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| President: | Barack Obama (D) | Email: | - Private - | |
| Ideology: | Progressive | Education: | Not Saying | |
| Party: | Other | Ethnicity: | White | |
| Relationship: | Not Saying | Income: | Not Saying | |
| Interested: | in Women | Occupation: | Self-Employed | |
| Looking: | No Answer | Religion: | Agnostic |
| About Me: | brittwaller has returned from hiatus, obviously. |
| Activities: | reading, writing, playing guitar, painting, thinking, volunteering, all-around renaissance man |
| Beliefs: | I'm an agnostic that errs to the side of atheism and skepticism. Most people would probably label me as "liberal," but I don't like to be pigeonholed. I'm actually quite conservative in many ways, one might say. I have developed, to varying degrees, my own systems of ethics, political philosophy, an (admittedly poor, due to my own limitations) synthesis of cosmology, evolution, and pre-historical human history, an historical analysis of human nature, and at one time a large system of metaphysics. Long story. I'm a greatly gregarious grammarian. I like Neoclassical and Neue Sachlichkeit art, as well as Greco-Roman culture in general... other human being stuff. I'm an anti-corporate capitalist. I'm an individualist, but I have a strong sense of civic duty to the common good. |
| Books: | fiction: the floating opera by john barth, goethe's faust, the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera, the stranger by albert camus, catch-22 by joseph heller, a few others non-fiction: why i am not a christian by bertrand russell, the problems of philosphy by russell and a history of western philosophy by russell as well, darwin's dangerous idea by daniel dennett, the blind watchmaker by richard dawkins, the blank slate by steven pinker, conscilience by edward o. wilson, the open society and its enemies by karl popper, the third chimpanzee by jared diamond, the demon-haunted world by carl sagan, shadows of forgotten ancestors and varieties of scientific experience by sagan, the consolations of philosophy by boethius, the prince by machiavelli, spinoza's ethics, critique of religion and philosophy by walter kaufmann, beyond good and evil by friedrich nietzsche, a moveable feast by hemingway, and too many more to try and name |
| Movies: | The Empire Strikes Back, the godfather 1 and 2, edward scissorhands, pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, the shining, a clockwork orange, casino, goodfellas, the departed, taxi driver, full metal jacket, apocalypse now, red dragon, silence of the lambs, high plains drifter, reefer madness, heat, natural born killers, platoon, wall street, the big lebowski, king of new york, blow, the insider, seven, aliens, gladiator, south park movie, a fistful of dollars, for a few dollars more, the good the bad and the ugly, munich, scarface, serpico, there's something about mary, Barton Fink, the omen, carrie, blood diamond, fight club, american beauty, closer, this is spinal tap, tombstone, the magnificent seven, the getaway, terminator, supersize me, the fifth element, bladerunner, swingers, mobsters, city hall, the deer hunter, immortal beloved, amadeus, indiana jones absolute worst movies: the black dahlia, babel, the new star wars trilogy and the old special edition ( |
| Music: | pink floyd, the beatles, led zep, sublime, RHCP, beethoven, tom petty, cowboy junkies, dire straits, joe walsh, wagner, bruce springsteen, miles davis, flock of seagulls, devo, david essex, foreigner, the clash, the romantics, pain, bob seger, mozart, tchaikovsky, beastie boys, oldies... the list goes on and on |
| Quotes: | "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." -- Stephen Hawking "The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible." -- Bertrand Russell "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." -- John Stuart Mill "Truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few." -- George Berkeley |
| Sports Teams: | Auburn Tigers |
| TV Shows: | TV is the worst drug ever. However... |
The Cleaners
Everyone knows about vote bombing, which is the practice of a small group pouring all their votes with no justification onto one person. Purposes for doing so may range from just wanting to raise each others' percentages to purposely trashing another person's win rate. Whether or not CWO, as made infamous by the other debate, exists to vote bomb or not, one fact is clear: vote bombing exists. I myself have been victim to it several times. The first few by a single person who made several a...
Belief in an afterlife negatively impacts the world of practical affairs
This debate is about how the belief in an afterlife, be it Christian or otherwise, negatively impacts the temporal world in a large way. The issue is not whether "god" exists or not - this is basically irrelevant in this context as religion and its doctrines certainly exist, and this is where the problem stems from. Believers, whether they realize it or not, have faith in these doctrines and their fruitions, and not necessarily in an actual god, should such a thing exist, or what he/she/it may h...
Obama will not be our next President
Obama will not be our next President. I have three arguments for this stance on this debate. 1.RACE-Unfortunately America is not ready for a African American President. Racism is not far enough in our past yet. I am a Union member. Out of the twenty seven people I work with there are three Republicans, including myself. The "dems" I work with were split, twenty for Clinton, four for Obama. When Clinton lost the nomination twenty of the "Dems" said they would NOT vote for Obama. Race was the m...
The user known as "brittwaller" should not have lost the following debates
I don't really have the time for a full-on debate right now, but I wanted to check out the newer features on the site, as well as clean up my record a little. Now, I have been vexed for some time by the fact that my Total War community website has better-behaved members, and can settle on a standard of civility so much easier than this site, which is, ostensibly, devoted to debate and is so full of "intellectuals." That's only a side point (not an analogy), but is relevant because I believe...
When Nothing hears a tree fall it makes no Sound - When Nothing sees an Orange it is not Orange!
Obviously debated in the Past, i ask you please do not to vote unless you have read the debate thoroughly. I hold that a sound only exists in so far as it is heard and that colors only exist in so far as they are seen. Sound defined: The sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sound A refute any claims about the identity of sound to the vibration itself. (i'm not defin...
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| Debate Statistics | |
| Debates: | 31 |
| Lost: | 6 |
| Tied: | 1 |
| Won: | 24 |
| Win Ratio: | 80.00% |
| Percentile: | 99.09% |
 | Updated 3 Weeks Ago |
| • | Abortion | Pro |
| • | Affirmative Action | Con |
| • | Border Fence | Con |
| • | Campaign Finance Reform | Pro |
| • | Civil Unions | Pro |
| • | Death Penalty | Pro |
| • | Drug Legalization | Pro |
| • | Environmental Protection | Pro |
| • | Estate Tax | Con |
| • | Euthanasia | Pro |
| • | Flag Burning | N/O |
| • | Flat Tax | Con |
| • | Gay Marriage | Pro |
| • | Global Warming Exists | Pro |
| • | Gun Rights | Pro |
| • | Labor Unions | Pro |
| • | Late Term Abortion | Con |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | Pro |
| • | Medical Marijuana | Pro |
| • | Minimum Wage | Pro |
| • | Missile Defense System | Con |
| • | NAFTA | Con |
| • | National Health Care | Pro |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | Pro |
| • | Patriotism | N/O |
| • | PETA | Con |
| • | Police Profiling | Con |
| • | President George W. Bush | Con |
| • | Progressive Tax | Pro |
| • | School Vouchers | Con |
| • | Social Programs | Pro |
| • | Social Security | Pro |
| • | Term Limits | N/S |
| • | Tobacco Rights | Pro |
| • | United Nations | Con |
| • | United States | Und |
| • | War in Afghanistan | Pro |
| • | War in Iran | Con |
| • | War in Iraq | Con |
| • | War on Terrorism | Con |
| • | Water Boarding | Con |
| • | Welfare | Pro |
| • | World Trade Organization | Con |