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I try so hard to not do this and I'm sure I still fail at it from time to time.

If non-hostile serious discussion is what you're interested in, then I'm glad to have you as an addition to the forum. I don't think we could ever have too many users like that. I'm very interested in your perspective, no matter how heretical. Luckily, this is not a Christian forum so topics...

There is the concept of "depressive realism." Personally, though, I'm skeptical. I think people who are depressed tend to over-exaggerate negative qualities and the potential for negative outcomes. I think whether we find ourselves with an abundance of high-quality knowledge or in the deepest...

My final question is; the Urantia Book outright says that much of its scientific and historical knowledge is wrong and that the authors supposedly know that it's wrong. I understand not giving the information if you're forbidden to but why give false information?

I find that whole debate about whether Jesus was a heretic interesting. I'm unfortunately not too familiar with Second Temple Judaism but, as I understand it, a lot of this question rests on who the messiah was supposed to be and whether Jesus fulfills that criteria. It seems like the modern...

I am not happy. I am apathetic, which comes with a heavy dose of anhedonia. I don't laze in bed or snooze in. I am punctual and efficient. I get more work done than my coworkers and have, on occasion, had to teach them how to do things. While I don't work two jobs, I do dedicate a substantial...

This is much appreciated, thank you. I look forward to engaging in more thoughtful Quranic dialogue going forward. I don't suppose you have anything similar for the hadiths?

I actually struggle with apathy. Many days, I don't even have a serious interest in getting out of bed. Stoicism has helped me cultivate an indifference to my apathy so that I can focus on doing what I "should" do even when I'm not interested in it. The closest to a serious interest I have is...

After reading through the book, I think the term "adherents of the Urantia Book" might not be an adequate phrase. Much of the book emphasizes what it refers to as "the religion of personal experience" and spirituality as a personal relationship and communion with God. There's quite a bit of...

I have to talk about Paper 90, I'm sorry. "Shamanism" wasn't a religion. "Shamanism" is a general category of various religious practices. So much of this paper is misleading on this point. Describing shamans as "self-deceived" and "unwittingly stumbling" onto hypnotic practices also feels a...

This is the comment that made me decide to look into it. Dense, lengthy material filled with jargon that few people can sit through? My kind of treat. The part that sold it for me was "But our mandate admonishes us to make every effort to convey our meanings by using the word symbols of the...

I am not too skeptical about the account outside of the fact that it comes from Luke and I don't see Luke as a reliable source. If Jesus was highly intelligent, it's quite possible. It's quite common for highly intelligent kids to know and understand the material being taught better than their...

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much. I'll save up for it.

All of the other women I've known that have been celibate practiced celibacy for religious reasons. Two were clearly practicing in an unhealthy, repressive way. One was simply very devout. One was sort of a New Age type and believed in conserving her "orgone." I'm the only ace woman that I...

I was the leader of a Dr. Who club in High School. I was also the leader of a computer club in Middle School and High School but I somehow ended up co-founding the Dr. Who club, too. I don't remember a lot of it because it was the same year that my medication messed me up for a few months but I...

Asexuality isn't a hormone balance. It's an orientation like being heterosexual.

Quite correct, I am not an ant. However, ants challenge the notion that every individual organism in a species has an evolutionary imperative to reproduce. I am familiar with the mouse utopia experiment. I think it makes a good argument for why we should pursue apatheia as a species. I think...

No, there isn't. Deleting posts is common practice on the vast majority of forums. The only forums I've been to that don't delete posts were chan boards. This isn't a chan board. As a hobbyist archivist that has already saved several threads on this site and will probably back up the apocrypha...

From what I hear, although I am not a metalworker. I am more of an end-user on that one. I have managed to hold on to a titanium spork for almost over a decade now and it's the most reliable tool I think I've ever owned. If I ever have the money, I think I'll buy a whole cutlery set made from...

It's never a good sign for discussion when somebody makes a habit of telling others what they think and feel. It's highly unlikely to lead to anything productive, in my opinion.