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What are your tricks do avoid Sunday gloom? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Sundays are intentionally busy and are chore days for me so it isn't meant to be uplifting unless something interesting comes up. Saturdays are my fun days where I go somewhere and do something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

If you hate your job that much, QUIT. Unemployment is at 4.1%, about as low as it gets. I know that's a glib, simplistic answer, but sometimes it's really that easy. I made a complaint to the scheduling lady, bam, perfect schedule now. I work hard, I'm conscientious, they fucking love me, not letting me go easy.

Fuck me, had a tech support job with Cox. Tried to hang in for 6-months until I could get back in the field. Hated that shit so much I was depressed on FRIDAY thinking about how soon I would be back.

Quit a 7-year job over being annoyed, FOR 7-YEARS (that's on me and the 2008 recession). Damn near doubled my pay. Next job? Annoyed me after 5-years. Doubled my pay again. Lost that job due to it being moved. They offered severance or moving expenses. Dropped IT to go do manual labor at Lowe's. Happy as a pig in shit. (Pay sucks. For now.)

I call it the Hawkeye Pierce Theory of Work. Be soon damned good they can't get rid of you. Guess what? Now you write the rules. If that ain't working? LEAVE.

tl;dr: You only have one life and your labor (hopefully) has value. Fuck the police, move on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Weed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

likely what you don't like about mondays but https://youtu.be/bMIPich_jBI?t=104

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

have fun? why is there gloom on Sundays?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Never heard if the Sunday Scaries? The purple boys will enlighten you.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Church can always help with that. I am there as many weeks as I can go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

1 upvote, 9 downvotes

Lemmy moment.

But on that subject, what are the options for non-theistic or otherwise secular analogs for church? And if there are none, perhaps organizing some community support group could be beneficial to many people, including the organizer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I don't think there is a drop-in replacement for everyone (it would be weird if there were). Maybe libraries?

I know libraries often host recurring secular meetups like knitting clubs and whatnot. Maybe check your local library to see what events they have to offer, or organize one if you're feeling ambitious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

1 upvote, 9 downvotes

Lemmy moment.

Rightly so, as religion is an absolute horror, objectively. The negatives far outway the benefits, but there are benefits as you've pointed out, the social cohesion and related stuff.

I 2nd the importance, and for non-church ways of attempting to get the same thing, I'd recommend checking out meetup.com. Potentially you can find a group that interests you, whether it be hobbies or just "like minded" gatherings. There are Atheist meetups, among many many others. Depends heavily on your geographic location. Will probably have better options in or near large cities. You can even start your own, and see if anyone joins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Not all churches are fucking horror shows. There are loads around here, hosted in tiny "homes" in the hood that are quite fulfilling. I just can't get over the overarching superstitious aspect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Sure that's fine. I didn't say all churches are horror shows, I said religion is a horror. Ya know, all the death, torture, child rape, social indoctrination and control so that a minority can exploit for their personal wealth and luxury. And as you mentioned, the superstition.

I respect the small church gatherings where every day decent people just want to feel like there's something more to their life, etc. Doesn't make the myth true though. Also doesn't make up for all the bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What groups have you been exposed to where the negatives outweigh the positives? There are those of us who have found the right crowds of people, groups where there is no aspect of unjustified hierarchal gain, the best of which allow outsiders from other groups. Note that I wasn't necessarily implying conversion, just joining our Sunday activities, which in non-urban areas would be as good advice as using a meetup service. People can really jump to conclusions sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Groups or religions? Primarily the abrahamic religions, can't really speak on Hinduism, Buddhism, or other minority religions in the US as I just haven't been exposed enough. I doubt they're much better. Buddhism seems cool maybe, Jainism seems nice.

Superstition, bronze age mythology nonsense isn't real, obviously, therefore it shouldn't be treated as such. Yet somewhere around 80-85% of humans believe on this slop.

Speaking on the big three, these are used as tools of control to keep the masses subservient, so that the elites, leaders, billionaires, etc. (Who objectively know its not true) can keep their wealth and luxury and the morons think they'll go to heaven after working to make someone else richer their whole lives.

Any social benefit one gets from their local church is irrelevant. The myth ain't real.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

To an agnostic, I presume all guesswork on what made us is, by definition, premature. We might say we don't know. Technically I don't "know". For me, it's something I would strongly go for (based on experiences and self-reflections) rather than a truly smoking gun (in the sense that it's hardwired into the universe). You would certainly be right about most "churches", not necessarily all churches and not necessarily all spiritualities, with the history of the Catholic church coming to mind since so much of it has hijacked what Jesus actually intended (with the structural doctrine not even reflected by the divine doctrine) from the moment of Paul. My own group/church is always thrown into a loop since the Catholic teaching of the Nicene Creed is used as the ultimate test for what is considered "Christian", even though Jesus himself did not necessitate what it says, and we are seen as not following that. Denominations, sects, cults, whatever you want to call them, it's on this sublevel where you actually find these kinds of debates, as well as the exploitations you're alluding to (the churches I frequent don't have those monetary habits, it's just a group of people honoring one history).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

You say that like all of us are going to mind if you're theistic or not (an understandable stereotype, even though still a stereotype). I suppose there are other options, like clubs and libraries, but as a rural woman, I can't say anything else makes a stereotype out of it. All the communities I've seen are notoriously bad at keeping common interest groups thriving.