Teenagers only have so many things to talk about. Most of TFF isn't smart enough to have intelligent conversation, and the ones that are all agree with each other. There is only one smart poster on the right (Sasquatch), so that takes a lot away. There are only about four types of threads in Intellectual Discussion.

1. Anti-Christian threads, because no one can think of anything more constructive criticism.
2. Meaningless discussion, like circumcision or "the meaning of love". MM makes a lot of these.
3. Questions that no one knows the answers to, like life after death and aliens. Really, how far can you go with it?
4. There is usually a marijuana legalization thread once every few months.

In reality, its just a rehashing of things talked about for thousands of years. Also, a lot of the good posters left (Fragdemon, Casanova, Whitney, Merlin for the most part.) The biggest problem is the flaming, and the staff doesn't do anything about that.

It will only get worse once the American presidential nominees are decided.