Electronic communing is no substitute for the real thing. I agree with padraic. It is an addition, but in many ways, it has come to supplant interest in the physical community in which people live. It is an interesting social phenomenon, though perhaps not surprising due to how easy it is to find interest groups (which is what I would call a forum) online versus finding such within close physical proximity to one's own locale.
I like you folk, which is why I would want to meet you, and if I could actually hang out with some of you on a regular basis, I damn sure would. This is as much as we get in general, but it is not as good as having a few beers and making eye contact, seeing smiles, letting the environment intrude at times.
Back to the OP, it really does sound as if you have made a personal problem manifest by throwing it out as a social one. Were atheists to need a physical space in which to congregate specifically because they are atheists and not because they share other interests, you might as well create another religion, which would utterly defeat the point.
I like you folk, which is why I would want to meet you, and if I could actually hang out with some of you on a regular basis, I damn sure would. This is as much as we get in general, but it is not as good as having a few beers and making eye contact, seeing smiles, letting the environment intrude at times.
Back to the OP, it really does sound as if you have made a personal problem manifest by throwing it out as a social one. Were atheists to need a physical space in which to congregate specifically because they are atheists and not because they share other interests, you might as well create another religion, which would utterly defeat the point.
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