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What This Is
There is no better format on the web than the one here for interacting with others to develop consensus about facts, positions, solutions and strategies relating to public issues. And then to act together using these strategies, to implement these solutions, going beyond talk all the way to results. To "turn the world right side up", as Acts 17:6 indirectly puts it.
(If there is a better forum, someone tell us and we may shut this down. There are more popular forums! But much depends on popularizing this much interaction across our land.)
FAQ#What_does_this_forum_do_that_others_don't? comparison
If the most interaction you want with people about matters that matter is to argue with others in the comments sections after published articles, where
write articles, you are welcome at our sister blog site, [www.Talk2me.Saltshaker.US www.Talk2me.Saltshaker.US].
we develop, to make our nation, and the world, a better place.
my blog - , where any of you who are willing, I will give full rights to post articles;
This website is a place where you can reason with other people - even when you disagree - respectfully. (Bad ideas are "fair game", but personal attacks are prohibited.)
The wiki is not like anything on the web, that I can find. It is the closest online experience I can imagine to the dialog we have enjoyed during our platform discussions. Think about what we experienced, that is very hard to experience, for as long as we did, anywhere else on the planet: we had the opportunity to reason with very intelligent people who disagreed on a few things, longer than most people will allow, yet we were able to achieve really remarkable mutual respect. Anywhere else, the discovery that you disagree with someone about something very important to the other fellow is usually enough to end the conversation after a pithy insult from the other guy about how closed minded you presumably are.
I believe the dialog we enjoyed is precisely the kind of dialog that America needs a lot more of. And not only America, but her churches. Which conviction is what shaped my wiki. I even think the wiki would be perfect for future platform committees to use in between face to face meetings to exhaustively discuss details that interest some of the members.
The software for my wiki is what Wikipedia uses, which allows people to not just comment after someone else's articles, but to also edit someone else's articles. But my rules and theirs are pretty different. They don't allow "personal opinions". Everything you add has to be backed up by a link to a "mainstream" source, in order to keep it "objective", although "mainstream" tends towards the liberal. Also, Wikipedia doesn't allow you to put your own name on your contribution, or to link to anything of yours.
My rules are the opposite: we WANT personal opinions. We don't want to be limited to ideas that "mainstream" sources know about. We welcome original ideas, Because if there is a better solution than has already been published, we don't want our rules to censor it! America NEEDS better solutions than have already been published!
And we want to know your real name - we want to know who we are talking to.
The links again:
The Forum is a list of articles you can add to, correct, vote for, or just read. There are also suggested options how you can contribute in this format, and how to work with wiki software. Don't fear the funny code characters. They are your slaves.Rules explain the very little that you can't do. Basically: stay on the subject. No spam, ads, profanity, or personal attacks. What you can do: You can disagree. You can reason. You can quote God to give weight to your point. You can disagree with God and even God will reason with you if you will sincerely reason, Isaiah 1:18, so we Christians, not being better than God, will also; although gratuitous refusal to consider evidence will not make you persuasive. The mood of the rules is to make you persuasive and to encourage respect - not for error, but for each other, we all being victims of error, Galatians 6:1 - and for reason and intelligence, evidence and reality.
Tips are suggestions how to back up what you say in order to be persuasive, wherever you are trying to reason with someone who disagrees with you, and Scriptures that back up those suggestions.
FAQ explains why it is important that you register with your real name before you can post. It helps control spam, eliminates "trolls", and helps keep our efforts to reason with each other respectful so they can be productive. By the same principle that defendants in court can better defend themselves when they can "face" their accusers - know who they are, and be able to question them - discussion is more productive when people know who they are talking to.
Talk:Main Page is where you can propose changes to this page, the Main Page. This page is "protected" so that not everybody can change it, unlike almost every other page and article. Please "create an account" (upper right of the screen) so you can contribute.
Vision
A “Partnership Machine”. A “multitude of counsellors”, through which, God promises in Proverbs 15:22, goals that are agreed upon are reached.
A “Think Tank” which establishes facts with enough authority to bring “Political Reality” closer to reality – to help Truth become “politically realistic” again. A forum for healing national division.
A forum where the purpose of debate is not sport but results - to "turn the world right side up". Acts 17:6. Where people reason with each other even when they disagree - without "tolerating" nonsense - where wise people will love you for intelligently correcting them, Proverbs 9:8.
Where information is judged, not people. Where ideas can't survive just by being "tolerated"; they have to be proved true. Where unpopular truths have a better chance than popular nonsense. Where everyone may appeal to the highest principles they know in support of their positions - even Christians.
Likes (We are):
Like Snopes and Factcheck in that we check alleged facts and will respond to suggestions about what to check, except that you see who does the research, and you can see how people on conflicting sides of controversial facts reason with each other. And we are accountable to the public: anyone can correct an error or omission they spot, and a record is kept of every proposed correction even if it is rejected, like on Wikipedia.
Like Wikipedia in that we are accountable to anyone who can find any error in anything we publish, except that top experts on a subject are allowed to participate and to cite their own articles or research, which is not allowed there, which limits participation to the less informed. Original ideas and solutions are also welcome here but not there. Also, discussion and debate about the substance of the issue; there, discussion can only be about what information can be posted. Plus we welcome far more information than is welcome in Wikipedia’s issue summaries. Like Wikipedia, we preserve a record of contributions which the majority rejects for inaccuracy, except that we make it easier to find: we list “Minority Reports” at the end of our main articles. Like a political party’s Platform Committee, except we interact continuously, not just for a couple of months every two years, and anyone can participate. Plus we don’t just interact with only people in our own party, or even religion. We interact with everyone willing to enter our forum.