Building Gay community, finding a significant other, having mutual support, learning from each other.
The spiritual and metaphysical communities are so fragmented, when we could be a community.
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I have been using AI asking it to create Gay temples. I will put them in this post to visualize having a Gay temple. I think visualization will lead to action.
The need for an alternative metaphysical community.
To meet the special person in your life.
To be a part of a community with social support.
To learn and exchange knowledge.
A spiritual choice other than the Abrahamic faiths.
To find the special person in your life.
I am a member of a lot of Facebook groups and have connections in social media platforms. I am familiar with Gay communities around the world.
The great problem of many Gays everywhere is that they haven’t found someone to be their special person in life. They want a long term relationship. I am not necessarily talking just about couples, I am also including other ways Gays have close relationships such as throuples.
Further, if you prefer to be single, that is fine also. However, it is the overwhelming desire of Gays to being in a relationship, though there are those Gays who want a relationship, but not immediately. They want to see the world so to speak, but they do hope to be in a relationship at some point.
So I would say, that being in a relationship, is the end goal of almost all Gays, though perhaps not always the immediate goal.
There is a fear of ending up older and alone, and many Gays do end up older and alone. Some have social networks and some don’t.
I would think that a Gay temple would provide a great opportunity for Gay members to meet others, not just other members of the Gay temple, but others through knowing other members of the Gay temple and connecting into other social networks.
Meeting in a Gay temple doing some activity for the group or benefit for others allows a means os socializing and meeting people and getting to know them. It is also a group of people who care about others.
It is a different means of finding another special person besides bathhouses, Gay bars, online apps like Grindr. This is not to disparge these other means. The more ways for Gays to meet Gays the better, the more possibilities. However, I don’t think these other ways necessarily work for everyone equally well.
Given the great challenge which the Gay community faces in meeting each other, opening up another way of Gays, a different way, of meeting each other, serves a useful purpose.
Besides finding a significant other, it allows a means of meeting friends and persons which shared interests.
Be Part of a Community
With a Gay temple and weekly meetings you have a social support group that believes in alternative metaphysical ideas. You have a circle of friends. You have a circle of people who don’t regard your beliefs as strange or weird.
You have a group which can engage in social and educational activities.
You have a community and the support a community can provide.
You have the potential for organizational support. The temple could work as a group to obtain goods and services and group travel arrangements to temples.
Also, when Gay alternative religions are attacked, the Gay temple can mobilize to defend the community.
Exchange knowledge.
There could be multiple ways the Gay temple could support exchanging information.
There could be a weekly meet up with a speaker presenting on a topic.
There could be focus groups for specific topics.
There could be a library with books and resources.
There could be field trips to places.
There could be groups attending events outside the temple.
There could be a newsletter which among other things would announce resources.
Individual members would exchange ideas with friends.
An alternative to atheism and Christianity.
At this most Gay people see their alternatives as being either atheism or a Christianity which involved highly convoluted interpretation of a Bible which is filled with venomous statements wishing death for Gays.
For those who are spiritual and see metaphysical dimensions in the universe, the Gay temple could offer a variety of choices and paths to take which don’t require involved discussions to make them not hateful of Gays.
Persons coming to the Gay temple would learn of the many possible spiritual paths that might be taken. Also, paths which don’t involve condemning other paths.
Is that the tower of babel!! wow. Great points, I agree there is a need to live fulfilling normal lives 'gay'-style.