Phemanderac wrote on Jul 20
th, 2015 at 6:04pm:
longweekend58 wrote on Jul 20
th, 2015 at 5:32pm:
Phemanderac wrote on Jul 19
th, 2015 at 3:22pm:
Longy, you want a bit of cred? Let someone else fully set the challenge, word limit, rules and time limit.
Then see how you go if anyone else takes up the challenge. Anything else is just you "roping" people in, it lacks honesty, credibility and demonstration of genuine writing skills.
Anything other than that is just you saying you won.... Oh wait!
That is a fine idea, but lacks one thing -
a decent reasonable intelligent and intellectually honest person to run the Challenge. Aussie 'decided' that e would stup in - uninvited and unwanted of course - and declare that mytopic was to disprove the existence of God for the sole reason that he knows it is a topic I would refuse.
Now, if you want to step up and do soemthing about it then you are free to do so. I figured that three semi-reasonable people could so it as an un-marked exercise but bam and peccahead declined (of course) while Karnal - who is still throwing a tantrum - joined in.
You are welcome to do something about it.
So, it's ok with you if I set something up, but hey wait a minute, clearly, from the highlighted bits, I am not intelligent or intellectually honest either. It would seem that no one here (well seemingly apart from your good self) is...
Clearly then, the only obvious choice is for you to set it up.
Further, in a "real" competition a competitor would take what they get (as it were). What happens if a competitor does not wish to do the topic - they concede.I have not bought into the "you did not write that piece...." argument quite deliberately. Whether or not I have doubts as to its authorship is totally irrelevant. My comments about your piece were on the piece itself. As I have maintained, by the way, it was not as good as you claim it was. Those reasons have all been laid out, plus a few other posters have pointed to some flaws. I would, respectfully, suggest that if in fact you are a serious writer, it is the negative comments that you would pay more heed to - that's how you will improve your skill set and that is also how you will write and appeal to a wider audience.
a real competition would never suggest a topic that is massively unacceptable to any competitor. Would you for instance ask anyone to write in support of paedophilia? what about in support of the Holocaust or perhaps pro-slavery?
There is a real difference between writing for a position you are actually against and being asked to cross a moral line you are not prepared to do. The truly pitiful thing is that that needs to be explained.
as for your comments about my article... you may have a point, but the subsequent discussion went nowhere other than the claim it was plagiarised (without any proof). Its a bit hard to take serious some commentators who applaud Aussies support of incest based 100% on his disinterest in people's actions and my legnthy and substantial support for social evolution of gay marriage. Aussie could support murder, rape and peadophilia using his argument.
yes, I long for a serious and capable competition with people who can actually write and formulate arguments rather than merely quoting their ideology.
I would happily write a treatise on the proof of God, but that will never be asked for, in case I am too persuasive. Cant have that.
Now, are you going to take the job of reasonable moderator with reasonable topics?