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MrJiveBoJingles
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.
Dancing Dude Playing devil's advocate...

...is a lot of fun.

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Silky Johnson
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Shit disturber!

*punch*

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MrJiveBoJingles
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.

Oh, I'm not doing it here at the moment.

Just wondering if anyone else is a fan of it.

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pkcRAISTLIN
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Registered: Jul 2002
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Im too opinionated to play it often. Normally I only play it in situations when im kinda on the fence, or if somebody has gone too far down one argument and I feel a bit of context is warranted.

To be honest I just prefer mocking people with obvious learning disorders.


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Silky Johnson
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Yes it's fun.

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woscar
Starstuff



Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Guatemala, Guatemala

Oh, I'm a fan alright...I love freaking the shit out of people, specially with remarks about abortion, euthanasia, and shit like that...


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nchs09
Traceaddict in training



Registered: Sep 2003
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Why play devils advocate if you agree with the person. Waste of time it seems.

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MrJiveBoJingles
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On another forum I'm pretending to be a fundamentalist Christian who thinks that all Muslims and atheists should be deported.

I think I'll reveal my ruse soon, though.

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Lebezniatnikov
Stupidity Annoys Me



Registered: Feb 2004
Location: DC

I do it all the time.

I once convinced a friend of mine that the janjaweed should be officially brought on board as an ally in the War on Terror. Needless to say, there was some confusion once I realized what I'd done.


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Silky Johnson
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quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
On another forum I'm pretending to be a fundamentalist Christian who thinks that all Muslims and atheists should be deported.

I think I'll reveal my ruse soon, though.




Pfffft, that's just trolling.

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PETRAN
Like Antennas To Heaven



Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Volos, Greece
Dunno

Oh yes, i'm doing it all the time.



The question is...why?



1)For the sake of conversation?


2)Seeing that one side has more "potential" (e.g. more people supporting it) and hence you go with the other side in order to "balance" the "unfairness"?


3)Pushing your ego? Demonstrating how "clever" you are?



4) Just for "fun"? (ofcourse, this is NOT a real reason, but people often say it).



Or...



Is it necessary that when you play "devil's advocate" you actually play "devi's advocate"? Maybe deep-down you kind of..."support" the argument, or maybe you are "fond" of it, or you think that this could be your actual attitude, but unfortunately you have a better one (which could be the opposite!),or maybe you are NOT supposed to have it because it is not acceptable by your socio-economic/cultural/social/educational environment, and hence by "playing the devil's advocate" you have the chance to finally "adopt" it...

(this would imply that JBJ IS actually a fundamentalist christian or that he would like to be one... )


or maybe...


when you play the "devil's advocate", you do it for the purposes of "exploring", from a first-person reference, the "other side" that you would never support/explore/analyse it otherwise. So there could be "exploratory" and "investigatory" reasons for playing the "devil's advocate" (notice that the "devil's advocate" may NOT be aware of any of these causes)


Just a few thoughts heh...

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Alex
Suck a cheetah's dick



Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Montreal

By devil do you mean chuck norris?


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