Loneliness

[Sand Dancer]

I am having a hard time finding community as an atheist. It seems lonely. Any suggestions to find friends?

 

[Stanyon]

Get out more?
btw I am not your friend, you seem clingy

 

[blü 2]

I am having a hard time finding community as an atheist. It seems lonely. Any suggestions to find friends?

What are your options where you are?

Community groups? School groups? Sport or social or activity or interest clubs? Volunteer work?

'As an atheist' is only important if you think it is. What if, at least at the start, you get your atheism on the net and your society from your community?

 

[Sand Dancer]

What are your options where you are?

Community groups? School groups? Sport or social or activity or interest clubs? Volunteer work?

'As an atheist' is only important if you think it is. What if, at least at the start, you get your atheism on the net and your society from your community?

There are groups, but it seems very hard to make good friends and connections. I am just in a down period right now I guess.

 

[blü 2]

There are groups, but it seems very hard to make good friends and connections. I am just in a down period right now I guess.

That can happen.

You may already know this, but I mention that (a) walking for an hour or so a day, and preferably in the morning and (b) not staying up past midnight (avoiding diurnal inversion), and getting up and moving early, are antidepressants, mood-lifters, in themselves, therefore luck-bringers.

So good luck!

 

[Sand Dancer]

Good advice, thanks!

 

[Andy Sims]

It's doubly hard while this coronavirus is keeping people physically apart. Do you find anyone's posts particularly attractive? You could try inviting a small group for a zoom session. As much as I like the purity of expression that lives in a text-based forum, to ease the loneliness of enforced isolation, there's no substitute for seeing faces and hearing voices.

My dance friends get together on zoom every Monday during the time that we used to dance, and my family gets together once a week as well. It's nice. It's personal. I tend to listen more than talk, just bathing in the loveliness of superficial chatter. No substitute for touching and being touched, of course, and if your loneliness is more physical, there's not much for it.

Me, I'm lucky. I live with a sweetheart whose son and grandson come over almost daily. Hard to be lonely when there's a three-year-old in the house.

 

[Secret Chief]

I am having a hard time finding community as an atheist. It seems lonely. Any suggestions to find friends?

Both of my cats are atheists. One is the very embodiment of living zen. What about you?

 

[Sand Dancer]

Both of my cats are atheists. One is the very embodiment of living zen. What about you?

My cats too. Zen cats are the best kind.