TheOtherDave comments on Should we have secular churches? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 January 2011 06:34:03AM 2 points [-]

I get a lot of the same experience via the community theatre group I work with, though perhaps with less alcohol.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 January 2011 08:42:35PM 1 point [-]

Well, maybe I overemphasized the alcohol. The point is that these kinds of communities have to have unstructured socializing, they can't just be purely goal-based. A club that hosts lectures, for instance, is all very well, but unless it has parties afterwards I don't think it'll have the same serendipitious spill-over effects into your whole life.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 January 2011 08:44:45PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I agree. Though I also find that actually doing something together does help.