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@ -26,10 +26,14 @@ What these communities do also shifts.
At one point, it's stipulated that there aren't jobs or professions in a post-scarcity system, just intensive interests. Congregations might build up communities or subcommunities around these interests. To borrow from my own experience, there likely wouldn't be a need for a facilities committee; the meetinghouse would never age, nothing would break down. However, perhaps there would be more game nights, more art nights, more social gatherings, dinner parties, picnics: the responsibilities community-building and worship-and-ministry committees would expand to fill those roles. With no ailing physical health, the responsibilities of care committees shift to those of support for lingering mental illness, mediation for disagreements, and support for a desire to change.
How alluring that might seem to those still phys-side! A Baptist congregation in Sultan, for instance, might look at a similar Baptist congregation sys-side and wonder how it could possibly be so easy for them.
What may be one of the greatest needs for care and council for such a congregation sys-side may actually be the support of those who have not yet uploaded or do not wish to.[^whyupload]
[^left]: While not strictly pertinent, it's interesting to note that, as Brad Lee Onishi describes in "The Orange Wave", prior to the seventies, one's church was often further left than its membership, leading to organized letter-writing campaigns, donation drives, and political organization behind what are now considered strictly liberal points. It wasn't until the rapid rise in evangelicalism that this began to change, with the neo-Calvinism core at many of their theologies professing an "if you're poor/downtrodden/discriminated against, you likely deserve it".
[^temples]: 'Temples' in the sense of a congregation, though neither the Chicago nor Seattle temple has location.
[^hopeful]: I know that this is me being hopeful about human nature, but it's my future, why not keep a bit of hope in there?
[^whyupload]: In the source material for this concept, where the families of those who remain behind are compensated for the lost income of those who have uploaded, it's become common for the firstborn to upload in order to have that replacement income support their parents and siblings. There are still lingering connections, and there is still a sense of support.