STOP ARGUING!!
I cannot count the number of times that my mother would shout “STOP ARGUING!” at one or more of my siblings and me.
Years later I learned that ‘argument’ had more meaning than was contained in those youthful experiences.
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It seems to me that the forum members who participate in a thread approach the experience invigorated with much the same attitude as does a boxer entering the ring or a soldier going into battle.
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Another way that argument resembles war is that both in war and in arguments there is a great deal of bluff and bluster with little intellectual activity.
[quote=Mike Kremer]
Prehaps in these more enlightened, and multi-everything days, we should be replacing the word argument,
with the word discussion, .....where-ever possible.
This would increase our intellectual activity.
