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Washing trash is more akin to a religious obligation than a religion itself.

• toomuchtodo 2y ago
  Community for community's sake seems hard in late stage capitalism/developed economies. Something else beyond religion and war will be needed to bring people together, and the workplace alone is not it (based on the evidence). https://web.archive.org/web/20250315160759/https://fcsinterventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The-Triad-of-Fulfillment.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250315160759/https://fcsinterv... https://web.archive.org/web/20250119135738/https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/my-parting-prescription-for-america.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250119135738/https://www.hhs.g...
  • rhelz 2y ago
    Thanks for the links. Certainly, when I became an atheist, the hardest thing to come to grips with was the loss of community. There are lots of little communities--WOW guilds, school sports teams, etc. But there's nothing like a universal religion which everybody belongs to.
    • toomuchtodo 2y ago
      https://www.sundayassembly.org/ https://www.sundayassembly.org/ is the closest organized effort I've found, besides local community groups around volunteering, philanthropy, and hobbies/shared interests.