Poll: DIR Forums

[anna.]

Abrahamic religions because I'm Catholic, and I originally enrolled so I could tell @Mark Dohle how much I appreciated one of his posts. I almost never go there though because I haven't wanted to talk much about religion or religious beliefs for quite a while now, I kinda burned myself out and the edges of what I believe/d are a little frayed.

 

[Ella S.]

I am increasingly less sure that the DIR system as currently implemented is helpful.

What is causing you to change your position, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

What is causing you to change your position, if you don't mind me asking?

Self-identification seems awkward, the 3 limit seems arbitrary, and policing seems problematic. I'm not opposed to private clubs; I'm simply not a big fan.

 

[anna.]

Self-identification seems awkward, the 3 limit seems arbitrary, and policing seems problematic. I'm not opposed to private clubs; I'm simply not a big fan.

From my experience at other forums, private debate-free zones are rarely as energized and active as the debate forums. People come looking for the robustness and rowdiness of free-flowing ideas that bump up against each other. I've learned more about my own positions by defending them, not by sheltering in an agreement-only zones, and definitely learned more about what others think and/or believe by being able to ask them questions and yes, by challenging them to defend their positions.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I selected Neopagan, Nonrevealed, and Other...

The broad, eclectic nature of my beliefs and practices, it would be nice if I could also have access to New Religious Movements, Nontheistic, Pan/Panen, and Syncretic once in a while...and frankly, since I'm from an Abrahamic background and still retain some connections, it would be nice to be able to comment there occasionally...and it might be nice to be able to ask respectful questions in Dharmic and Left-Hand as well...

 

[Truthseeker]

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 registered for Abrahamic religions dir because the Baha'i Faith has roots from the Abrahamic religion principally, and also other revealed religions specifically because Zoroastrianism is not an Abrahamic religion, but Baha'is believe it is a revealed religion. I suppose Dharmic religions dir could fit under there, because we believe the Buddha to be someone who revealed a bona fide religion, and Hinduism is more complex, because we recognize Krishna, but Krishna wasn't the founder of Hinduism, he is one strand of it. Moderators told me I couldn't register for that. I found this out when I joined in a conversation under Dharmic dir.