15th Great American Think Off (591 hits)
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Submitted by Dexpaxas (View user info) at 2007-01-02 12:11:14 EST
They've popped the question for the 15th Great American Think-Off: Which should you trust more — your head or heart?
The Great American Think-Off, sponsored by the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, is a national philosophy competition designed to provide ordinary people a chance to voice their opinions on some of life's more perplexing questions.
The winner gets to claim bragging rights as "America's Greatest Thinker."
Would-be deep thinkers can enter by submitting an essay of 750 words or less by April 1. Essays can be mailed to the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, P.O. Box 246, New York Mills, MN 56567; or submitted via the contest's Web site, http://www.think-off.org.
Four finalists will be selected by a panel of judges to travel to New York Mills to debate June 9 before a live audience that will decide the winner. The finalists will be announced May 1 and will each receive $500 plus travel, food and lodging expenses.
Last year's Think-Off posed the question, "Which is more valuable to society: safety or freedom?"
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Submitted by ChristPuncher (user info) at 2007-01-07 20:53:23 EST (#)
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im ashamed u exist
GO BEARS WOO!!!
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-01-05 17:42:20 EST (#)
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Home base is slang for your bathroom at home.
Submitted by Slighty_Obnoxious (user info) at 2007-01-03 01:51:46 EST (#)
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"People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin
That about sums it up.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-01-02 23:23:16 EST (#)
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Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2007-01-02 18:41:21 (#)
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Just for this.........only for this.......I have real tears!
"What should you trust more, your head or your heart?"
Am I missing something here OR am I correct in stating that this is the most ridiculously ambiguous question ever posed?
That's like saying "Who should you trust more, your Lawyer or your Ex-wife?"
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That really is a good line.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-01-02 22:25:28 EST (#)
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Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2007-01-02 18:41:21 EST (#)
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Just for this.........only for this.......I have real tears!
"What should you trust more, your head or your heart?"
Am I missing something here OR am I correct in stating that this is the most ridiculously ambiguous question ever posed?
That's like saying "Who should you trust more, your Lawyer or your Ex-wife?"
Submitted by dexpaxas (user info) at 2007-01-02 17:37:51 EST (#)
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the answer you seek is below....
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Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 16:21:40 (#)
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Be grateful that I did, moron. This would have got zero attention if it wasn't for me.
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2007-01-02 17:22:40 EST (#)
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Why is everyone fighting amounst themselves when this post is obviously retarded and not worth the memory it used?
Oh, and the poster is a shit-hell moron.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 16:28:51 EST (#)
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Yeah, it's called "neighbours", idiot.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-01-02 16:28:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 15:13:09 (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-01-02 14:56:44 (#)
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Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:46:41 (#)
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This is so fucking stupid it's not funny.
"Great American think-off"
You'd be lucky if your entire population had an active brainwave between you.
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This is funny, because Australians are world-renowed for being the stupidest people on the planet.
Next time you see one of those TV shows of people doing stupid things, check it out, they're always Australians...
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Oh, how interesting. Another 'fact' that JonnyX conveniently made up to try and strengthen one of his stupid, mis-guided points.
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I am quite serious Sfaggy, I really did see a show like that, and all the idiots were Australians
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 16:21:40 EST (#)
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Be grateful that I did, moron. This would have got zero attention if it wasn't for me.
Submitted by dexpaxas (user info) at 2007-01-02 16:14:08 EST (#)
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Yay! Sphaggot rated this multiple times!! I'm special!!
Australians are frickin awesome.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 15:36:08 EST (#)
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How delightfully ignorant of you, homo42.
You just made my morning
Submitted by homer42 (user info) at 2007-01-02 15:27:36 EST (#)
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American's aren't the sharpest tools in the shed for sure but Ausralian's sure as shit aren't winning any prizes either, dumbass.
"Crikey, look it's the most dangerous poisonous animal in the world - let's go poke him with a stick!"
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 15:13:09 (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-01-02 14:56:44 (#)
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Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:46:41 (#)
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This is so fucking stupid it's not funny.
"Great American think-off"
You'd be lucky if your entire population had an active brainwave between you.
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This is funny, because Australians are world-renowed for being the stupidest people on the planet.
Next time you see one of those TV shows of people doing stupid things, check it out, they're always Australians...
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Oh, how interesting. Another 'fact' that JonnyX conveniently made up to try and strengthen one of his stupid, mis-guided points.
Don't believe everything you read in MAD magazine, little boy.
Submitted by homer42 (user info) at 2007-01-02 15:23:49 EST (#)
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What a stupid idea. They're dumb for coming up with and you're dumb for reporting it here.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 15:13:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-01-02 14:56:44 (#)
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Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:46:41 (#)
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This is so fucking stupid it's not funny.
"Great American think-off"
You'd be lucky if your entire population had an active brainwave between you.
----
This is funny, because Australians are world-renowed for being the stupidest people on the planet.
Next time you see one of those TV shows of people doing stupid things, check it out, they're always Australians...
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Oh, how interesting. Another 'fact' that JonnyX conveniently made up to try and strengthen one of his stupid, mis-guided points.
Don't believe everything you read in MAD magazine, little boy.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-01-02 15:04:06 EST (#)
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750 words or less???
That would carry me through about the first point of my essay.
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2007-01-02 15:03:05 EST (#)
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I think a far more apt question for America's greatest thinkers should be:
"How do we resolve the war in Iraq / T.W.A.T. with the least casualties in the fastest time?"
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-01-02 14:56:44 EST (#)
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Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:46:41 (#)
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This is so fucking stupid it's not funny.
"Great American think-off"
You'd be lucky if your entire population had an active brainwave between you.
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This is funny, because Australians are world-renowed for being the stupidest people on the planet.
Next time you see one of those TV shows of people doing stupid things, check it out, they're always Australians...
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2007-01-02 14:33:43 EST (#)
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reading below, it is very obvious ubersite has been taken over by losers for quite some time now.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2007-01-02 13:54:37 EST (#)
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Im debating whether I should enter and give them something actually good to read or just not because this is such an easy damn question that i want to shoot myself in my foot.
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:46:41 EST (#)
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This is so fucking stupid it's not funny.
"Great American think-off"
You'd be lucky if your entire population had an active brainwave between you. Look at the fucking question they've posed.
"What should you trust more, your head or your heart?"
Am I missing something here OR am I correct in stating that this is the most ridiculously ambiguous question ever posed?
That's like saying "Who should you trust more, your Lawyer or your Ex-wife?"
I'm sure they'll get mostly retarded answers following the same well-used, religiously corrupted, generic bullshit. For example;
"I believe that all my decisions should be made with consultation from our lord, Jesus Christ. I trust that he will enlighten me with the way and point me in the right direction whether it be the way of my head or the way of my heart. Jesus knows what's best for me and my 9 children and he led us to our salvation in this 'quaint' trailer park. Only he can guide us on the right path. Our heads and our hearts are purely here for cosmetic reasons."
Outstanding!
This would be my essay.
If it's an issue that involves making sure my vital organs receive all the blood that they require, I rely on my Heart. Everything else, I use my head (except in the case of Apollo, where I would probably use my elbow... or a tree stump.
I could fill the other 706 words with colorful language and popular anecdotes but, why waste my time? The dumb slore above me has already won first class tickets to the all expenses paid brainwashing ceremony for her monumentally retarded answer.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:35:59 EST (#)
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neither.
it's your gut instinct you follow.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:25:27 EST (#)
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Trust your head. If you stick it in and it contacts something sharp or bony or that grabs at you, just leave. Trust your head - it knows.
What do I win?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:19:26 EST (#)
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'great american thinker' is like saying 'great north korean human rights activist'
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:18:05 EST (#)
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Yay, a crappy, seppo only advertisement on an internationally visited website.
What more could you ask for from some shitty, moronic, blatantly homosexual n00b?
Take your stupid fucking horseshit somewhere else, pig rapist.
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:14:56 EST (#)
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welcome to the 1st ubersite fuck off
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2007-01-02 12:14:36 EST (#)
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That question is illogical because it would depend entirely on the situation.