Owning the young mind

[Sailor Steve]

That is indeed sad for the people who are watching their way of life fade. On the other hand, what I don't see mentioned are their children. These younger adults have obviously found something to replace that particular social life, something they can relate more to in their own lives. What is it? Where are they going? They obviously aren't sitting bemoaning what they've lost. They have new social functions that interest them more.

Among my circle of friends are two sets of believers who, though they believe diametrically opposite things, both call themselves Christian. They both attend their respective churches regularly, and though they do have a social functionality both will tell you that what they believe is more important than what they do socially. That said, the group also includes people who don't attend church or believe at all. They will also tell you they have rich social lives with like-minded friends. I associate with musicians and gamers mostly. One of my neighbors lives for golf.

The fading of those churches doesn't seem to be the cause of the next generation moving on, but rather the result of it. Peoples lives are not being left empty because of churches closing. The churches are closing because their members' children have found something they'd rather be doing. Yes, for some that may be a bad thing, but I'm sure that most of them would say otherwise.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The fading of those churches doesn't seem to be the cause of the next generation moving on, but rather the result of it. Peoples lives are not being left empty because of churches closing. The churches are closing because their members' children have found something they'd rather be doing. Yes, for some that may be a bad thing, but I'm sure that most of them would say otherwise.

Or the old ways that got passed on to people now living, hold no convincing attractiveness anymore. As I said, most of those church-christians that attended morning meditation were not "adventurous", but disappointed. They formed the older group, by tendency. The younger ones were those seeking new experiences.

The line between both groups and ages is not static, solid.

That is quite some tie ago now. I assume the internet'ÄS effects on our solcial lives and the way we can get easier any contact, input, information, impression from all over the world, has also changed our old familiar ways of social life. Sometimes for the good (lets face it, the closeness of an isolated village where everybody knows everbyody else can not only be idyllic, but also quite oppressive, if the social constellations and mutual symopathies and family structures are only rigid enough), sometimes for the worse (there seems to be growing indications in social and psychological research that the excessive use of smartphones and social media - which I often call anti-social media - pushes especially young people at greater risk of isolating themselves and/or growign lonely). Also, social behaviour skills (social intelligence) seem to erode.

Its complex processes runnign there, and everythign is in a chnage. Seems to me tht chnages just happens far too fast for a grpoewing number of ever younger people. It were the elder who were left behgind first, then the high mid-ages, now the mid-agers, but increasingly younger ones as well. But that is a wide fields to cover, and it snot exclusive about computer and relgion only. Fear for one's own job education and job future, pressure from mounting financial strains, and much more - so much can come together here. College loans, anyone?