What are the objectives of this website?

To create a list of ideas or beliefs, and then to brainstorm:

1. reasons to agree and disagree with idea,
2. common interest of those who agree and disagree with the idea,
3. apposing interest of those who agree and disagree with the idea,
4. probable motives of those who agree and disagree with the idea,
5. best "things" that agree or disagree with the idea, such as books, websites, songs, etc.

To create an algorithm that ranks ideas according to the the posts that are mentioned above. This algorithm will advance the ideas that

have the highest ratio of reasons to agree vs. reasons to disagree with them.

highest ranking things that agree with them. For instance, if someone puts a link to a statement by the union of concerned scientist, it would have a higher weight than some nobody with a personal website.

Clean Slate vs. Re-Inventing the wheal

In humanities classes I have been told that each person has to find truth for themselves. I think this is true in the sense that no one can or should tell anyone what to believe, but I don't think that we should advocate that everyone re-invent the weal.

There have been great philosophers over the years, who have pondered all of the great issues. I wonder if I could ever add anything to what they thought. But I will never know, because there works are not collected into one great whole.

What I would like to see is all the reasons to agree or disagree with different ideas from the great thinkers. And, the present day internet viewers could vote on the ideas, so that best ideas when to the top.

For instance you would have reasons to believe that there is a God from Leonardo Di Vinci and reasons to not believe in God from Michelangelo. I guess they weren't really solly philosophers, you would also have quotes from philosophers, and people from out day.

I do not think that each generation should have to re-invent the wheal. I think that we should collect all of the great or original writing over time, and have it all cross-referenced, and indexed, and sorted out into reasons to agree or disagree with different positions.