Discussion Defender Gifts

Rational thought matters

"It seems my fear of death has been replaced by my fear of politics."

"The university said he was a climate change denier so remove the statue."

5pm Happy Hour. 6pm discussion: what is true happiness?

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Dialogue

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Now that's a win."

"Darling, I think we need to talk about where this relationship is going..." Male evolution.

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

"But I see you're having difficulty following my argument."

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

"Do you think the flat earth society has members round the globe?"

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

"No es problema para mi si no es problema para ti."

"At least we agree to disagree."

"Defense budget... Do you have any idea how much catnip $700 billion would buy?"

"Did you read my review on Amazon? Four out of four people found it helpful."

"Discussion topic: Is our society becoming less civil and more violent?"

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."

Like Minded

"Of course I'm responsible for that marketing plan, but you're responsible for how it turned out!"

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

Debating Society. I can accept that money is speech as long as we can agree that some spending is like yelling fire in a theater.

Verbal Orders

"He's Right Behind Me, Isn't He?"

And now, for a rebuttal.

"It's time we have a talk about the alternate facts of life.