Grenache
Member since 29 Jun 2008
Grenache is an Uber Debater
About Grenache:
New posters often ask how I got so many points. It's just the passage of time. Stick around long enough and your points will get up there too. In fact you'll learn the total points as well as the star of the day and the buzz list mean very little in reality.

The name: "Grenache" is a red grape used to make wine. It is NOT a woman's name as some guess (in fact I'm a man). In hindsight I wish I'd picked a different log-in but I'm too established in here now to switch.

I'm a typical middle aged 40 hour per week white collar office guy.

Although I'm not an atheist I love to speak up when dogmatic religious posts are made. I find many of the intensely religious lack the bravery or initiative to truly test their beliefs with tough questions.

And I'll admit I had seven years of formal debate competition in high school and college, but when I post on this site I'm simply stating my honest opinions, it's not any sort of gamesmanship.
Grenache's Interests:
I've made amateur art for six years and turned out over 550 paintings and carvings.

Two years ago I became interested in wine and now have a quest to try every different kind of wine grape I can find. My count has reached 167 and there are many more to come. I'm a member of the Wine Century Club.
Points Activity
Points earnt today: 0
Points earnt in 7 days: 350
For & Against Debate: 173 X 10 = 1730
For & Against Response: 2662 X 10 = 26620
Total Points: 28350
Latest Debate
The New Wanda Sykes Commedy Show Late On Saturday Nights Is Pretty Funny
on 15 Nov 2009 14:05:24
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Yeah, I'm not saying it's a rule of behavior though. I'm just saying the people most passionate against homosexuality usually have a personal reason, that reason can be latent homosexuality but of course...  read more...
on 17 Nov 2009 11:09:48
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Sorry but the stimulation from this debate was trivial. I'll leave now and seek other internal and external means to entertain...  read more...
on 19 Nov 2009 11:20:22
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On the one hand you are fully within your right as a roommate to expect mutual courtesy. If you were to consider their sex offensive or disruptive to your sleep then yes you should say something. But...  read more...
on 23 Mar 2009 01:13:05
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1. Sorry but the stimulation from this debate was trivial. I'll leave now and seek other internal and external means to entertain myself. read more...
  19 Nov 2009 11:20:22  
2. It's an act of aggression. Even if the first time it falls under the umbrella of an act of humor the fact it is repeated again and again despite your wishes makes it a textbook case of aggression. read more...
  19 Nov 2009 11:17:44  
3. I appreciate the general concept behind your post - that extremism is scarry and destructive regardless of which extreme they are taking it to - and I'd agree with that much, but 1) it is the very nature of extremism to reject all views not matching their own extreme, which means there is no chance they'll ever see each other as truly the same, and 2) It's an oversimplification to point to just one or two character traits and then say they're the same. A totalitarian communist and a totalitarian fascist and a messianic cult leader all share some common behaviors but what each stands for is dramatically different. It's analogous to saying sharks and lions and mosquitos are all the same because they usually attack in packs. Not very accurate. read more...
  19 Nov 2009 11:14:26  
4. I'm not pro-Muslim, in fact I'll agree in our present time the many terrorist actions of Muslims makes them more responsible than any other socio-cultural-ethnic group for many domestic and international conflicts than any other group I can think of. BUT, it's not all Muslims, it's only some, and there are plenty of Christians for example who say and do things I don't agree with either and I'd appreciate not being lumped in with anger against them. My voice may try to sway them but I'm not ultimately responsible for physically stopping the other Christians, and the same would be true for Muslims. Furthermore, I strongly disagree that we would have utopia if there were no Muslims. There will alway, ALWAYS, be conflicts between groups of people, removing the Muslims from the equation would just leave a void for someone else to step in and fill. read more...
  19 Nov 2009 11:06:07  
5. Meh... I think "meh" is an expression of grace - a sort of "just let it go" mentality, and grace is one of the glues that helps hold civilization together. read more...
  19 Nov 2009 10:58:37  
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1. Yeah, I'm not saying it's a rule of behavior though. I'm just saying the people most passionate against homosexuality usually have a personal reason,...  read more...
  17 Nov 2009 11:09:48  
2. I enjoyed Up, and I've enjoyed other 3Ds as well, I'm just not as impressed as I was years ago when they first started coming out in Imax 3D. read more...
  17 Nov 2009 11:05:36  
3. OK, I'll be honest I don't know much of anything about thermodynamics, but I'm still not convinced the origin of decay is best explained by a supernatural...  read more...
  16 Nov 2009 21:59:24  
4. Gee, I thought we were about to have our first fight, but there's just no arguing with that one. read more...
  15 Nov 2009 14:00:54  
5. That's fine, you're entitled to it. Hey maybe we should have a big fight and then some hot sex.... Wait, you're a woman right? (Joking, I'm not single...  read more...
  15 Nov 2009 13:57:04  
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