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We don't exist. Nothing does. We are simply thought.

We do not exist. Who's to say that we do? Think about it. It is believed that time is infinite. That it will never end. Ok. So how did it begin? Who's to say it did? To have no beginning is a pretty hard concept to think about. But if you relate that idea with the idea of no end, it becomes easier to see. So there are three options. 1. Time is infinite in both directions (claiming that there is no beginning nor end). 2. That there is a finite amount of time at both ends. 3. Time is infinite in only one direction. Let's take the first one. Most people accept the idea of an infinite future. But how could we all be here if nothing ever started? Have we always been here? From the very beginning? No. That would contradict the purpose of this option. No beginning. There must have been a start. As for the second option, it too is impossible. The definition of time is "a measurement between two events". If time ends, that means that everything ceases to exist immediately. Which means that even the various after-lifes of some religions would cease to exist. Otherwise, time wouldn't have truly ended. And when nothing exists, it means absolutely nothing exists. Not even empty space. This is either impossible or just a concept that is inconceivable to the human mind as of yet. 3. The last option is for only one side to be finite and the other to be infinite. This is also impossible. For the time to be finite at it's end, I've already explained. Now to explain the opposite. This idea (that there is a beginning to time, but no end) is probably the most common. However, this is impossible for essentially the same reason as the previous notion. If NOTHING exists, how could anything just be created? By god you say? But that would claim that time had already started. (For there to be a god, there must be time. To be is an event.) And how would this god have been created? It couldn't be created without time. However, I've already shown how time couldn't have always been if nothing was here in the first place. However, the following idea has intrigued me as a possible option. What if everything is simply thought. We think we are here. Therefore we are. But truly, we are not. We can touch and smell and see everything, but truly, we only think that we can. How could we think without a brain? We think we have a brain, therefore giving us the ability to think so. Then why can't we fly at will and turn apples into gold by touching them? We don't have that ability because our sub-conscious mind has accepted it as impossible. And unless you have the will-power and thought-power of a million gods, it's unlikely you'll ever succeed. In the end, it all turns into any paradox. Please comment on your thoughts about this.
Kurt Vonnegut is the underestimated great writer of our time.

I can say the name Shakespeare and there are still some people who do not know who I am talking about, so what? Also, you can't call a writer underestimated and than claim that he has written classics, underappreciated writers don't have timeless classics that everyone knows about, like Slaughterhouse-Five. The entire idea behind being underestimated is that people DON'T know about your work. Vonnegut is widely known and revered and the entire literary community aknowledged a very important loss when he died. Also, many of his books have been turned into movies, although unsuccessfully, this shows he is not below the radar. Vonnegut is an American institution and a very widely regarded literary figure, he isn't the underestimated great writer of *our* time, he's one of the most widely regarded great writers of the last like 40 years, the writers of *our* time haven't really emerged yet. Also, just naming two novels doesn't prove anyone is great, some people don't even like those two.
Song Debate: Defend your favorite band or artist!

This song is a Christmas song by Fun. It is not on any album, but it is a single. Lyrics:My Christmas is fillin' up with stuff I don't need.I was hoping for new shoes, the kind with the lights.I was naughty at first,But now I'm trying to be nice.Even Santa, he's thankful for the little things.(Like what kind of stuff, Santa?)Thanks to the reindeer that pull me on my sleigh,Thanks for the moonlight that guides me on my way.And I won't be greedy, I don't ask for much these days,I just need one thing: please Believe In Me.Well, Christmas comes just once a year,I was hoping for snow shoes, or maybe a bike.But when I asked them for Fun., they bought me Aim & Ignite.Even Santa, he's thankful for the little things (Sweet Santa)Thanks to the reindeer that pull me on my sleigh,Thanks for the moonlight that guides me on my way.Thanks for the memories, 'cause they keep us safeAnd remind me that it's okay to be lonelyPlease Believe In Me. (On this part, they are voicing and acting like teenage girls)Hey, Mary-Kate, what are you getting Ashley for Christmas?Um, I actually just got her a Bowflex.Shut up! I was gonna get her a Bowflex!Well, you wanna go shopping for something else?No, I'm going home.MEANING AND STORY Believe In Me is a rather short but fun song that is obviously a Christmas song. It tells the story of a conversation with a little boy and Santa Claus. The boy is telling Santa that he didn't get completely what he wanted for Christmas. Santa is telling the kid to be thankful for what he has, since Santa has quite a boring, one-day only job. Santa however says he is thankful for the moonlight and reindeer, and that the kid should be thankful for the shoes. Santa is also telling everyone, including the listeners and everyone else to believe in him. http://www.youtube.com...
Song Debate: Defend your favorite band or artist!

My opponent is making rather long and detailed introductions before the lyrics. So, I'm gonna start doing that now. This song, Carry On, comes from Fun.'s second and most recent album, Some Nights. Some Nights (album, not song) was recorded in 2011 and released in 2012 as an indie pop album. It was released through Fueled by Ramen, and it sometimes gets a Parental Advisory sticker because of usage of the word "f*ck". Their title song reached #3 on Billboards hot 100, and one of its songs one the Grammy for song of the year. The album itself had two nominations for Grammies. I don't think Oomph! has ever done that. Now, I do the lyrics:Well, I woke up to the sound of silenceThe cars were cutting like knives in fist fights.And I found you with a bottle of wine,Your head in the curtains and heart like the Fourth of July.You swore and said "We are not, we are not shining stars"This I know, I never said we are.Though I've never been through hell like that,I've closed enough windows to know you can never look back.If you're lost and alone, or you're sinking like a stoneCarry OnMay your past be the sound of your feet upon the groundCarry OnCarry On, Carry OnSo I met up with some friends in the edge of the nightAt a bar off '75And we talked and talked about how our parents will dieAll our neighbors and wives.But I'd like to think I could cheat it all,To make up for these times I've been cheated on.And it's nice to know when I was left for dead,I was found, and now I won't roam these streetsI am not the ghost you want of me!If you're lost and alone, or you're sinking like a stoneCarry OnMay your past be the sound of your feet upon the groundCarry OnWoah, my head is on fire, but my legs are fine,After all, they are mine.Lay your clothes down on the floor.Close the door, hold the phone, show me how,No one's ever gonna stop us now!'Cause we are, we are shining starsWe are invincible, we are who we areOn our darkest day, when your miles awaySo we'll come, we will find our way home!If you're lost and alone, or you're sinking like a stoneCarry OnMay your past be the sound of your feet upon the groundCarry OnOh woah, oh woah, oh woah oh-oh, etc.(No one's ever gonna stop us now).MEANING AND STORYThe meaning of this song is that almost anything can get better if you just simply do what the title says. The story of this song (as I see it) is, like most songs are, a relationship between a man and a woman. The woman in this song seems to be drifting away from the man, and the man is trying to get her to come back and love him more again. Thus making a better relationship and, "Carrying On". Get it?http://www.youtube.com...
Song Debate: Defend your favorite band or artist!

http://www.youtube.com... Fun's second or third most popular song. The great Some Nights. Some Nights I stay up cashing in my bad luck. Some Nights I call it a draw. Some Nights I wish that my lips could build a castle, Some Nights I wish they'd just fall off. But I still wake up, I still see your ghost. Oh Lord, I'm still not sure what I stand for, no What do I stand for? What do I stand for? Most Nights, I don't know, anymore oh-oh woah-oh oh-woah-oh oh oh (x2) This is it boys, this is war. What're we waiting for? Why don't we break the rules already? I was never one to believe the hype, save that for the black and white. I try twice as hard and I'm half as liked, and here they come again to jack my style. That's alright (its alright) I found a martyr in my bed tonight. She stops my bones from wondering just who I, who I, who I, am, oh who am I? Who? Well, Some Nights I wish that this all would end. 'Cause I could use some friends for a change. And Some Nights I'm scared you'll forget me again. Some Nights I always win, I always win. But I still wake up, I still see your ghost. Oh Lord, I'm still not sure, what I stand for, no. What do I stand for? What do I stand for? Most Nights, I don't know....(so come on) So this is it. I sold my soul for this. Washed my hands in that for this? I missed my Mom and Dad for this? No. When I see stars, when I see, when I see stars, that's all they are. When I hear songs, they sound like this one, so come on, come on, come on, OH COME ON! Well, that is it guys, that is all. Five minutes in and I'm bored again. Ten years of this and I'm not sure if anybody understands. And this one is for the folks at home, sorry to leave, mom, but I had to go. Who the f*ck wants to die alone, all dried up in the desert sun? My heart's breaking for my sister, and the con she calls love. But when I look into my nephew's eyes, man you would'nt believe the most amazing things that can come from Some Terrible Nights (oh oh oh oh oh x?) The other night, you wouldn't believe the dream I just had about you and me. I called up, but we'd both agree It's for the best you didn't listen, it's for the best we get our distance, oh. It's for the best you didn't listen, it's for the best we get our distance, oh. Oh woah, oh oh woah, oh. Oh woah oh, oh oh. MEANING AND STORY Some Nights, as according to the music video, tells the story of a young man who joins the Union during the Civil War. There he faces many struggles that are clearly mentioned, some of these being missing his mom and dad, losing care for stars, and washing his hands in dirty water or some other bad liquid. As I see it, the video also shows an almost middle-aged man who goes to war for the Confederates, and later ends up being killed by a bayonet by the young man in the Union. As you can see, Some Nights shares the story of struggles in life and provides actual historical events (The Civil War). See, Fun. is even educational.
Song Debate: Defend your favorite band or artist!

It's really tough picking out Oomph songs, being how diverse their 22 years and 11 albums are. Not only that, they generally maintain a balance, or sway between accessible 'mainstream' songs on the occasion, but the bulk of their work is very unique and unconventional. I can't say what style would appeal the most to my opponent and the users, so I'll simply highlight as much variety as I can. To begin, a very overlooked, but magnificent track from one of their more recent albums. Oomph! - Eine Frau spricht im Schlaf (A woman sleeps in sleep) Album: GlaubeLiebeTod Year: 2005 http://www.youtube.com... English translation of lyrics: ------------------------------------------------------- As he woke up in the middle of the night His heart beat so hard that he got frightened For the woman who lay beside him laughed That it sounded as if it were Judgement Day And he heard her voice elegise And he felt that she was asleep nonetheless Since they were both lying blind in the darkness He only saw the words she called Why don't you kill me faster? She asked and weeped like a child And her weeping came from that cellar Where the dreams are walled in How many years do you still want to hate me? She called and lay uncannily still Don't you want to let me live on Because I don't want to live without you? Her questions stood like ghosts That are frightened of themselves And the night was black and without windows And didn't seem to know what was happening He, the man in the bed, was in no laughing mood Dreams are to be truth-loving But he told himself: "What shall one do?" And decided not to wake up at night again Thereupon he fell asleep consoled -------------------------------------------- Interpretation: These are some of Oomph!'s more poetic lyrics. To me, this about a man whose own conscious haunts him at night, when he lays awake unable to be distracted by what he's done. I'm not sure yet if he murdered her and buried her in his cellar, or if the dreams walled in the cellar is the subconsciousness, where her (and his own) emotional despair dwell. But either way, in the end we learn he simply copes with the struggle by submitting to his inability to find the solution to his woes, thereupon sleeping. In fact, he determines to give up entirely, symbolized by his resolution to not even wake up at night any more.
Song Debate: Defend your favorite band or artist!

http://www.youtube.com... Ah yes, Fun.'s most popular song. The lyrics:Give me a second, I need to get my stories straight. My friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the Empire State.My lover, she's waiting for me, just across the bar. My seat's been taken by some sunglasses, asking about a scar,and I know I gave it to you months ago, I know you're trying to forget. But between the drinks and subtle things, the holes in my apologies, you know I'm trying hard to take it back. And so if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down, I will carry you home Tonight, We are Young. So let's set the world on fire, we can burn brighter than the sun! (x2)Now, I know that I'm not all that you got. I guess that I, I just thought...maybe we could find new ways to fall apart.But our friends are back, so let's raise the cup, because I found someone to carry me home Tonight, We are Young. So let's set the world on fire, we can burn brighter than the sun! (x2)Carry me home tonight. (Na na na na na na na) Just carry me home tonight (Na na na na na na na) Carry me home tonight. (Na na na na na na na) Just carry me home tonight. (Na na na na na na na). The world is on my side, I have no reason to run. So won't someone come and carry me home tonight? The angels never arrived, but I can hear the choir, so won't someone come and carry me home Tonight, We are Young. So let's set the world on fire, we can burn brighter than the sun! (x2)And so if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down, I will carry you home tonight.MEANING AND STORY We are Young tells the story of a man with a struggling relationship with his girlfriend. It tells the story of him "giving her a scar" which could mean physically or emotionally, and so he goes to the same bar party she is at to make it up. We can tell by the lyrics that he is apologizing for all the bad things he did, and he is telling her that they should be happy at least for that night and make the best out of it.
Song Debate: Defend your favorite band or artist!

Hey guys its the Patriot again. On this debate, you will choose your favorite band and say what it is in the first round. The first round will also be for acceptance. I will be defending my all-time favorite band, Fun. For the second round, I will post a song by Fun., share the lyrics, and provide a meaning of the song and tell why it is good. Then you do the same, posting a song by your favorite band, sharing its lyrics, and providing its meaning. This will go on until our debate is over. You must post videos of the song (If the song doesn't have a music video, just find a video that is the song). If you are unknowing of how to attach videos, it's quite easy. Simply find the link of the youtube video for the song and put it into your argument. I don't want to seem bossy, but I made rules, You may not use screamo, dubstep or remixes, rap is okay as long as it is at least somewhat clean. There will also be no insulting or attacking your opponent for their choice of their favorite band. Here we go!
we should not split girls to a different school than boys

Introductory Statements: Hey there I am a ready to argue! :D So anyway as Con I apparently am arguing that we should split schools based on gender, note if I am wrong I can always change my position! :D :D A1: Classroom Improvements In mixed gender classrooms the ability of a student to concentrate or be engaged is shown to increase, as there are fewer distractions, with the case of many men, such as boobs. Very blunt but true, I would know I have seen the effects of both sides of the situation. Statistics are showing that Schools that enforce a gender-segregated system tend to have better results. Now this is not always the case admittedly, but more than 61% of the schools have seen significant growth in Math, Reading, and Discipline. [1] This shows a clear growth superiority to coed schools. R1: Attitudes There is little evidence to show that boys will act as strangers around women when put into a normal setting, it may even enhance respect for the women as they are less likely to see them as sex toys and more a human beings. But as society is there will always be the misfits who will act like women are sluts and less than human, it is a sad reality. [1]- http://www.ascd.org...
Fandom Battle

Doctor Who vs WWE's Raw Raw may have beaten MLB, but that does not make it a better fandom than Doctor Who. Both Raw and Doctor Who are people acting for the entertainment of the audience. However, Doctor Who does this even more so because of the cliff-hangers and actual story-line. Doctor Who presents a fantasy character traveling through time who takes on companions and fights off aliens using logic instead of mindless violence. Doctor Who also appeals to a much larger audience age-wise. I know many teachers who watch Doctor Who, but not a single one of my older teachers watches Raw. Just because Con can list off "superstars" does not mean this show is any better than Doctor Who. Anyone can list off characters. Which is exactly what Raw is, a bunch of characters acting. Voters: 1. I have explained my fandoms and why they should be valued higher more than Con did with his. 2. I have proven that my fandoms should be valued higher due to these descriptions.
Fandom Battle

WWE's Raw vs. Merlin Raw is currently the longest weekly episodic TV show first aired in 1990. This past Monday it beat MLB on ESPN. (it does this every week) Merlin is fantasy vs. something real in wrestling Raw has supperstars like Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Rock, Lord Tensi, John Cena, Ric Flare, Hulk Hogan, Mick Foley, Triple H, HBK, etc.
Fandom Battle

Merlin Merlin is a TV series featured on BBC and first aired in the United States n 2008. Merlin VS. Warriors: Merlin is ultimately better than the Warriors series because instead of going into the controversy of religion, it depicts the events of Medieval times regarding King Arthur and the round table in a way that interests the viewer far more than reading about the history of it all. It characterizes the people of the time with modern-day traits to keep the viewers interested, instead of depicting them as the more proper image of medieval times that most people first think of. Merlin sh ould be valued above Warriors because of it's key interest of explaining the legends and myths of Merlin and Arthur in a way that completely captivates and interests the audience. It avoids turning off the audience by not introducing a controversial topic like religion.
Fandom Battle

Harry Potter I am an avid Potterhead so my first fandom must be Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a series of books and movies that is about the most compelling and realistic in it's morals. While portraying real life scenarios in it's complete fantasy genre, Harry Potter practically begs it's fans to read/watch on. The sales of Harry Potter have been so dramatic that JK Rowling is richer than the Queen of England. Harry Potter fans are extremely dedicated to the series in both joining fandom groups and buying products that let the fandom live on even more so. LeakyCon is probably the most prominent convention for this fandom and has thousands of followers every year lining up and buying ticket almost a year in advance. The Harry Potter fandom is riddled with all kinds of ways that the fans promote and encourage more to join simply by reading the books and watching the movies alone, drawing in hundres of people pretty much daily as they learn to pick up the book and join the fandom. No other fandom holds the dedication of this amount of people.
Fandom Battle

Each side will post a new fandom each round, and defend why it should be valued higher than the one that was posted in the argument just before. Essentially, if I post "Twilight" the Con can argue for "Doctor Who. " However, in the next round, I have to argue that "The Hunger Games" is better than "Doctor Who. " The side that was able to support their fandoms with better arguments will be the side voted for.
Fandom Battle

Dukes of Hazard vs. Dr Who.Dukes of Hazard is real life crooked politions, bad cops, and people speeding 50 over. It first aired in 1976 and lasted for 7 season due to the death of several actors. Boss Hogg is a crooked politions that forecloses on people in a heart beat and ha a heart black as night. Warriors vs. Merlin.warriors is a book series. We can imagine what and were everything is going on and happening. It is almost like the Narnia series preaching the Bible without children even knowing.Raw vs. Dr. WhoRaw first aired in 1990 and is the longest weekly episodic television show that beats any show on any given night. Plus it even has programs like Be a Star which teaches kids to not bully and to stand up to them. Dr. Who has no such program.
POLICY DEBATE: Space Topic.

NOTE: If you don't know what Policy Debate is or how to do it... DO NOT ACCEPT. Also: Please post your arguments using Media Fire or Google Docs.=================================Here is the full resolution:Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth’s mesosphere.=================================Here is some evidence: http://www.debatecoaches.org... =================================Round 1: Challenge/1ACRound 2: 1NC/2ACRound 3: Block/1ARRound 4: 2NR/2ARGood Luck!