banjodeluxe

I don't know if they exist, but if they do I'd be happy to join one. If they don't and someone feels like it I'd also be happy to try and be a part in starting one.

My answer to your question is yes. The reasoning is a little longer.

The main problem with this question is its representation of faith as a binary system: either an atheist or an agnostic or a christian or a muslim or a... The truth is religion has been (and will be for years to come) a massive part of the story of mankind. There is no penalty to exploring faith and a lot to gain from it: you'll either find yourself on a spiritual journey that will take you somewhere and influence you deeply (the religious, believing way of seeing this) or you will have learnt about how humans have interpreted the world around them and told each other stories about it in the form of scripture and from there religion (the sceptical way of seeing this). You'll either find the Truth or you'll realise you don't believe its there - but you'll have learnt a lot about other people's exploration of what the Truth is and what it means for them.

Should you explore Faith? Definitely. Should that mean you'll be on an unstoppable course towards becoming a devout Christian/Muslim/Insert your faith here? No. It means you're learning about human experience and listening to other's beliefs. Take it from there and decide what that means to you.

Appreciate the advice this is exactly the kind of specifics I'm looking into

Hey, not a french speaker but will take a look, thanks!

I'd say the best ones for me were the teachers in high school that understood we were too old to play the whole authority game any more - school with them became a place were I wanted to go learn from people who had more experience than me. Be it chemistry or an anecdote about their life, there was a lot to learn and a lot of teachers never forged that connection or taught us well because they still thought of us as mindless children. The ones that respected us were the ones I learnt from most and the ones I still appreciate to this day.

Me and my flatmates use SettleUp - https://settleup.io/

Best thing is is that is simple to use while providing a lot of functionality if you want to get into it. If you want to get rid of ads it has a subscription model which I dislike, but the free version is really awesome.

Thanks for your answer. I actually have been carrying a physical notebook for years. It keeps me organised and helps me remember things, but I've found it difficult to be disciplined with journaling - I'm currently thinking software might help in solving that, in sending me a reminder to journal and a quick way to put down a few thoughts everyday. I'll report back on how it goes!

That's a great idea, I'll take a look

That's a really interesting way of capturing thoughts, thanks for sharing!

Yeah I agree that there's a chance that might be the case - might be outrageous misrepresentation, takedown to crackdown on the movement, etc.. But I personally decide to give the system a little trust at least at first and like to think that the Spanish authorities who ordered this will have real reasons to base their decision on - with time we'll see I guess.

For a bit of context I'll leave my two cents here trying to be as objective as possible, leaving politics out of it as much as I can.

Following the judge's veredict of the Catalan politicians who coordinated the "proces", or series of political movements to attempt to secede Catalonia from Spain; demonstrations have arisen within Catalonia protesting said judgement - the politicians were essentially deemed as conspirators against the Spanish constitution and have been given varying prision sentences. Parts of those demonstrations have turned violent: clashes with police trying to stop blockages of streets and railroads, burning of cars and dumpsters, etc...

The Catalonian government's stance on this is difficult: as a pro-independence government they're trying to promote actions against the veredict but in some situations it has gotten out of hand and turned violent - something a government can't really condone.

Tsunami Democratic is an organisation that has been coordinating demonstrations and developed an app that allows people to know where demonstrations are happening, etc - whether these demonstrations turn violent or not is officially out of their control; the Spanish authorities (in this case, a judge in charge of investigating the circumstances around the more violent parts of the rioting) obviously believe that the app is aiding in coordinating violent attacks - whether that's terrorism or just violent rioting is something I don't know and I'm unsure we'll ever fully know.

That's the context, at the end of the day it's a national government asking for a repo to be taken down in accordance to the laws of their country, you might disagree with it happening fundamentally but its nothing new, the Github repo for takedowns has plenty - although they seem to usually be coming from China/Russia.

I don't think I'd go as far as saying I'd never rely on a computer-based solution, but I am weary of putting all this extremely important information in a potentially vulnerable place. As a lot of people here are saying, paper might just do the trick.

So I guess for your purposes this means focus heavily on security. Keep us updated on how it goes!