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Should a separate religious forum be created?

Should a separate religious forum be created?

  • Hell Yeeeaaahhhh...

    Votes: 35 54.7%

  • Fuck Naaaawwww...

    Votes: 29 45.3%
  • Total voters
    64
I was gonna say yes, but if everybody's so against it, que sera sera.

"Religious" thought or experience does have a huge impact on intellectual life, but do I give a shit about 'souls'? Maybe the alternative would be for some of us who are more in to non-religious thought and culture to be more pointed and more accessible when we start or contribute to a thread. I know I invoke ideas and thinkers much more obscure, difficult or weird than our more religious or New Age friends.

people need to take an intro philosophy course...or...maybe just trip balls until the answer hits them in the face and they stop asking
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Makes me think of a weird dinner party conversation I had, where a young woman was arguing about going to the True Space and the Place of Truth to discover True Masculinity and True Feminity (the caps are mine of course but they seem to be appropriate for how she was talking).

I disagreed, being an anti-essentialist & anti-Platonist and we just kept going in circles circles circles. I happened to be tripping on 2CD, so was good for quick, but pleasant, rebuttals.
 
Leg said:


8( people need to take an intro philosophy course...or...maybe just trip balls until the answer hits them in the face and they stop asking

/rant
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ALRIGHT! GO LEG!!

I'm with MARX on this one, religion is the opiate of the masses. It's so droll to read about the constant dogmatic hairsplitting, and the intolerance and the miopic point of view. But I fear, if we give them their own soapbox, they'll bludgeon any dissenters who venture into their little homophobic, closed minded little closet. But maybe thats the best place for them, in their own little closet, then they can fight it out amongst themselves.
 
^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think this very thread may be turning into a microcosm of why I thought a separate forum would be a good idea in the first place. :)

ebola
 
Sure, it sucks to have to weed through the same old thread topics sometimes, but once in a while you come across something interesting that you would probably have missed if you were only interested in politics instead of religion.

A good compromise would be more "official" threads, such as: "The official There is/ain't a Christian god thread"when the number of one type of thread goes over a certain number. In a separate section linked to T&A, redundant and repetitive posts can be consolidated into their own space, without hindering the flow of the forum. This way we can minimize the clutter, and keep the topics in the same place.

Then we know what was already said, and if not, you can check the official meta-thread of your topic.
 
Idea: Put something in the FAQ saying something like "NO more posts about whether God exists, it has been discussed to death etc", and make the link on the front page HUGE like the front page of DC

No wait, that's a horrible idea. Whatever you do, don't make the front page of this forum as ugly as the front page of DC with a huge disclaimer.

Better idea: Build a flame-retardant network interface, and browse away!
 
the problem with creating a totally separate religious forum (the way I see it) would be that there'd be far less activity in Thought and Awareness. I'm voting no, on the grounds that while the religious bickering can be annoying, at least it generates discussion and leads people to other, perhaps more interesting, perhaps less divisive topics of conversation
 
WhyzFool said:
Sure, it sucks to have to weed through the same old thread topics sometimes, but once in a while you come across something interesting that you would probably have missed if you were only interested in politics instead of religion.

A good compromise would be more "official" threads, such as: "The official There is/ain't a Christian god thread"when the number of one type of thread goes over a certain number. In a separate section linked to T&A, redundant and repetitive posts can be consolidated into their own space, without hindering the flow of the forum. This way we can minimize the clutter, and keep the topics in the same place.

Then we know what was already said, and if not, you can check the official meta-thread of your topic.
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This official thread idea may be the best bet as I doubt much else will happen from this.
 
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I voted "yes", but I think it would be a tough call. I don't think a religion forum would get a lot of traffic compared the current one, but it would make discussion in T&A more focused. I think it's at least worth a try, and if it doesn't take off then scrap it.

Ditto for the science and technology forum, though I think that would make CEP less fun, such as it is. :P
 
Where are all these Christian threads that everyone is so afraid of?

As of May 28, 2:30 mountain time the threads on page one with Christian themes consist of --

"God and the Devil are the one being"
"demonology"
"Was Judas an accomplice to Jesus' planned destiny?"
"Christianity and Baby Murder"
"Is God the only reason you don't do certain actions?"

These are hardly evangelical, fundamentalist or orthodox posts.
 
Oh, I don't by any means think some group of fundementalist Christians are poisoning our forum. I do think, however, that there is a wealth of threads which are mainly pointless, hostile bickering between Xians and anti-Xians...that is my main frustration...

ebola
 
nicnicnic said:
I get tired of the same old 'God exists' versus 'God does not exist' argument also. Every so often there is a post to the effect of 'if there is a God then why do bad things happen to bad people?' and I always explain that my understanding of God is not that of some dictator in the sky, but instead I feel God as something still inside us all. Then, within a week, this same judgemental question resurfaces. A lot of times when someone says 'I don't believe in God' I might ask, 'what God do you mean, because I might not believe in that God either.'

Nevertheless, despite these same tired arguments recurring, it would be disappointing to see this forum accept the same bitter rupture of modernity, with the materialistic on one side and the spiritual on the other. The name of this forum is Thought & Awareness. To me that means philosophy, art, astrology, psychology, history, magic, physics ... everything. Why limit it? I like that mindfulness, meditation, peek experiences, dreams, psychedelics and contemplative prayer are discussed here along side genetics, economic theory, astronomy, etc. I don't think we ought to demand that the questions asked be defined, to ask people to pick one side or the other, the subjective or the objective.

We know now that meditation has real, observable neurological effects, so where does a discussion about the positive effects of meditation land on the proposed artificial dividing line?

I think posters of various religious orientations and traditions need to respect one another and not prostalatyze.

And to those who think this forum has gotten lame ...
1) Why not just ignore the threads that do not interest you?
2) Why not post something provacative that is the sort of exciting topic you would like to see discussed?

It would be a real shame to limit and marginalize the dialogue.
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Word. Quit ya bitching heathens, we're not going anywhere!
 
Maybe, a seperate forum is a bad idea.

I'm all for increased moderation of spiteful messages though. Since that is usually the problem.
 
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Word. Quit ya bitching heathens, we're not going anywhere!

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Who you callin heathen? That sucks as usual.

I do agree that you're not going anywhere though. That's obvious.8(
 
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