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I was going to call them the "Ten Commandments" but felt someone might be offended sa pamamagitan ng that (either a religious person thinking I'm blasphemous or a secularist thinking I'm ipinapakita a bias towards religion. Lose, lose, you see). Also, I couldn't come up with ten rules.

So instead, observe the Golden Rules of the pagtatalo Spot.

1) RESPECT your fellow debaters. They believe what they do for a reason just like you do. As opposed to simply trying to explain why they're wrong, explain your point of view and LISTEN to theirs. If you find you simply just cannot understand their views, or that they will...

So, many of you are aware of the rumor floating arround that the world will end tonight at 6:00 PM. I just have a few things to say about these "End of The World" theories, becasue they're really getting on my nervs.

I just want to say that first off, for those of you who do belive the world will end tonight, or in 2012, or whatever, I mean no disrespect to you. I also don't mean any disrespect to people's religious beliefs that say the things I'm about to adress.



So, yesterday afternoon I heard that there is yet another prediction for the world ending. First it was the taon 2000, then the...

This is a pagtatalo seed, and was last edited on 8 April 2008.

As a tagahanga of debate, I've often railed at the absence of actual pagtatalo in the pagtatalo spot. Therefore I present a tanong for debate:

Are mechanical pencils or wooden pencils better?

Cinders has done a marvelous job of initiating a number of formal limited debates, so I propose a different type of pagtatalo format for this one. For this, the Great Pencil Debate, the following pagtatalo attributes will apply:

Non-judged

Open-ended

Participatory

Moderated

What these mean:

Non-judged is a pagtatalo format wherein there are no judges...

In our world today, global warming is a growing issue. Global warming (according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary) is an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. This means we must take action. This is a method commonly known as "going green." We do this sa pamamagitan ng riding bikes, using public transportation, reycleing, and much more. This is common for big cities like New York City, New York or Chicago, Illionois- but what about the smaller towns?



I live in Joplin,...