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What? Obsessing over men being men and worrying about made up gender norms is the most childish binary way of thinking.
Lack of involvement with the father or over-involvement with the mother may result in lack of ability to relate to sexual peers.
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Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult.
What? Obsessing over men being men and worrying about made up gender norms is the most childish binary way of thinking.
Religion has many positive benefits on society. We minister to those within our own congregation and are aware of individuals needs. A sense of community is fostered and people are concerned about more than themselves. Perhaps the pendulum will swing back to people discovering religion?
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The same argument can be made for becoming a regular at a bar, lol.
The strength of the religious congregations is that they have a built-in forcing function that drives a regular attendance and brings families and individuals together. You must go to avoid hell, drives more attendance than going to avoid possible, future loneliness. I am an ardent atheist, but this aspect of religion makes me wish I too was delusional.
Religion says ‘yes’ and the doubt is bridged by faith (as is all doubt, since most of human life has necessary doubt that can’t be proven one way or the other).
Some people say that having meaning/doubt is delusional.
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Wouldn't it be the other way? If home ownership (and renting) became so expensive no one could possibly do it without multiple incomes people would be forced to find roommates.
Doesn’t seem to be the case. > macroeconomic conditions such as soaring housing prices and intense employment pressure also come into play, forcing many people to give up trying to tie the knot https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3204140/y...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-driven-record-rents-m...