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Posted on 2/25/16 at 1:05 pm to Cooter Davenport
Posted on 2/25/16 at 1:05 pm to Cooter Davenport
I'm definitely running in to similar issues myself. Most of my friend base growing up came from church or school. I stopped believing pretty early in life (I always thought going to church was just a bunch of people making meaningless sound waves for an hour), but it was important socially. Now that I'm a 20-something, I don't have an easy place to fall back on to meet people outside of work. The best I can do is sport clubs and profession-specific meetups. Unfortunately, the sports leagues don't foster much friendship, and nothing is more asocial and uninteresting than a bunch of software developers discussing why React and ES6 are awesome for modern single-page applications. It's anecdotal, but I agree, I think the church is no longer the fundamental part for a majority of our society, and it never will be ever again. Appealing to that segment as your main focus is probably a terrible political strategy from now on.
This post was edited on 2/25/16 at 1:16 pm
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Posted on 2/25/16 at 1:15 pm to agalloch
I read this take on what we're talking about, and it's pretty good LINK (a book called Bowling Alone)
Like you, I don't live where I grew up. My wife and I don't have kids yet, so we're stuck in the no-mans-land where single people don't want to befriend you because you are "yucky married people" and married people with kids don't want to hang out with you because they think their kids are super-annoying to you, even though they're actually not. I think, based on what I have seen, that it gets better when you have kids, because then you can have "we both have kids friends" and you can do stuff together centered around the kids. Of course, it would be easier, I think, if people still went to church, and church committees and things would be where we could find friends. But I just can't fake like I believe it when I don't. It's too dishonest for me to do.
Like you, I don't live where I grew up. My wife and I don't have kids yet, so we're stuck in the no-mans-land where single people don't want to befriend you because you are "yucky married people" and married people with kids don't want to hang out with you because they think their kids are super-annoying to you, even though they're actually not. I think, based on what I have seen, that it gets better when you have kids, because then you can have "we both have kids friends" and you can do stuff together centered around the kids. Of course, it would be easier, I think, if people still went to church, and church committees and things would be where we could find friends. But I just can't fake like I believe it when I don't. It's too dishonest for me to do.
This post was edited on 2/25/16 at 1:17 pm
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