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Religion fills a social void, how do you get social belonging? Outside of this site of course

Canndue 8 Feb 24
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Social belonging? What kind of sorcery is this?

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I belong to a bunch of dance meet up groups, a couple of music groups, and an atheist group.

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For years I lived in our house in east Texas and never saw anybody but my kids and my wife, all of whom had their own thing going. My wife cleans to religion and will not consider that it is stupid. When the kids got old enough to take care of themselves, I was really alone all the time. So about a year and a half ago about a car, and came to Houston to drive for Uber and Lyft. I have been doing that ever since. But the one thing I had planned on doing which was meeting someone and having some kind of social life has not happened.

I drive people around all day who have a life and who have friends and family, and I have nobody down here and no where to interact, that I know of where I will be accepted as an atheist. I am climbing the walls because I like to talk and I like to do things with someone and I hate doing anything by myself. So I just work and sleep. I keep hoping to be rescued from this by some enterprising woman who is in the same boat I am.

Houston's a big town. There are lots of places you could go to be social and make new friends. Lots of churches accepts atheists, like Unitarians and Buddhists. Join a club to meet people with similar interests. Get a p/t job. Join a gym. Just get off your ass and do something!

@jerry99 it's not all that fucking easy when you don't know where to go and you work all the time. So kiss my ass.

Hard to understand why you're not making friends.

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I attend Buddhist meetings weekly and I pay my therapist to listen to me for an hour on Thursdays. That's it.

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I attend a Unitarian Universalist . It gives me a sense of community and my granddaughter loves it.

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