Thus having localized communities spring up around both these identities/classes as well as faith would make sense. One might find a community built around liberal Christianity with a predominantly queer congregation built in, or perhaps a group of antitheist libertarians set up up camp somewhere with their shared interests and beliefs.
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.4
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? ↩
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. ↩
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