Dialogue is collaborative: multiple sides work toward shared understanding.
Debate is oppositional: two opposing sides try to prove each other wrong.
In dialogue, one listens to understand, to make meaning, and to find common ground.
In debate, one listens to find flaws, to spot differences, and to counter arguments.
Dialogue enlarges and possibly changes a participant's point of view.
Debate defends assumptions as truth.
Dialogue creates an open-minded attitude: an openness to being wrong and an openness to change.
Debate creates a close-minded attitude, a determination to be right.
In dialogue, one submits one's best thinking, expecting that other people's reflections will help improve it rather than threaten it.
In debate, one submits one's best thinking and defends it against challenge to show that it is right.
Dialogue calls for temporarily suspending one's beliefs.
Debate calls for investing wholeheartedly in one's beliefs.
In dialogue, one searches for strengths in all positions.
In debate, one searches for weaknesses in the other position.
Dialogue respects all the other participants and seeks not to alienate or offend.
Debate rebuts contrary positions and may belittle or deprecate other participants.
Dialogue assumes that many people have pieces of answers and that cooperation can lead to a greater understanding.
Debate assumes a single right answer that somebody already has.
Dialogue remains open-ended.
Debate demands a conclusion.
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weekend romp to sequoia national forest. i froze me arse off. fuckin' california, i tell ya.
okay, well this first one is from somewhere in new mexico, a few weeks back. the others are the romp, i promise.
edit: oh bloody hell. what a narrow-minded blog this is. eh, if you want to see the full images, just browse me pictures folders. i can't be arsed to go and re-photoshop 'em all. i've bloody well got better things to do like chase girls or something.
edit2: lest you become confused...i'm not really English. i'm not really even all that literate.
edit3: how many of you think the photo of lithium picnic on the front page in those awful square SG glasses shows attitude in such the oh so punk way? i mean really. just my cross-eyed, fashion retarded opinion.
Debate is oppositional: two opposing sides try to prove each other wrong.
In dialogue, one listens to understand, to make meaning, and to find common ground.
In debate, one listens to find flaws, to spot differences, and to counter arguments.
Dialogue enlarges and possibly changes a participant's point of view.
Debate defends assumptions as truth.
Dialogue creates an open-minded attitude: an openness to being wrong and an openness to change.
Debate creates a close-minded attitude, a determination to be right.
In dialogue, one submits one's best thinking, expecting that other people's reflections will help improve it rather than threaten it.
In debate, one submits one's best thinking and defends it against challenge to show that it is right.
Dialogue calls for temporarily suspending one's beliefs.
Debate calls for investing wholeheartedly in one's beliefs.
In dialogue, one searches for strengths in all positions.
In debate, one searches for weaknesses in the other position.
Dialogue respects all the other participants and seeks not to alienate or offend.
Debate rebuts contrary positions and may belittle or deprecate other participants.
Dialogue assumes that many people have pieces of answers and that cooperation can lead to a greater understanding.
Debate assumes a single right answer that somebody already has.
Dialogue remains open-ended.
Debate demands a conclusion.
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weekend romp to sequoia national forest. i froze me arse off. fuckin' california, i tell ya.
okay, well this first one is from somewhere in new mexico, a few weeks back. the others are the romp, i promise.
edit: oh bloody hell. what a narrow-minded blog this is. eh, if you want to see the full images, just browse me pictures folders. i can't be arsed to go and re-photoshop 'em all. i've bloody well got better things to do like chase girls or something.
edit2: lest you become confused...i'm not really English. i'm not really even all that literate.
edit3: how many of you think the photo of lithium picnic on the front page in those awful square SG glasses shows attitude in such the oh so punk way? i mean really. just my cross-eyed, fashion retarded opinion.
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Whenever people critique the SG home page, what they have to remember is- I NEVER view it. I enter the site via a Friend's homepage, then Log In from there. I like many things about the site, but as far as visual aesthetic design choices go, I've never been high on those. (Can we retire that Mary logo, already?)