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Originally Posted by MsTinkerbelly
I miss them too!
Reasons why there are not critical thinking threads:
1. We (generally) are getting older, and don't have the time, or aren't able to put our thoughts into coherent sentences (ok this one is me)
2. The people who enjoyed a lively debate have moved on, or have been banned.
3. People feel safer posting nonsense (ok me again)
4. Ex drama has forced some to move on or post pap for fear of censure.
5. Threads are derailed by a few who cannot keep to topic.
Or God help us, the threads like "white privilege", where much time is wasted while white people repeat over and over that they are not privileged because they have xyz blood twice removed, or they know 45 people of color etc...
Anyway, if you start something worth talking about, i will try to keep up!
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I think it's partly all of these, plus (for me), my BFP time is "fun" time. I don't really want to get into heavy stuff but just want to wind down. I read but rarely contribute to the "heavy" topics.
Perhaps it's also a lack of knowledge or experience in whatever topic is being discussed.
Related to #1, I have noticed that occasionally there are "correct" opinions and beliefs here, and if someone differs, I have seen a verbal smackdown. That in itself might be a topic, however problematic. I just don't have the verbal skills to articulately hold my ground opinion-wise. So, people like me give way to the far more skilled debaters, who then either move on or get in trouble. A few still come around now and then.