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Old 12-16-2009, 09:52 AM   #2565
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My eagerness for debate occasionally leads me to have heated disagreements, but I see even this as a chance to improve my rhetorical skills and it usually becomes like a public verbal joust where I have a horse and a spear and they're straddling their dying cat, timidly wielding a box of corn flakes and a shield fashioned out of glitter paper.
This is one of the reasons the relationship with my SO is deteriorating rapidly. I win most of these debates, even sometimes when it turns out I am wrong, because I really have honed the rhetorical skills so well. In fact, I have honed the rhetorical skills to a level that sometimes excludes perception of consequences.

That is all.
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