Spirituality subforum

[Fkeu'itan]

Honestly, I don't understand what HNM is trying to argue here, with the greatest of respect.

Surely, if subforums create tension and division, then why not have just one big forum titled 'Stuff' that everything would fall into, that way... If someone brought up a book that was also a movie for example, then both coud be discussed with no problems. Well, when it comes down to it, subforums only dictate the context and content of discussion, that way... When someone comes into the book forum to talk about a LoTR book, for example, they know that the topic will be the *book* version, and not the *film* version. To run with the analogy, some people might not like the books, they might find them boring... Which is why they then go to post about the same subject in the film section.

I see it as exactly the same with this Spirituality subforum.

Another thing I don't understand is the idea of 'endorsement'... I mean, if we supposedly don't want to be associated with something, that's not really going to happen. This is an Avatar forum... That right away associated us with a film that has strong spiritualist content and a heavy-handed pro-environmentalist message. (If not to you personally, then to the general public as a whole.) And that really defeats the point. Don't forget (as previously mentioned) we also have environmentalist and science and technology subforums... Surely these two things also represent an opinion, even if that opinion does seem one-sided from an outside point of view.

Right now, I feel what we're communicating is that "we are a solely scientific and pro-environmentalist fan forum" whereas if we introduced something like Spirituality, we would only show our broadness and diversity as a fanbase.

Naturally, this forum would be a tempting prospect for any spiritualist - myself included - but why shouldn't it be? In recent times, we've felt pushed out and unwanted by our own forum members, let alone our 'family', so of course we're fighting for our right (to party lol) to a place we can all discuss again, like we used to be able to.