A non-religious, non-profit organization with voluntary enrollment could fill a gap between churches and governments to serve certain needs in a person's life. It would push a person's sociological "in group" buttons. It might be useful for shopping for group-rate insurance or serving as a big friendship circle. I had this idea as an extension of wondering whether anybody has thought about fully privatized, subscription-based expressways through town (calling it private property to avoid falling under speed limit laws).-- kevinthenerd, Jun 14 2012 Wikipedia: Civil Society http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Civil_society [rcarty, Jun 14 2012] Secular Humanist comgregations exist for exactly this purpose. For that matter, pretty much every membership based civic/charitable organization (lions, elks, masons, my parents gourmet group) meets this criteria.-- MechE, Jun 14 2012 You don't really say what your idea is, but if I've understood what you're saying this seems to be answered by any sort of club or society.-- hippo, Jun 14 2012 Maybe it's some sort of comment on the invasiveness of religion and government in everyday life.-- rcarty, Jun 14 2012 Sort of like lots of people coming up with ideas, with a slim chance of getting a bun> That sort of thing??-- S-note, Jun 14 2012 The Lions Club?-- RayfordSteele, Jun 14 2012 "Charity" ?
Sorry, [ktn], but [marked-for-deletion], widely-known-to-exist, not original.-- 8th of 7, Jun 14 2012 Yes, m-f-d, but check out ktn's Chipmunk Phone Automation. +23 buns.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Jun 14 2012 [squeak], you need to get out more and meet people (that is, if you can find a way of stopping them running away and screaming).
And when someone tells you to "get a life", DON'T go and google for it ...that means you've kind of missed the point.
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Apparently, somewhere there are things called "girls". Let us know if you find out any more on this subject.-- 8th of 7, Jun 14 2012 I've got one. She's awesome.-- Alterother, Jun 15 2012 <Life of Brian>
"You lucky bastard ... you lucky, lucky, lucky bastard ..."
</Life of Brian>-- 8th of 7, Jun 15 2012 I'm happily married in case you were wondering, The recent blast of ideas was a result of me going through an old notebook. I wanted to bring a notebook to a training class for work, and I found in a pinch that I had one that was mostly empty. I copied the most interesting ones to HB before tearing out the pages.-- kevinthenerd, Jun 18 2012 Did you then eat the pages?-- UnaBubba, Jun 19 2012 (squeaketh), it's +24 now. I left a witty anno a couple of years ago but had never voted.
I've got one also, married her last week, she's awesome as well ;-)-- normzone, Jun 19 2012 Congrats, my friend! We celebrated our eighth anniversary yesterday. It's not nearly as hard as everyone makes it out to be.
We'd better scram before [bigsleep] comes in here and catches us being sociable.-- Alterother, Jun 20 2012 random, halfbakery