Why are you here? While I'm more interested to hear from our dissidents, I am interested to hear from anyone who participates.
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Why Do You Post Here?
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Forum subjects always interested me. I also participate for the sake of discussion and mental exercise and of course learning about and sharing personal worldviews.
And who doesn't like a good scrappy debate from time to time? ;0)
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
That's right. Not to mention the inclusion of worldviews rather than just national or local views. It puts an interesting spin on a lot of things.
stvdv
Veteran Member
I have 2 options to chose from:
1: Meditating to merge into Bliss
2: Replying to interesting posts
So I am on RF forum when I am too lazy meditate
I have been quite lazy the last 3 month; so have been posting a lot
So that gets me to the next question: Why do I post here?
1: Learn about other religions
2: Practice not to judge other views
3: Practice expressing myself on spiritual subjects
4: Have a place to meet people who are spiritual interested [Not easy to find here; very few people]
5: To discover I became kind of addicted to RF
6: Visiting RF anonymous now
[okay not in the joke section; but I got hooked quite a bit]
7: Seeing where my trigger points are, and working on them
Being in "virtual interaction" helps me to do "introspection"
Normally I am on my own, and then not as many challenges
1: Meditating to merge into Bliss
2: Replying to interesting posts
So I am on RF forum when I am too lazy meditate
I have been quite lazy the last 3 month; so have been posting a lot
So that gets me to the next question: Why do I post here?
1: Learn about other religions
2: Practice not to judge other views
3: Practice expressing myself on spiritual subjects
4: Have a place to meet people who are spiritual interested [Not easy to find here; very few people]
5: To discover I became kind of addicted to RF
6: Visiting RF anonymous now
[okay not in the joke section; but I got hooked quite a bit]7: Seeing where my trigger points are, and working on them
Being in "virtual interaction" helps me to do "introspection"
Normally I am on my own, and then not as many challenges
WalterTrull
Godfella
Posting here, especially when criticized, makes me reexamine my philosophy. That has tended to make me shift, a little to the left, a little to the right, fill in gaps. Over all it's very satisfying.
Bob the Unbeliever
Well-Known Member
For the typing skill?
I've been writing daily, with few skips, since about 2005. I started on a private anti-Bush2 forum, moved over to several other public places, including a then-new FSM one, a couple of allegedly skeptic pages and a couple of strictly run private ones. And around that time I also discovered TOPIX, which at the time, was all anonymous-- you could not create a unique identifier that you controlled. (they later changed that policy)
The daily writing was something I found I really enjoyed, as was the back-and-forth with various peoples.
Alas, all the original pages I used to frequent, have each gone belly-up (except the FSM one-- I left that voluntarily due to an Admin foo-bar, and I abandoned ship with most of my comrades in arms, to a private page)
I spent many years on Topix, until it finally dissolved into pure chaos. The last straw? Banning of overseas posters on mostly American pages-- indeed, I followed my friends from there to here.
About the time I was getting fed up with Topix, I re-discovered FaceBook, where I spend most of my time now.
I some ways, I almost miss the chaos of those early days-- but not really.
The daily writing, though, that I like-- it makes me think "out loud" if you will. I also enjoy reading the output of others, not in an echo-chamber to my own world views.
I've been writing daily, with few skips, since about 2005. I started on a private anti-Bush2 forum, moved over to several other public places, including a then-new FSM one, a couple of allegedly skeptic pages and a couple of strictly run private ones. And around that time I also discovered TOPIX, which at the time, was all anonymous-- you could not create a unique identifier that you controlled. (they later changed that policy)
The daily writing was something I found I really enjoyed, as was the back-and-forth with various peoples.
Alas, all the original pages I used to frequent, have each gone belly-up (except the FSM one-- I left that voluntarily due to an Admin foo-bar, and I abandoned ship with most of my comrades in arms, to a private page)
I spent many years on Topix, until it finally dissolved into pure chaos. The last straw? Banning of overseas posters on mostly American pages-- indeed, I followed my friends from there to here.
About the time I was getting fed up with Topix, I re-discovered FaceBook, where I spend most of my time now.
I some ways, I almost miss the chaos of those early days-- but not really.
The daily writing, though, that I like-- it makes me think "out loud" if you will. I also enjoy reading the output of others, not in an echo-chamber to my own world views.
Because it has been available since I started online challenging Christianity, in a regulated forum setting...
Debating people online, helps make us learn to look stuff up more.
In my opinion.
Other than for @Sunstone 's erotic dancing girls.....
I'm here because (a) I'm from Britain and in my twenties. Ergo, nobody I know ever talks about or is interested in conversing about religious matters. It's socially unacceptable. In fact, pals of mine once took part in a pub quizz-thingy and every one of them, to a man, thought me to be an atheist. I talk about religion so little in real life, this is a fun outlet for me (besides church). (b) I enjoy being exposed to a diversity of worldviews. When two ideas clash, their may be a spark and I'll learn something.
I'm here because (a) I'm from Britain and in my twenties. Ergo, nobody I know ever talks about or is interested in conversing about religious matters. It's socially unacceptable. In fact, pals of mine once took part in a pub quizz-thingy and every one of them, to a man, thought me to be an atheist. I talk about religion so little in real life, this is a fun outlet for me (besides church). (b) I enjoy being exposed to a diversity of worldviews. When two ideas clash, their may be a spark and I'll learn something.
Its an opportunity to learn more about religion and philosophy and to understand better why people think the way they do.
Most of the people I spend time with are not so interested in the types of discussion we have here.
Most of the people I spend time with are not so interested in the types of discussion we have here.
Because in the other forums I frequent,
I don't want to distract from their topics
by getting into religion & politics.
I don't want to distract from their topics
by getting into religion & politics.
godnotgod
Thou art That
I am primarily oriented toward Zen, and Zen teaches that, as students, it is important to develop both an intuitive and an intellectual understanding (and to know the difference)*. In discussing spiritual and religious matters with others, the important thing is to use both to point to Reality. Zen meditation is a means by which the mind is honed to do so.
'Zen is a finger pointing to the moon, but is not the moon itself'
Zen source
*One Zen story tells of a master who requested his student to demonstrate the marrow of Zen. The next day, the student picked up a bullfrog from the local pond, and when the master asked for a demonstration of Zen once more, the student silently revealed the bullfrog hidden within the his robes. The master was silent for a few moments, and then exclaimed: 'No....too intellectual'.
'Zen is a finger pointing to the moon, but is not the moon itself'
Zen source
*One Zen story tells of a master who requested his student to demonstrate the marrow of Zen. The next day, the student picked up a bullfrog from the local pond, and when the master asked for a demonstration of Zen once more, the student silently revealed the bullfrog hidden within the his robes. The master was silent for a few moments, and then exclaimed: 'No....too intellectual'.
WalterTrull
Godfella
Wait... There are other forums????
godnotgod
Thou art That
When I was a wood finisher in California, I was called to refinish a desktop in the garage of a Hindu couple. Well, the discussion between myself and the lady soon landed on religion, which both of us enjoyed discussing. She used to work in an office environment with other women who were Christian. She then exclaimed: 'All my Christian friends, they tell me I am going to the hell!'