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Religion, as a rich source of ridiculous axioms, can make for some good philosophical play. Of course for the same reason, it can lead to the whole game turning into a bit of a free for all.
I don't necessarily agree that all theological threads should be put on a seperate forum, because some of them are genuinely philosophical and as Lebell points out, that is a TFP issue, not an Academy issue, so it really needs to go in Tilted Suggestions. Perhaps this thread could be copied over to there.
What I do feel is a Philosophy Board issue is that there are a lot of posts/threads that are simply, as CS says 'god talk' and not actually philosophical at all. I'm not going to point any fingers, but I'm sure you've seen them. Perhaps it would be appropriate to move such threads to General Discussion. There are also a lot of religion threads that go over the same ground, maybe some of these could be merged.
There is, of course, the argument that a board is only made up of what is posted on it...if it's all religion, that's obviously what everyone wants...etc, etc. The problem with this argument is that it is much easier to post on a subject about which you are passionate, especially when your statements do not need to be based on impartial observation. A good philosophy post takes a lot of thought and time to put together, GodSpamWhoring does not. Quality not quantity, rermember?
Making a new forum every time you get upset about something is not a sustainable solution - The front page already looks confusingly crowded to me and some of the forums are pretty thin - but I do think this is a problem and one which we and the moderators can do something about.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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