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“Research shows that attending faith-based services 4 times per month will add 4 to 14 years of life expectancy.” Well shit.
by mmaunder 4y ago
“Research shows that attending faith-based services 4 times per month will add 4 to 14 years of life expectancy.”
Well shit.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoIt turns out having a community and feeling of purpose in life actually has tangible benefits, who would've thought.
- KerrAvon 4y agoOr it could be that a sky demon bestows blessings on the cultists who worship it. You never do know!
- mmaunder 4y agoJoining a group that believes in magical sky dwelling beings that grant eternal life in utopia provided you worship them enough isn’t the only path to community and purpose.
- setuids 4y agomaybe, but it's still a pretty easy way to do it
- latency-guy2 4y agoBut it's one of many, and is one of the simplest ways to join a community as they are literally everywhere. For the time/effort needed to join this community (plural), its pretty much free, maintenance isn't all that much either. People a few hundred years ago already did the hard part. Not a bad deal. And all you have to do is suspend a little disbelief in something for a while.
- bergenty 4y agoIt isn’t but we haven’t found another system that works as well yet. The delusion really gives purpose to life. We haven’t found another way to provide a comparable delusion.
- fleddr 4y agoYet I challenge you to find one more effective. Whether by force/dogma or voluntary, a uniformly religious community connects at least weekly and includes all. Through this meeting, you get to know pretty much everybody, what they do, their families, their businesses. Which serves as a platform for making friends, finding partners, business opportunities, the like.
- steve76 4y ago[dead]
- ChrisLomont 4y agoThis has been debunked in general if I recall. It turned out only to be true for the majority religion in a region (and not help for others), and then turned out to be the social connections got people better services and health support. Religion was not useful for the effect.
- galaxyLogic 4y agoIt sounds weird they say 4 to 14 years. What does that mean? Does it mean on average it adds 8 years? But since this is all about averages anyway why not just state the average? Or does it mean always 4 and never more than 14?
- Rebelgecko 4y ago4-14 is probably something like the 95% confidence interval
- fleddr 4y agoWe live in a timeline where conspiracy theorists turn out to be right and now this.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoDo weekly planning meetings count?
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