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Poll: Is AF.org in an Echo Chamber?
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No, we're a varied bunch.
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Yes - and you should vote this too!
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Echo Chamber
#11
RE: Echo Chamber
(September 23, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Sal Wrote: If you wonder what I mean by "Echo Chamber", check this link out.

Do you think it can be a bit off-put that, as a more-or-less homogeneous irreligious group, we tend to be in an echo chamber?

I think it can be put that way... poorly. 

You could very well think otherwise if you were not particularly observant of nuance; subtle differences. 

Quote:If that's too much of a word salad, what I mean is: Do you think we have too little of interaction with other people here on AF.org that disagree with the party line?

Only when I'm away, and the Devil's Advocate TrollS go too far and get themselves banned.

Quote:I was inspired by an old post on here, that in a Christian forum people tended to be very agreeable with what other Christians posted and overall very strict on being cordial and what words  were used, to the point of overreaching above and beyond to merely filtering out swear words. Fuck that.

I just hope I don't have a blind spot, and that I'm not in a sorts of echo chamber when it comes to discussing theists, is all.

Atheists, after all, only agree on a single sentiment - the rest is up for grabs.

What do you think? Am I just talking out my ass or is there something to it?

Atheists don't necessarily exactly agree upon any particular sentiment or sentiments. I think that there's a nuance between similar positions, and a subtlety in how people can speak of one position (hitting upon different points, whether knowingly or not).[/quote]

An 'echo chamber' applies to us only so much as the ocean's waves crashing upon the sand.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
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#12
RE: Echo Chamber
There's plenty of things I'm sure everyone has opposing views on. Those are my favorite threads personally. That said, being 'atheist forums' means most people are here to talk about topics around religion and are predominantly atheists. So, yeah.. on that account a lot of people are bound to agree on that Tongue
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#13
RE: Echo Chamber
I think we disagree with each other on here on almost everything. I don't need to bring up 'guns' do I? Big Grin
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#14
RE: Echo Chamber
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But seriously, aside from a non-belief in the supernatural this place is far from a circlejerk. There's a lot of bickering here about a multitude of subjects Tongue
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#15
RE: Echo Chamber
Do we at least agree that clubbing seals can be a good thing?


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#16
RE: Echo Chamber
(September 23, 2015 at 10:00 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I just desperately need to know why a duck's quack doesn't produce an echo?
I believe this to be a supernatural phenomenon.

Watch the mythbusters episode.
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#17
RE: Echo Chamber
(September 23, 2015 at 10:00 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I just desperately need to know why a duck's quack doesn't produce an echo?
I believe this to be a supernatural phenomenon.

Duck's quack absolutely does produce echo. Here's proof:

Quack!...
                     Quack!...
                                           Quack!...
                                                                                       Quack!...
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#18
RE: Echo Chamber
(September 24, 2015 at 7:14 am)ignoramus Wrote: Do we at least agree that clubbing seals can be a good thing?


Only if you make a game out of it.
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#19
RE: Echo Chamber
(September 24, 2015 at 7:09 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: I think we disagree with each other on here on almost everything. I don't need to bring up 'guns' do I? Big Grin

Keep holstered please.
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#20
RE: Echo Chamber
(September 24, 2015 at 9:13 am)mh.brewer Wrote:
(September 24, 2015 at 7:09 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: I think we disagree with each other on here on almost everything. I don't need to bring up 'guns' do I? Big Grin

Keep holstered please.

Yeah wouldn't have happened if my holster had GUNZZAXAXASIXJAISDAJI¬!
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