User avatar

Minerva Scriptor

  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortions? Yay or Nay?

    Many rational arguments have been made in favor of anti-abortion laws; it would behoove you to abstain from pinning generalizations upon your opponents. I agree. My intention was only to ...

    Jul 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is religion good for the people/the world?

    If you wish to have this discussion under the assumption that all religion's are false, then I am happy to do so, but make sure that is your intention before ...

    Jul 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is religion good for the people/the world?

    Is religion good for the people/the world? Please try to avoid getting into whether a religion is true or not. I would really like to discuss how religions affect the ...

    Jul 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Origin of religion

    As an Atheist, I am pretty sure that all religions were created by humans. But to assume that they were created only because of a fear of death, I think, ...

    Jul 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: SPEW

    Um... As far as I know, SPEW, as defined in Harry Potter, stands for, the Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare. Assuming that is the correct definition, I believe ...

    Jul 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortions? Yay or Nay?

    I did a school debate on this topic, and consequently, went through a TON of research. My overall conclusion is that abortion should always be legal until about the third ...

    Jul 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Apocalypse

    I'm pretty sure all the "apocalypse" talk that has been so overly hyped by the media is just so much hogwash. Of course the earth won't last forever. Nothing does. ...

    Jul 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Merit pay for teachers?

    Does this mean that the teachers would be paid as per the students' performance? Yes, exactly,although one can try to work around this by defining 'Student achievement' differently. Student achievemen

    Dec 11, 2009
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Merit pay for teachers?

    I am a member of my school's debate team, and this month's topic is merit pay. (The exact resolution is: That merit pay based on student achievement should be a ...

    Dec 10, 2009
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: is there evil?

    Which ignores the fact that love, kindess and 'so on' need not be derived from one source (be it Christianity or other aspects of the nature and environment of humanity). ...

    Jul 7, 2009
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: is there evil?

    The Christian view does in fact put forth common sense. Love that is unconditional and is full of kindness, peace, humility etc, are all that God wants. I'm sorry, but ...

    Jun 30, 2009
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Closing Guantanamo Bay?

    It was definitely a good move, and something that made me really trust that as president he would try to do the right thing. I guess the mass media hasn't ...

    Jun 28, 2009
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: is there evil?

    OK, I have put forth the Christian view but to most (unless denied which is highly likely) this is good sense: love. Unconditional love, which if one person starts through ...

    Jun 28, 2009
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Do books take away our own imagination as writers?

    In general, I think that reading books gives me inspiration and helps me to figure out what sort of thing I would like in my own writing, and what I ...

    Apr 1, 2009
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is there a God

    If you think that the world was created by a speck exploding and creating living organism, cells, DNA and all the stars and moons as the explosion expands, than go ...

    Apr 1, 2009


Life is about losing everything.
— Isabel Allende