwise. 2.I want to say that there are plenty of things that are factually incorrect about the Bible.For example, how the bible says that life was created 6000 years ago in 6 days. First of all, we have discovered real fossils of dinosaurs dating back to millions of years ago. Another thing is that how could you create such a complex and unique world in just 6 day. Not even if the greatest minds in the world had the power to create universes, would it take nearly has short as 6 DAYS! And you say that the bible proves itself factual correct? Trust me their are many more mistakes in the bible, I just don't want to waste my time listing them all.Also if you keep on expressing about how the bible is correct, I will literary just spend a round showing you the problems of the bible. I am not joking. 3.I am just going to say this. NO. "Combination of internal consistency, connection to evidence, and relevance to our experience makes the Bible unique among books." 4. I also really want you to hear this comment that this one person nickname izybev said." Just because something it may say it in a bible or torah or whatever, doesn't automatically make it true. any intelligent person should realize that all religions were made up hundreds/thousands of years ago by people who didn't understand how the universe worked and needed something to explain it. And, in the case of the church, they control and manipulate the uneducated masses through fear. "Do as god says (what we say) or your going to hell." If only there was proof for anything religions say." I completely agree.
God does not exist

Logic requires that there is only one objective "truth" for any specific claim. Contradictory claims cannot be equally true. For example, the statements "the hamster is in its cage" and "the hamster cage is empty" cannot both be true simultaneously. This evaluation of truth applies to spiritual matters just as well as logical or physical matters. It"s reasonable to claim that the Bible is true in a way that excludes all other statements. Examining the Bible in the same way we would any other text, we can confidently say that it is, in fact, true. The Bible not only encourages readers to examine their own beliefs (1 John 4:1), but it also commends those who check spiritual claims for truth (Acts 17:11). The Bible makes claims on the basis of history and eyewitnesses (Luke 1:1"4; 2 Peter 1:16), connects belief to visible evidence (John 20:30"31), and ties biblical ideas to the observable world (Psalm 19:1; Romans 1). Jesus overtly claimed to represent an exclusive truth (John 18:37; 14:6). So the Bible is clearly meant to be interpreted as true, and exclusively true (John 17:17). Where we can check biblical claims against verifiable truth, the Bible proves itself accurate. History, archaeology, science, and philosophy have shown Scripture to be factual and consistent. This correspondence between various forms of evidence is a major advantage the Bible has over the scriptures of any other faith system. In many cases, it has been the deciding factor in converting skeptics and nonbelievers to faith in Christ. Whether or not the Bible is true is a separate question from whether or not a particular passage is "literal." It"s reasonable to say that a phrase or statement is true, even if the truth is not presented in literal terms. For example, if a person says during a heavy rain, "It"s raining cats and dogs," the statement is true"it"s just not literal. Idiomatic phrases are meant to be interpreted. The same principle applies to John"s words about Jesus: "Look, the Lamb of God!" (John 1:36). Of course, a person might ask for clarification, and be told, based on Old Testament passages, that Jesus isn"t literally a wooly farm animal, but that He"s the fulfillment of the Law and the divinely chosen sacrifice to redeem the world. The figurative nature of John"s statement doesn"t make his statement untrue, simply metaphorical. It"s good to remember that the Bible is comprised of sixty-six separate books, and each of them often contains different types of literature and a mixture of literal and figurative language. More so than with any other religious text, we have assurance that the Bible is true. The combination of internal consistency, connection to evidence, and relevance to our experience makes the Bible unique among books. Like many religious works, the Bible claims to be true (2 Timothy 3:16). Unlike any other religious work, the Bible emphatically supports that assertion.
God does not exist

hello again. I believe that i owe you a few explanations to our argument today. Again i will be using numbers to state my points. Here we go 1. Okay, first of all, do you even know how the big bang works? To argue about something you have to know how it works. Also, i want to ask you this. How can god just pop up in the middle of nowhere without a known explanation and suddenly create the universe? That's like saying that 100 bucks could just pop up into your hands right now. It makes no logical sense. .. 2. The Bible isn't correct and most of the things it has said have never come true at all. Plus only Christians believe in the bible. For example, if you ask a Hindu if the Bible is correct, he will no. He will say no because he thinks that his religion is right. Yet i thought that god was the same? That's not how other religions would picture that. Religions are like a fictional story. Each story has the same concept but in a different way. Yet nobody would believe a fictional story is true because it's well, a fictional story! Plus the fact that all of the fictional stories aren't the same therefore proves even more that god is nothing but a fictional story! 3. I want to comment on what you said about god "punishing us for our crimes. " You see it is not "god" that is punishing us. It is our selves. All that is happening, global warming, pollution,murder, have all happened because of we humans. How can god punish us when we are already punishing our selves? Also if god is our creator and he is allowing all of these bad things to happen because of us, then why didn't he make us good people? Why didn't he just make us smarter so we could build more technology to help solve our problems or give us magical powers? Think about it. 4. Also i want to comment on your last sentence of when you say that everything was created from a SIMPLE big bang. You know the concept of "God" is even simpler. A super natural being that controls everything. The idea of that concept is too simple. I also want to ask you this question. Why do YOU believe in god? Was it because of your parents or friends? 5. Lastly i want to comment on the question you gave me about "Why do you have a problem with there being a god? " You see i do not have a problem with there being a god. Actually it would be a bit comforting to know that a super natural, and friendly being is watching over us. I simply just don't believe that that is the case. Anyways I am done with my round. Hope you have some good stuff to counteract me with.
God does not exist

Hello, God does exist and it is show all around us. Will you simply say that all the beautiful nature happened by a bang? Or that a super nova created you and me? Not only does God exist but in the Bible things that God has said will happen have. But just tell me... WHAT is your explanation for our coming to being or for nature or for anything that you see in front of you today, and as for the has anyone seen God well yes there are accounts of it in the Bible but even then you cant see oxygen you cant really feels it but you have faith that's it there and helping you live same thing with God. He has created us and is helping us live. As for the problems we see around us today? well God has allowed this to happen, and you cannot say that man kind as a whole does not deserve this. God in a way is punishing the world because of bad people for example take ICIST, not only have christian scientist seen this but other scientist have too. If you trace back the history of ICIST you will see that not only does it start with Israel but the accounts in the Bible line up perfectly it. Believe it or not the Bible (Gods word) has accounts of things that happened have happened and will happen. But the question i really want to ask you is... Why do you have a problem with there being a God? Some one who can help/protect you. Someone who loves and cares for you. The main reason why people today reject this idea is because they rather be there own god. America was built on the principals of the Bible and when it was we where a great nation and still are but when it was we had to problems. But slowly America has drifted away from this idea and even now are voting to take away "In God We Trust" phrase on our currency, but i'm getting away from the issue. God does exist and if you look around every thing is more complicated than a simple big bang or super nova or what ever you want to believe.
God does not exist

Hello, today I am going to be telling you why god doesn't exist. Keep in mind that i do not wish to offend anybody but just simply say what i believe. Ok so lets start this off nice and simple. I am going to number off my points off view of why god is not real 1. Ok, think about this, why are all the religions picture god differently? That's because those religions just simply thought up of other ways to picture god and what he did. Yet, not all religions can be right. If they where then this earth would be the weirdest place ever XD. Think about it, it doesn't make sense.. 2. Where is the proof that god exists? For example nobody has ever seen, smelled, or felt god. Some people may claim that god is around you and you have to "feel" him. That's like saying that there is an invisible tiger around and you have to "feel" it to believe that there actually is an invisible tiger around you. But the tiger actually is not there, just like good. And others claim that they can "hear" god calling out to them and telling them what to do. That's just their imagination and their way to falsely believe that god exists. 3. God is just a myth. The only reason that people even believed in god in the first place is that they didn't know how the world worked and thought it as a very wide and mysterious place. They came up with god just because they wanted to believe that they knew everything about the world and how it works. 4. People believe that god is like a saint. He protects the weak and brings justice to the world. He has the power do to many wondrous things and do to countless miracles (not everyone). Yet their are still so many problems with the world. Like hunger, financial problems, habitat loss, global warming, and war. Honestly I could go on and on. Yet why hasn't god solved all of these problems? Some people say that god is right now in the form of humans and saving problems world wide(I repeat I am saying SOME PEOPLE). Yet i thought god was so powerful and mighty that he could solve problems instantly or that he was a master peacemaker? Well? Can you answer that? Anyways that is about as much as i am going to type for this argument. All i can say is good luck to my opponent. Not trying to be cocky here but GOOD LUCK!
Stem Cell Research Should be Funded

Good! The sorcerer, my old master left me here alone today! Now his spirits, for a change, my own wishes shall obey! Having memorized what to say and do, with my powers of will I can do some witching, too! Go, I say, Go on your way, do not tarry, water carry, let it flow abundantly, and prepare a bath for me! ... I underline my arguments given, repeat that I consider my opponent's as fully refuted and point out that Goethe was a wonderful poetrist.
Stem Cell Research Should be Funded

I am taking the position that stem cell research should be funded. First, I must make it clear that I am speaking only about embryonic stem cell research, as there is no debate concerning the research of somatic stem cells, as no human "life" is being destroyed. Religious people's problem with embryonic stem cell research is this: when you extract the stem cells out of the human embryo, you ultimately destroy the embryo; thus, killing it. The religious people say that this embryo has been fertilized, and is, therefore, human life. Thus, they say it is immoral to kill it. Let me give a few good arguments as to why this argument is silly and why stem cell research should be funded. 1. The embryos are not concise beings- These embryos feel no pain, nor do they have any retaliation of their existence. Scientists are not being cruel to them in any way; they do not have a nervous system yet. 2. Embryos are not as important as complex human life is- Do you really think that killing a human embryo is more immoral than letting some eight year old girl suffer with diabetes for the rest of her life? Or letting an eighty year old man suffer from long-term heart damages due to an angina attack or a heart attack? It is silly to treat an embryo with the same respect as a more-developed and self-aware human being. 3. Embryonic stem cell research can cure so many illnesses- Embryonic stem cells can regrow and repair virtually any organ or body part in the human body. Our current knowledge of biology tells us that embryonic stem cells are the only thing that can cure spinal and brain injuries. 4. Leave the people benefit from it- If you have a problem with embryonic stem cell research, fine, but let the people who can/want to benefit from it do so.