I haven't been around here much as of late and most of that can be attributed to vacation, but a big factor has to be with my complete ineptitude to yield a single cohesive argument. No matter how much I read into a subject, my mind draws blanks whenever I'm replying to debate someone. My text field remains empty although my mind is spinning around without churning much cohesive thought that would be easily digested by the average viewer. I prefer simplicity but when a topic diverts from simplicity and becomes multi-faceted, I then can't keep my thoughts straight.
Some issues I believe I can argue decently, specifically superstition and abortion especially approached from a non-technical perspective. But hey, I'm not an embryologist so I have to yield to an expert on that field. I simply can't put into words what they first wrote. I'm capable, but for the life of me, my brain fails its capacity and I struggle immensely. I can't argue other technical subjects such as health care reform, global warming, or evolution. Some issues I can argue on but the rhetoric seems empty, as though I'm arguing a position that I necessarily shouldn't hold, such as my opposition to same-sex marriage. Maybe it's because I have no interest in the specifics; only the details concern me.
GameSpot's a horrible place for arguing anyway. The place is over-run by liberals, atheists, and liberal atheists that, for the most part, can't think for themselves, yet think of themselves as Freethinkers or of some variation of the term. Thinking for yourself involves critical thinking. It does not mean something you believe something because it's progressive or it's popular to do it or it's associated with an elitist way of thinking. That isn't critical thinking. There are some exceptions to this intellectual depravity. I find some liberals to be intellectually informed, even if I can't say it for myself why I believe they're wrong and thus misinformed.
I've got to be honest. I'm not the most intelligent user on these forums. So to think that I could take on multiple users in a debate is unbearable. I can't fathom that, because I simply don't have the tolerance to deal with that many people, that I just shrink. The irony is, is that I'm just as guilty of believing something just because someone in the national spotlight does so too, basically. Health care reform is a big issue that I need to be better acquainted with, yet my passive-aggression lures me but repels me at the smell of details, and I immediately resign from my search, still believing myself to be a critical thinker, which I'm not.
GameSpot's not even a decent place to argue. There are too many users who can't even spell, whose typing errors are so common, that I have to ignore their post completely in most cases. The problem is is that I don't know many forums that don't have these occurrences. It's as if I'm stuck with GameSpot because I feel as though I'm married to the site thanks in part to this wedding ring, my account. Another irony is that I find myself in agreement with certain GameSpot users a lot in many situations that I feel compelled not to respond to threads because they give their response in much better words than I do. Tsk, tsk. Oh well.