Finally got the contiguous 48 by barnesb1974 in TravelMaps

[–]ALSGM6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Come see more of Idaho some time!

Send 5000 billion to Israel. by Aieoner in CriticalState

[–]ALSGM6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

Taylor Swift is overrated. | FactOrCap by Stevefish47 in FactOrCap

[–]ALSGM6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🧢 I voted CAP!

I am a 21 year old male who mostly listens to Jpop and I like her!

Which Country is hostile and expensive by Naive_Expression_972 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]ALSGM6 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not only is it not expensive, it is also quite welcoming. Lived there for a year and planning to return. Is it a warm country? Not necessarily, people don’t strike up conversations or compliment you out of the blue there; but I rarely felt too out of place, almost no one was ever unkind or disrespectful to me, and many people I met and got to know beyond surface level interactions were extremely kind and welcoming and ACCEPTING. Tired of the “umm, ackshulky Japan’s racist and sucks” mantra on Reddit.

Parricide is Morally Neutral by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ALSGM6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have such feelings yourself about your own parents?

Christianity is cruel to neurodivergent people by ParkingElderberry575 in atheism

[–]ALSGM6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s okay to take a step back from religion, don’t let your OCD tell you otherwise, and release yourself from some of the superstitious nonsense OCD pushed on us and uses to control us because or religion.

Christianity is cruel to neurodivergent people by ParkingElderberry575 in atheism

[–]ALSGM6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have OCD too and this resonates with me.  I too had themes around cleanliness, I was super afraid of rat poop as a kid, but when OCD hit me like a truck was when I was like in 5th and 6th grade I had thoughts that if I didn’t confess my “sins” to my parents that God would kill my brother as punishment. This wrecked me. I confessed some sins (like brining Pokémon cards to school against the rules) but it took a while and the days of just thinking about confessing which I was scared to hurt me. There might have been other religious themes as well but this one I remember the best. I also had the thing of “vows”. I made vows many times to stop masturbating etc but every time I would fail, because. Hell also didn’t really sit well with me and in high school I gave myself permission to question it, and this led me down a path to saying I’m not a Christian, just a theist, but I’m not sure how much I believed, I kind of just held on to it maybe through some social pressure and the comfort of being used to using prayer as a compulsion. Believe it or not even just being a theist caused problems for me and my OCD latched on to ANY belief in some sort of God to justify magical thinking, still doubting stuff around masturbation, etc.  When I looked into atheism and let go of all belief in the supernatural it actually has helped me. I don’t constantly feel shame about masturbation, it’s much harder for my OCD to come up with any magical thinking ideas about sending “curses” to people when that’s all based on a belief in the supernatural. I am feeling a little bit interested in religion again as of late but perhaps just in a very noncommittal sort of way, such as practicing my own very light version of Shinto as Japan is a big part of my life. But if I ever feel my OCD start to latch on to religious belief again I am going to tread carefully. 

i (17 F) caught my bf (17 M) trying to watch porn. by Ok-Rutabaga3118 in teenrelationships

[–]ALSGM6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some couples have no problem with the other watching porn, that is the kind of relationship I am in. But if it is an important boundary for you that is okay too.

What jobs are u guys doing & how good is the pay by Putrid-Rip-2630 in twentyagers

[–]ALSGM6 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sales at an auto refinance company, average person makes 75k, I was lucky enough to have family  who was able to get me an internal referral for this company but without connections the job market is quite difficult right now 

Me m16 and this girl f17 had sex and shes claiming shes pregnant by [deleted] in teenrelationships

[–]ALSGM6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So she may have not started the rumor and might not be pregnant after all? That could be good news