RF Topics you'd never participate in

[Unveiled Artist]

I'm trying to close the doors to topics I know will fustrated the, um, mess out of me. Things that I just cannot understand. I want to understand it from the other persons perspective, but I think sometimes we should know when to just give up.

What RF topics do you glide by knowing it's not worthy our time to discuss? NOT the topics that are worthless, there are many ones that are, well, silly. The ones that get on your moral nerves whether it conflicts with your religion or just upsets your ethics.

My topics are:

Death Penalty
Homosexuality is a sin
Abortion
Topics that deliberately put down the Catholic Church
What else?
Sexual topics that should be in eros

Sometimes I think the list is growing. Not because I dont want to discuss it, it's because people stoped discussing it with me, completely give up on RF purposes, ignore, and fuss with me about things I cannot understand to even offer a stance on the given debate.

Kinda makes me think of taking another fast from RF.

For now, Ima keep to the topics that won't mess up my day,

What about you?

 

[Quintessence]

By the parameters you outlined here, I have none. I have a hard time getting upset about anything for a number of reasons. One, being a determinist makes it hard to get upset at things that simply must be so; two, I'm a pluralist who embraces any and all forms of diversity without exception; three, I respect anyone who is authentic to themselves no matter what that character is; and four, I have a strong appreciation for those who challenge cultural taboos.

 

[Revoltingest]

Topics I avoid......
- The joys of peppermint
- Anal warts
- Hillary Clinton's thighs
- Presidential debates
- Music: boy bands, rap, Chinese opera, country western, top 40, heavy metal
- Anime (those weird Japanese cartoons where they have big eyes & hair)
- Video games

 

[Jumi]

I stopped asking some questions where it became obvious the questions didn't help me understand what I was asking about. Most annoyingly at times my curiosity was taken to be some sort of phobia or being something I'm not.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm open to participating in any thread on any topic where I feel the need to point out to someone how they are horribly wrong.

 

[Wu Wei]

mostly the ones I don't want to participate in...... which if you look at all the posts on RF compared to the ones I post in...I guess you could say that covers most of them

 

[Godobeyer]

Some religions i had no idea about them ,so i will never participate

some other topici can't hard to understand , due my weak English

 

[Twilight Hue]

I'm pretty much open to a vast array of topics.

The ones I avoid are mainly those that entail seemingly endless walls upon walls of text including walls that finally "end" with, "continued next post."

 

[Unveiled Artist]

By the parameters you outlined here, I have none. I have a hard time getting upset about anything for a number of reasons. One, being a determinist makes it hard to get upset at things that simply must be so; two, I'm a pluralist who embraces any and all forms of diversity without exception; three, I respect anyone who is authentic to themselves no matter what that character is; and four, I have a strong appreciation for those who challenge cultural taboos.

Yeah. Understand. I get annoyed even though I cover all those. I guess its I thought it was human nature to set a boundry on topics we don't want to discuss compared to topics we can't discuss as if they will somehow make us unsettled in our beliefs or views plural or singular. It's more about where do you draw the boundry? Do you have a boundry? (Thinking of if someone get's angry and we are fussing, even though I may understand his or her point, and maybe agree to disagree, but topic and how it is presented-forcefully-makes a difference in how my mind and body will react to what, if I wasn't human, could just brush off as if no one punched me.) I mean, I wish I can just not "get upset". I think it runs in the family. Seriously.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I'm open to participating in any thread on any topic where I feel the need to point out to someone how they are horribly wrong.

haha. how, wrong.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I'm pretty much open to a vast array of topics.

The ones I avoid are mainly those that entail seemingly endless walls upon walls of text including walls that finally "end" with, "continued next post."

Guess my posts stimulate your nerves.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Topics I avoid......
- The joys of peppermint
- Anal warts
- Hillary Clinton's thighs
- Presidential debates
- Music: boy bands, rap, Chinese opera, country western, top 40, heavy metal
- Anime (those weird Japanese cartoons where they have big eyes & hair)
- Video games

Video games??? Why video games?

 

[Quintessence]

Yeah. Understand. I get annoyed even though I cover all those. I guess its I thought it was human nature to set a boundry on topics we don't want to discuss compared to topics we can't discuss as if they will somehow make us unsettled in our beliefs or views plural or singular. It's more about where do you draw the boundry? Do you have a boundry? (Thinking of if someone get's angry and we are fussing, even though I may understand his or her point, and maybe agree to disagree, but topic and how it is presented-forcefully-makes a difference in how my mind and body will react to what, if I wasn't human, could just brush off as if no one punched me.) I mean, I wish I can just not "get upset". I think it runs in the family. Seriously.

Oh, don't get me wrong... there are times I'm not interested in discussing certain topics. It's more a function of the whimsy of mood, of boredom and interest, than some sort of "moral nerves" as you call it. I think one of the keys to not getting upset is to quit expecting the universe to conform to our expectations of it (including value judgments which relate to ethics). If we stop and think about it, it's pretty darned ridiculous to have this expectation in the first place, but it seems humans can't help but to do this. And although I am not the sort of fool who is naive to the power of words, on the whole, I am not really concerned about what people say. I am much more concerned about what they actually do. Discussions that happen on forums like this are just not relevant enough in the grand scheme of things for me to get upset over.

I have no idea if that answers your question.

 

[Erebus]

I don't think there are any threads that I find too upsetting to participate in (certainly nothing that could be posted on this forum anyway). However, I do tend to steer clear of scriptural debates since I know/care very little about scripture.

 

[Quintessence]

I don't think there are any threads that I find too upsetting to participate in (certainly nothing that could be posted on this forum anyway). However, I do tend to steer clear of scriptural debates since I know/care very little about scripture.

Yup, that describes me too. Neopagan religions, mine included, don't have scripture. XD

 

[Shadow Wolf]

- Anime (those weird Japanese cartoons where they have big eyes & hair)

But, but....but anime is so cool!!! And they may have big eyes and hair, but at least they don't have a city where nearly almost everyone has a very severe case of jaundice, or cirrhosis, or pancreatic cancer, or amyloidosis.

 

[Erebus]

Yup, that describes me too. Neopagan religions, mine included, don't have scripture. XD

It's just as well. I have trouble remembering what day it is! I'd have no hope remembering pages upon pages of scripture

 

[Revoltingest]

Video games??? Why video games?

I don't play them, so I've no idea what people are talking about.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't play them, so I've no idea what people are talking about.

I could see you liking Tetris.

 

[Revoltingest]

But, but....but anime is so cool!!! And they may have big eyes and hair, but at least they don't have a city where nearly almost everyone has a very severe case of jaundice, or cirrhosis, or pancreatic cancer, or amyloidosis.

You're an anti-yellowite!