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gay marriage

Homosexual marriage is illegal in Arizona, though the state defeated the referendum to make it illegal in our state constitution, the Arizona Supreme Court has upheld the decision to keep homosexual marriage illegal in the state in three separate court cases. A seemingly arbitrary decision from this poster's purview, as I don't see a legal distinction between homosexual and heterosexual couples. This is a prime example of something many people would decry as unjust, being upheld by the state and city government. You might respond that people have the ability to fight this sort of injustice (if we can agree that this situation is unjust) with legal action, however as the AZ supreme court has already shown, legal action has proven useless and the majority of people in the state find homosexuality itself distasteful and thus feel that the legalization of it is wrong. We can see from this view that there are few if any options left to homosexuals who would like to be married in the state of Arizona. They are a prime example of people who would benefit from civil disobedience.
My opinion is better than YOURS!

People who comment on grammar only comment on it because they have no other way of attacking them. It completely moves the scope away from the topic. how you fucked up: "Yu should have said this " <- you have not spelt "You" correctly. Was it a typo? doesn't matter still made a mistake, you comment on mine i comment on yours. buuuuuurrr i see the force in you is strong, but is it strong enough? Sith>Jedi ;)
My opinion is better than YOURS!

Lets rimmie someones jimmies, using basic logic, im better than you. I mean it, i mean have you seen how awesome i am and how your totally.....not? i dont even see the point in debating it but i might as well continue. Come at me you mother f******! I will gladly accept your challenge. My first argument is: 1. When you said, " I mean it, i mean have you seen how awesome i am and how your totally not? I dont...... There are many error in this sentence. 1. When you said " I mean have you..." what you should have said was I mean, have you 2. When you said " Totally not? i dont" 1. You forgot to capitalize the i 2. Yu should have said this " Totally not? I don't" I have already proven that you have bad grammer and that i have better grammer than you. Therefore i have attacked your arguments and should win this debate.
bible is not clear: faith = justification + works... OR faith + works = justification

to lay the best examples of the ambiguity, we have two apparently conflicting versions of the story of abraham and his justification. james 2 20You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is uselessd ? 21Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,"e and he was called God"s friend. 24You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. then we have romans 4 on the other hand 'What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? 2If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about"but not before God. 3What does Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."a 4Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. 5However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. 'We have been saying that Abraham"s faith was credited to him as righteousness. 10Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! 11And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. you can find quotes to argue both ways. these are just great examples using the same story and seemingly different outcomes. it's not contradictory, though, just a matter of how you reconcile everything. for example. most say you can pit the teachings of Paul with Jesus. all the verses that Jesus says you need to have works to be saved. v. 'for its by faith that you are saved, not of works, lest any man should boast' and 'though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be white as snow'. to be sure, the only place where 'faith alone' is used in the bible is when James says we are not justified by faith alone. but it's too much to take everything from just that one quote. to be sure, works are required in both versions. salvation = faith + works. faith = salvation + works. it's just a technical matter in how those works save or not. really, it's more academic than anything for practical purposes.
Marriage is outdated

Marriage is OutdatedIn this debate, I'll argue that the traditional marriage concept is, on balance, no longer beneficial for the majority of those in partnerships. Society Debate | Shared BOP | 4 Rounds | 72 Hours Reply | 9.000 Characters | 7 Point Voting DefinitionsTraditional marriage in this context shall mean a livelong, exclusive (monogamic) relationship of two heterosexual partners (male and female) with shared finances and one shared household.Debate StructureIn terms of fairness, we’ll start with a round of arguments only and end with a round of rebuttal only. Which means my opponent can choose to have the last word with a first round of acceptance or open the debate immediately and end with a forfeit. I don’t mind pictures as additional media, but I’d hope my opponent can restrain himself/herself from posting videos, as I don’t always have a stable connection as well as access boundaries due to different home countries may occur. Looking forward to having an enjoyable debate I’d say welcome and good luck.
All CO2 emissions should cease immediatley, to save the planet.

Completely cutting off CO2 emissions would actually harm the world. Also, the planet itself is not in danger. If there was nothing but CO2 in the atmosphere, there would still be a huge rock floating around the sun at the pace of 365 days, just without a lot, if not all living things. "Saving the planet" is the wrong term to use. The planet isn't going anywhere. The planet is fine... The people are the ones in trouble.
All CO2 emissions should cease immediatley, to save the planet.

CO2 is killing the planet, all breathing things, except those that know this, should stop or do less of it right now, to save the planet for those that know this. That is the global warmists, (er,... climate changologists?) status quo, and you will better off if you are one of they, for reasons of self esteem, the greatest drug ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All CO2 emissions should cease immediatley, to save the planet.

I disagree that a deity can stop the world. If this so called deity needed 6 days to create it, instead of just snapping his fingers and putting it all in to place, and than this all powerful deity needed to rest, I don't think he's going to go through all this again in reverse. But that's a whole new argument. Stopping all CO2 emissions is very bad. And the point of one living being is to keep it's species going. If we die off, than we would defeat our point of killing us off.
A Brutal Research Made On Fungi

I spent 1 hour of research to prove to you that I'm not fooling around, so here it goes. My more in-depth theory on what fungi is, along with very interesting things to consider which I put together based upon this research. The fungi exists in both water and land - there's more land species than water species. The mushroom is shaped like a jelly fish, so I cross-referenced the human fingers to that of a jelly fish's ability to use its "what seems like a finger" to electrocute, after also researching if electricity only travels to your fingers upon shuffling your feet, to come to a fascinating conclusion that our finger's design is based on the design of a jelly fish, and the shape of the jellyfish does resemble fingers, legs in some form. Then I dug deeper, literally, because the mushrooms are underground and give life to all the other trees - again, I did more research, and found out that the nails are the best way to tell if we have any disease or not, therefore the fingernails are connected to the rest of the body (forest) and on top of that, ironically, I also figured out that the fingers in their design are exactly like a species of baby mushrooms; pink on the base, and as it reaches its ends, it turns white! Here's a picture: http://snag.gy... As you can see, I do my researches in a way that I don't just regurgitate other information - I create bigger, more expansive conclusions based upon a heated hour of curiosity, I am very proud to have discovered yet another piece of the puzzle. It all makes sense, now. It also explains why the human hair reminds me of the under-side of a mushroom's cap, and why we use the phrase "thinking cap". Yes! This is a break through for me! (This is for Domr, since I'm not sure where the last debate went; I did cut some parts, to make it less "me", as my previous elation has died down since then).
A Brutal Research Made On Fungi

FINAL ROUNDThe stuff about humans and deep philosophical life is completely irrelevant. You are researching about mushrooms, fungi in particular. You made merely one statement that fungi were similar to humans' fingers. The end.In conclusion, vote me. My opponent has failed to show how he did a brutal research on fungi. He has merely shown a brutal resarch on human life and human body, nothing relevant to fungi.VOTE ME.
A Brutal Research Made On Fungi

We don't know how much information you got in one hour. We can only deduce from paragraph one.You said: "The fungi exists in both water and land - there's more land species than water species. The mushroom is shaped like a jelly fish, so I cross-referenced the human fingers to that of a jelly fish's ability to use its "what seems like a finger" to electrocute, after also researching if electricity only travels to your fingers upon shuffling your feet, to come to a fascinating conclusion that our finger's design is based on the design of a jelly fish, and the shape of the jellyfish does resemble fingers, legs in some form. Then I dug deeper, literally, because the mushrooms are underground and give life to all the other trees - again, I did more research, and found out that the nails are the best way to tell if we have any disease or not, therefore the fingernails are connected to the rest of the body (forest) and on top of that, ironically, I also figured out that the fingers in their design are exactly like a species of baby mushrooms; pink on the base, and as it reaches its ends, it turns white!" Here's what you figured out in one hour: 1. Fungi is both water and land species2. Mushroom is shaped like Jellyfishes3. Electricity stuff that don't help you research mushrooms, because mushrooms don't create electricity4. Mushrooms give life to all other trees5. Fingernails are the best way to tell if we have any disease or not (irrelevant)6. Fingers in their design are exactly like a species of baby mushroomsHowever, since 2 of your points are null, you actually learned only 5 facts. That's not brutal at all. In fact I can just search up 14 facts in merely one minute. [1] And I didn't think it was savage or hard at all! If you think finding 6 facts in one hour is "brutal", then you've got a lot to learn.[1] http://www.health24.com...
A Brutal Research Made On Fungi

No, it's not. I was merely referring to how I took a single hour to break down the Universe's design even more to the point it's really becoming profound to even consider that human life evolved from ocean life, let alone the jelly fish. It is brutal to me to drop so much ice on this guy's fire, like I would call it brutal if I put too much ice in someone's cup of tea. It's brutal, because it's the word I used to describe how much pressure and odds I went against in 1 hour to prove what my brain is truly capable of. Now, stop with the tautology - either address the profound part, or forfeit and pretend this debate never existed. I am not going to win pointless debates.
A Brutal Research Made On Fungi

Well, you see, there was once a man named Domr, that could not win a debate with me because one day I decided to do something clever; I argued the term "debate", by debating against it, as the term "debate" means "two-sided argument", in which I contested thoroughly, somewhat profoundly, as I knew very well that we lived in an omni-directional sea of cosmos, where "here" is no other than space, as all things directional are merely distinctions, much like the term "debate", which resorts to logical fallacies by reducing the world and ideas to a "war between two people", even though everything is universal, affected at some point, in some manner, due to the butterfly effect, therefore I have thus proven that the term "debate" was an inaccurate distinction, especially when compared to the entirety of this realm we live in, because life is not about wars or "two-way streets", it's omni-free, and anybody, anything, can go anywhere it goes provided the conditions meet them, rather than having other life forms make up standards of conditions for them.
The Crusades were simply a series of war crimes committed by the Christians

1. The constant violence in the middle east is due to...Islam... 2. Peace in the middle East is ruined because Islam does not allow for peace with other unbelievers. 3. let's see some evidence as to whether or not Crusaders killed Jews muslims and other Christians. BTW, this evidence may not come from the biased movie, "Kingdom of Heaven" 4. as to the Jew communities, see number 3.
The Crusades were simply a series of war crimes committed by the Christians

Approximately 9 million people died during the crusades and it led to the constant violence occurring in the Middle East today. Muslims now completely mistrust Christians and relations between the "West" and Middle East have been ruined forever. The Crusaders killed Jews, Muslims, and even other Christians during this series of Holy Wars. It was really the first Holocaust as entire Jewish communities were wiped out in Europe simply because they were not Christian.
Global Warming is real

In truth I just to provided standard evidence of cooling. Yet the pro's argument avoids anything recent, for example that "graph" provided only shows up till 2000s. Your argument stats the temperatures are currently rising, but this past decade they have roughly stayed constant. Your second evidence stats due to record heat that we are warming, but just recently winter records have been shattered and winter seems to have came early. If we were "warming" wouldn't temperatures in all months be higher? More heat trapped in the atmosphere causing winter to be postponed or delayed? Wouldn't we a increase of fierce storms like Sandy popping up all the time due to increase ocean tempts? If Co2 levels are going up and the sun is staying constant that would lead to said global warming, but if said sun activity dies down wouldn't that lower temperature? Global warming stats that tempts will rise yet does not factor in the sun even though 99% of our heat comes from that large ball of fire. I have provided an interesting read and must watch, which no matter the stance do deserve a look for they are indeed interesting. Must watch: - Must Read: http://isthereglobalcooling.com... Sources: Temperatures have stayed the same: http://www.climatecentral.org... http://www.climate.gov... colder and Early Winter: http://wattsupwiththat.com... http://www.mtairynews.com... http://www.weather.com... http://www.newsmax.com...
Global Warming is real

My two focuses on against global warming will be" 1.The Earth is currently facing cooling. The sun"s activity dying down, look here: http://www.sott.net... http://news.nationalgeographic.com... 2. Co2 levels might end up being a good thing. That"s simple, if we are heading to a global cooling due to the sun, the main source of our earth"s heating, causing less heat to be produced. P.S thank you, that acronym is used everywhere but means too many different things XD. Wanted to write more but had to stop myself and match the same amount of information you gave, since nearly forgetting this is just to stat are focuses.
Global Warming is real

Here are the two points I'll need to prove 1. Global Warming is happening This is easily shown through graphs. Here are a few links: http://data.giss.nasa.gov... http://www.washingtonpost.com... 2. Global Warming is man-made Easy. People are emitting CO2, which is a greenhouse gas. This means that CO2 acts like a one-way heat reflector, letting heat from the sun to the earth, but not letting it go the other way. CO2 is emitted when we drive cars and burn fossil fuels. PS: BOP means Burden of Proof.
Global Warming is real

I didn't even have to say everything about arctic sea ice decline. There is still one link you've overlooked from round 2: http://www.washingtonpost.com... It shows what we have predicted: Global Warming is accelerating! Here's another graph: http://climatedesk.org... This graph shows a long arc covering thousands of years, and right when the curve was going downward towards today, it shot back up. This is global warming. This is a problem. Both of these graphs refute your "Global Warming has stopped" arguments. Temperatures are still on the rise. And, if that doesn't convince you, these will: http://www.newscientist.com... https://www2.ucar.edu... http://www.skepticalscience.com... http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com... Even though there might be a hiatus in global warming, it's still a threat. It isn't like global warming says temperatures will ALWAYS be on the rise. Global warming is only about temperatures rising IN GENERAL. The final graph that will be embarrassing is this: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov... Yes. La Nina's of today are hotter than El Nino's of the past. Your turn, Con.
Global Warming is real

1. I refer back to 2nd link of temperatures staying the same, it shows a more expanded view of temperatures up to 2010 2.I refer back to the linked video but here's the fallow up video that would explain allot of your questions. If you listen he tells you of other developments, like how, yes, arctic ice seems to be melting but Antarctic ice sheet is growing. I'll restate this here, its not that climate "change" is not real, it is global "warming" is simply not happening anymore and were currently facing a global cooling. Fallow up video: - Antartic sheet expanding Sources: http://nsidc.org... http://www.csmonitor.com... http://www.skepticalscience.com...
E.R.B.O.H. Inspired Rap Battle: Voldemort VS The Joker

http://www.youtube.com... Hello everybody, welcome to the show.Here to lighten the mood. Now here we go.Okay guys, my name is the joker.putting out this ugly 50 year old smokerwhose game face is on like he's playing pokerSending out small cash flows to his brokerHey Voldy, Wanna know how I got these scars?Well, you've been to a lot of bars,Smashed up guitars, and ruined rap worse than MC lars,watching your raps, is like watching dancing with the stars.After watching you rap, I realized I was pretty down,And I noticed that my constant smile was now a frown,I was more entertained, watching oprah try to fit into a gownReally, all you people thought I looked like the clown?So I decided to grap a pair of razorsPut on a pair of blazers, And ripped my face into a smile,with a sharp nail file.The pain I experienced, was far more pleasurableFor what I just watched was almost unmeasurableHey voldy, Wanna see a magic trick?And, No It won't be reviving your small d1ckI may be insane, but your just a queer, so come, and watch as I make this pencil dis-appearYour messing with a genuine danger,with more resources than a trained, armed, ranger,You can't even kill that b1tch hermoine granger,Well, what doesn't kill you makes you strangerYour face is so ugly, your own mother was never proudHer life was empty until her vajajay I had plowed.That's right, Im your father, and now your dis-embowed,Your nothing to us, so just fade back into the crowd.Listen voldy, I don't know if you can hearGiven that you've only got slits for ears,But my rhymes are so cold and sheerI'll cumorah your @ss Just like Frank Mir.I'll admit I do feel sad that your were beaten by a babyOne boy destroyed your life, and the three headed dog with rabies.Hey no worries, Jokers here to save the day, so call me maybe.I'll take you out and show you a Joker killing spree!Everytime I watch as you utterly fail in your careerI begin to laugh, and start to sneerIf only my criminal style you could adhere,Then maybe you wouldn't win "stupidest villain of the year"You think you are cool with your fancy death mark?Boy I'll sink your boat and feed you to the sharks.Let you watch me as my evil mastermind embarks,On this criminal journey accomplishing the best remarks.Ah poor voldy, where are your death eaters now?Ah that's right, their all dead, so get down and bow.While your at it, just start making your vow,Never to cross Joker again, because, I'll always dis-allow.You think your hocus pocus sh1t can stop lil' ol' me?I am sorry, but I think every villain would dis-agree.You may have magic, but I can turn you into Iced teaLiquidate your @ss worse than the god damn red sea!Listen fool, magician wannabeBefore I cut you down like a pine treeBack down now, before your @ss is absentee,And realize you will never be as great as me.
E.R.B.O.H. Inspired Rap Battle: Voldemort VS The Joker

http://www.youtube.com... This is an Epic Rap Battles of History inspired 1 round Rap Battle. I'm Voldemort and TUF will be The Joker. I'm the notorious sorcerer known as.. yeah, You Know Who. I need no introduction. I'm simply known, fool. One hint at my existence makes witches twitch. And this ain't no little bitch "abracadabra" sh!t. I'll end your life quick with my Avada Kedavra! Spit rhymes dark and wicked like Bellatrix The lone follower you have is a skanky half-wit. Filthy mudblood, I'll string you up by your ankles. Unlike that weak bat, I won't just let you dangle. You're mine you pathetic Bozo wannabe. I'll be laughing at the mangled bag of bones you're gonna be. Oh, you need a few pawns for your sad little scheme? I've got access to billions- they're called human beings. You're part of a group categorically below me. I'm He Who Shall Not Be Named. My impeccable rhyme scheme puts your clown act to shame. Accio Harley Quinn. I require a Whore-crux. Make my wins eternal, turn opponents to eunuchs. You can mime a villain, while you're trapped in a prison of muggles. Pathetic. I get it. I sleuthed it. You're useless. I'm ruthless. It's fruitless when I choose to sick my Nigina on you it's just cruel and abusive. Excuse me, I'm dumbstruck, sir. You're clearly a Tammy Faye Baker lookin mother fvcker. I'm Jackie Chan. You're more a Chris Tucker. You're the comic relief to my chilling reality. While you're designing dilemmas of the moral variety, I give two ongoing choices: Die or Join me. I'm hasty on a track to make my own immortality, while you're swiftly getting smacked by a little bat fantasy. I could easily end both you and your enemy. Can't you recognize I kill your kind for sport? You're a crime loving jester in my high King's Court. ho-ho-ho-hee-hee-hee I allow you to keep living cause your antics keep fulfilling my desire to be giggling.
The USFG should substantially increase its military capability in Southeast Asia

This debate is the second DDO team debate and will cover the resolution: RESOLVED: The USFG Should Substantially Increase Its Military Capability in Southeast Asia This will be a 3x3 debate with the following teams: Pro: Team Y raisor RoyLatham thett3 Con: Team X rross larztheloser wrichcirw R1 is for introductory comments/acceptance R2-R4 are constructive rounds for presenting cases and rebuttals. R5 will be a half length round for closing remarks- no new arguments or evidence may be presented in R5. Thanks for all the members or competing and for the judges who took the time to read this debate.