Do people just know know about this site? I mean there are a lot of atheists and agnostics, but the site has so few people. I wonder if some are still afraid to be "outed".
The site sponsor had been advertising this site for a while but no idea if that's still ongoing.
WE can be the best at spreading it. Just roll out ideas for doing so.
I think there just aren't all that many people for whom agnosticism is a very big part of their life, or maybe they live in a fairly openly secular community where agnostics are not shunned or looked down upon, so they don't consider themselves very different to where they need an outlet to speak freely.
Compared to...?
A lot of people come and read and think but don't say anything. They observe, like scientists a rare, exotic species.
But considering the meteotic growth in agnostic thought, the numbers could be small. So what?
Many agnostics are not activist (or even ACTIVE) by nature and simply don't care about preaching their viewpoint. Or discussing it. Or arguing about it. They:re not motivated to find support for their opinions. Why bother?
Being new, many here still have conflicts and issues within THEMSELVES and their OWN world view and are trying to sort it all out. They're not sure WHAT to think. Once they are they might fade away.
Some come harboring a deep distrust, even hatred, for religious folk and want to break them, and are here to grow a "movement," as they see it.
Some are social and interactive and like the sense of community.
Me? I like, I hate, I scoff, I applaud, I remain silent, I speak up, I stay away, I'm fueled by a self-righteous fire, gentle bemusement, or detached indifference. Depends on which hour of which day.
As an agnostic I'm usually open to new ideas expressed by open-minded people. But like most of us I'm pretty sure I have it basically right.
It's an accident I'm here, but now that I am I'll probably never leave. I'm no hero and lie to others when advisable, or convenient, or imperative.
It's a realistic, pragmatic approach--often cowardly but I don't care--it works for me.
I like how you write in a pattern of three. Which is correct. Sometimes vanity can confuse the three in a pattern. A good guide line is in every situation everywhere, you have yes no and maybe other wise known as rock, soil and road. Humans measure digitally. Right, wrong. Four and five.
@Sameasis Interesting, because I just added, 'I speak up' to, 'I remain silent' and 'I go away.'
I also have noticed, speaking 'digitally,' an effective tool is to include both an idea and it's opposite in the same phrase.
For example, The Desiderata:
"Go placidly amidst the noise and haste," or
"Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time." Or,
"Speak your truth clearly and quietly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant...," or
"...in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul."
Dylan does the same thing, but I'll spare you.
As for the "pattern of three (Kennedys do that)" you say it's "correct." Is that in some book of rhetoric? Rock, soil, road? Yes, maybe, no? I strongly suspect so!
In any case, thank you for the compliment.
Fine lines.
For example and a reason I wrote four and five is to help illustrate how passive the interruption and inclusion has become, to not even notice its there. A clear example of the interruption is a digital example of three, is yes, no. Thru manipulation the maybe becomes marginalized, socialized and forgotten thru acceptance of its created being. The end result is a divisive reasoning based species which creates its own natural division/vanity/racism which it then debates and argues. Like a dog believing it will catch its tail on day. And the ground hod day becomes past present and future all in one.
It doesn't add to one but it looks like it does.
One of the reasons I am an atheist is because I just don't give a shit about religion one way or another. That includes not really caring about not believing in gods, so I don't search out atheist stuff. If I never saw the Facebook ad, I probably would have never known.. and I am sure there are many like me.
Yes I would imagine you right, allot. So where are you then. Are you a balloon in a current or is there a foundation below your feet?
I think people are still and also a lot of people don't care enough about the Atheist community to join sites like this.
It is a big jump out of the closet into full Atheist glory treading water in a sea of McCarthyism....young Atheists by the millions are following us ancient American Atheists leaders on their own way since 1995 with the global explosion of email and internet phones
WHAM 1180 cult radio in Rochester is brainwashing females and males 5a.m. to evenings with Bob Matthews SportsTalk....Mon-Fri Lonsberry & Rrrruussshhah dingy Crazy GREEDY LIMPboss radio cult liar spew religious bigotry hour by hour....leaving a few dozen OUT Atheists reeling from the US Sup Ct lies against Atheist women before each Greece City Council theocratic prEying.....the birthplace of the fake Mormon religion just 20 miles east of Rochester has boys 18 in white shirts knocking on every door from Lake Ontario to the Fingerlakes.....you will find more Atheist women and men in Iowa than Monroe County
Loonsberry sucks!
@Stenz sucks Syracuse afternoons and Rochester mornings....a Mormon madboy
@GreenAtheist "relocation and eye candy". Not enough info to reply to this. I want to.
IDK? I belong to this and one other site. I've seen 2 men from the other sight here but we do not talk much. I used to favor the other site and now I favor this one. BTW, the other site is constantly gaining members but they never post or say very much, so IDK.
It is possible that atheists tend to be more independent and not so inclined to be in a site per se. I found this site right away when I first searched for atheist dating sites, so, it is not like it is a big secret.
If I first realized it was a dating site I might not have joined .
Is it a dating site? I’ve never seen that anywhere.
I discovered this site over a year ago but have lost much of my interest in it. Perhaps many others have, too.
Two reasons:
Too rabidly and unthinkingly liberal, and
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