Hmmm. Will have to think on this one some.

You can do it! 

If anyone needs ideas, comparing two products seems to work very well with Hey Monkeybrains.

HorseAndPony wrote:

Here is my entry for this assignment.

Animals Should Be Rescued After a Natural Disaster
http://www.squidoo.com/SaveAnimalsAfterNaturalDisaster

Now that's how to start a discussion!  Emotional and timely.

I had an idea for a MonkeyBrain a while back, but never made it for fear that it would turn into an "over heated" debate. I always worry about certain topics being too controversial. Maybe I should make it for this challenge and see what happens?

Okay, I went ahead and made one, here it is: http://www.squidoo.com/Book-of-Mormon

EelKat wrote:

Okay, I went ahead and made one, here it is: http://www.squidoo.com/Book-of-Mormon

I see why you thought it would be controversial. It probably will be, however, those kinds of debates can be the best ones. I think this presentation is very well-balanced and I don't see you pushing your opinion anywhere. Lots of resources! I don't know enough about Mormonism to comment but I think you will get some interesting discussion here.

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kimmanleyort wrote:

EelKat wrote:

Okay, I went ahead and made one, here it is: http://www.squidoo.com/Book-of-Mormon

I see why you thought it would be controversial. It probably will be, however, those kinds of debates can be the best ones. I think this presentation is very well-balanced and I don't see you pushing your opinion anywhere. Lots of resources! I don't know enough about Mormonism to comment but I think you will get some interesting discussion here.

yeah, I hadn't quite finished the lens yet, it's done enough to be published and debated on, but my own opinion, is, uhm, well, if you've read my "faerie" lens in my sig, you'll know why my opinion causes problems - from both sides. My personal beliefs are on the some what radical side - and though a Mormon myself, it seems to offend other Mormons - welll, actually, just the fact that I am a Mormon seems to offend a lot of other Mormons. LOL! There's a reason they are trying to excommunicate me for apostasy. Oh well. I'll try to work on writing up more about my own beliefs on it, maybe later today.

But, yeah - the flames have started already, my long time online stalker just got a hold of this lens, and though he hasn't commented on it yet, he's filling my inbox up with long ranting emails. I'll be interested to see if he actually comes forward to publicly post on the lens instead of just emailing me in private - he's not a Squidoo member, but I've seen him post some pretty nasty stuff on other lensmasters religion topic lenses (I think he thought they were my lenses, based on some things he had said! LOL!) he always uses the same name-tag and his flaming style is pretty unique so I can tell his posts right off. Right now he's posting on my FaceBook wall. YIKES! I'll have to go delete those. FB doesn't take to kindly to comments like his. I'm questioning right now, if he does post on my lens - should I delete his comments or not? He's been know to get pretty bad mouthed at times. I guess I'll just wait and see if he actually does comment or not and if so how bad it is. I think maybe I should hope he doesn't comment. Considering he's the one I was worried about, I guess I'll know soon if I was right to worry or not.

kab wrote:

Hey guys.  I just made a lens in the answer deck with tips for HeyMonkeyBrain tips.

It also has a bonus little cheeky monkey perfect for your new lenses:
HeyMonkeyBrain Tips: How to Make a Great Debate Lens

Your lens was very helpful.  My first MonkeyBrain lens was created for this challenge.  I think I have violated the Put words in their mouth rule.  I wrote the following question - Should Animals Be Rescued After a Natural Disaster? Then my two choices are

Yes, you're right! The animals should also be saved and  No! I don't have anything against animals but all efforts should be used to save people.

I didn't want anyone to need to defend in the yes case that in addition to people they wanted animals and in the no case that were not animal haters. 

There are some debates that I do not participate in because I feel that I need to defend a point that might not be related to the general topic of the lens or question and then take yes or no.  So I just write in the guestbook instead.  Do you think that my debate questions would be better as just yes and no?

Hope that makes sense

Thanks

kab wrote:

Hey guys.  I just made a lens in the answer deck with tips for HeyMonkeyBrain tips.

It also has a bonus little cheeky monkey perfect for your new lenses:
HeyMonkeyBrain Tips: How to Make a Great Debate Lens

Great job on this lens.  Love the graphics you added.

bethd821 wrote:

HorseAndPony wrote:

Here is my entry for this assignment.

Animals Should Be Rescued After a Natural Disaster
http://www.squidoo.com/SaveAnimalsAfterNaturalDisaster

A great debate.  A poignant question.  Great job.

Thanks for the kind words and the special visit.

Almost forgot to add mine here:

Harmless Pranks Can Be Funny!

I've never done a MonkeyBrain lens before, this is my first go at it:

"Cheating Politicians Saying 'I'm Sorry' - Sincere or Suspicious?"
http://www.squidoo.com/forgiving-cheati … oliticians