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

Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by bitexploder on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:29PM (#19976568)

When you weigh this against all the harm organized religion does, I am not sure this argument holds much water. Humans will be fine. We don’t need dodgy 2000 year old books to hold society together.

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by sametmax on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:06AM (#19977951)

Remove religion and we'll find something else to create dogmas: political ideals, borders, money...

Religion is just an excuse, anything you can extract moral from is ripe from being abused as a justification for the worst human behavior.

We used communism and eugenism for the same purpose. We had a book, we had a leader, and we had a genocide.

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by astazangasta on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:38PM (#19977254)

But we do need something. What is the alternative? Our mutual smugness?

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by bitexploder on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:15AM (#19991407)

Hobbies. Communities based on mutual interest. There is a thing called a Unitarian churches, they are much closer to dogma free than almost any other churches and many focus strongly on community with religion as a secondary thing for many members. I have found a stronger community in BJJ than I ever saw at a church in terms of real relationships. Humans just naturally form social groups with the smallest amount of lubricant.

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