Community help for Non-Cognitive?

[Whateverist]

TROC, you seem to have two concerns that are not shared by the atheist community:

1 - An emphasis on life after religion, rather than on arguments against god's existence.
2 - An understanding of the emotional needs that drive us, regardless of our beliefs.

Point 1 suggests that you would be more interested in humanism (in the broad sense of the word) rather than atheism/skepticism. Humanist writers include Paul Kurtz, Robert Ingersoll, James Croft, Susan Jacoby, and Alain de Botton (though he calls himself a philosopher).

Point 2 suggests that you would be interested in authors who (unlike most atheists) understand the full relationship between reason and emotion i.e. that reason informs us, but emotion moves us. Pure reason cannot move us, we require emotion to have drive/motivation e.g. David Hume, Epicurus, Bertrand Russell, Antonio Damasio, Jonathan Haidt, Drew Westen, David Brooks, George Lakoff, etc.

Wonderful post .. albeit not an evaluation based upon reason alone. I saw you only have one rep point and thought "shit, someone beat me to it." But then when I trudged off to become number two found that I was already number one. Yay.

So do you just not hang out here much? Is there another forum you frequent that is more balanced cognitively/emotively? Maybe I should check it out.