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What have you learned in RF ?

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
For one thing it has enriched my musical tastes. I also am enriched by meeting lots of people: retirees, vagabonds, merchants, medical professionals. It has certainly been a place for thinking, and thinking is the best form of entertainment. Bottom line it is very entertaining, a place to meet nice people and to watch some very talented people communicate.
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
RF now and then brings a few people together in friendship from very diverse backgrounds and perspectives. I think that when it does, it's living up to its mission.
 

Debater Slayer

Vipassana
Staff member
Premium Member
What do you see as the best part of RF?

The cultural, intellectual, and religious diversity of the community and the fellowship that many members have displayed over the years despite strongly disagreeing on a lot of hot-button topics.

Have you learned something you want to use in your personal life?

A lot. I was a conservative Muslim when I first joined. It is mainly thanks to RF that I have become a secular humanist, feminist, and supporter of LGBT rights. I try to live up to these principles in my personal life.
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Have you learned something you want to use in your personal life?

In the nearly 15 years I've been on RF, I've learned that humans, including myself, are a whole lot less rational, and far more egotistical, than I once suspected. I'm not being sarcastic. It's been a real -- and important -- lesson for me. I've also come a lot closer to adopting Spinoza's attitude: “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
 

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
What do you see as the best part of RF?
Have you learned something you want to use in your personal life?

Yes. I learned more distinctly what I do not believe; my deal breakers.

I learned that people's inner opinions online is something I would have never thought people believe offline. It shocks me for lack of better words.

I can't say I learned about different religions because eastern ones,the terminology puts barriers to learning. Christianity is covered with people's opinions and not the religion itself. I learned some things from JW and a ton of things more from Bahai than all other religions here.

I would say I learned patience only when I have soda and a snack nearby or multitasking or about to knock out.

What would I use in my personal life?

To be honest, nothing. If I were spiritually lost or a seeker, maybe this would help get an idea of religious thought. Right now it's mostly learning from experience and interaction with community who don't need to think the same to work and grow together.
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
What do you see as the best part of RF?
Have you learned something you want to use in your personal life?

I've learned several new words. Sometimes a poster will throw a new word at me which will send me scrambling for a definition.

Also it helps me with confrontational discussions. Helps me learn how not to become emotionally triggered by a particular word or phrase.
 
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sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I've learned how much fun it can be sparring with a few individuals such as @Revoltingest and @Wu Wei in joke threads. I've also been challenged a few times to back up my opinions and have occasionally had to eat metaphorical crow (no corvids were harmed in this or other posts).
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
I originally came to this place after leaving some other forum sites that were poorly moderated, to put it mildly. I wanted a place to discuss religion and theology. Somehow, against all odds, this place existed. I stuck around because it was not overrun by beat-you-over-the-head preachers (whether theistic or non-theistic) and was one of those rare places you could find civil dialogue on the internet. Now I get to help keep it that way. :D

I think RF has been influential in convincing me that the labels "theist" and "atheist" are pretty darned meaningless without context. It was all those threads about atheist babies and rocks. It seems we couldn't go more than three or four months without some giant thread debating what "atheist" means. It drove me nuts, especially since it seems we couldn't have substantive discussions about what "theist" means. No, that is not an invitation to make another thread about atheist babies. Don't you freaking dare! :mad:
 

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
I learn many things from RF.
About religions even my religion Islam, and Western culture (not from movies) and kindness of people of different religious and nations .and developed my English :D
 
I reckon about 90% of what have learnt here has come from a small number of posters (<10), although these people post from pretty diverse perspectives.

Many people have posted things that I have learned from though, but I tend to pay more attention to specific topics especially when people provide sources to support their views (which I often follow up on).
 
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