I agree with what you are saying Elvis. I think talking about the things you mention links in well with mercury. From the time all of us woke up and discovered that there was poison in our mouths, it's been a matter of facing one painful truth after another.

I've been asking myself what would happen if, for example, lots of people here were keen of football and kept wanting to talk about it. You'd go to a thread and, say, find people getting onto yet another football discussion. How would I feel? Like rolling my eyes maybe. I might make a bit of a humorous comment. And I'd go and read another thread. I suppose it would be a bit of a bizarre situation if that were happening. I don't feel that religion and philosophy can be equated with that though. What is wrong with talking about the deeper things in life? They apply to us all. I put a lot of heart into my post here and I've found that all it seems to have done was hack people off.

Russ quotes the Bible everywhere here. Should this be a "fundamentalists only -- others need not apply" forum? I try very hard not to step on people's toes and to respect their beliefs. However, I also have to ask myself how far I am willing to go down that direction and be silent about my own beliefs. Sometimes the need to challenge what is being said, or what I perceive to be ignorance, is very great. And I am also happy to learn from people in turn, because I am thankful for every new bit of information that leads me closer to the truth.

I'm still not sure what the answer is. There is a separate area here where creationists talk. Maybe there could be a separate area for conspiracy theories or religion. However ,these topics do creep in; it would be a shame to censor everything here not exclusively related to mercury.