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Such a case can be made against any subforum. Subforums exist for a reason and this reason is just as c applicable to Spirituality as it does to any other subforum, I.e. to organize like discussions conducted by individuals interested in the particular topic. Frankly, I don't understand why the resistance. Subforums are designed to organize discussions. A cacophony of discussions all thrown into a single forum is not conducive to growth of a specific subject.
I see no advantage to reducing the audience and scope of Spirituality to an increasingly myopic view of it. In this forum it attracts all those who are spiritual . . .however they define it. It is not limited to any particular narrow view of it.
I see no advantage to reducing the audience and scope of Spirituality to an increasingly myopic view of it. In this forum it attracts all those who are spiritual . . .however they define it. It is not limited to any particular narrow view of it.
As expected, your explanation reveals your obvious biases. As I said, with your reasoning we should eliminate all subforums. The subforums exist for a reason. To understand the reason is to understand why a Spirituality subforum is appropriate.
I see no advantage to reducing the audience and scope of Spirituality to an increasingly myopic view of it. In this forum it attracts all those who are spiritual . . .however they define it. It is not limited to any particular narrow view of it.
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As expected, your explanation reveals your obvious biases. As I said, with your reasoning we should eliminate all subforums. The subforums exist for a reason. To understand the reason is to understand why a Spirituality subforum is appropriate.
Since it seems to be YOU who wants to narrow the audience and scope of Spirituality to your own version of it . . . it is more than a little ironic that you would accuse me of bias when my view is so much more encompassing of a universal Spirituality defined by those individuals who own it..
Since it seems to be YOU who wants to narrow the audience and scope of Spirituality to your own version of it . . . it is more than a little ironic that you would accuse me of bias when my view is so much more encompassing of a universal Spirituality defined by those individuals who own it..
A spirituality forum is exactly that. It is not a religious forum nor is it an atheist forum. It is not a forum devoted to a specific religion or philosophy, e.g. Buddhism. It is a subforum devoted to those who do not fit into any of these categories but still have spirituality. Even match.com recognizes this category of thought and it is one of the most common ones. Much more so than atheism or some of the other modes of thought which are deemed worthy of a subforum.
Since it seems to be YOU who wants to narrow the audience and scope of Spirituality to your own version of it . . . it is more than a little ironic that you would accuse me of bias when my view is so much more encompassing of a universal Spirituality defined by those individuals who own it..
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Originally Posted by richrf
A spirituality forum is exactly that. It is not a religious forum nor is it an atheist forum. It is not a forum devoted to a specific religion or philosophy, e.g. Buddhism. It is a subforum devoted to those who do not fit into any of these categories but still have spirituality. Even match.com recognizes this category of thought and it is one of the most common ones. Much more so than atheism or some of the other modes of thought which are deemed worthy of a subforum.
Hmmm . . . It would seem I have encountered a fundamentalist of another stripe. Why don't you post one of your unique Spirituality posts and we'll discuss it here and see if we can't discern what your problem is with this forum.
Hmmm . . . It would seem I have encountered a fundamentalist of another stripe. Why don't you post one of your unique Spirituality posts and we'll discuss it here and see if we can't discern what your problem is with this forum.
It would be great to have a spirituality forum to avoid these type of discussions and questions. You underscore the the advantage of such a forum.
Hmmm . . . It would seem I have encountered a fundamentalist of another stripe. Why don't you post one of your unique Spirituality posts and we'll discuss it here and see if we can't discern what your problem is with this forum.
Excuse me for butting in but it has already been spoken of as to the problem of this forum. It is too crowned with theists and atheists who are yappin' about non spiritual things.
Plus there don't seem to be an abundance of spiritual people, perhaps because of this.
An atheist is hardly likely to discern anything to do with why there is no spiritual forum from 'unique spiritual posts.'
This forum is as mature and practical an environment as you are likely to find. ANY Spirituality topic can be posted and if there is the interest in it that you think there is . . . It will be responded to. This silly desire to proliferate fora is just stupid. Each separate forum reduces the attendant audience.
It is not about quantity but quality. Why do you really have a problem with a separate forum for spiritual unity which does not have to put up with threads which are irrelevant to spirituality? Do you prefer a stacked deck and odds on favor?
I see no advantage to reducing the audience and scope of Spirituality to an increasingly myopic view of it. In this forum it attracts all those who are spiritual . . .however they define it. It is not limited to any particular narrow view of it.
Tell me about this spirituality you have Mystic - it sounds intriguing and I have not heard you speak of it before.
The narrow thing happening around here mostly is the persistent arguing between theists and atheists. Those involved are myopic to things spiritual, which is precisely why the atheists are voting against the idea and the religious are staying out of it.
Atheists don;t want more spirituality but less and your presumption that it can be limited to a particular narrow view is ignorance.
Since it seems to be YOU who wants to narrow the audience and scope of Spirituality to your own version of it . . . it is more than a little ironic that you would accuse me of bias when my view is so much more encompassing of a universal Spirituality defined by those individuals who own it..
Well you don't hear that too often so why in the world would you want to discourage people having a sub forum where they can express their individual universal Spirituality in the spirit of unity where the content is more organised and thus more easily navigated?
Surely if you respect individual spirituality and its ability to connect and unify individuals universally, you would want to see it recognized as a bona fide worthy of subforum status position such as your own, or theists and pagans and not buried under the present avalanche of organised theism and their counter contenders?
Surely...?
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