EPTI'd love to do something similiar engaging, but up to now I haven't found anything. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
I need a controversial topic to discuss
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Quint
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I'd love to do something similiar engaging, but up to now I haven't found anything. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance. | ||
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kvilx
Poland198 Posts
EDIT: OK, to be serious: - Should USA withdraw troops from Iraq? - Was Bush vs Gore election rigged? - E-Sports: fair competition or kid slavery? Last one would be great: describe the situation of those Korean nerdy progamers practicing like 18h a day just to get sooo underpaid (Jaedong is the best example). Yeah, I know they earn quite a lot of money, but I don't think it's enough to compensate neglected education, social life, etc. | ||
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tirentu
Canada1257 Posts
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EsX_Raptor
United States2801 Posts
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Nosmo
Canada210 Posts
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Empyrean
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JohannesH
Finland1364 Posts
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Kimaker
United States2131 Posts
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:19 JohannesH wrote: Buttsex It's 2009. Everyone pretty much... | ||
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Meta
United States6225 Posts
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daz
Canada643 Posts
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Prof. Protoss
Germany744 Posts
..agrees it's great!? | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
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ShroomyD
Australia245 Posts
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Kim_Hyun_Han
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Aresien
United Kingdom305 Posts
For example, in England, Fox hunting (using dogs and men on horses) is an extremely controversial topic on which nearly everyone has an oppinion. Try maybe seal clubbing or something similar? You'll always find someone with an oppinion ;D. | ||
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MoltkeWarding
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:44 MoltkeWarding wrote: Adolf Hitler: The Greatest German? Completely random, who is the guy in your profile? | ||
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Zanric
United States66 Posts
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kvilx
Poland198 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:45 Mickey wrote: Completely random, who is the guy in your profile? LOL, maybe Moltke? EDIT: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Karl_Bernhard_von_Moltke | ||
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Navane
Netherlands2748 Posts
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:50 kvilx wrote: LOL, maybe Moltke? EDIT: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Karl_Bernhard_von_Moltke Thanks, interesting fellow. | ||
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Aresien
United Kingdom305 Posts
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Flakes
United States3125 Posts
(gotta watch both parts) | ||
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MrShankly
United Kingdom371 Posts
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Piy
Scotland3152 Posts
Trying to argue whether the 9/11 bombings were the justified acts of partisans or evil acts of terrorism would cause a big stir as well. It leads pretty well into an argument of America attempting to "colonize" the middle east. Those are both fairly controversial lol | ||
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TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:58 Flakes wrote: Pretty good short film by Wesley Du, I found it hard to watch (gotta watch both parts) + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FsMnX1HjDY&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADfGiqug8E&feature=related his name is Daniel lee, this made me smile a bit other then that it was a really interesting watch | ||
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koreasilver
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
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iSiN
United States1075 Posts
On November 12 2009 04:09 Snet wrote: Abortion Murdering Abortion Doctors | ||
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tossinYoSalad
United States215 Posts
gogogo | ||
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Eatme
Switzerland3919 Posts
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Oxygen
Canada3581 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:44 MoltkeWarding wrote: Adolf Hitler: The Greatest German? Always full of win. | ||
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seppolevne
Canada1681 Posts
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DeathByMonkeys
United States742 Posts
vs. Creation | ||
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
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citi.zen
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http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i-wasted-lives-on-armistice-day.htm | ||
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FirstBorn
Romania3955 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:44 MoltkeWarding wrote: Adolf Hitler: The Greatest German? ahahaha so good Especially since I remember Hitler being an austrian. | ||
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Luddite
United States2315 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:44 MoltkeWarding wrote: Adolf Hitler: The Greatest German? The most successful troll in history... | ||
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Ganfei
Taiwan1439 Posts
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DreaM)XeRO
Korea (South)4667 Posts
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MoltkeWarding
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This is a fundamental historiographical problem which serious and dedicated German historians have been struggling with for over three decades. To say that Hitler fulfilled certain Carlylean anticipations of greatness, and Goethe's visions of the daemonic, is too obvious to deserve mention. The latter connection was already noted by Hitler's earliest serious biographer, Konrad Heiden. However, the contemporary problem springs mainly from the attempts by various historians in West Germany during the 70s to clarify and historicize National Socialism decades after the event. The problem of Hitler's "greatness" is probably most famously highlighted in the introduction to Fest's 1973 biography of Hitler, wherein Fest struggles with this question amid speculation of Hitler's probable greatness had he died or been assassinated in 1938. His contemporary Sebastian Haffner, the great essayist of National Socialism, dealt with the very same semantic AND moral question in his important essay on Hitler. In the latter part of the previous decade, Percy Ernst-Schramm had already dedicated a portion of his thoughtful essay on Hitler's political and military skill to this question. Even his conservative biographer Walter Görlitz, writing in the immediate post-war period, admitted in his condemnatory biography Hitler's exceptionalism (the issue of Greatness was not yet current.) In short, this question is neither superficial, nor is it a "trolling" observation. It's something which is now engraved in German historiography, and that the majority of Germans are disinterested in the subject, or ready to accept or pay lip service the most pallid cliches about their past, is a matter which should be probed under the lens of controversy. I mean, even the late George Kennan recognized Hitler's greatness, if greatness is a quality completely separate from sainthood. | ||
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Always
United States376 Posts
.. Cause you know.. That's gonna happen. Right? | ||
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MoltkeWarding
5195 Posts
On November 12 2009 05:44 FirstBorn wrote: ahahaha so good Especially since I remember Hitler being an austrian. But you should know that the greatest national figures often come from national fringes: thus the greatest Greek was a Macedon, the greatest Frenchman a Corsican. Stalin the Georgian became a Great Russian, Colbert the half-blood became a great French patriot, the Germanic chieftains of the 4th century took pride in their Roman titles, etc. etc. From youth, Hitler identified himself spiritually with the German nation, and not the Habsburg Empire: "I was a Nationalist, but I was not a patriot," he would recall in Mein Kampf. | ||
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FirstBorn
Romania3955 Posts
On November 12 2009 06:50 Always wrote: You guys could talk about how badly the world will get owned in 2012. .. Cause you know.. That's gonna happen. Right? Ofc, the internet says so. On November 12 2009 06:57 MoltkeWarding wrote: But you should know that the greatest national figures often come from national fringes: thus the greatest Greek was a Macedon, the greatest Frenchman a Corsican. Stalin the Georgian became a Great Russian, Colbert the half-blood became a great French patriot, the Germanic chieftains of the 4th century took pride in their Roman titles, etc. etc. From youth, Hitler identified himself spiritually with the German nation, and not the Habsburg Empire: "I was a Nationalist, but I was not a patriot," he would recall in Mein Kampf. True, yet I still find this and his support to the Arrian concept somewhat ironic. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
Guaranteed to create hostile arguments. Beware of angry PMSin bitches n shit yo | ||
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N.geNuity
United States5112 Posts
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il0seonpurpose
Korea (South)5638 Posts
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Steelflight-Rx
United States1389 Posts
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Loanshark
China3094 Posts
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29 fps
United States5724 Posts
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JFKWT
Singapore1442 Posts
Or all of them. | ||
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MK
United States496 Posts
Sarkozy inside. | ||
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ThunderGod
New Zealand897 Posts
OR internet dating: the future? | ||
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Spike
United States1392 Posts
health care bill women and the infantry abortion eZ | ||
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Gnarly
United States151 Posts
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seppolevne
Canada1681 Posts
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Husky
United States3362 Posts
On November 13 2009 03:14 Gnarly wrote: Obama - Should he get kicked out of the White House? Seriously, this is the largest topic anyway in the news. What channel are you watching? Fox news? | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
On November 12 2009 05:49 Ganfei wrote: Moltke succeeds in making me want to punch him every time his self-fellatio performing smug asshole face shows up If you take out all the obviously horrible things he did, Hitler did completely restore a nation that was basically screwed after WWI and totally unified it (hence Moltke saying if he were assassinated in 1938, what would people think of him? He'd probably be just another racist and not at the helm of a genocide). Pretty much everyone agrees he was a damn good speaker as well. I mean, I think all the shit he did means he can't be the greatest, but he certainly did a lot of good for the country prior to all the atrocities. Quasi-related: An old timer just stopped by my work and gave me a big, old book from Germany detailing the '36 Olympics in Berlin. I can't read a word of it, but the pictures are awesome. | ||
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Undisputed-
United States379 Posts
On November 12 2009 03:26 daz wrote: if you're American you could talk about how Americans are brainwashed since childhood to think of socialism as incredibly evil and to reject any idea which might even border on socialism while every year socialist countries are dominating every kind of living standards measurement Or how generations born into socialist/communist regimes feel the need to validate their government controlled, passive aggressive existence by arguing about how the leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world is doing it wrong. | ||
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