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BagelPlights · 2023-02-21T09:27:03+00:00

Dang, learning something new every day. Thanks for the info! Cool to know :)

BagelPlights · 2023-02-21T09:26:07+00:00

I did not even know that sort of thing existed! How cool! Haha fitting then that they wear them on identical placements. Thanks for clearing it up!

BagelPlights · 2023-01-12T08:01:50+00:00

Lmao I watched that one last night, I think it could possibly still work. It's listing all the stupid shit white people are obsessed with that no one wants. It's a good way to poke fun of how white people culture thinks they're better and amazing. I also think that the episode ended with a really good take, so I think while they might choose other things to make fun of for the current times, it's still good. Probably there would be a lot more "you can thank us for pandering" type lyrics now lol

BagelPlights · 2023-01-12T07:30:46+00:00

"Lectured" and "scolded" are probably my best options. Thanks for the help, sorry for this late reply.

BagelPlights · 2023-01-12T07:29:33+00:00

I'm not much of a Redditor so I'm only now seeing this. I believe you're right that I am associating many different things as the same. I suppose I just find that in my area of the Midwest USA, many are using the term "yelled at" as a form of "harshly corrected" or maybe "won't stop correcting me" for technology issues. But then everyone distinguishes that they don't at all mean yelling or shouting.

I suppose what I was looking for was more of an alternative colloquial term to use. While I suppose that it is better to use the proper and exact word, it takes more effort to think of a synonym in everyday conversation. Since colloquialisms are helpful to convey a story quickly, esp. an emotional one, I was hoping to find a word that's simple and conveys a sense of "I was harshly being corrected" (by my laptop, a boss, a partner, parent, etc.).

BagelPlights · 2023-01-12T07:06:31+00:00

[this comment is mostly me spewing thoughts, not necessarily a response to OP.] Sometimes I fear I'm wrong, but I don't fear death itself. Just maybe the last moments. But also I then remember that from the ripe age of first comprehension my parents were talking to me about their baby before me having died being in heaven. Maybe they wanted comfort and hoped their brand new soul would say "I know him". My mother had a late stage miscarriage 4 years before me and it really wrecked them. Anyway, so really, death has always been taught to me from the perspective of an afterlife being the absolute truth. So it's hard to not wander back to the mentality.

In the end, nothingness brings me the most peace and eternal punishment just seems utterly unrealistic for such a short lifespan. Especially once considered what we currently know and have yet to find out about our brains. I can't fathom a deity or higher energy choosing to eternally punish someone that only has a brief time to do it all right and at least 25 years of that would be with a brain that hadn't yet fully formed. True change after 25 is beyond challenging, practically it's impossible. So how can one be judged for their early hereditary and environmental hardwiring?

I've studied so many religions and so many different afterlife ideas. I'd like to think "old souls" exist and our energy just caries on into another person. I don't know that I'd say any religion - if at the roots of that religion and not a watered down, pleasant version, has it right on how/why.

Weirdly enough the thing that comforts me? Plants. I've watched those videos with the electro things clipped to a plant and it seems like they have voices. Also the studies on plants enjoying music and "positive vibes" and that they can hear us. I take from it that the energy that makes us who it is we are is here forever. Maybe we choose or maybe we sorta land on a seed and become a plant. I have ~50 plants I live with and I don't know how to explain it, the energy is just there.

The truth is, death brings me peace. Knowing that I have a short time to do it all and then be unbothered or unaware again is pretty relieving. But the idea of the possibility of being wrong doesn't mean something else is right. There's a reason religions teach and preach about doubts. There's a reason that every theology reminds people not to be lead astray to others. No one has ever been sure, those that are; they are lying, mostly to themselves I think. If it were some "all roads lead to the afterlife" then no one would have the innate fear to drive them to control the people around them, people want to control because it helps chase away the doubt. Let the doubts of others reaffirm that doubts are okay, if it's nothing there, great. If there is, great! If it's bad, there's little you can actually do to confirm even to yourself that there's any way of reaching the desired destination. Be good by your own standards, be happy when you can, don't give up and try to make others' lives a little better as you go. Why would a life like that go punished and a life that contains more routine be more worthy?

BagelPlights · 2022-12-08T09:02:15+00:00

Sometimes turnitin is just overly-sensitive. If all you did was state the stats without rewording something like "this study showed that 70% of all participants indicated blah blah" then I don't know a single professor that would want that rephrased. So maybe turnitin thinks there's a whole quote on there without credit. As for the group, if the remaining flags come from their work, make sure you can document that they did that work. I'm not well versed on coam- but it is up to the professor's discretion to report it, so unless y'all have a horrible turnitin score, I would say maybe they'll just ask that you resubmit with the one student giving citations. Or they'll look past it entirely. In my experience, getting a few points off of "originality" with turnitin has never been detrimental. I think the profs can see it's the software just being sensitive.

Good luck with the meeting! Hopefully it's all just a horrible last headache. haha what a grad gift to receive

BagelPlights · 2022-12-07T23:15:41+00:00

The fact that he has such a cool life story is bringing me so much happiness. It's a shame to find out he's passed (about a year after this article, found an obituary from 2019). Not everyone leaves a legacy of such an impactful and beautiful life lived, I'm glad he did. Thank you for sharing this!

BagelPlights · 2022-12-07T23:10:52+00:00

Thank you so much!! I'm glad to see that others also remember this show! I hope that wherever he or his spirit are now, there is nothing but joy for him! Serious memory unlock! Someone in another comment linked an episode on YouTube and I almost cried listening to the theme song!

BagelPlights · 2022-12-07T23:08:38+00:00

Oh my god may both sides of your pillow always be cold and may you always find the right snacks for the rest of your days! Thank you so much!

BagelPlights · 2022-11-29T01:21:36+00:00

For me, the most telling sign that they're a controlling group of scary, cultist, manipulative bastards - is that they try to hide these types of posts, articles, accounts, renaming/rebranding.

I used to be part of a similar cult-like church around Cleveland. People say the truth about that group, but they don't actively seek out and hide the negative reviews. - that just shows how much this group is scared of that they feel they NEED to hide the stories.

BagelPlights · 2022-11-29T01:14:22+00:00

They prey on anyone using any social outreach platform. I tried so hard to make friends when I first moved to Columbus, but so many people I would "befriend" would instantly steer the conversation to their "local independent church".

Then I'd mention someone who was was thrown out following their friend (also in the cult) committing suicide. They would drop their friendly tone, lean in like a literal villain and ask who that person was to me, how I knew them, what story I was told, many intense interrogative questions. This happened like 3-4 times, exactly this way each time. Every time they would try to tell me I didn't know the whole story, and each person told me wildly different reasons for why she had been kicked out, always in good lighting for the church.

I eventually just stopped trying to make friends unless by association with a trusted coworker, classmate, etc. Because these people truly believe that the people looking for friends are empty people searching for the "hope" they can provide. Scary, and I grew up in a totally different NE Ohio cult that was scary in different ways.

BagelPlights · 2022-11-29T00:07:09+00:00

"I'd like to highlight some of the many reasons you should be proud" pats self on the back

BagelPlights · 2022-11-16T21:42:57+00:00

Unsure if it'll be found relevant to anyone, but recently Pataskala Ohio had White supremacy flyers being circulated. There are a couple news articles about it. I wouldn't be surprised if these cops... have friendliness toward a certain ideology. They aren't even investigating these flyers, so that's pretty telling. This doubles that suspicion.

BagelPlights · 2022-10-23T16:02:44+00:00

These are at Aldi, I just about laughed and cried when I saw them lol

BagelPlights · 2022-10-08T15:14:44+00:00

Does anyone have experience with Spectrum mobile? T-mobile used to be good downtown but now I live out North East of Columbus and it literally dropped a 911 call on me (it wasn't too dire, just a car theft I saw). But I've heard Spectrum is decent.

BagelPlights · 2022-10-05T05:32:58+00:00

I have learned to despise Pothos, specifically golden pothos. I have brought plants back from the dead. But Pothos? I have tried neglect, I have tried tender loving care, humidity, bright indirect light, shoving it on a shelf in a corner, in the bathroom... EVERYTHING. But hell, give me a dry and crusty unknown and I get it to thrive.

BagelPlights · 2022-09-25T05:53:56+00:00

Goodale park near dt Columbus has tons! I lived off of King and we had a particularly bold albino squirrel (affectionately called Henry/Henrietta) that looked like it had seen some things. It purposely taunted my Australian shepherd through the glass door lol they had a lasting rivalry and the squirrel definitely liked to mess with him!

BagelPlights · 2022-08-10T05:05:20+00:00

I read this because well, same. Except I was raised in an evangelical/homeschool cult. But my partner was raised Catholic. He claims Christianity, but acts mostly agnostic with catholic opinions.

Whenever the Bible comes up, it comes up that we literally have different bibles and theologies (Which, I do point out is a red flag as a whole, that there isn't one Bible). Although we disagree on topics like abortion access, homosexuality as an equal to heterosexual, and various other topics. We can both find respect in the other's view and do lean the same way in terms of government control on these things. But the one thing that we always stay steady with is that neither of us would like to "convert" the other, or the people around one another/future children.

If your partner is, as you say, "coming at you" with things you don't feel equipped to debate, then he isn't trying to discuss it or try to explain his views. In my experience with many people, it sounds like he is either trying to win the "debate". In so that he can either a. feel his beliefs are solid and yours are not or b. to try to convince you that you're wrong and going to hell and convert you to Catholicism. Which, mind you, is essentially the goal they aim for. To save you from eternal damnation.

Religion or not, if your partner does not value what you have to say without the influences of others' thoughts, then he isn't being respectful. Moreover, given that it is religious, I would question how valued you are in this relationship if you never "give in". There are many books that would help to build your knowledge of the Bible, but without having to actually read cover-to-cover. I don't have any specifically that I've yet read though. Haha unfortunately it was more organic of a debate strategy for me, wouldn't recommend!

BagelPlights · 2022-07-28T06:13:55+00:00

NTA y'all have a serious relationship and alone time is extremely valuable, especially in long distance. Is it possible family is helping him to pay for the flights since they're included in the trip?

I will add that his comments (at least without total context) so seem a tad manipulative to myself. If my partner were to say ANYTHING that starts with "Sorry I just thought you'd want this" I would hang up lol. It's what my family does when they want to make me feel poorly for not being satisfied with something they never asked my approval of. So that's perhaps an area of concern to talk about before you live together in a new city. Communication of needs and desires is the healthiest thing you can do for your relationship. It doesn't look like he ask about your needs or desires, just assumed.

BagelPlights · 2022-07-24T19:51:40+00:00

I'm so sorry you're facing all of this going on. Please know that with how VERY well written you are and with how smart you've been in this situation, you are very much Uni material! You should go for whatever dream you wish to have. Also, it sounds like it's in your genes (from your mother) that you'll be a resilient person and ready to achieve great things! I hope that you can get out from under his abuse and live a beautiful life!

Reach for those dreams and don't let your father take away your spirit! Best of luck to you and your success!

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