The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

[mlmooney89]

She's gone through a lot in her personal life. Some people need to stop being petty and try being more understanding about someone else's sadness.

I've perfected the art of understanding what someone has been through and still disliking the person.  Isn't that what we all do in life anyway?

There is no way you will EVER know what it is like to have life growing in you only to learn that it died. You can have all the bad things in the world happen to you but it will never be equivalent (not saying worse or better you just will never understand that feeling)

When I first came here, I was more interested in the atheist part of AF, but that got old quickly. Like, really quickly. Now I just come here for entertainment and to see differing POVs on politics. I think the majority here is intelligent, articulate, and thoughtful, which is why I like it here. Just because many of us are atheists, doesn't mean we have similar opinions on most other things, or even about atheism and theism, and that's what keeps it interesting. If I was a theist, I'd probably still stick around for the same reasons, and not for any meaningful conversation about faith. 

Agreed! I came here to rant about the religious nuts and feel like I'm with people of like mind but there is only so much you can say about religion and 99% of the topics I look at here now are about getting to know each other as people, politics, entertainment etc. Very few are religious anymore.

I do agree that religious topics get too repetitive but I really wonder do theists have any interesting ideas anymore? I think I heard all the arguments and that's why religious topics get repetitive.

Nail on the head. I think this is why I stopped with the religious threads. They aren't bringing fresh conversation to us they are just spitting out the same thing over and over. If they would just read through the already made threads they could see the debates and conversations without bothering us.