So church without any community? That’s, like, one of the reasons churches exist, they’re a place for a community to come together and get to know each other a

So church without any community? That’s, like, one of the reasons churches exist, they’re a place for a community to come together and get to know each other a little. My inner Magician also notes that there are things that happen when you get a bunch of people in the same place focusing on the same stuff. It’s not in every church, some churches are pretty much designed to get in the way of these things. Mostly middle-class white ones, IMHO, they’re built to keep the commoners well away from any direct experience of the Divine. But it’s also not just in churches, talk to a serious raver for instance, come down to New Orleans and catch Rex with all your psychic feelers out, go to Burning Man, etc. Anywhere lots of people work themselves up into ecstatic states, there is the potential for magic. This stuff is not gonna happen with this five minute asynchronous ceremony. I fully expect to be downvoted into oblivion for letting my inner Magician speak on this site full of “rational” money-seeking programmers. Perhaps I will be pleasantly surprised at how many people here are quietly mystical.