This is a forum for discussing topics that may not be suitable for the core WPM lists. It is not intended as a substitute for our Ideas and Community lists which remain our "home base."

These are topics where experience has shown that there are divided opinions,
and that no agreement, consensus or compromise emerges.

In some cases these are topics that would be off-topic for the two core lists.
Other topics have recurred dozens of times on our lists, often several times a year,
always covering more or less the same ground.
These include:
* Is God an appropriate term for pantheists to use?
* Is pantheism an appropriate name for the naturalistic reverence of nature?
* Do we have free will?
* Are human-created things part of Nature?

In other cases they are topics that seem to give rise easily to critical, disrespectful and hostile comments.
These include
* Party and national politics
* Specific wars
* Vegetarianism v. carnivory

Other topics may be added as and when they achieve the status of a "Hot Topic."

This list has a two post per day per person limit and a rule of mutual respect and avoidance of personal insult.