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How the American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal
The Associated Press ^ | May 16, 2023 | By TED ANTHONY

Posted on 05/16/2023 1:44:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: xp38
When you have Jesus and Jesus has you you can be alone but never lonely. In fact you have literally everything.

That is a great answer.

21 posted on 05/16/2023 2:52:33 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This article “Made in China.”

The author actually was an AP correspondent based in China at one time.


22 posted on 05/16/2023 3:14:40 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You’re never really alone living under communism


23 posted on 05/16/2023 3:26:13 PM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: dfwgator

>> You’re never alone when you’re a schizophrenic

We know.


24 posted on 05/16/2023 3:36:18 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who cares? I’ll never get lonesome
‘Cause I treasure my own company.


25 posted on 05/16/2023 3:39:44 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Such stupidity. There is a lot of loneliness in America but it has nothing to do with movie characters as role models. Two major causes that can be identified are the dissolution and diffusion of extended families, especially resulting in the aged being left alone; and second, the penetration of the personal relationship sphere by the techie sterility of social media. Technology after all, has no soul, and in the end it isn’t even alive.


26 posted on 05/16/2023 5:13:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Nervous Tick

“Who cares? I’ll never get lonesome
‘Cause I treasure my own company.”

Exactly right. When somebody tells me they are lonely and don’t know what to do about it, I tell them they have to appreciate their own company. There is a lot to be said for living alone.


27 posted on 05/16/2023 5:38:59 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, get a life, snowflake.

(Not you, OEB.)


28 posted on 05/16/2023 6:24:41 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

our kids, for that matter our society needs to realize one can be more lonely in a crowd than when physically isolated.


29 posted on 05/16/2023 6:49:54 PM PDT by jimfr
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To: xp38

I come to the garden alone, when the dew is still on the roses. And He walks with me and He talks with me....


30 posted on 05/16/2023 7:12:42 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: TonyinLA

Agree.
So these lefists try to blame the American Way of Life for the isolation of tech addicted, game addicted people.

The old times used to have multigenerational houses (as the Waltons) and family meals like Blue Bloods. And as that book Bowling Alone described, people used to go out in groups for blowing leagues or pickup baseball games in school yards on weekends or various types of group activities. “Canasta cake” could be baked and brought to a neighbor’s house while playing that card game weekly.


31 posted on 05/16/2023 8:53:23 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: TonyinLA

“bowling” leagues-——didn’t mean to single out Dems like that.


32 posted on 05/16/2023 8:54:46 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This guy is advertising to be fired. Maybe 50% of crAP readers could tell you who John Wayne's archetype was, or even who he was, and maybe 97% have never seen The Searchers.

It's a limp 'thought' piece begging to be sent back to 1997.

33 posted on 05/18/2023 1:07:24 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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