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

Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by _emacsomancer_ on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:46PM (#19983563)

I still might debate the role of ritual in Catholicism, Eastern & Oriental Orthodoxy,

> No karma to optimize

but I actually had the more karmic things in mind, i.e the importance of Works vs importance of Faith, which certainly does vary between different Christian sects.

> No hidden knowledge to uncover.

There are gnostic types of things. If perhaps less so today than in the Renaissance. But it's not as if it's absent.

So I still think this is a rather Protestant perspective.

Edit to say: Also, in fact even or perhaps even especially, Protestants were engaged in gnosticism/Christian mysticism in the Renaissance period.

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by humanrebar on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @06:02PM (#19986039)

But my point is that, comparatively speaking "behave like a faithful person" is a fairly open ended assignment compared to attaining nirvana, circumcision, forgoing beef, or literally earning one's way into paradise.

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