These forums are slowly dying?

[Nicholas]

Most of the better conversations happen when someone is struggling processing something, usually catalyst in their life and the community helped with the processing.

Seems lots of healing has happened so the forum is less active. I’m sure new members with catalyst will be along shortly.

Unfortunately a lot of the general light conversation stopped when this place became very argumentative vs supportive. Catalyst on the forum itself isn’t why people came here so many left.

I also think a lot of the argumentative stuff stemmed from the triggering of our own wounds, and a particular blindness to our own sense of identity that feels threatened by certain critiques of social norms. 

For example I myself was confused by the term "toxic masculinity". Now I understand that it has nothing to do with me being a biological "white" male. Although I initially felt defensive by perceiving the term as a bigoted swipe at all males in general. 

The arguing amounted to lower energy blockages bumping up against and stimulating other lower energy blockages. Or as Eckhart Tolle frames it, pain body's clashing with other pain body's.

How are you by the way?