How to cure the world? MandatoryBlind dates set up through week 1, week 2 you pick your faves. Week 3 you get with your one best choice. Cured or nah?

[Lottydotty]

[HollyK21]

I’d say your recipe is a cure for lonely people dying to be in relationships. A lot of us have bigger priorities in life than mandatory blind dates and seeking romance. World War, poverty, homelessness, terrorism, etc, let’s get cures for the important issues first.

[Lottydotty]

Would this not help cure all of that? Most wars are run by people who've lost intimacy. Could every ruler be better if they were forced to focus on love instead of war? I kinda bet so. This is more of a if we started over from tribal stages as a human race and continued as such for centuries. I don't know just some thoughts.

[AmyHew1tt]

I'm not sure about 'mandatory' but I do think it would help a lot. People just aren't interacting now, even when in public. We need a reason to talk and hang around each other. I'd be down.

[Lottydotty]

Yep exactly. It's more of an intimate social thing rather than the way too typical "let's get wasted and meet some douche bags.". We'd all meet up at different warehouses set up all nice and be assigned our dates. Food is catered and it's just a glorified occasion everytime. Blind dating should not be such a niche thing. You can choose different warehouses with different themes set up. Restraunts could literally be made for this kinda thing.

[AmyHew1tt]

Yeah I agree. Like, I went to our city fair a few times these last few years, and kind of expected them to basically be mating grounds for the single and mingling. LITERALLY, no one interacted. They all stay huddled in their groups. It's so annoying because we all know online dating doesn't work for most people, but we're stuck on it. If we had someone actually set the dates up and get us comfortable with socializing again, I think it would be so much easier to find people to like. Even for friendships.

[Lottydotty]

Exactly. I wish it was normal to be more intimate with anyone. I'd like to have really long convos with almost anyone I meet. But everyone keeps to their groups and fight other groups. Start wars and that's completely avoidable.

[AmyHew1tt]

Yep, it's very frustrating. Especially as someone who was in the passive 'wait for the right person to drop on your doorstep' kind of shy girl for a while, and in the past two years have really focused on getting out of my shell and taking an active stance in my life, only to feel like everyone you see has a wall of glass between them and you.

[Lottydotty]

Oh yes most of everyone's passive these days. I work in retail by choice because I wanted to get out of my shell as well. I held back my life for others and only recently realized how important social living really is. Luckily being in theater helped me find more pieces to myself than I knew I had It's helped me kind of focus on other people's perspective and understanding (the audience). Because a social life is like a show where we each share the stage and to varying degrees are there to perform. Sometimes it does take some pretending. But yeah break that fourth glass wall completely and you've got a perfect world. If this concept was all started back like 100yrs at least. It's a little late now but could be affective.

[AmyHew1tt]

I do wish we could start now!

[laly520]

I dont like this, selecting people according to their looks or whatever criteria there is then picking faves

makes it sounds as if humans r some products

[Lottydotty]

I mean it's not that different than how they pick em now, just kinda speeds it up. Also my idea was that it's completely random individuals week one, looks have little to nothing to do with it until week two. Basically would just help everyone keep out of the mind gutter so many fall in. Lack of interaction really does more doozies on so many people who might otherwise had done decently as a human. I started dating way late in the game and realized how eye opening it can be for certain people. Humbling for those who are stuck up and a real reflection for those who care enough to learn themselves. It's literally just more intimate social encounters for everyone. And even once you've married you can participate as more of a dating coach to help others. I don't know just a good building block for society I think.

[In_Trance]

What does that cure the world from?

[Lottydotty]

Everything, I think. If every person in the world from a young age had to just talk to someone that had no control in picking for maybe an hour. 3 days a week. Then yeah the amount of perspective and love that could be shown. There would be no wars. No false hope brought by movies, tv, porn etc. all would know exactly how to approach one another. No one would be lonely, which cures I think every bit of the world.