MARRIED OR NOT, YOU SHOULD READ THIS ...

“When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.

Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. 1/2

But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?

I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, 2/3

you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!
3/4

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company. She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger.
4/5

I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release.
5/6

Here are a few thoughts on everything from this humble reply guy:

1: The establishment/uniparty/whatever are about to go scorched earth on whatever is left of the MAGA movement. The pampered rich kid just got a bloody nose and is about to send his lawyer parents after the bully.

If anyone wanted to defuse this, they'd offer amnesty to the protestors and give Trump a backdoor deal where he's uncharged but stays out of the political world and gets to go back to being a reality TV personality, with a bit of Dubya-style character rehabilitation thrown in.

From there, they'd steer the MAGA movement back into the ideological walled garden of Dan Crenshaw and Charlie Kirk. There'd still be rallies, but now it'd be Marco Rubio or Nikki Haley. The vast majority of Trump's voter base would lap it up like puppies.

But everyone either doesn't want to defuse this (so they can scorch even more earth) or they're so blinded by partisan furor (and their base is so fired up) that the calls for blood become a vicious cycle that pushes this towards the territory of 19th century American politics.

2: The clearpill is that even when galaxies collide, individual star systems are barely affected. Focus on yourself, focus on your job, focus on building and sustaining a good home life, and no matter which way the political winds end up blowing, you'll probably be alright.

Other people!

They'll tell you what to do, how to feel, before you know it, you're pouring your life out in search of something other people told you to go look for. Soon, you're lost in the search of what's not yours in the first place.

The irony of the world we live in.

When you're young, an infant, when you were very much cute and cuddly, everybody is nice to you.

You life is carefree, and you feel unconditional love from all over.

You're surrounded by your peers, and everyone is basically doing the same.

Soon enough life begins. You get a bit older & start going to school.

Nothing really changed except now you have a certain place you need to be for a good portion of the day to 'learn things' you may or may not be interested in. Odd but hey - life isn't asking too much of you.

From here, things start snowballing.

- Get good grades, so longer school hours,
- Getting physically stronger and more capable to care for yourself,
- The pressures to fit in and conform increase,
- After graduation, you have some big life choices to make, to some extent.

Now, you're entering adulthood, and everyone is willing to cut you some slack, but at the same time you are now held accountable as an adult for your actions, 80% of which is influenced by society & other factors.

You quickly learn to conform to what's expected of you.

🚨Hey YOU! No, not you who has your shit all together.. YOU RIGHT THERE! The ONE who feels like you can't make it one more day, one more hour, or maybe the thought of another minute is too much! YOU! I see you!

You won't believe me I know, how you're feeling right now, you're going to mentally give me the 🖕when I tell you there is HOPE! And I BEG YOU, before making that FINAL decision, read the ramblings of someone who KNOWS EXACTLY what hopeless feels like! 🚨

Alright, warning before you start to read. This will be a LONG Thread. (Pretty obvious already!)

I'm doing something that is VERY DIFFICULT for me. Being open and vulnerable. I am very open and honest about my past traumatic experiences,

but ALWAYS after I've gone through the trial, processed it, learned from it, and will share to help others that may be going through similar experiences.

Sexual abuse
Addiction
Depression (Massive Depressive Disorder at one point)

Suicide attempts/ or feelings of wanting to
Chronic Pain condition for 8 years, which lead me right back to my addiction demons who had patiently waited over 20 YEARS for me to play with them again!)

So many experiences I've survived and think of myself as a fucking warrior!

Somebody needs to tell a few people that, a general “policy” argument, telling a court that it has no right to decide an issue when the matter falls squarely within the case and controversy requirements of Art 3, and the Constitution specifically provides for jurisdiction of the=

parties; additionally, the court has federal question jurisdiction, is not a good take, and is not persuasive. Next, an argument of disenfranchisement of voters (a) is weak in countering the Bush v Gore equal protection opinion; (b) is beside the point, when the issues is the=

issue is not issues is

constitutional validity of votes cast by state appointed electors, especially in context of serious allegations that State officials unconstitutionally nullified provisions of statutes passed pursuant to the plenary power of the legislatures and thereby threw into chaos by=

dilution or nullification of their own citizens votes. More on this later-I am studying briefs because someone said “their brief is weak.” The person could not have referred to the TX brief. IMO, Tx did a fine, outstanding job in a case of first=

Motivation, Mindset, Failure and Luck

Losing in order to win - thoughts for new investors

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I started investing in July 2017

I had £20,000 / $25,000 saved

I had realised that we were in a middle-class trap & wanted to change our future

MOTIVATION

I spent my 20s working on a business idea that failed

The saga had cost a lot of time, energy & money. It put a big strain on my relationship

It put me in a financial hole that had taken years to dig out from. I ended up at a big consulting firm

I consulted to the UK's National Health Service but I wasn't always convinced about the value for money being delivered through our projects

I ended up switching sides & working for the NHS

Less travel, more relationship time

Job security & a stable income

There were tradeoffs though

A smaller salary for one

Got married. Bought a house. Had kids.

The kids changed everything. Your worldview shifts

I was scared for their future

The cost of living, the cost of education, the cost of property

All. Going. Up.

I turned to investing to improve our future.

Waiting till I was 68 years old to pay off our mortgage and collect a pension was not what I wanted from life

A family friend had talked to me about investing when I was a teenager. But I had never taken action.

I have a little story that I have now drafted and deleted multiple times because I can't seem to do it justice.

So, I am going to strip it down to the barest of details and just let it fly unedited.

Bear with me. It will be worth the ride, I hope.

1/

If you follow me, you have probably seen my endless posts about trying to find a PlayStation 5 (PS5).

Originally, I was looking for one for my son. I found one for him two weeks ago.

Since then, I have been looking for one for someone else.

An old friend.

2/

Jen and I have known each other 30 years.

We shared a mutual close friend in our 20s. We weren't close but hung out when we all met up at bars.

I've seen her once in 15 yrs. Bumped into her at Starbucks.

Were it not for Facebook, we would have entirely lost touch long ago.

3/

We're Facebook friends. That's what we are.

And as a result, I had that gauzy sense of her life you get from seeing only the passing glimpses that cross your timeline.

I knew the broad strokes.

4/

Like me, she's a single parent to a son she adores.

Went into the travel industry.

Never seemed to be in a relationship. Not married.

Was close with her father until he passed away suddenly a few years ago.

5/

Boys open this thread:)

Get a journal✍️

Being broke is better than making money illegally!

You don't have to be handsome,Get RICH!

Don't do DRUGS!

In my home, surrounded by my loved ones, I live my life “as a woman” for all intents and purposes.

When I step outside I join a community of diverse experiences and perspectives. It’s not a safe space. It’s not meant to be affirming. I am not a woman, and it matters. (Thread)

Though my family, my boyfriend and I make little reference to my being male, we are all aware of that fact. There is no deception, no games.

To make an effort to convince the world I am female is not the same thing. It is coercion. It is delusion. It is fundamentally wrong.

Stepping out and meeting the world as I am, a gender-nonconforming male, is brave. It’s scary. I know that what people think of me is what they think of ME.

Pretending to be a woman is not brave. Pretending there is no difference between men and women is not a victimless crime.

I love my brothers and sisters who struggle with gender dysphoria, however they choose to deal with it. It’s out of that love that I speak the truth, and ask them to do the same. We are beautiful and worthy as trans people not because we “change sex” but because we persevere.

The legacy we should leave future generations is that however you choose to live your life should be celebrated so long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. Not that we must feign becoming the opposite sex to be good enough, no matter who we hurt in the process.

#gratitude thread 1/12
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Voltaire
#grateful for classics @CIIS_SF

#gratitude thread 2/12
“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.” Vietnamese Proverb @BreneBrown
@grateful for cultures

#gratitude thread 3/12
“Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I’d like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.” Irving Berlin @PolarisInsight
#grateful for music

#gratitude thread 4/12
"For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.” Charlotte Bronte #grateful for literature @Drug_Researcher

#gratitude thread 5/12
“No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.” James Allen #grateful for "As a Man Thinketh" (legendary book) @Chacruna_net

My friend @riir52520747 made a Argument against The Trinity, Here goes:

P1) God is triune. (Assumption for Reductio)
P2) The Son, The Father, and Holy Spirit are not identical to each other. (From, "Trinity")
P3) The Son, The Father, The Holy Spirit are each God (From, Trinity)

P4) Only The Son has the essential property of being identical to the "Son." (From the definition of "Essential Property", and Haecceity.)
P5) Only The Father has the essential property of being Identical to the Father.

P6) Only the Holy Spirit has the essential property of being identical to the Holy Spirit.
C1) Therefore, each member of the trinity are identical in quiddity, but still differs haeccetistically. (From 3, 4, 5, 6.)

C2) Therefore, each member of the trinity is essentially non-identical. (From, "Haecceity")
C3) Therefore, there are 3 distinct entities which each have the property of "Being God"
C4) Therefore, There are 3 Gods.
C5) The Trinity affirms there is only one God.

C6) Therefore, the Trinity is contradictory.
C7) Therefore, God cannot be triune.

Justification for 4, 5 and 6:

I expect to lose some friends over this. I also expect to gain some new ones. Neither is my motivation for posting it. If you think I’m trying to curry favor with any particular person or group, you know nothing about me. This is my country and I'm fighting for its soul. 1/10

I can't even wait until Jan. 6 because it’s time for you to stop believing lies. Remember when you learned the truth about Santa Claus? For some of you, this may feel like that again. I’ll help you through it, if that’s what you need. 2/10

Donald Trump is not a billionaire. He’s not honest in any way, shape, or form. He’s not a patriot (this was written BEFORE his audio recording was released on Sunday). He doesn’t care about anyone, except those who protect him from the consequences of his vile corruption. 3/10

He’s not intelligent and he’s not America First. He’s Trump First. He’s a fraud, a huckster, and an evil man who bears not even one of the fruits of the spirit, yet uses Christianity and Christians for personal gain. He’s Paula White in Bull Connor’s baggy business suits. 4/10

You know how I know he’s not interested in election integrity? Because he didn’t care about it in 2016 when it was proven that Russians interfered with our election and he didn’t do anything to prevent it from happening again. In fact, he encouraged continued Russian hacking.5/10

Let me share with you a secret.

In my childhood, I often had what I later came to learn was called “Lucy Dreaming” which sometimes literally made me afraid of sleeping in the dark. It faded away as I grew up and in 2010 (18yo) a friend showed me a 9 hour long video laying out...

...nearly everything about the “illuminati” stuff as we know it.
After that day I got obsessed with researching “the reality” myself. At the same time the lucy dreams came back to me again. Some of them got worse, with me seeing dark-looking entities while locked in my body....

... I started researching specifics and personal experiences about lucy dreams. An old wise man that I had contacted (Bobby), told me to “not be afraid of them, you have power over them”. He also told me “when you enter that mode, you’re in a hallway that other entities have...

...access to, they know your fear and they’ll look certain way to feed from the fear that you give out when you notice them”.
Suddenly it all made sense to me and right after reading his email I could just feel I was really to chill if it (lucy dream) happens again.
Just like...

...that, a few days later, on a Sunday (day nap), it happened. While locked in my body, I was surprised that I was not afraid and for the first time I didn’t feel any entity’s presence. I went as far as trying to get out of my body, but halfway through I struggled so I laid...

Being away from family can be tough during the best of times but this pandemic has truly tested and damn near broken me.
It was only a matter of time that someone closer to you gets infected and that happened 3 weeks ago when my brother fell ill (he's recovered now).

The initial bout of panic and scrambling for travel arrangements (it was looking pretty bad for a while) as his condition started to deteriorate was thankfully short as we needed cool heads more than rash decisions (taking 2 flights and passing through 3 big airports).

My other brother and my sister had to physically stop my parents from being in the same room as him. Shouting was involved. All that was quite difficult to manage from a distance but we have learnt of thousands of families around the world go through much tougher situations.

The medics, I can't even imagine how they are managing. The governments and the people are both siding with the virus in this long war.
Its all just so baffling to me, and even more absurd with every passing day that we have imposed it upon ourselves. On the most vulnerable.

Anyway, my brother is an otherwise fit 34 years old cyclist and he loves to go hiking every chance he gets so he probably had the best chance out of whole family to recover from the pneumonia in both lungs and dropping oxygen levels...
I don't think either of my parents will.

favourite papers on the relationship between illness and disability with epistemic oppression, ignorance, gaslighting, denialism, etc, please?

Updating my bibliography for a piece I’m working on/thesis chapter

who was the person with the YouTube video you sent me to before please? I have lost it but they stick out as a key thinker on this

50 Things Every Dominant Should Have Their Lover Do For Them! 😈

A check list 📝

1. A slow strip dance 💃

2. Crawl to you 🐈

3. Kneel for you 🧎‍♀️

4. Swallow everything 🤤

5. Present her vulnerable areas for you like a gift ☺

6. Swear for you (not at you) 😉

7. Accept your punishments with a smile 😏

8. Be bruised by you 😈

9. Be made to feel small around you 😇

10. Have her open to sharing you 🤴👸👩

11. Wear more lingerie for you 👙

12. Taste you more often and in crazier ways 🍆

13. Obey ALL of your commands 🙏

14. Have her talk up to you 😇

15. Have her look up to you 😃

16. Ask you for permission to do things, in bed and out 😊

17. Beg you for your attention 🥰

18. Lick more of you 😛

19. Be super enthusiastic for you 🤯

20. Talk super dirty when you allow her to 🤬

21. Gag on you 😵

22. Accept you spitting on her (when it would add to the craziness) 😅

23. Accept you pulling her hair more 🤪

24. Leaving scratch marks down your back 🐯

25. Drool more over you 🤤

26. Want to be choked by you more often 😈

27. Bend over for you eagerly

28. Play with your 🍒 without being asked

29. Clean up after you 🧹

30. Ask you for oil massages 😍

31. Wear high heels to tease you 👠

32. Lean on your shoulder during good times and bad 🤗

33. Shake because you're so good at what you do 😲

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I grew up in a little town in northern Iowa. About 3,100 people lived there then.

It was a different time.

Both sides of my family had lived in my hometown, or on farms a few miles out, for more than one hundred years.

My grandpa had a business on Main Street that my dad took over when grandpa got sick.

I knew nearly everybody.

There were no “helicopter parents” then and the only teenagers who had cars were older boys who bought them used and beat-up and liked to tinker under the hood.

I walked everywhere — to school, to Girl Scouts meetings, to piano lessons, to babysitting jobs, to Friday night football games at the high school, to the movie theater on Saturday afternoons. We all did.

I walked even in the dark, though I was sometimes afraid.

But I knew who lived in just about every house that I passed. It was a comfort.

You could look at the past week & reasonably think MAGA/Q folk MUST know it's over.

But the thing about conspiracy theories is that they never end: they morph into new theories while maintaining that they've ALWAYS been right.

For MAGA/Q, it's "the plan" - Let me explain.

Right now the narrative running through the darker parts of the Internet involves "The Storm."

The Storm is a conspiracy theory that ALL of this - the election loss, the rhetoric, the insurrection, the 2nd impeachment - are part of Trump's master plan to root out the Deep State.

You see, in Trump's infinite wisdom he realized he could never MAGA as long as there were traitors in his own party.

So he came up with The Storm as a way to know who was truly a believer in MAGA, and who was a RINO.

This has all been an elaborate trap to catch those traitors.

The Storm starts w/Trump discovering, many months ago, that the voting machines had been hacked by Bill Gates' associates.

Trump ALLOWED the votes to be flipped, but they have PROOF that Trump won 410 electoral votes.

Of course, he let them THINK they had won.

By APPEARING weak & disjointed, he encouraged the Dems to lash out and the RINOs to jump ship.

Even the departures from his admin were carefully planned to give the appearance of disorder so that ALL the traitors would think it was time to show their true colors and strike.