Are you having debates with yourself?

[Atlas14]

Are you saying I should change gender?!

I thought thats what you wanted!

Sorry kid, that's not moral.

Kid?!?! I'm older than you!

 

[Mise]

Yup, I always have debates with myself. I assumed everyone did...

Constantly. Its great for my self esteem, because no matter what, I always win the debate.

I always lose

 

[Guangxi]

often. a lot of the time i dont like th outcome, so i can only assume the other me won.

 

[CartesianFart]

I always lose

Is that a "Socratic Method" that you are instigating?

 

[Erik Mesoy]

My thoughts don't rise to the level of full debates, but I do have 'facets' to my personality. I describe myself as having "mild self-induced multiple personality schizophrenia". It's a handy way to trump cognitive dissonance by instead letting one part think one thing and another part think one thing. Of course, each part has its own agenda, one part denies that there are parts but think that they're useful for describing how I think, and the part that thinks this is silly is just that, a part, so another part of me is free to disagree. Every part is of course meta to an arbitrary number of levels since it's responding to the others. There may be a part responsible for keeping track, but it's not the one typing this post, and so "I" am not required to be consistent about it here and now.

 

[Mise]

Is that a "Socratic Method" that you are instigating?

Either I'm two really really good debaters, or two really really sucky ones.

 

[azzaman333]

I thought thats what you wanted!

I assume he was just thinking of whether his life would've been in a better position if he'd been born a girl, not wishing to become one.

 

[Azash]

If I'm mulling over something, I may create two or three fictitious voices that debate over whatever I'm thinking about. Most people find this unnerving, as I tend to mumble everything (Imagine a rather trollish-looking metalhead staring blankly at a computer screen and mumbling in two different voices).

 

[Winner]

Frequently - usually between the "desire" and "realist" parts of my personality.

 

[CartesianFart]

Frequently - usually between the "desire" and "realist" parts of my personality.

I wonder which one wins the most?

 

[Winner]

I wonder which one wins the most?

The realist part scores in most cases, unless it's knocked-out by some unfair move, usually involving alcohol

 

[Kozmos]

QFT.

Truer words have not been said.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Constantly. Its great for my self esteem, because no matter what, I always win the debate.

Don't you also always lose?

 

[Mizar]

Frequently - usually between the "desire" and "realist" parts of my personality.

You only have 2 personalities?

 

[RubricousMidget]

My thoughts don't rise to the level of full debates, but I do have 'facets' to my personality. I describe myself as having "mild self-induced multiple personality schizophrenia". It's a handy way to trump cognitive dissonance by instead letting one part think one thing and another part think one thing. Of course, each part has its own agenda, one part denies that there are parts but think that they're useful for describing how I think, and the part that thinks this is silly is just that, a part, so another part of me is free to disagree. Every part is of course meta to an arbitrary number of levels since it's responding to the others. There may be a part responsible for keeping track, but it's not the one typing this post, and so "I" am not required to be consistent about it here and now.

Sounds like a crappy way to excuse posting self-contradictory ( ).

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I do it constantly. Debating is one of my favorite hobbies.