I joined becasue of my curiosity and have remained here because of the intelligent conversation and humor that has transpired.

I joined because I wanted a place to have intelligent discussions with people who don't suffer from the delusion of religions.

Sense of community, intelligent conversation and dating/ltr.

I am here to mingle, which is possible with message boards. I was pleasantly surprised about this site. Most dating websites are money scams. I am having a great experience so far.

Welcome to the asylum. Enjoy your stay.
I came for community, and stay for the entertainment.

Thank you everyone for your responses to my question. Very helpful in terms of understanding the community. I'm glad I joined!

ValerieB, welcome !! Hopefully you are bound to a very interesting experience. I am pleasantly surprised with people responses most of the time. I came because I wanted to make new friends through exchange of ideas, relevant or plain silly... I have not been disappointed. If you like to text then this is the place to be !!!!

Entertainment and serious discussion. Sadly the left wing extremists only seem to offer the former.

In all seriousness I wanted to have intellectual discussions but lots of people just accuse me of "trolling" or "being insensitive" so now I just stay in the conservative community mostly.

There are a ton of left wing liberals on this site, like 90%. I am liberal on some things like sex, drugs. But when it comes to stuff like that I just think we can all agree or disagree and move on. But not the liberals.

People here seem more genuine about their opinions and experiences, as opposed to those of Facebook.

Welcome, ValerieB! I am here because I saw the ad and thought I would find some people that I would have something in common with! So far, so good! In fact I am having too much fun, because I need to be moved out of my place before the end of the month! Hope you find friends here, too!

I've been wanting to form a agnostic/atheist group here on my little island, but there's only a handful of us who openly declare, and really what is there to talk about with a tiny group. So, when this site popped up as a suggestion (on my facebook feed) I thought I'd give it a try. So far, I'm impressed with the variety of people here AND the general respect given to different opinions.

I like that it is for community, conversation, hearing others' thoughts, honing our own thoughts, getting or giving a few laughs, pondering a few deep thoughts. You can contribute as much or as little as you like, though there are incentives to participate more.

I also like that it's conducive to those open to dating, but it's very relaxed with no pressure like the dating only type sites. (Besides if someone is going to hit on me, they better like the fact that I have opinions, so this site gives anyone interested fair warning!)

I also love the option of joining groups for special interest. So far, this has been fun!

Welcome! Curiosity caused me to join. Then i was pleasantly surprised to find authentic, smart people here who have the confidence to talk openly about themselves and the humility to listen with care.

I like to connect with others...sometimes discussing different subjects. Interesting people, and I like being to open your own discussion.

I was trying to escape the alt-rights who kept piling on whenever I mentioned the LGBTQ community or anything to do with science.

After I got here, I found out there are plenty of agnostic trolls here, as well, if you post about anything they don't personally endorse, such as supernatural events.

I wanted something different. It’s more old school BBS than anything else though.

People seem HUMAN here.

Conversation.

It seemed interesting and I was right.

Welcome here!