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GOALS, SUGGESTED TOPICS
--> Forum goals
* Defeat theocracy with secular government;
* Defeat autocracy with "bottom up" politics;
* Eliminate dogma indoctrination schools;
* Prosecute government torture and beatings;
* Stop world sex trafficking;
* Outlaw "honor" killing;
* Outlaw marital rape;
* Outlaw polygamy;
* Free women to choose their own dress code;
* Free women to travel alone in public;
* Equal representation of women in government;
* Equal opportunity for females in education;
* Equal opportunity for women in business.
--> Suggested topics
* truth is not from opinion polls or myth books;
* dysfunctional belief systems deny science;
*
religious
basis for insensitive government;
*
autocratic government
abuses power;
* "top down" political parties prevent democracy;
* corporations as legal 'persons' with no ethics;
* corporations as alien reaction machines;
*
globalization
corrupts democracy;
* empires abuse and kill people to teach love;
* new scientific discoveries;
* the cosmos validates physical reality;
* is
the 'soul'
only a myth;
* is the 'soul' the same as the 'mind';
* physical location of the 'mind';
* does the 'mind' require a physical body;
* difference between
mind and brain
;
* how many stars are visible with big telescopes;
* how far away are those stars;
* where is God located in the physical universe;
* where is heaven or hell in the universe;
* travel faster than light to a physical heaven;
* insights into human adaptation to the world;
*
herd instinct
prevents critical thinking;
* needed political policies to save life for living;
* ideas for a new secular political party.
* Do not "push the envelope" of the rules or try to take
control of the forum.
* Do not use the name of any other person for your posts.
* Do not post the identity of another poster.
* No "ad hominem" posts about other participants or public
figures. Do not routinely label or imply anyone
currently alive as a FOOL or DRUNKARD or FASCIST or
LEFTIST or RACIST or STUPID or IDIOT or TROLL
or any other epithet, even if the label is valid. (Stay
in good taste - keep your "cool".)
* Do not respond if you are directly insulted. Send a
request to the
Administrator
and the offending post will be deleted.
* This forum is not a soapbox. In your non-promotional
analysis of politics or religion or spirituality or
philosophy don't preach any dogma with its mystic jargon,
whether political, philosophical, religious, or
spiritual.
* Don't hijack a thread! Keep thread responses on the same
subject. (To change the topic, start a new thread.)
DELETIONS
--> Deletions without explanation are at the discretion of
the moderators. Typical deletions might include:
* Complaints about board goals or monitoring;
* URL links posted without any introductory comment;
* Opening thread with subject title only (nm), but no
body;
* Responses not related to original subject (hijacking);
* Off-topic posts not related to thread subject or forum goals;
* Multiple "handles" by obvious trolls;
* Suspicious or disruptive anonymous posts by obvious trolls;
* Dogma or incoherent, obscure, or long-winded (preaching)
posts from any POV. Arguments about religious fine
points are not welcome.
