scabaskiblio
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I'm not new to this forum, but I haven't posted in a really long time (I only posted a few times over a year ago). I'm just wondering if there are any other virtual CF communities out there that don't congregate under this particular aegis.
I like this forum, but I think it is less welcome to subversive opinions than I'd like. I am an atheist (though at times I may be agnostic), I'm an existentialist and a nihilist, etc., but cheerfully so, not lugubriously. I find that life's absurd. I don't personally find any hope in the idea of God or an afterlife, nor do I find the idea of no God, no afterlife depressing.
Having CF has motivated me in part to form these opinions, but it seems like most of the people on here are somewhat to very religious. I don't want to start arguments with those who do believe in God, but I want to share my opinions about things. From what I've read in a lot of the threads, that's hard to do around here without hurting people's feelings or offending them. I don't want to try to get people to not believe in God, but I don't want anyone to try to convert me either.
That seems like an extended introduction to a simple question: Where can I go to talk about issues I care about (I guess I'd call them philosophical/ethical issues, such as the concept of free will, etc.) and not get shut-down by people who have already found their answers in religion? More specifically, where can a person like me, one who has both the need for more critical and skeptical discussion and also CF, go?
I like this forum, but I think it is less welcome to subversive opinions than I'd like. I am an atheist (though at times I may be agnostic), I'm an existentialist and a nihilist, etc., but cheerfully so, not lugubriously. I find that life's absurd. I don't personally find any hope in the idea of God or an afterlife, nor do I find the idea of no God, no afterlife depressing.
Having CF has motivated me in part to form these opinions, but it seems like most of the people on here are somewhat to very religious. I don't want to start arguments with those who do believe in God, but I want to share my opinions about things. From what I've read in a lot of the threads, that's hard to do around here without hurting people's feelings or offending them. I don't want to try to get people to not believe in God, but I don't want anyone to try to convert me either.
That seems like an extended introduction to a simple question: Where can I go to talk about issues I care about (I guess I'd call them philosophical/ethical issues, such as the concept of free will, etc.) and not get shut-down by people who have already found their answers in religion? More specifically, where can a person like me, one who has both the need for more critical and skeptical discussion and also CF, go?