#ld debate

[squid-with-five-eyes]

defend your answer in tags!

[the-apparatus]

A novice LD debater just said I look like I read Baudrillard and then said I was the best judge they've had at this tournament.

[1134soup]

This LD topic is so lame I hate arguing right to housing it’s so overused I’ve heard it millions of times before ): the best topics were the 2021-2022 Nov/Dec and Sept/Oct topics genuinely they were so much fun to argue and last year’s was kinda boring it was just environmental, healthcare, and then borders (which was hell on earth to argue)

[boredcoldandhungry]

doing LD next week might just do this

the urge to just say nuh uh in a tournament round

[voidloidsstuff]

Gwendolyn Bouchard has debate kid energy

[loveerran]

There are LDS folks who believe a) all Spirit Children of our Heavenly Parents are binary male or female, and b) everyone's assigned sex at birth matches their Spirit's eternal gender. Since LDS theology holds that our underlying Spirit is part of an eternal existence that has no beginning or end, the binary gender view is particularly significant.

However, consider that there are times sex at birth is assigned incorrectly or cannot be determined:

Perhaps 100 billion humans have lived. If only .02% have had ambiguous/divergent genital/chromosomal presentation, we're discussing 20 million individuals, up to 2 million of whom are alive today. At broader definitions of intersex, that number is more than 100 million persons alive today - about the same percentage as people born with red hair.

Use whatever criteria you want to determine whether a body is male or female, somewhere there will be an individual who rides the line between male and female such that you cannot determine which side of the line they fall on. No matter who defines the criteria, or what those criteria are, there comes a point where we just can't tell.

Which Spirit does God put in that body? What if, under given criteria, the body is 60% male/40% female outside and 60% female/40% male inside? What Spirit is sent to the body then?

We don't have to go far to find cases that raise questions. Castor Semenya was born, raised and competed as a woman her entire life, until it was discovered she was XY (and she still competed as a woman some after that). Other cases, like a 33 yr old man with a uterus, ovaries and XX chromosomes internally, but full outward male genitalia, or an XY woman who never got her period, are mentioned relatively frequently in medical literature and the news. Development factors, natural and artificial, further complicate gender and sex identity. We're still learning about neurological differences outside of typically identified intersex characteristics.

If someone who is reproductively female spends their entire life as a man, what Spirit did God send to that body? Because somewhere, somewhen, this has happened and it may be more often than you think.

Since we cannot make a blanket statement about the gender of Spirits matching assigned sex at birth, let's be more careful about what we say. The truth is we don't always know. The gospel is about ministering to the one, and somewhere that one is listening to you. Be kind to them. Tell them the truth, even if that truth is 'we don't know all the answers for everyone' (LDS Handbook 38.7.7). There is goodness and power in admitting to not knowing everything and in pleading with the Lord for further light and knowledge. Such honesty may give us less to repent of later.

[the-apparatus]

Gerard way does seem like the kind of person who'd judge highschool LD though

i had a dream where gerard way was judging one of my debates, and he was being very nice. then he signed my noteboot. when i woke up, i went to grab the notebook, but obviously, there was no signature because it was A DREAM, then i was very sad for the rest of the day.

i wish gerard would sign my notebook.......

4/10, i've never had a dream about mcr :(

[icarianlibrary]

Tabroom needs to update rn, I’m gonna loose my crap waiting to see who won

[ra-archives]

I was at a debate competition yesterday, so here's some art of the chain based on that. This is a debate au now ig?

Lu-tober day 15+16

No prompt

Debate AU lmao

Anyway highlights from the trip + bonus info

Had to get up at like 3:45 am, had to be their at 4:45 and then hours of drive time it was some bullshit no one was happy also it was cold as fuck

Wild and Hyrule being in Congress bc they're speech kids and need a debate even is so me tho. I crashed and burned cause I had not a single thing prepared lmao

Turned Legend and Four into a PF duo cause they gave me the same vibe as a pair of people on my team, also I think it'd be funny

I won first place with my Oratory! Wasn't actually expecting that, but I got straight 1's through all my rounds, was very confused at first but hey I slay :D

Last comic bit of Wild winning is basically a recreation of that moment expect there was more exited running and fistbumps as I returned to the audience

Probably never gonna touch this idea again but I find it amusing for now. Maybe one or two bored doodles during rounds.

[symptomofgout]

gacha game: releases two characters

reddit: oh my god they’re so funny!!!

twitter: oh my god they’re so gay!!!

me: oh my god they’re so sara ahmed nancy fraser hierarchical value dualisms critical literature emotion/logic dichotomy!!! (and also funny and gay)

[yourgayfroggiefriend]

I’m curently watching someone try to spread with a pen in their mouth and it’s the funniest thing like bro what are you doing trying to explain the impact of oil drilling at mach 2 when you sound like you’re the worst ventriloquist in the last century?

[the-apparatus]

Real friends try to get you to make a cult (prep group) and sell your soul (get paid to do debate prep).

[1134soup]

goddd I am so tired of reading libertarian philosophers i can’t wait for the Jan/Feb topic to be over if I ever hear the words “Starvin Marvin” one more time I’m going to go insane

[brothermouse]

One of my favorite silly debates to have with my Mom is: Did Adam have a belly button? The only caviat to this being that before we debate we have to agree that we're sticking with a strict creationism route rather than letting it turn into an evolutionary debate

I think is mostly boils down to how much heavy lifting the phrase "made in our image" is doing. Adam's appearance was probably not a complete copy of God the Father's because that "our" implies that Heavenly Mother's traits got mixed in there. (That opens up a whole new can of worms as to whether Adam was a femboy but I'm not gonna get into that).

A bellybutton is basically a scar, so would God pass on a scar he had to his creation? (assuming that Adam was created without a womb) BUT THEN! that brings up another question as to whether God has a bellybutton. In Mormon theology, God was once mortal, but we have no guarantee that his mortal form was mammalian. Heavenly Father could have been born from an egg, or through budding, or something we've never seen before that grossed Him out so much that He decided that He wouldn't create anything that reproduced like that.

I propose that it is statistically likely that, assuming a strict creationist scenario, Adam did not have a bellybutton because our Heavenly Parents don't have bellybuttons

[mvshortcut]

The "I defeated my narcolepsy with the power of my mind!" thing is so funny to me because in Book 3, Constance literally DOES defeat her PTSD with the power of her mind. So that leads me to believe that somehow, it IS possible to "defeat" your disability/mental illness with the power of your mind in the mbs universe but Curtain just fucking sucks at it.

[lincolndouglas]

I hate tournaments that do topics months ahead. I get wanting prep for nat quals but how abt not picking a topic that will be released TWO DAYS before the tournament???