Online discussions

[andrewducker]

Chatting to Julie last night about my post yesterday (where she moved part of it to email, and then to face to face discussion) - she said she finds it hard to deal with my online postings because they come across as statements of fact, rather than my opinion.

To which my rather flabbergasted response was that _of course_ they were statements of opinion - what else _could_ they be?  I take everything I read as a statement of opinion.  If it's on my journal it's my opinion, my latest working hypothesis, my guess at what's most likely, or the latest conundrum that's going through my head.

I don't post anything on my journal that I'm not happy to have argued with - and it delights me when peope tell me I'm wrong and then back it up with something that makes me think about it.  I won't hesitate to point out problems in other people's arguments, and I'm glad there are people out there that won't hesitate to point out holes in mine.

And if it helps, next time you're reading, take a bunch of these and sprinkle them over everything I say.

Comments

[andrewducker]

And the same is true in return. And yes, I think both of us occasionally get carried away, but I'd rather we _could_ get carried away than that we end up not being open about our opinions.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I'm currently spending the week in Plymouth and we're playing D&D 3.5...

[andrewducker]

Hah!

We're currently winding up our 3.5 campaign. 6/7 sessions to go!

(Plus doing a second playtest of 4th Edition this Saturday - I'm trying out an Eladrin Warlord to see how they work).

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

I'm playing a Chaotic Good Crusader. It's a shame they got rid of Chaotic Good and Lawful Evil in 4th :(

[andrewducker]

I can see it both ways. Chaotic Good wasn't really much different to Neutral Good, as in both cases you did Good, no matter what - doing Good in a specifically chaotic manner never really made sense to me. I guess their thinking is that Good/Evil are the important ones, and Chaotic/Lawful were modifiers on those - which isn't necessarily how everyone saw it.

Alignment, of course, being one of those things that causes massive arguments, on the grounds that it doesn't really make any sense, so everyone has their own justifications for what they _really_ mean :->