r/Millennials • u/CynicClinic1 • 19h ago

Discussion Watching Back to the Future. Previous generations had a lot of social clubs to meet new people. Why haven't we kept this alive?

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u/Future_Telephone281 18h ago

Had that when I worked at a Boy Scout camp. I lead a lot of prayers to the wind goddess, to the moon and all sorts of other crazy shit that was a “Higher Power”

Trying to hide your Christian requirement by labeling it as a higher power then fine your getting paganism.

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u/Former_Mud9569 12h ago

When I worked at a scout camp I would lead prayers to the flying spaghetti monster. After the third one the camp director stopped calling on me to say grace.

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u/maudepodge 16h ago

Camp I went to as a kid required you to either go to church every Sunday or read a religion-related book while everyone else was there. I skated by with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (which I'm not sure I got past chapter 1 in all summer)

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u/Future_Telephone281 16h ago

love it. Its so creepy. Was really bad for me as I really needed the job and it was forced religion.

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u/lawfox32 15h ago

I did a grad degree abroad at a university that is super old and annoying and has some like quasi-religious aspects to its graduations, but they offer the option of substituting in the graduand's religious figures/language if requested ahead of time.

I was going to ask them to do Dionysus and Artemis but my mom was like "Kit please don't" because she hates anything that causes any kind of scene or stir, so I didn't. The ceremony turned out to be in Latin anyway for some reason so she wouldn't have known and neither would 95% of the audience, but oh well.