(June 28, 2017 at 6:24 pm)Definitely Disillusioned Wrote: Basically, I said I came into these forums to find people willing to talk about their beliefs in an intelligent and philosophically thoughtful way. I was a bit rude in the way I phrased it, saying that I found most of the people around me in the real world to be intellectually lacking and that I really just wanted people who can engage intelligently with me on important subjects and who care about the things they base their lives on.
I'm new here as well, but I agree on your sentiment. Finding intellectual honesty is hard but important. Having discussions to air your own thoughts out loud to see how they hang in the air and if they have lift or fall flat is important. Everything in the echo chamber sounds the same, so having independent verification that you are rational in your beliefs is important. I get that.
I hope you find that conversation, and if interested I would be happy to have some with you about topics we may both find interesting.
I like looking at philosophical underpinning of morality, but I am not an ethicist,just interested.
Theological debates don't interest me, the atheism debate is too simple and moot. If there is a god and it wants us to know it's here, it could do it, until then it either doesn't exist or doesn't care for us to know about it, either way I have not reason to care. As forrest would say "That's all I have to say about that."
Anyway, welcome I suppose, one newbie to another
