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[psiworldadmin]

What is a debate board?

This debate board allows anyone, no password or age restrictions, to access, read, and post. You may talk about any topic you wish to debate. Debate means to have an opinion about a topic, present your opinion, show support, aka proof, examples, and wait for other people to respond to your opinion. Show your sources of information. That means if you say that 90% of psions are guys, you need to show where you got that number. A site or a book will do just fine. Otherwise it's very hard for people to take you and your statement seriously.

An example of a opinion starter debate would be: I think gay marriage isn't right for these reasons:

Some debate topics have a question that person wishes to answer and may want to hear the answers of others. The person would present their question and then answer it.

An example of a question starter debate topic would be: Should government allow the public to buy guns or not?

What topics would be allowed?
Pretty much anything. If your school allows it, we certainly do. You can talk about gun control, crime, gay marriage, should school search for drugs, birth control, abortion.

What we don't want is promotion of sex, drugs, violence unless for self defense, crime, threats, psionic attacks, and stuff of that nature.

The Rules
The rules are a lot stricter than normal. So are the punishments. We am doing this to keep tempers from flying, people leaving the site, and the reputation of the site to go down.

There is no: flaming, cursing, starting a fight, name calling, threatening, or calling people lier.

If you are caught doing that you would be banned from the site for three days to cool off and think about what you did. Repeated breaking of the rules will result in two weeks to forever getting banned.

We also want better, more thought out posting. Try to increase your vocab, practice better grammar and look over spelling. We've seen a lot of useless "That's cool, that's gay, that's stupid, I like that, I agree" one liner posts. That doesn't show much thinking or intelligences. If you were to make a post like that, your post would receive a warning the first time and second time be deleted. Third time you get a notice from me and forth time a three day ban.

If you post a topic that is against the "no no topics" that thread will be locked and karma points will be taken off. Repeated forbidden topics would result in a three day ban.

With all that said, have fun debating away.


Just to help you all out with getting this board started, here's a list of popular, well done topics.  Topics can be but are not limited to:

Human Evolution
Gay Marriage
The Big Bang
Should we eat meat?
What is Reality?
Flow vs Control
The cycle of war
Is Truth Relative?
Child labor
Christianity
Government brainwashing us?
Reincarnation
Capitalism or Communism
Karma
Cloning
Piracy
North American Union
Science and/or Spiritualism
The Value of Human Life
Recycling: A lost cause?
The Right to guns
Fast Food
Antidepressants: The cure to depression?
Abortion
Is it ok ever to lie?
What is happiness?/peace?
The meaning of life
Racism
Suicide/ assisted suicide
over population?
Power or Knowledge
Cliques
Atheists
Do you need a higher education?
Where does the mind exist?
Aliens/ life beyond Earth?
Moral Truth
Would you kill someone?
Would you be blind or deaf?
Do Clones have souls?
Is religion necessary?

Please note that as long as you stay by the rules and don't cause problems, you can debate anything you want.  If you have a question about your topic, feel free to pm a mod or admin.

[psiworldadmin]

Now, for all of you guys that have forgotten what the objectives on a debate are I'll post them :

   

* Let others know your ideas and defend your ideas.
    * Held and give clear judge elements during the exposure of an idea.

    * Excercise communication, listening capacity and active participation.

    * Defend your opinions by offering a background.

What does it mean? Even if personal experience is important, you should offer some type of proof, of course in some debates personal experience is much more important than in others.

Also, when you shred an idea give proof to back your claims, to the contrary of what may others think you have to defend your position even if you're claiming God doesn't exist, saying God doesn't exist because I don't think so is the same as saying God exists because I believe in him. None of them are valid reasons.

I want to emphasize Listening and active participation communication, Read thoroughly if you're about to invalidate other argument, and if you do don't base it simply on your believes or don't just say it's not true without backing it, for someone inexperienced it may seem that you won but everyone able to comprehend the text will know better.

Try to see where the other is coming from and to communicate in a friendly manner, this is important, a friendly manner, not acting like your believes are the only truth ones, because they clearly aren't, and you just look arrogant and cocky and people, myself included don't appreciate that. (Being humble will help you more than you possibly could imagine during life, so take my advice).

Lastly, yes, this is specially dedicated to some members, but I hope everyone will listen. I'll be more strict on this board until you all stop killing each other.