A Cog in the Writing Machine

Alright so Rhetorical is one of those funny words that always make me smirk. ALYWAYS. Seriously, it reminds me of The Hunchback of Notre Dame when Phoebos tells his horse that it was "just a rhetorical question" when he aksed how many times he had really been wrong about smething and the horse started to count off the ways...or click or tap, whatever horses do with their hooves.

Anyways, so rhetorical question is when you know the answer...you're just asking someone the question to make it obvious that you know what's going on...well, I think. Alright, so I was readign over our prompt and I'm like "oh! I know what I want to do!" and then I get to class and I' m like, "Crap...why would I want to talk about animal testing for six weeks" I mean honestly, I think I might want to commit seppuku from just having to read about that and talk about it for weeks on end...not fun.

So what, what does Rhetorical mean to me? It means searching for answers you know that are already out there to state your case...basically. I mean, you know of the stuff, the ideas that are floating around in society, well maybe yu don't know all of them but you know a lot of them or else you wouldn't make the statements you do. So with this paper it's trying to back up a decision, a statement with events and trigger/heaps (cause/effects in tehatre speak) that makes you look all the smarter because hey, not only can you play devil's advocate but you can play devil's advocate to your cause and win...well of course you'd let yoruself win but that's besides the point.

Anyways, so rhetorical reminds me of rhinoceros because of the rh at the beginning...that and it sounds like a pretty intense word, probably because of the rh now that I think about it. Anyways, rhinoceros you knwo for a fact is big and huge...you can just say rhino and someone invisions this freakin huge grey mass of muscle that can gore a man to death. That's what I kind of think of when I think of rhetorical...when you ask a rhetorical question or make a rhetorical statement, you're so sure about this statement (thus it being rhetorical) that you are a freakin huge grey masso f muscle that can gore a man to death because what do we say when people try to refute what we just stated? "It was rhetorical" as if that statement is the be-all-end-all of the conversation...which it tends to be.

Why is that? When you say "It was rhetorical" and people just be quiet...should that be allowed? I mean there are those people who try to continue to negate teh statement but I don't think that many people actually do you know...? They should try more often.