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Religion is for the mentally ill, or weak minded

Religion is for the mentally ill, weak minded, or people who have no coping skills. With the knowledge we have today about evolution, space life, DNA, genetics, big bang theory, other science, etc etc. It shocks me to believe that approximately 70% of the whole world population still believes in some type of religion with all the knowledge we have about our planet and the universe. This is like believing in Santa Clause, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and or Harry Potter being real. I believe religion is a state of mind of the mentally ill, people who can't cope with every day stress, death, everyday life. They need something greater than them because they have no coping skills and need someone or something to follow. Science has shown us that the Universe is gigantic, the time of an average human life is 75 years on average, in the grand scheme of the universe that is a mere speck in time of a world and universe that is billions of years old, yet people would rather chant to a wall or believe in some invisible being that when they die and their body breaks down with chemical disposition of amino acids in it they will be transported to some other universe. That sounds pretty insane to me. Therefore I say religion is for the unstable, mentally ill, weak minded people with no coping skills so they rely on mystical beings to get them through the day. How else can religion be explained??
Religion is for the mentally ill, or weak minded

God said anybody who searches for me with ALL of their heart, mind, and strength, WILL find me.. That will work for you too Pro, just try it. The biggest religion of today coincidentally, is science LoL.. Science has many Santa Clauses, tooth fairies, and Easter bunnies, just under different names.. Global warming, evolution, space, big bang.. You are right, believing these things is like believing in Santa Clause etc.. However I do not think this makes you mentally ill, be easy on yourself. The religion of science has preached to you about the universe, and what a tiny little insignificant spec you are, but that is a lie because you are not a tiny insignificant spec. The religion of science teaches what it is told by those who are financing the scientists. There is big money to be made in the global warming lie by selling carbon emission permission slips.. LoL I can not relate to the Jews praying at the wall, but don't forget, the Jews crucified Jesus, so I wouldn't put much emphasis on their spiritual example. Invisible being? Is that because you cant see that you don't believe? Here let me show you... The wind? We cant see the wind but we know it exists because of its effects on the things around it. You drive by a construction site and see a framed house but nobody is there, but you know just because you cant see the people, they are there somewhere or there would be no framing or foundation. You know this because the framing requires design, you see the design and recognize intelligence. What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see intelligence? The frame of skeleton of your body renews around 7 times in your life, can you imagine changing out the framing of a house even once? You recognize intelligent design observing a simple wooden frame but do not make the same observation in the mirror of the most incredible design known to man? You do not recognize design or you refuse to recognize design? To practice the religion of science is the worst of them all. It truly is for the unstable, mentally ill, too weak minded to do any independent research relying on mystical beings (unknown scientists might as well be a ghost) to get one through their day, how else can the religion of science be explained?
Apple is better than Microsoft

Hello, I will show why PRO's arguments are flawed. ""Windows 7 Service pack one superior" How? Apple is superior." Windows 7 is superior because 1. Taskbar and aero features- Windows 7 alows users to pin programs to the taskbar, much like the Mac dock. However, Windows 7 have jumplists, Aero Peak and Aero Snap to make using Windows 7 much easier than Mac. "iWorks is better." iWorks is not better because iWorks does not have an email program, while Microsoft Office has Outlook. "Most software is compatible." Most software is infact, incompatible. Most of the people in the world uses Windows, so most of the software is designed for Windows. "Apple computers don't get virusses." That's why there are antivirus programs! "Apple computers are faster." It all depends on the hardware, so someone can get good hardware for Windows and be just as fast as Mac. "Microsoft hardware sucks." You don't know much about Microsoft don't you? Microsoft does not make hardware, the computer companies like HP, Compaq, Dell, etc. choose the hardware. You can choose what hardware you want. With Mac, you are stuck with Apple hardware. "Apple iPad is awesome." Give some reasons that iPad is awesome. "Internet Explorer is the most outdated browser in the market!" What gives Internet Explorer this bad reputation is it's version 8. Most people still have version 8, and it is very outdated indeed, but Internet Explorer 9 is out, and 9 is not outdated at all. I look forward to my opponent's response.
Apple is better than Microsoft

Hello, thanks for accepting."Windows 7 Service pack one superior"How? Apple is superior."Office is most popular office program"iWorks is better."Most software not compatible" Most software is compatible.My arguments:1. Apple computers don't get virusses.2. Apple computers are faster.3. Microsoft hardware sucks.4. Apple iPad is awesome.5. Internet Explorer is the most outdated browser in the market!Very well, may luck be with you, dustpelt.
The Purpose of School is Not to Learn

The purpose of school is not to learn. The purpose of school is to see how well students can show patience, obedience and the willingness to work, so that colleges can pick out the people that are going to work hard. If you ask any college senior, they will have completely fotgotten everything they learned throughout school. If you ask any adult about what they learned in school, they barely remember. That is why even some adults suffer when asked to help their young children with homework. 10.7 percent of Americans who claim they can speak a language "very well" according to Gallup, only 7% of them learned it in school. Almost every adult has took a foreign language in their life, but if you ask them if they still remember it, only a few can. If the purpose of school was to learn, why would they make us do standardized testing? Standardized testing is not used to see how much students learned. It doesnt require any aspect of education except memorization. Standardized tests are made to see how much work we will put in to achieve a goal. The purpose of schooling is not to teach us things, but to take us through a process where we get graded on how much work we are willing to put in.
The Purpose of School is Not to Learn

There is sports medicine classes and there is many classes to help for college career. Now the poor schools may not offer these programs because well they're poor. School can teach you so much, you have to be willing to take the opportunities. If you don't put effort into it you'll get nothing. You're saying that school is not to learn but you're wrong. School is designed to educate people, it's designed to teach them academics; why are teachers trained to teach if you're not learning anything? School is needed in our world! School is such a start on our life, it can teach us the basics of everything, if you're willing to take it in. Opportunities are everywhere! You didn't look hard enough. In conclusion, you're a lightweight when it comes to debating against someone as great as me. You're point really wasn't that valid. We go to school to learn, just because you had some learning difficulties that's on you. What we need to really need to talk about is why America is ranked so low in education.
The Purpose of School is Not to Learn

You are assuming that the people in charge of the education that millions of children get are too stupid to understand the outcome of it? I don't think so. You say that high schools offer clubs and after-school programs. Is most of their time spent in the clubs and after school programs or actual school? The clubs and after-school programs are not required either. You say you are a nurse and that high school students come in to your job and get first person views about what you are doing. Maybe the reason is that the students want to become nurses and they realize that their school is not going to give them any information about nursing so they come to you instead. Also, you mentioned that school trains you a lot. I completely agree. School trains you to be a patient, hard-working and obedient person so you can succeed in college. I am not proposing that we stop schooling. I am proposing that everybody understands the reason that they, or their children, need to go through schooling.
The Purpose of School is Not to Learn

Looks like you should be making a debate about how public schooling isn't as good as people think. I learned first aid and C++ while I was in highschool. Billionaires don't need to go to school because they're already rich. Why waste the time, I mean not like you need to prove anything to anyone at that point;Negotiation I feel is an natural talent; like Donald Trump is just naturally good at negotiation, which helped him get rich. Next, yes you do learn how to do your career mainly in college but high schools offer clubs and other afterschool programs. I am a nurse and high school students come to my job and get first person views on what the job is like. They take in a lot of knowledge about the career and the basics on how we do things. Last, school trains you so much you wouldn't believe if we didn't learn anything in school trust me people wouldn't do it. That's why it's REQUIRED from your kids to go to school in America because they need to LEARN. If you never went to school at all then jumped right into college at the age of 18 I bet you'd fail. You need that build up.
The Purpose of School is Not to Learn

All those jobs that you listed, "programmers, doctors, teachers, welders and directors", In my whole life, I have never been taught in school about welding, directing or teaching, and minimally about programming and the medical field. Schooling before college will only help you with being a mathematician, writer, and historian and in some cases, a scientist or programmer. In some schools there isn't programming being taught at all even though most of the well educated people will end up in computer related jobs. Most people learn about the profession they want to follow, in college. They forget everything before college and even many things that they learned in college. That is why many jobs look not for people who know things in the field but people who can learn quickly so they can quickly learn everything about the job because they didn't learn anything like that in school. Education and schooling are completely different things. Many billionaires ended their education. I understand that it was not because they did not want education, it was because they thought it was going to be more beneficial to take care of their business instead of learning useless things at school that they were never going to use. They realized that they would learn much more by actually participating in entrepreneurship instead of learning about it. My point is that schooling (before college) is completely useless if the goal is to teach somebody somethings. The goal of schooling is obviously to take the kids through a process so that colleges and employers can see how hard they are willing to work
The Purpose of School is Not to Learn

Math, reading, writing, and history. I never forgot any of that information. School is to learn, you should look up the definition of the word "education" it may help you a lot. Now schools TEACH you the skills to prepare you for college. How they prepare you is by teaching you. Test are a ranking system, who is the best who is the worst. You don't invest in a business that'll fail right? Ever notice how some schools have higher scores than others? It's because they TEACH better because school is about learning. If people forget most of their education how do people do their jobs? Like programmers, doctors, teachers, welders, and directors? I mean if they forgot, how do they know what they're doing then? I think you're looking at this all wrong you should reconsider this outrageous opinion. On this issue with Foreign Language they have to be motivated to learn another language. You don't just remember a Mexican class you took back in 6th grade. I can say most American 6th graders don't want to learn Mexican. That's why they don't remember any of it. I call it Mexican because it's a slang watered down version of Spanish.
This House Believes that Government Should Pay for University Fees

Not only should universities be free, students should be paid while obtaining an advanced degree. A good number of advanced countries offer free university [1], and more offer substantial financial backing directly to the university system reducing tuition paid by students to almost nothing. Why do this? Well, they are investing in students just like employers invest in employees. They are investing like a country or company invests in infrastructure. They want and need the best students to get the best education possible to insure the success of the country. Externalities to the mission of applying resources appropriately in any system should be minimized for the sake of the mission. In the case of education, financial ability is no different than hair color, left or right hand bias, or a list of other externals that have nothing to do with applying the resource. Educational resourced that are given to one or another using a selection process undermined by biases diminishes the effectiveness of the system. The best students are not determined by the ability to pay. It makes little sense to include this externality to the selection process. Costs are misappropriated to the end product, the student. Building a company, or a nation, requires investment. A company may spend a healthy percentage of revenues on research and development [2]. They may invest in infrastructure, or simply planting a crop. These expenses are accepted and understood. In many industries investment on training and educating people are similarly understood. A machine operator may be hired with little to no ability to do his job, the company understanding that some time and money will be invested in the employee. Once complete, the employee will begin producing revenues for the company " a good investment. Nations have similar necessity to invest in human capital " with the same potential misuse of valuable resources when externalities are defining attributes of the selection process. Costs of the system are real. So too are the benefits to society. The question of where the money comes from simply a matter of priorities. The case can be made that preparing for war is a good investment. The argument can be made that education is even a valuable part of preparing for defense - even more so than yet another bomber or ship. That point is not even necessary to make for a capitalist. Capitalism as a national system insists that we invest on human capital to grow. [1] http://www.salon.com... [2] http://fortune.com...
In a one-on-one battle, The Nine-Tailed fox could defeat Master Chief

As a character Master Chief has had much more battle experience in comparison to the Nine Tailed Fox. Due to the lack of information in the rules I am forced to assume that MC will be facing the "Nine" tales (no less). Also I am forced to point out that even if MC were to lose in the direct fight itself, the demon would die as well since his powers require that its life energy is also lost in the process. I don't believe that this argument is very fair since NTF can create sunamis and destroy entire mountains with one swipe of his tails. I would like to say that MC can survive falls from space and live unscratched. John 117 (MC's name and Spartan I.D.) can feel close to no pain considering that he is part ciborg and his Mark VI MJOLNIR armor. Since NTF is only used to fighting Ninja and beasts; he is not used to space age weaponry. MC can use plasma weapons on NTF and tear him apart slowly but surly. I am lead to believe that MC can also use his armor power-ups. He could use invisibility to hide from NTF and over shields to give himself some extra damage resistance. He would also use his jet pack to get on top of NTF at which point he could use the UNSC sniper rifle or the Covenant plasma launcher on NTF's head to shatter it to bits. I want to point out that any other Spartan is considered the ultimate soldier but the MC is considered a demon to the Covenant forces. All Spartans are surgically enhanced during their years of training. He has taken out entire Halos and Covenant armadas on his own. NTF is known to be overly cocky and self centered. These attributes are considered disadvantages in battle situations. He also seems content that humans are weak and unworthy of him. He is in for a HUGE surprise when he crosses paths with Petty Officer Master Chief.
In a one-on-one battle, The Nine-Tailed fox could defeat Master Chief

In a one-on-one battle, The Nine-Tailed fox from "Naruto" could defeat Master Chief from "Halo". Although this might be unnecessary, there will be no abuse of semantics or linguistics in this debate. The rules are as follows:1. For this debate, The Nine-tailed fox will not be sealed inside a person and will be free. 2. Master Chief will have access to all of his weapons, except for those that can grant him god-like powers. 3. The battlefield will not be in the "Naruto" or the "Halo" universe. Instead, it will be in a flat field that has a 5 mile side length with no trees or other obstacles. 4. This battle is solely one-on-one. No allies are allowed in this debate. An ally is anything that can act on its own to aid the battler. 5. No semantics/linguistics abuse. Nonetheless, I am glad to see my opponent online again. Pro's BOP: I (Multi_Pyrocytophage) must prove that the Nine Tails could defeat Master Chief in battle. Con's BOP: Con (Petecheet) must prove that Master Chief could defeat the Nine Tails in battle. Neither side can argue for a tie.
In a one-on-one battle, The Nine-Tailed fox could defeat Master Chief

I would like to add one more argument, but that is all, for I will give my opponent a chance to redeem himself. 2f) Death by all 9 tails!One swipe, yes, only a swipe, of one tail, can bring down mountains and cause tsunamis [1]. Now, if the 9 tails slams down all 9 of his tails, the MC has no way of surviving such an impact. The flying debris could also be used to suffocate MC, as shown in 2e. 1. http://naruto.wikia.com...;
Anxiety Improves Performance

It has been stated that anxiety creates such a large impact on their performance, Although it has not been stated to what degree the anxiety would reach, If there were to be no anxiety no obstacles would be properly considered or taken seriously as they would not be put under pressure to success and accomplish something that might be very important to them. Searchers and experts say that sports and physical activity is know to be down the level of anxiety and stress. There are many ways an athlete can respond to stress. Many times athletes do not handle stress properly, Nor do they know how to, So they must seek outside help in order to deal with it. Healthy ways for athletes to deal with stress are to engage in pleasurable activities, Take care of their body, Maintain a positive perspective, Laugh, Practice relaxation techniques, Talk to others, And get help from a professional. Many athletes do not know how to handle their stress and usually need help when it comes to dealing with the stress. Due to this fact many times the athletic trainer or coach is the first person the athlete turns to when they are stressed out. The coach and athletic trainer both need to know the available resources and know the proper steps to go to in order to get the athlete the proper help they need.
Anxiety Improves Performance

Anxiety has a negative effect on not only athletes, But also students and young people, Particularly in when it comes to tests and exams. This "test anxiety" occurs in 33% of students and can interfere with academic performance and overall achievement. As time goes on, The age in which children suffer from anxiety is becoming younger and numbers more frequent. Anxiety leads to poor academic performance & under- achievement. This is because the anxiety becomes so overwhelming, You lose the ability to think clearly and therefore perform well in test situations. It has been proven that students with anxiety score lower on tests than students who do not suffer from anxiety. Anxiety can also affect students" willingness to engage in class or participate in class discussions. Again, This can have a negative impact on academic performance because they are unable to communicate with the teacher by asking questions or clarifying an instruction. This then leads to confusion and further worry about a task, Resulting in additional anxiety. This same worry also applies to peer learning. Because this involves sharing ideas with other students, A student with high anxiety is unable to share these ideas, Meaning they withdraw from activity and their learning is limited. Anxiety reaches such a point that it becomes so debilitating and the student either refuses to go to school until they are able or they drop out completely In fact, 49% of anxious adults report having left education early and 24% indicated anxiety as the primary reason. How can a person possibly learn something or perform well when their mind and body is in a constant state of terror and worry?
Anxiety Improves Performance

In today's society, Anxiety is seen as something normal in teenagers and adults because of pressure put on plenty of people yet so bad, Anxiety is the cause of nervousness, Fear, Apprehension, And worrying, These disorders affect people we feel and behave and can cause physical symptoms. But anxiety doesn't have to impair your performance. In fact, It can enhance it. It has been stated that "You can still succeed even when you're anxious as long as you are open to the idea that nervous energy can fuel your performance. Thinking your anxiety will hold you back is likely to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. " As anxiety is also part of our daily lives, Except at times it is very intense while others it is not for specific reasons. "Without the experience of negative emotions, You"re less likely to reach a state of optimal performance. The reason, We suspect, Is that negative emotions trigger a system in the brain that tell us when our performance is starting to suffer. Without those feelings of anxiety and frustration, The brain isn"t able to do as good a job driving optimal performance. " Hence anxiety is only supposed to warn an individual and help them before it may be too late for a particular reason. Anxiety also assists many individuals in getting things done as a 2017 study published in the 'Journal of Individual Differences' examined the ways individual's appraised certain situations. They found that individuals who viewed stressful events as challenges, Rather than threats, Gained energy from their anxiety. That boost in energy enhanced their performance. It is also know that "Positive emotions are no doubt important, But if the recent Pixar movie, Inside Out, Taught us anything, It"s that negative emotions shouldn"t be ignored. It"s the negative emotions that matter most for driving our optimal performance. " "Without anxiety, Little would be accomplished, ". Overall, Anxiety is apart of the brain in order to help warn people of things to be aware of in their daily lives.