Searcher

I'm not entirely sure it's necessary. Any agnostic who wants to find forums to discuss the issue is likely to enter the terms 'agnostic' and 'forums':

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...c+forums&meta=
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?fr...c%20forums

The community will grow about as fast as people want to come here and discuss it. Anyone who really wants a place to discuss agnosticism and related issues should struggle not to find this site.

That said, if you want more traffic the suggestions of videos on youtube etc aren't likely to hurt. You just need a good video about agnosticism to go there.

I have a set of forums and website on an unrelated topic where religious discussion is not allowed. If the opportunity arises I will certainly direct my community here, and I could possibly post a link on the links page. It's not that big a community though so not likely to give that much traffic, but evey little helps.

romansh

George....question(s) ... why? is more better? more participation in dialogue? better quality discussions?

what is the purpose of getting more agnostic participants?

I think (at least hope) that one of the important functions this website is to let 'guests' see reasoned arguments and plant the seeds of reasoning. How many of the 790 are active?

I think answering 'why' may help with giving an insight in to 'how'.

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marmalade

I recently was looking for atheistic and agnostic forums. I might have found Dawkin's forum because it was linked by or mentioned in another website. I found the Internet Infidels forum when I was doing searches on early Christianity and astrotheology. This forum I found simply through a search of the terms 'agnostic' and 'forum'.

The forum that I'm on most of the time is a tyopology forum. Its fairly active, and is constantly getting new members. I suspect most people find it through web searches. I have noticed that the forum was linked to in another site for some reason. I've heard there is an infp.globalchatter Facebook group, but I've never been to it.

A forum will also come up in searches when someone is looking for a certain subject that a forum has a thread about. I've done searches on something I started a thread about and came up with my own thread in the top few sites. So, the more active the forum is, then the more threads and posts in threads. And the more threads and posts in threads, the more likely this forum will come up in people's searches.

If you have members who are in other forums, then it would help spread the word. I've recently linked to a couple of threads in this forum to the globalchatter forum. I like to link between forums whenever I find something interesting I want to share. A thread in one form might inspire a thread in another forum and I'll link back to the original thread to give the background for why I was thinking about the subject, or else simply to give credit where credit is due.

Buddha

I had thought i was an athiest untill I heard the word agnostic in a movie and googled it a couple weeks ago.

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marmalade

What movie was it?

revpo

I advertise on a web site as an agnostic clergy doing weddings, which I do, yearly, and you would be surprised how many people ask me to perform a ceremony, who want nothing to do with the word religious.

I also belong to the agnostic church, and how many who knows it is just a web based site, but saw one time over 5 to 7 thousand on it at one time, who were on the rolls,<who knows>, the computer crashed and lost handfuls of subscribers....

REVPO

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AB517

all good ideas

I am telling people I know.

"I know a friendly place to talk about God stuff"

Good people here.

viz

The entire problem of agnostism compared to other religions is that agnostics really are not concerned with discussing it. They are the people who are not really noticed even though they are quite a signifigant group in size at least.

Vinterland

Go to any teen forum where many people tend to hold onto their misconceptions that agnosticism is a useful term that describes a belief in God.

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neverforever

I agree that this site is easy to find some people have to come grips with them selfs before they will go to a discussion forum about it.

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Making more Christians one brainwashing at a time.

Yes i agree the bible is a history book.
Remember history books don't prove history they tell it.
So stop using the bible as proof