RE: Why did you come to this board?
July 31, 2015 at 8:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2015 at 9:09 pm by Simon Moon.)
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I'm interested to know the reasons why people came to this forum. Was it to maybe get some answers on things you were struggling with? Was it for a sense of community of like minded individuals? Was it to promote debate?
For me I came to listen to voices of differing opinions than my own. I feel the only way I can grow intellectually is to continue to branch in to areas I don't know enough of as well as to listen to those that draw different conclusions than myself to the same questions.
Why did you come and what keeps you coming back?
As others have said, the community.
But more importantly, to hear different views. I am naturally a very inquisitive person.
One of my goals is to have as many true beliefs as possible, and eliminate as many false beliefs (no matter how comfortable). If someone has a different view of reality than I do, I want to know what it is, and most importantly, why they believe it. If their beliefs are based on demonstrable, falsifiable, repeatable evidence, and reasoned argument, I will be compelled to accept their evidence and alter my views.
I used to go to Christian and Muslim forums, but no matter how nice, how respectful, I would quickly be banned for doing nothing more than asking questions, and responding by, pointing out fallacies, scientific and historical errors when they were used in responses to me.
So, I come to atheist forums instead, to have these discussions with the theists that post here.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.