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the_card_guy t1_je9vvee wrote

Reply to comment by ASpellingAirror in Thousands of women join club to combat loneliness - BBC News by idreamofjiro

So Reddit loves to shit on anything involving religion, and I don't deny that religion has done tons of awful things... But one of its purposes was to ultimately bring people together who would otherwise have no reason to come together. Plus, you could usually bring the whole family

Let's just say it's a damn shame that so many Redditors would prefer to interact with other people online (if they choose to interact with other people at all!), behind anonymous names... But the majority of the human population does, in fact, need that human connection.

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Grievuuz t1_je9yv8c wrote

Prefer to interact with people online, to what alternative?

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the_card_guy t1_jea2ex9 wrote

I wonder if it ever occurs to Redditors to go offline and interact with people within the town or city they live in. This is something that seems to be a foreign and maybe even scary idea to them.

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Grievuuz t1_jea4uu2 wrote

Pretty big hateboner you got there. Show me on the doll where the mean redditor hurt you :p

Also I was just asking because it sounded like you were talking up joining organized religion as a solution to loneliness, which is pretty fucked up :p

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Babymicrowavable t1_jea7v7t wrote

It is a little bit, when most of the people around you are fascists that hate you for things you can't change about yourself, and if you tried you'd be fucking miserable. Fuck small towns

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Alexexy t1_jebgpey wrote

I'm a minority that experiences racism on a monthly, if not weekly basis and I still manage to make and find connections rather commonly.

If the handful of bad people stopped me from meeting people who are nice and gracious then I would be miserable too.

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Babymicrowavable t1_jebi19f wrote

Yeah that is possible. I'm personally pretty happy, I just go to the next town over

I love your attitude

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CountOmar t1_jeah3ky wrote

Calling people fascists is the sort of thing that redditors do that makes it hard for them to make friends in the real world

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Dorocche t1_jebp7rw wrote

"Was," religion is still here, and there's no reason it has to keep going away.

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