[ExI] Meaning in life (Was: Who has a vote that counts?)

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 9:17 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Unitarian Universalists accept atheists.
>

Or anybody, huh?  I went once and could not figure out what they believed,
if anything.  bill w

>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 11:13 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
>> Ben
>> Zaiboc via extropy-chat
>> Subject: Re: [ExI] Meaning in life (Was: Who has a vote that counts?)
>>
>> On 01/08/2020 07:52, Someone, not clear who, wrote:
>> >> Decline of religiousity means decreased social networks and lack of
>> > meaning in life
>>
>> I find that at least misguided, if not obnoxious. It's the sort of thing
>> I'd
>> expect a religious apologist to say, not someone on this list.
>>
>> You can possibly argue about the social networks aspect, and at least that
>> is quantifiable, but the remark about meaning in life is totally
>> unacceptable. It's another form of the specious 'Atheists must be very sad
>> people' meme that the god-squad keep trotting out.
>>
>> --
>> Ben Zaiboc
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>> Ben what atheists really need is something to replace what churches once
>> provided back in the days when most people went to one.  Bars and
>> nightclubs
>> kinda sorta do that for some people I suppose but it doesn't work well for
>> those of us who don't do chemicals of any kind and aren't big sports
>> people.
>>
>>
>> We have a local chapter of Boring People, but I was thrown out for being
>> interesting.  The interesting people won't have me because I am too
>> boring.
>> There is no place for those who are exactly between interesting and
>> boring.
>> Now I have no social contacts.
>>
>> We atheists should be ready to admit the obvious: Religion Inc. does offer
>> some social benefits which are hard to replace.
>>
>> spike
>>
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