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[Serious] What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
#31
RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
(July 19, 2020 at 1:42 am)Belacqua Wrote:
(July 16, 2020 at 3:44 pm)Porcupine Wrote: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?

I'm experiencing intense loneliness, right now. Of the platonic sort. It's not romance or sex I need right now.

So, I was wondering ... what is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?

Are you on Twitter at all?

A lot of it is foolishness, but if you're careful about who you follow it can be surprisingly involving. There are informal communities around different subjects -- e.g. Architecture, literature, etc. 

It has the benefit of being interactive, but not screamy.

Unfortunately Twitter is my least favorite after Facebook and Discord---Facebook is just absolutely horrible and Discord is too screamy---for me Twitter is just like only having the Facebook wall, where people say what they're up to and engage in incredibly non-deep and boring monologues---only it's limited to fewer characters.

Perhaps it would help if I mentioned: I pretty much only like discussing important topics. I don't like small talk. For me a good conversation has to at least include room for disagreement because I just can't enjoy a conversation that involves nothing but head nodding whether literal head nodding or verbal head nodding.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
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#32
RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
(July 19, 2020 at 3:51 am)Porcupine Wrote: Perhaps it would help if I mentioned: I pretty much only like discussing important topics. I don't like small talk. For me a good conversation has to at least include room for disagreement because I just can't enjoy a conversation that involves nothing but head nodding whether literal head nodding or verbal head nodding.

I know how you feel about small talk. As I get older I have less patience for it. 

It's hard to find a balance on line -- I confess I'm nostalgic for the now-defunct Amazon forums, which had a wider variety of people. Some epic fights, of course, but I also learned a lot. 

Just now I remembered another site that I tried briefly, which you might enjoy.

https://www.booktalk.org/forum.html


To fit in on this site you have to be reading the current book. It stays pretty focussed on the book they've chosen, with people writing chapter summaries and giving their opinions. There are some seriously smart people there, and people who are devoted to the discussion. I didn't stay because I'm reading different things, but if you have the time and energy to read the selection, you might fit in well.
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#33
RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
(July 18, 2020 at 10:29 am)Porcupine Wrote: Thank you for offering some websites Smile

If you get really bored and want to read a novel I wrote:

The Philistine

Be forewarned, it's a gay novel with explicit sex scenes.
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#34
RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
(July 21, 2020 at 7:18 am)Eleven Wrote:
(July 18, 2020 at 10:29 am)Porcupine Wrote: Thank you for offering some websites Smile

If you get really bored and want to read a novel I wrote:

The Philistine

Be forewarned, it's a gay novel with explicit sex scenes.

Well, aren't you full of surprises. :-)
I read up to the foot cramp part.
Well done.




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#35
RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
(July 21, 2020 at 8:02 am)Little lunch Wrote: Well, aren't you full of surprises. :-)
I read up to the foot cramp part.
Well done.

Hardee-har-har, afraid reading it might make you gay? Tongue Wink
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#36
RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
(July 21, 2020 at 7:18 am)Eleven Wrote:
(July 18, 2020 at 10:29 am)Porcupine Wrote: Thank you for offering some websites Smile

If you get really bored and want to read a novel I wrote:

The Philistine

Be forewarned, it's a gay novel with explicit sex scenes.

That's not a website! Argue

Hehe
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#37
RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
(July 21, 2020 at 7:18 am)Eleven Wrote:
(July 18, 2020 at 10:29 am)Porcupine Wrote: Thank you for offering some websites Smile

If you get really bored and want to read a novel I wrote:

The Philistine

Be forewarned, it's a gay novel with explicit sex scenes.

Never waste energy like that ever again. I don't mean waste energy suggesting a novel to me---I mean never waste energy bothering to warn me of explicit sex scenes or gayness. I'll take it as it comes. Um, as it were.

(July 21, 2020 at 8:06 am)Eleven Wrote:
(July 21, 2020 at 8:02 am)Little lunch Wrote: Well, aren't you full of surprises. :-)
I read up to the foot cramp part.
Well done.

Hardee-har-har, afraid reading it might make you gay? Tongue  Wink

Anybody who fears such a thing is a little bit gay. Yay.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
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#38
RE: What is your favorite website for reducing loneliness during the lockdown?
BoruandIggy'snakedadventures.com

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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