30 Mar '16 13:41>
Debates is becoming boring. It's now basically a 33-33-33 split between;
- Right wingers blasting government and Hillary Clinton and various minority groups
- Left wingers blasting the Republican presidential candidates, especially Trump
- Duchess64 and a cadre that includes normbenign, Eladar and a few others recycling and trading the same insults over and over again. In fact, it's practically axiomatic at this point that every thread that survives long enough will, sooner or later, degenerate into a juvenile pissing contest.
Really, ever since FMF left, Debates hasn't been the same. There was also another event that's hurt the Debates forum, but I'm too nice to mention it.
Anyway, so I'm giving Spirituality a try.
My position is that religion is all fine and good if it helps you to be better person and causes you to take responsibility for your own actions, but that the best religion is the one that you keep to yourself and not try to evangelize to others. As long as you concede that nobody else is bound by your beliefs and don't try to force anyone to adopt your beliefs, I respect your beliefs.
The Oatmeal had a pretty good summary:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion
What say you?
- Right wingers blasting government and Hillary Clinton and various minority groups
- Left wingers blasting the Republican presidential candidates, especially Trump
- Duchess64 and a cadre that includes normbenign, Eladar and a few others recycling and trading the same insults over and over again. In fact, it's practically axiomatic at this point that every thread that survives long enough will, sooner or later, degenerate into a juvenile pissing contest.
Really, ever since FMF left, Debates hasn't been the same. There was also another event that's hurt the Debates forum, but I'm too nice to mention it.
Anyway, so I'm giving Spirituality a try.
My position is that religion is all fine and good if it helps you to be better person and causes you to take responsibility for your own actions, but that the best religion is the one that you keep to yourself and not try to evangelize to others. As long as you concede that nobody else is bound by your beliefs and don't try to force anyone to adopt your beliefs, I respect your beliefs.
The Oatmeal had a pretty good summary:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion
What say you?