The Offline Club

As an alternative:

* Go ballroom dancing. * Go square dancing. * Go to the library and read their historical non-fiction primary sources (letters and journals). * Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist). * Go roller skating at a rink. * Go ice skating. * Go paint balling. * Go to a water park. * Go to your HOA/City/County board/commissioners meetings. * Go to your state legislature meetings. * Go to a volunteer firefighters informational meeting. * Go to a plant/flower (orchid/African violate) growers club. * Go to a sewing club. * Go to a fishing class or just fish. * Go to a hunting/gun class or just hunt/shoot.

Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist)

> Go to a meditation center instead!

Can you explain how I will meet people at the library?

> Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist)

heard people say church is about community more than religion so i tried engaging earnestly with 3 churches as a normy adult with a spouse. at nondenominational it was about the show and egos of performers and at catholic church it was about the tradition. of course it was all very clearly about the money too

id say going to church as a non-churchgoer is mostly an exercise in seeing how weird and bad church is but not in the same ways it was weird and bad as a kid

> Go to your HOA/City/County board/commissioners meetings

i go to these so my spouse doesnt have to and recommend others to only go in order to spare the ones they love from these meetings as well

Edit: the roller skate community is incredibly inclusive. my experience is that there are hotshots, but many more welcoming and friendly people who want to share their joy of skating and are just looking to spend time relaxing with others. my experience going a few times in an earnest attempt to check out the scene as an adult

I'm an atheist who went to church in a small town. It was a really nice experience socially, but listening to the sermon was really weird. They were talking about some kind of necromancy event, where a bunch of skeletons rose up, got new flesh, and became an undead army.

> Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist).

A few cities have a humanist group called "Oasis"; I used to go and it was basically exactly the same structure as church, except the "sermon" would be a guest speaker talking about a topic that interests them. But still, music, community moment, pass the donation plate, coffee, gossip...

https://www.houstonoasis.org/

Some Oasis groups post a podcast if you want to listen-in.

And of course there's also Unitarian Universalist groups...

Or just find an open-minded place of worship and start attending.

> Go to a hunting/gun class or just hunt/shoot.

Lol'ed at this. Imagine literally hunting for a new friend

You don't go into the forest with a gun because you crave human company