>> When I see people express certain opinions, I instinctively know that I'm against them, but if I try to discuss it with them, I simply become run over before I get around to saying what I believe. Does anyone recognize this feeling?
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> Yes. In my case it's again part of that whole uptight thing. I attempted to participate in a religion discussion here a while back and felt completely incapable of making a decent argument. I thought long and hard about why. The main reason is I get emotionally strung up about things where Sam has a method of clear, factual argument based on clear belief. Clear, reasonable facts are important, as is confidence in your knowledge.

I also imagine that it has to do with experience gained from vast amounts of discussion. Having been forced to take a line of argument through has certainly cleared plenty of things up for me (long time after the discussion you understand :-)).


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> I have never been to Denmark, but I am 1/4 Danish, and my grandparents have been there many times. It sounds fabulous, though I am wary of visiting any place where I can't communicate with the majority easily. I have enough trouble communicating with those who speak my language. (it's a personal problem, impatience, though I think I'm growing out of it)

Oohh! Speak english. The good thing about being a small population (there are but 5.5 million danes on this planet) is that you must learn other languages to communicate. I beleive that something like 80% speak english at an understandable level. It's taught from fourth to ninth grade in elementary school.

Julian