How Has ProU Impacted Your Life?

Personally, ProU has taught me that ideas can become reality.

For the past year, I have had a tremendous time learning about the bloggers and creating activities and contests the bloggers would enjoy.

Who would have ever thought my ideas were doable and would be loved by many? I never thought so.

Thanks ProU!

Shayla

ProU has helped me learn more about people's opinion, taught me the tolerance to listen to other's opinions, no matter how different they are from mine, and to research my opinions fully. Some comments have helped me challenge the way I perceive myself, and others have helped me solidify what I have previously believed.

~C
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ProU has shown me that I'm not the only one who thinks there are more important things in life than the innate gossip that so often marks conversation in our generations. It is rare to see ProU users gossiping about their friends, celebrities, etc. Instead, users focus on the issues that we're all too often accused of knowing nothing about about the older folks. Seeing that level of focus and attention and being a part of that is absolutely priceless to me.

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." Isaac Asimov

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." Charles Dana

I believe we should all scrutinize our foundational beliefs. My foundational beliefs are that we can only trust in verifiable evidence, science is the best way to obtain such evidence, and religion is oftentimes counterproductive with regard to that evidence.

ProgU has given me the opportunity to present my reasoning and obtain feedback concerning those foundational beliefs. I appreciate that very much and remains the number 1 reason that I blog here.

However, I have discovered that people seem to be interested in my opinions. I have written 39 blogs now. Five of them have over 1,000 reads and it looks like soon a 6th will reach that number. I have been curious as to where those reads are coming from. I did a Google blog search and found that some of my blogs have been posted on other places.

I have one of my Skeptical Bible Study blogs mirrored at a cheerleading website??

http://cheerleadingtoday.info/blogs/cheer-poms/5610/skeptical-bible-stud...

Who would have thought that?

I have another blog that is used as an off-site reference for an article on vestigial structure posted on conservapedia.com. Conservapedia is a radical conservative wikipedia and really isn't a source that I recommend anyone use, but if they link to my post then anyone interested in the problem has the opportunity to get an opposing viewpoint.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Vestigial_structures

So what I have found is that I am influencing people that I never thought I would ever have a chance to influence. That would not have happened without ProgU.

Thanks,

Darwin's Beagle

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Evolution says that we share a common ancestor with a jackass. It does not give us license to act like one.

I worry sometimes that I've spent too much time here at ProU, instead of going out and doing things.

But it occurred to me that if I weren't here, I'd probably still be on the Internet elsewhere, because it's so gosh darn hot and boring where I am right now that I can't imagine anything else.

ProU has kind of burst my bubble and made me see that I'm really lucky to live most of the year in the Bay Area (or California, for that matter). Even though people have such diverse interests and beliefs here (and we do- it is not, as some believe, some hippie liberal state where we run naked on Fridays and smoke pot with cops), there is a uniformly respectful attitude for those opinions evident in how we interact with one another despite our differences. It's a philosophy that is not present as fully in other parts of the world or on this site.

The need for change is far more pressing after this realization, because until people can respect each other, no other changes, however progressive or monumental, can ever hope to be successful in the long term.

ProU has helped me get out some of the thoughts that was jamming my head, and let others know my views on some of the most common subjects of today. It has just helped me feel so free to be able to tell others and have them tell me of a wide range of subjects. This is a really great site and I love being apart of it.

that i may or may not agree on. makes me think differently and also makes me stronger in my beliefs!

Progressive U has helped me in many ways I am thankful for. It has enabled me to reach out and touch people and places like I never was able to in the past. Before I was just some random, Joe Sixpack, private blogger guy. My writing was angry, hateful and laced with a riotus venom. However, getting her and really thinking on what it is I wished to do helped me put my thoughts in perspective.

Here I am able to really channel my loose ideas and thoughts, put them down on e-paper. Before I had no real place to start talking about my ideas and goals to start pagan seminary and begin raising awareness on it. Here, I am able to do such things and have it be noticed out in the world. I am most grateful for that as it has taked the wreckage I feared my life was going to slide into and really picked it up out the mire. It's here that I feel I have an opinion, where I can talk and have people stop and say "Hey, that guy has a new idea." or "Hmm, that man really has thoughts I can agree with." or "There needs to be more like him, writing with passion and a want to change the world."

ProU has made me care and made want to change to world, even if only one little bit at a time. That little bit can quickly gain strength, it can grow, burn and build. It can rise from that small flicker to a towering inferno which even the mighty gods themselves can look upon and be held in awe. And that light is the human spirit, put to it's proper use of the betterment of all people, of all creeds and nations and tribes.

That is what ProU has held me to see and to nurture.

Well...I'm on here a fair amount of time now, going from blog to blog and reading them - it's a good thing, I think, to have. It's cool to read other people's ideas and arguments on issues that really have an impact in our lives, rather than American Idol.

Peace
Tahni

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"Tell me - if no one ever hears what you say, then why don't you shout it?" -- Floater

Has taught me that my generation, and today's society is full of single thought people. Not all, I have found some great people to talk with and they've helped me to see other sides of arguments. But the majority of people who have commented my blogs, or whose comments I have read in other blogs, are idealists and one way thinkers. It makes me want to be a teacher even more. To show our future that thinking on your own, and outside the box, is a good thing. It the way I see people talk on here, especially those who come just to make a point and argue (they don't even want to listen to the opposing side), it shows me that our future holds robots.

Don't get me wrong, I love this site. It has allowed me to express myself and hear other people's voices. But, it has made me see the reality of society and our world today, which is sad. But for those rare minds out there who talk like gentle people, who actually listen and bring evidence to their argument (not just spouting what they believe), they are the greats of this generation.

If you can think outside the box, and on your own, you can create anything. That includes the next fuel for cars, or better technology.

-J-

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. - James Allen