A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests

Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by shanxS on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:48PM (#19974145)

I am agnostic to religion. But I cannot agree more that region (all of them) play a key role in maintaining fabric of society. I don't know how true the scriptures are, given that most of them contradict each other but regardless, more or less they all tend to drive society towards stability and tolerance.

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by Retra on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:17PM (#19974448)

I don't see any evidence that society tends to be driven toward stability or tolerance, and even if it did, why you would attribute that to religion.

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by FabHK on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:54PM (#19974891)

I'd argue that over time society has in fact become more stable and more tolerant (read Steve Pinker's latest tome about the enlightenment), but that it was possible because of the simultaneous decline of religion.

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by Retra on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:27PM (#19983371)

What society has done or is doing is a rather different matter than what it tends to do.

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