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If I may just be permitted to make an observation for a moment?

I type fast, so most of the replies here take me no more than 10 minutes. Now I'll give you an idea of how long it takes me to usually study a topic. Spread out over weeks it usually takes around maybe 10 hours work, if I already have knowledge of it and access to decent books and sources. Anyone notice the difference between one hour and ten? Now if people wish for me to study something I'm not familiar with, or would have to dig for information on such as football or similar, you might as well call it 20 hours minimum. So what you say? Well here's another thought, this week I have had just 4 hours to myself to sit down and persue any study of such things (and that was only because a meeting was cancelled!), and I already have a topic for that, and I'm interested in it. So imagining for a moment if you will that this is an average week in my life, you could expect a minimum of 5 weeks before I could even begin, and that's assuming that I can, and that I want to.

Try to understand the difference between 10 minute posts and 10-20 hours work before I even begin thinking about the debate and the topic, it's not hard to work out that unless it's something I'm very interested in, that I have better things to do with my time.

Furthermore, there is a distinct difference between threads (or part thereof) where I have pointed to research and threads where I have debated something. An example would be the Billy the Kid thread, after pointing out the facts I engaged in a debate about them the morality of his actions based on the time. If you look at the three I suggested here, two are specifically morality issues where facts are helpful, but a stance is needed and must be defended. Try again.

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Thus far I have yet to see PrivateHudson ever post anything that can't already be found in a book somewhere

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You clearly don't look very far. Either that or you presume that because someone bases part of their argument on facts, that said argument must be someone elses' design. That would kind of be like me saying that because you take a morale stance against the use of atom bombs on Japan, you must have got that stance from MacArthur. We're all influenced by books, sources and so on, I bet none of us can put forward a theory that we can all claim to be "ours" without finding someone else has expressed it first, does that diminish someone's stance? I think not.

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He is completely against religious association(for reasons I know not) and strictly adheres to facts alone

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That's so wrong it's not even funny. Read the defenition of Agnostic properly, I'm no athiest. If I was that, I would have adopted the "ban organised religion" argument.

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Theories donot concern him therefore what is the point with arguing anything with him?

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Just because this forum lacks sufficient topics where I have debated theories does not mean I don't. I visit many where I discuss a variety of things, including non-provable things like religion.

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He's very very helpful but he is not a debater. I tend to think of him more as a corrector, someone who sets the facts straight when a poster clearly lies about something.

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Well that's very nice of you to say, but hardly accurate to say I cannot debate something just because it doesn't appear here, or fails to come up to your standard of what makes a debating style valid.

I'm always bemused by the way you try to read me consis, at the very least it gives me something to chuckle about in the morning. You're very rarely right though. I appreciate that you mean well consis, but you never quite get it right.

Oh and maybe if I have time in a few months a viking debate might not be beyond me, but we're talking end of the year at least now given hols and what not.

Didn't really want to go into the obvious details about the time thing, but since you all act so smug about it, I guess it was necessary. If I debate something, I like to do it justice and understand the topic, and all aspects of it fully. If you want that, then don't sit there talking to me about "time". I'm fully aware about how much time I have thank you.

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