I'd just like to say I think it is important to reach out to other agnostics so that we all feel emboldened to speak up for ourselves. When you feel that you are the only one that agrees with yourself it is very easy to just keep it to yourself. Just keeping it to ourselves may not be the best course of action when we live in a world where our beliefs are broadly misrepresented for us. For example, "agnostics just can't make up their mind", "agnostics are just confused as to whether there is a god or not" or "agnostics don't think morality is important so they aren't religious". If I'm in a room where such a thing is said, I should really correct them in case there are other agnostics around who feel alone and intimidated. So, I am hopeful that getting into discussions with other agnostics will help me to find my voice and shore up my arguments for such situations. This paragraph could also be extended to include atheists, humanists, freethinkers, etc because despite our trivial differences in philosophy, we are all in the same figurative boat in the real world.
As far as how to accomplish it I think we should all find the method that works for us. I've been carrying a Brights coffee mug around my office about 20 times a day for probably a year now and have not been asked about it once. So that's been a disappointment, but it keeps me buzzing.
I like the idea of cross linking between our various forums because that's how I found out about this one. Plus, it gave me the idea of searching on "agnostic" and "discussion" which turned up some other interesting discussions which I hope to someday have time to explore. I intend to stay active in at least a couple forums now so that I can do some of this cross linking and help grow our groups. |