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You have to create purpose / meaning.
Why are faith and family unavailable?
Hedonism is mostly meaningless.
And how does one do that?
For faith, raised pretty irreligious, have never found any religions possible (unless you count Xunzi's strain of Confucianism as a religion), none of the churches in my area seem like a "good fit."
For family, while I do get on well with my parents and two brothers, that's the whole of our family, and it's going to end with my generation.
I know, but sometimes online I get people going on about how they avoid suicide by looking forward to the next Marvel movie, or the next World of Warcraft expansion, or whatever. And a bit more often I get "find something you enjoy doing, and then make your life about doing that," which both tends toward hedonism, and which doesn't really work when one doesn't really enjoy anything.
Have you considered talking to an actual apologist?
It doesn’t have to end with your generation. You can marry and have children.
Well, I do have a friend who is a tradcath with five kids…
I'm over 40, unemployed (on disability), and have never even managed to successfully get a date.
Give it a shot- there’s no shortage of very smart tradcaths who can explain reasons for why we believe what we believe.
Ah, I take that back.
He has. And has given up on trying to convert me — he once made a comment that it would probably take God Himself directly appearing to me and telling me to join the Catholic church to get me to believe, and maybe not even that, so now he just prays for my soul.
I meant you give it a shot- you want a community and a purpose and that would get you those things.
What, just show up to a church as a total unbeliever, and… then what?
Show up, say you’re looking for God.
There’s a pretty good chance that doing as the Romans do will cause you to think and believe as the Romans do.
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