What Issues Is The Forum Most/Least Knowledgeable About?

[memphis]

Many Atlas posters don't seem to have a lot of experience interacting with the world outside of school/college. They've often excelled at school/college and have put a lot of time and thought into academic concerns. This isn't surprising for young, bright people, but many could use more non-academic experience interacting with people and seeing how things and people operate outside of academia.

[memphis]

It's lucky that we have Marokai and Memphis and their extended travelling to the far corners of the globe to inform us about the real world out there.

I have done a fair bit of travelling in my life, but my point has nothing at all to do with going to some exotic destination. It's about being old enough to have lived life outside of school. I enjoyed school quite a bit, but the outside world is just as educational, but in a different way. Jobs, bills, relationships, and all the rest. You learn those things from living life, not from sitting in a classroom. It's not a 19 year old college student's fault he hasn't learned the nuances of those sorts of things yet, but that still constitutes a void of knowledge.

[memphis]

I like how so many of us can come together and agree that the forum is terrible at discussing religion, regardless of what sort of discussion it is that we'd prefer.

In this forum's defence, I think most places are bad at discussing religion.

This is true because there's nothing substantive to be said about it. There are no data points to consider and no evidence to weigh. Any religious discussion, by definition, is just a tedious back and forth on semantics, feelings, and navel gazing, with a heavy tribal sociological component.