Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
There is a thread in the intro forum here that asks which religion you are. I find several issues with that poll. It focuses on established religions and nearly 50% of people said either nonreligious or other, myself included. The DIR forums have a broader reach overall and pretty much everybody who has an opinion on these subjects are included. The problem however is, there are eleven forums for DIR and polls are restricted to ten results. While that thread is single-choice only I am going to offer the option to choose as many options as you like here, although I believe that people are generally restricted to three DIRs at once. I have decided to combine "Other Religious Movements and Practices DIR" and "Other Revealed Religions DIR" because they are so similar overall.
I am answering this poll with my three DIRs: New Religious Movements DIR, Non-Revealed Religions DIR and Pantheism-Panentheism DIR. Those are the DIRs I chose for myself a long time ago. I do post on NRM DIR and Pantheism DIR but not Non-Revealed Religions DIR. The reason why I decided to include myself in Non-Revealed Religions DIR is because my actual beliefs are the definition of a non-revealed religion, and I would say that Earthseed, if it wasn't a NRM, it would also be considered a non-revealed religion. And believing that reality is God pretty much includes non-revealed and the pantheism DIR. And I added NRM DIR for myself because Earthseed is considered a NRM and I've tried to establish my own NRM belief system that I call Exaltism, which is pretty much at this point just an off-shoot and updated version of Earthseed. Since Earthseed was made in the 1990s and my beliefs came soon after, being in NRM DIR alongside the other two just makes sense for me. In fact, the first religion pitched on Pitch your religion! on NRM DIR was in fact Earthseed.
So, if you have elected yourself to be part of one or more DIR forums, let us know which DIR forums you have chosen for yourself. Obviously this is very similar to just asking what religions you believe in, but this has a little more consequence to it, because by telling the public which DIR forums you're in we know that we contact you in those forums directly in case we don't know that yet. So of course, this will be a public poll and results will be public for everybody to see. And this could help people understand which you identify with, which is especially helpful now that with the forums update we can't see what religion you're in unless we directly go inside your profiles.
This is very similar to my political forums poll that I made last August. But instead of politics it's focused on specific religious forums instead.
TL;DR - So please, answer the poll honestly, and tell us the reasons why you answered that way. Which DIRs are you a part of and why?
I am answering this poll with my three DIRs: New Religious Movements DIR, Non-Revealed Religions DIR and Pantheism-Panentheism DIR. Those are the DIRs I chose for myself a long time ago. I do post on NRM DIR and Pantheism DIR but not Non-Revealed Religions DIR. The reason why I decided to include myself in Non-Revealed Religions DIR is because my actual beliefs are the definition of a non-revealed religion, and I would say that Earthseed, if it wasn't a NRM, it would also be considered a non-revealed religion. And believing that reality is God pretty much includes non-revealed and the pantheism DIR. And I added NRM DIR for myself because Earthseed is considered a NRM and I've tried to establish my own NRM belief system that I call Exaltism, which is pretty much at this point just an off-shoot and updated version of Earthseed. Since Earthseed was made in the 1990s and my beliefs came soon after, being in NRM DIR alongside the other two just makes sense for me. In fact, the first religion pitched on Pitch your religion! on NRM DIR was in fact Earthseed.
So, if you have elected yourself to be part of one or more DIR forums, let us know which DIR forums you have chosen for yourself. Obviously this is very similar to just asking what religions you believe in, but this has a little more consequence to it, because by telling the public which DIR forums you're in we know that we contact you in those forums directly in case we don't know that yet. So of course, this will be a public poll and results will be public for everybody to see. And this could help people understand which you identify with, which is especially helpful now that with the forums update we can't see what religion you're in unless we directly go inside your profiles.
This is very similar to my political forums poll that I made last August. But instead of politics it's focused on specific religious forums instead.
TL;DR - So please, answer the poll honestly, and tell us the reasons why you answered that way. Which DIRs are you a part of and why?
