NOT Preaching To The Choir

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Xerographica

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Let's dedicate this thread to sharing links to other websites where we are not preaching to the choir. Personally, I would be very interested in reading other people's sales pitches. Here's my most recent sales pitch...

Popular vs Valuable*

To be very clear... I want to see interactions! Please do not post links to your articles, blog entries or Youtube videos... unless you are actively engaged with liberals in the comment section. In other words... I want to see you exchanging/trading thoughts with liberals. It's perfectly fine though to share supplemental info that might be of use to another member during an exchange. In other words... feel free to throw lifelines.

Also, please don't only share links to positive exchanges. Sharing links to negative exchanges will give us all the chance to try and identify what went wrong. Ideally other members of this forum would be willing and able to jump in and try and make the exchange more productive.

Personally, way too often I find myself trying to win a debate. Which is absurd because I'm trying to sell the idea of freedom. Unfortunately it's really hard for me to be less combative.

Hopefully we can learn from each other!


*Errr... funnily enough I think that I might actually be doing a bit of choir preaching in that thread (Wizlandia). But at least there a few non-choir preaching interactions in that thread.
 
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Thanks for sharing! It doesn't seem like it's really striking at the root though.
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Well, the root for me is the individual. It really does not get any molecular than that.



Yes, I would like to have a lot of money where I could post billboard messages all across the country. The goal is to always reach many people, but I don't have that luxury.



The pros of replying to specific questions on Yahoo Answers:

1. Your audience is captive because they are asking a question. They WILL read your answer.

2. The questioner is seeking a practical solution, so you are not just discussing ivory tower concepts.

3. The questioners are young, many in their early teens. They WILL listen to you.

4. The answers are short, to the point, and fairly instant.

5. You don't debate people, so you save A LOT of energy.

6. I copy & paste standard replies for questions that repeat themselves weekly/daily.

6. Other people are still reading your answer.




Here are just some Best Answers to Yahoo questions I've answered:



Here is some 17 year old kid confused and apprehensive about his meeting with Child Protective Services in one week. I suggest he doesn't talk and that CPS is not his friend:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160408195223AA9pYLX



Here's a high school freshman asking about the pros and cons of him joining the army. I tell him about the many lies and misdeeds of the government:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160404154329AA3XynK



This kid is asking for good debate points in legalizing weed for a school project. Hopefully, several dozen people here these debate points:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160315232551AAwze88


This student is going on spring break and asks if he has to comply at border patrol roadblocks. I give him the lowdown and post the video of Terry Bressi making fools of them:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160307222057AAPJhnN


This person is seeking out a career. A career assessment suggests his best career options are in "law, public safety, corrections and security, and government and public administration." I post the laundry list of problems with police and he seems to agree with another Best Answer:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160302140011AAWlyR5


Many, many Yahoo people have encounters with the law when they are minding their own business. I have posted the viral video "Don't Talk to the Police" countless times:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160130223230AAIZXfl


Here's some poor schlep intimidated by the just-us system, another person who might be flim-flammed by lying cops. He is attending a hearing with some vague "public safety" figure:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160129181407AAQiQQx


Here is a person who is going to call the lice on his brother. I tell him to clean his own dirty laundry:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160123220647AAFT2Bh


I've answered a number of parents concerned about vaccinating their kids. They are not even aware of the many resources. Some actually think you MUST vaccinate your kid for him to enter public school!
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160327114957AAoJ9mO


This college girl in the "gender studies" Yahoo forum starts talking about "male privilege," but then ends up saying, "Thank you though for your opinion it did offer another great point of view." If you catch the girls young enough and before their professors' views solidify, then they start realizing that this "social science" does not hold a candle to their own natural biology.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160328224922AApMrqC
 
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Xerographica said:
Let's dedicate this thread to sharing links to other websites where we are not preaching to the choir. Personally, I would be very interested in reading other people's sales pitches. Here's my most recent sales pitch...

Popular vs Valuable*

To be very clear... I want to see interactions! Please do not post links to your articles, blog entries or Youtube videos... unless you are actively engaged with liberals in the comment section. In other words... I want to see you exchanging/trading thoughts with liberals. It's perfectly fine though to share supplemental info that might be of use to another member during an exchange. In other words... feel free to throw lifelines.

Also, please don't only share links to positive exchanges. Sharing links to negative exchanges will give us all the chance to try and identify what went wrong. Ideally other members of this forum would be willing and able to jump in and try and make the exchange more productive.

Personally, way too often I find myself trying to win a debate. Which is absurd because I'm trying to sell the idea of freedom. Unfortunately it's really hard for me to be less combative.

Hopefully we can learn from each other!


*Errr... funnily enough I think that I might actually be doing a bit of choir preaching in that thread (Wizlandia). But at least there a few non-choir preaching interactions in that thread.
Click to expand...

Eh. Nevermind. Wasn't important.
 
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Oh, and the Yahoo forum is not without it's fun. I am called every name under the sun in the Yahoo Military Forum. You must be making an impact when people react so emotionally to you. :D



You really know you've arrived when they start making nasty threads about you.



Nasty threads from Yahoo members who--uh--don't really like me.



So this former army major is accusing me of mental health issues. That is cyberbullying!

Thread title: "Is it any surprise that trolls like Michael have mental health issues?"

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...8214752AA0vHey








Thread title: "If you could eradicate one troll from the military section who would it be?
Armouror or Michael the Troll?"

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...AAuRzbk&page=1

I'm Michael and Armourer is a British vet they can't stand. I won the poll!
 
Great stuff, thank you for sharing.

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