I have to say I have entertained a sex change oporation in my mind many times. I often wonder how much different my life would have been if I had been born a female.

I don't hate that. I am just tired of being single. The shallow attitudes that many of the gay community here have pretty much cuts me from the potential date pool. Straight men flirt with me more and they are much nicer. It just never goes past friends... so essentially I am friendzoned

@Ceaselessmind Well it might help in a left handed way: I am developing a theory that atheism is something that one gradually encounters more and more of as you get older. I used to be into theatre pipe organs and theater organ clubs were always stressing about how there were no young people to carry on their interests. But I looked into it and it turned out that since these groups formed in the 1950s they've been full of old people. What actually happens is that the older ones die off and a roughly equivalent number of middle aged people "age into" the hobby, due to acquired / mature tastes and more time and disposable income. I've found the same to be true of liberal Christianity, which is always going on about the lack of young people. A lot of liberal churches are "high church", and that's an acquired taste that people tend to mature into.

Which brings me back to atheism. There are young people on this site, but most of the actual participants seem to be 40 and up. Think maybe there's a reason for that? I dunno. Maybe the school of hard knocks tends to produce atheists later in life.

I have been an unbeliever for about 25 years and I met my first atheist in my personal life just a couple of years ago. Part of that is that I'm not super social to begin with, was my prior late wife's sole care-giver and otherwise occupied, etc. But I think I'm starting to meet people who are either unbelievers or theists with very loosely held beliefs, in ways I haven't before.

Maybe a combination of heading further northeast if you can, and getting older, will help.

Yeah we have pretty much a church every square mile.in most parts here. It really sucks.

@Ceaselessmind All I ever hear now is, "jesus this and that, oh my god, god bless you, etc..."

@Ceaselessmind I've learned to ignore it at work.

Tis true unfortunately. ????

I know right!

Exactly what I was thinking.

I am like near the east edge of Charlotte.

I am near Charlotte. Lots of gays but all are too shallow and hung up on themselves.

Sorry to hear that. @Ceaselessmind

@Marcie1974 its all good.