@Drank_Spear No it is about moving on.

@Drank_Spear Not yet when I am ready. Besides since most people have blocked you, and you only get to see the most uninteresting quarter of the site now, and of those who have not blocked you I am virtually the only one who still responds. I would hate to see you deserted.

@Drank_Spear I am glad that this site provides you with exactly what you are looking for, the desire to be viewed with boredom is a rare wish, but I hope you find gratification.

@Drank_Spear And have you had any fulfilling interactions with many new members ?

@Drank_Spear Exactly.

@Drank_Spear Yes, but surely, that makes it the prefect place to dump your own same old shit.

I mean awareness, really, most of us went through that stage in the nineteen seventies, and came out the other side. Its like having a person come out of a coma who missed the last fifty years.

Yes most of us here are old, and most of us escaped theism back in the last century, by exactly that route through yogic and meditation practices, when that was the fashionable route back then. But we then came to understand that it did not live up to its promises, got bored and moved on. You are not going to get any converts here, to most here it all seems so old fashioned out of date, it is like an episode of "Do you remember when".

@Fernapple sounds like he's one of the happy slappy see, speak &o hear no evil xtian twats

@Drank_Spear I am not remotely offended, if you think that then you have not read me at all. I am really trying to help you understand.

@Drank_Spear Who mentioned happy ? But if you do not see a lot of happy people on this website, then that is probably because, as I say, you will only see a tiny bit of it, mostly the negative part. But then a lot of people do come here for the support of community, and get it.

It may be as you say to frayed bear that ignorance is bliss, but I am sorry to say that it is a very hollow fragile sort of bliss, a sort that most would wish to avoid, in favour at least of some solid community and an engagement with people who value real contribution. If you are happy with what you have then I am glad for you, but do not be too ready to dismiss those who have moved on and found something much more solid.

@Drank_Spear No, I see most people as equal, and myself as quite low on the human scale, but I also see that most people at least here are unlikely to want what you are offering. Not because they are better people, but because they have found things to live for which are already so much better.

@Drank_Spear What are you offering ? I am sure that you are offering authenticity, yes. In the last comment you offered. "You see yourself as above others." Well I am happy to believe that may be so, though I hope that it is not, and truly hope to grow beyond that if it is so.

But what sort of an offering is that ? Do you really think that most people in this world, let alone those on this site who are generally both kind and intelligent, have nothing better to do than come here to a small corner of the net, to try to prove their status, for no more than the sake of status, in a shallow way, and only to people they will never meet. Yes I do know that happens on the net, but there is much more to life than that, and even on the net there is far more and great areas of freedom.

You offer perfect shallowness and interpretations based on that, which always miss the mark and fail to address even the basics of what this site is about, in nearly every post.

Undoubtedly pure agnostic/atheism is perhaps not for you, but do not belittle those who have made it a part of their world view. Just because you can not find value in it, it does not mean that the world views of the people for whom it is a component, are shallow, valueless and without hope, even if you can not see it. And if you can not see that, then I am truly sorry for you, for a lack of vision and empathy is a sad thing.

@Drank_Spear You are doing it again, when did I say that I was in the least bit concerned by how your post may makes me feel ? Though they may evoke negative emotions in some on this site, which is sad it is true.

As to belittling, then. It is never a good idea to belittle the world views of others, for at least two reasons. The first of course being that it is simply unkind. While the second is that, it may well be, that any world view, may contain elements which the belittler, who ever they may be, can not understand, appreciate or derive value from, in the way that the others do, and therefore by belittling it they will only be making a fools of themselves.

And yes, it is true, that many on this site do come here to belittle some, such as, theists and political positions, but for the most part they only so, only in so far as those world views are in their own way an active threat, and openly hostile to others. Which is perhaps not always a good excuse, but it is a mitigation and an understandable forgivable position, especially given that they only do it, in a private and sheltered place, where only those who chose to look may be offended.

However those who do chose to belittle the world views of others, and do so openly and confrontationally, should not be surprised or offended if they receive a like return. And you are however alone in that you visit this site for the purpose of belittling world views, on a much greater scale than most other here, of people here who are not actively engaged in making any threat against anyone. And if you say that that is not the case, and that you did not instigate the belittling of world views, then you are either untruthful, or so completely lacking in social skills that you must give offence wherever you go.

As for me, yes, distraction is the main reason I come here, since business often requires sitting idle at the computer. However, I started life as a mentally handicapped person in an age when such things were not well treated, and was forced to leave school at an early age, with limited skills. Which meant that life offered me few opportunities to make a positive contribution, so that I do now value greatly any opportunity that life, including this site, offers to make a positive contribution.