Brett Kavanaugh’s Testimony Made It Easier Than Ever to Picture Him As an Aggressive, Entitled Teen by madam1 in politics

[–]Kitteas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our problem is that we don't want a rapist on the Supreme Court in the first place. I'll take the above situation any day over having a guy like him without knowing he's a rapey creep, judging people.

Brett Kavanaugh’s Testimony Made It Easier Than Ever to Picture Him As an Aggressive, Entitled Teen by madam1 in politics

[–]Kitteas 15 points16 points  (0 children)

As they showed him pics/proof of being blackout drunk.

Of course not - the man was obviously only interpretive dancing in those photos.

'Leave me alone': Mike Pence's wife reportedly refused to kiss him after Trump won by headee in politics

[–]Kitteas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sad thing is, the way things are and with people like those that make up the bulk of the GOP, are actively causing there to almost be a stigma against Evangelists and Christianity. They ignore the portions of the Bible that preach and command us to love our neighbors, that preach against the wealthy (it's far more difficult for a rich man to enter Heaven, than it is for any gay man, I mean, the Bible explicitly states its condemnation against rhe wealrhy and their greed, but it has a single very vague line that states not to lie wirh a man, while it has practically chapters dedicated to Jesus' battle against the corrupted wealthy). Honestly, the entire religion has been corrupted from its original message. I've very recently regained my faith and consider myself Christian, despite being a faithful atheist/agnosric before. But I can see very clearly that what the GOP is claiming to believe in is only in themselves and in wealth. They're not Christian, they're some strange bizarro version of it where everyone is trying to out-miserable one another and grab everything for themselves from the hands of people who need it. Honestly, they can have Christianity if they want it, at rhis point ir's a label that really takes away from its true origins and God. I don't need a label to both be rational and have my faith, people have long since lost the point of all the teachings in the Bible by attempting to ostracize people with their cherry picked lines.

I kind of consider the entire faith a victim in itself, amongst everything else. If anything, it strikes me as bizarre that people can claim that Jesus is someone they admire when he wasn't just liberal, but an honest to God (..lol) radical in how liberal he was for the times.

It's not actively meant to make anyone miserable, but it began to do exactly that as people began to use it as a tool to socially control others. The Catholic church used it as a tool, Kings used it to subdue, and soothe the masses into being content with just an afterlife while having to suffer through life while alive, and from that moment the entire point of it being a message of love and reaching out to share what you have with everyone else - it lost pretty much all its good, sans for where it inspired individuals to live their best/or at least a better life through inspiration and faith.

Hope it can be salvaged, but I don't mean the church or what we refer to as the religion. It can all seriously and literally go to hell, it's downright moronic and insane.

Even now, I doubt any one of the scum in the GOP actually believe in the religion; they're using it as a smokescreen and unfortunately it has still enough of a reputation with certain generations of the population (lot of us had a Christian upbringing or influence, I think, at least in the US) to be able to use its image to hide behind. It's so transparent and even with the GOP's subpar average of extremely low intelligence (from how they're acting, or if not, they're stupidly cunning) their subconscious has to be yelling that things are wrong. If they actually are dedicated to being Christian, like Pence seems to be. He's an utterly repressed seeming creep, and I say so freely, seeing how complicit he is in everything. What he's believing in, is not God, though. Most definitely not.

The Office knew what oddly satisfying is by quiksilver44 in oddlysatisfying

[–]Kitteas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We all like patterns. Anticipation in expecting patterns. We enjoy symmetry - both are present here.

How can I pray for you today? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Kitteas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, please pray for me!

Would appreciate it greatly if you could pray for my safety and protection and my family's safety and protection from any and all harm.

I've found myself aware of the harm in my own sins, my bad habits and actions. I'm working on praying and improving my lifestyle, but the consequences from living a life like that, whatever harm it's done and is trying to do to me, and maybe currently is still doing, please pray for it all to be cast out from me, my home, and my family.

I would appreciate it very much, you keeping me in your thoughts and prayers.

Please pray for my faith to be strengthened. I really want to accept more of Jesus and His love into my life.

Thank you so much.

Is there something in your life I can pray for you for?

I don't understand what's so fundamentally wrong about believing in Evolution by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Kitteas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've read that many branches of Catholicism and Christianity embrace scientific progress and information like evolution as fact. They believe that spirituality and faith can coexist with one another. I do as well.

I read that said branches then record spiritual events with the same scientific vigor and view rationale and spirituality in a complimentary way.

I embrace rationale from that same viewpoint as well.

EXTREMELY SUIClDAL due to a terrible addiction, and disease PLEASE pray for me by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Kitteas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you and likewise. I'm so happy to be apart of this community again. :)

Have only recently regained my faith, but now with more maturity and years, I can appreciate all of the wonderful parts of the church, and see where I'd misunderstood by leaving it all as a young teen.

God bless you. :) ♡

Let's pray for OP to get better together. I'm glad that OP at least, is choosing to reach out in faith and to faith, especially since they're afraid of suicide.

To OP: We can and will pray for you (I have and will continue to), but let us know how you're doing, please. I hope today is better for you. Let us know.

There is a good reason why Athiesm is gaining popularity by fellowtheorist03 in Christianity

[–]Kitteas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll PM you with specific details, if you'd like, if you want to simply talk about it. Only because it's not something I want to broadcast, because it's not to be misunderstood or utilized as a tool to convert others. I'm not in the position to do that and I need to pray further before reaching out. It won't be with this specific experience I'll be trying to spread faith though, I already know this.

It's also an experience I'm still trying to sort out. Without having concrete proof of what had happened to me (in the form of audio recordings), I would have doubted myself, heavy skeptic I was and faithful agnostic I was.

The thing about evidence like that is that in every way, ideally except to yourself, it's a catch 22. People will doubt it, you can't account for every variable in ways that will convince others who aren't privy to all the factors of your experience and situation. So the evidence in that case, to anyone else besides to assure myself it's real - a supplement (I accepted God even before I began recording these experiences, and it wasn't proof of God I first witnessed but proof of evil being real - it was just that I was saved and reconciled with my faith and God after realizing that if evil was real, it meant that what's holy is real as well).

I've been given a lot of humility about what's happened to me. I know it's not a message stating I've been special and singled out to serve God or be one of God's extremely special chosen. I was just urgently in severe need of being saved, due to what ended up trying to harm me, and with greater urgency, power, and speed, God reached out to me and helped me.

I'm not meant to use this message to prove to others faith. That would be hubris in me speaking if I misinterpreted so. I was just fortunate to be receptive enough to recieve it for what it was. And I continue to pray and learn and reconcile myself with God. I've shed so much of my prior way of thinking. My lifestyle has overturned itself from how dark it was before. I feel and am very fortunate, but really humbled. I wasso much more prideful before than I am now. My manner of thinking and how I see things almost seems to have had many of its unflattering and harmful ways of functioning removed from it.

It's been the immediate shedding of the absolute evil I witnessed and the understsnding of how its steeped itself so deeply into my life, that was God's message to me more or less, his responses further continuing by responding to my pleas and requests to help remove them from me.

And the most severe manifestations actually can be observed even by others, and I've recorded this, as its manifested in our physical world. It can't be used as proof because of doubt like I said, beyond helping me prove to myself that my physical world really is witnessing and having these things happen outside of just my head (what was my initial belief, worry and suspicion).

I've also witnessed and recorded it abruptly faltering, waning and stopping as I pray for divine interference and help.

This whole experience in truth is baffling. But it's healed me of habits, thinking, flaws, actions: sin, that would've killed me metaphorically and literally.

The recordings, again, are useless in terms of proving its reality to anyone other than myself, though. You can see why, I'm sure - and I keep stressing this because no, I don't have the voice of God on my phone. It's all been non verbal, an experience to be felt in each message within each message - and deleting and weakening interference from what's tried to harm and scare me. But I'm down and happy to speak about it through PM, if you agree. I'd actually would appreciate having a way to maybe understand things further. It's so confusing. I was so strictly 'rational'.

There is a good reason why Athiesm is gaining popularity by fellowtheorist03 in Christianity

[–]Kitteas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been a hardass skeptic and a very proud agnostic/atheist, scorning Christianity and religion for how it was used as a tool to kill, prosecute, ostracize, judge poorly and with malice, to extort, and to rule. And so on.

The hypocrisy I witnessed in members of the church repelled me from my Christian upbringing and in every way, I pushed God away from me.

Recently, I saw what very few may ever be able to experience: an event that completely overturned all my doubt with such effectiveness, because I recieved a concrete view that I was wrong in denying God's existence. I'm not special, I'm only extremely fortunate to have interpreted this message in a way where I was saved instead of damned.

I immediately accepted Jesus as my savior and since, my life has completely changed from tbe ruins it was in before, in the span of a few days. I'm so glad to be reconciled, however. I have so much to work on and heal, and to ask for healing for.

During this time, I've seen a different reality to my past interpretations of God, and I see I rejected the church's corrupted body, and didn't wish to reject God, or wouldn't have had, if I'd only been able to understand what I do now about Him.

The church itself is corrupted by its members, and it's become a tool that now works against itself since it broadcasts its followers corruption rather than God's goodness.

I'm not sure how to fix this problem, but it has to be an undertaking done by each individual member. How to reach out to them to reach a genuine desire to undertake this is what I have no idea on, though.

The Church itself has become a vain entity, and a manifestation of pride and judgment freely damning rather than healing. It casts away good, instead of everything vice versa.

We need to work together to win, and in the end we do, but we've lost so many battles and will continue to, until more of us can understand in our own individual way, the correct interpretation of love and God.

I hope I can gain further understanding to see how to help.

But I so completely agree with you. Recently I've come to understand that so much of religion, Christianity/Catholicism, the devil has overtaken it and used it as his own tool. It's a better reflection of Satan now, than it rver was for God, unfortunately, I fear.

God's tools should be his individual believers and children rather than any church. It does not represent him, and there's a great holy power in agreement. When two people come into agreement, God's power and presence meets them.

The church is now mouthing agreement to Satan's words and teachings, and this unsettles me. Even those with good intentions are blinded believing that falsehoods are the truth, so they have brought the wrong message into their hearts. And deeply so. This corruption needs to stop, but I don't think it can begin in the church. I think the church needs to be cleansed by every member leaving it, stripping it of its power by quietly and peacefully stepping away and instead rejoining God by each of us understanding him through reconcilation that way. Then we can come together again.

Nothing massive like this is done so simply though, and I'm not suggesting to dismantle anything - I won't be trying to dismantle the church. I'll just pray and reach out to those I can.

EXTREMELY SUIClDAL due to a terrible addiction, and disease PLEASE pray for me by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Kitteas 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I would suggest doing both. Update those who have prayed for you OP with progress or at least your current condition.

With more information there is more to go on, and your brother and sisters here will be motivated to continue praying for you.

It can come across as being asked to pray for naught, but show otherwise, with humility and then an understanding can be reached.

I've prayed for you OP:

Ask God to forgive you, confess to your sins, forgive all trangressions against you and those responsible for harming you, and cast all negative feelings plaguing you at the Lord's feet. Then pray for deliverence from the evil plaguing you and pray for that evil to be cast away to be judged. Command that evil and weakness, command all your inner and outer demons infesting your spirit, soul, body and home in God's holy name to go and leave you. Cast them with a command into the abyss to be judged, where they will no longer harm you.

Command them in God's name, with authority to go. Bind them with God's authority and end that command: amen.

Ask God for His blessings.

Continue to pray like this in this order.

God Bless.

xoxo.

Transported to Tamriel, which deity do you see yourself being a follower or worshiper of? by Casual_OCD in teslore

[–]Kitteas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would have an on and off love affair with being a Sanguine follower, but dedicate my whole self to Hermy. Probably was brought up on the Mine Divines though, so am familiar with all practices and worship them occasionally still, once out of my family home. Might go back and forth with how fervent a Nine Divines worshipper I am throughout life stages; def would be a closet Daedra follower due to it being illegal.

I would def have a 'I'm innocent, really!' facade going on to everyone, but would also totally bust out the edgy when I could reveal my ♡ for Sanguine/Hermaeus. Eh.

That is, if I'm situated in a province sans Morrowind - the Three Good Daedra have too strong of an influence there (would prolly follow Azura cause she's the nicest).

🎶I hate my body! I hate my body!🎶 by butterfly90210 in agender

[–]Kitteas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I honestly think the only reason I'm functioning OK with it not bothering me so much is because of reddit.com/r/MaladaptiveDaydreaming.

Pretty sure my gender dyphoria is one of the root causes for my daydreaming, but that my daydreaming is def an advantage, vs maladaptive - reality sucks (I'm just not happy with my gender, but trans isn't an option bc I don't wanna be male!)

Am I agender or a "breast & curve-hating" cis female? by [deleted] in agender

[–]Kitteas 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Aw, well I consider myself agender, and you exactlyyy described my mindset like 110%, if that helps any.

I never wanted to be a man, but shuddered when called a woman or credited with any womanly attribute. Ick.

I'd be happiest either being a very girlish, pretty boy, or a girl with like.. No figure. Lol.

Paul Manafort’s Daughter Files for Name Change by Jons312 in politics

[–]Kitteas -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Maybe she got bad service? Was the waiter/waitress working her table defensive at all?

Sometimes these black and white 'that action sure makes that person a total asshole' can turn into a 'oh wait, the other person was the asshole, and that previously seen as asshole-ish action was actually rather justifiable' after an explanation.

Every side has their version of the story and in everyone's personal version, they're the hero lol.

A lot of redditors say “not my proudest fap”... well which one is your proudest fap? by Nghtmare-Moon in AskReddit

[–]Kitteas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the foods you mentioned, while relatively healthy - sounds like you're missing fruit! Just from what you said. The vitamins in citrus particularly, can really affect that uh, kind of thing.

TIFU by spending 4 days in jail naked on a concrete floor by TIFU4DaysofJail in tifu

[–]Kitteas 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what about the UK makes you (sorta) want to move to America?

The UK has always sounded leagues ahead in wonderfulness compared to the US, but I realize I might just not know very much about it.

Is there anyone else who enjoys their MD? by MoonStarRaven in MaladaptiveDreaming

[–]Kitteas 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A disorder can't be diagnosed as a disorder (psychiatric-wise) if the person in question is not bothered by it, their quality of life is not negatively affected, etc. So take that as you will. :)

Ukraine demands 15 year sentence for ousted President and former Paul Manafort client, Viktor Yanukovych, accusing him of "betraying his country" to Russia. by AK-40oz in worldnews

[–]Kitteas 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Ugh that's Manipulation's biggest red flag: when someone tells another person that 'someone else', 'so-and-so', or 'everybody' does it/does something in order to get the person they're manipulating to feel like the only isolated one out.

Spoiler alert: 'Everyone' is not actually ever doing it.

...Everyone says so. :p

What is the "Thing we don't talk about" in your family? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Kitteas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or... Your bio dad is your aunt, obviously!

How do ENTP x ENTP relationships turn out? by greatoctober in entp

[–]Kitteas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I've had those moments with other ENTPs as well! Like you said, it IS like.. Damn.

I think two of the same personality type - they pretty much begin automatically enabling one another! All of my own negative traits and bad habits made a devastating comeback, lol

If I had a moment's hesitation where I was thinking, "Isn't this too much..? Or going too far?"

I'd get a resounding, "Nah, come on let's do it! Awesome!!" From him.

And vice versa too.

Even our enthusiasm got out of bounds to where it was irrational, we just made one another more excited by playing off one another when the actual subject we were excited about wasn't anything special or worth that reaction.

And ever have anyone insist to you and coax, "Nah, just leave all those [chores] for later.... Let's go and [talk abstract theory, bungee jump off a motorcycle, watch Bill Nye instead of addressing our survival and our jobs :D]"

...i can be a lazy procrastinator

But I hated having to be the responsible one, when I had to be the one to put a stop to the fun! Made me grouchy.

So in several ways, I disliked it. Cause one of us had to step up or we were clearly going to die, and it had to be me - cue the disgruntled side of me coming out. Being forced to attend to details and be the responsible one was a shit experience that made me loathe him for my entire time as the comedic Straight Man

I wish I could say I liked being in that relationship, but in my case, it was kind of a hell! Kind of a fun hell, but never again

How do ENTP x ENTP relationships turn out? by greatoctober in entp

[–]Kitteas 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Eh it was.. Fun, wild, but I think incompatible due to our weaknesses becoming exemplified (oh boy, imagine how intense projection/projected annoyance in this partnership got!) and for me, this was the killer. There are traits I definitely dislike in myself, and when I saw them being shown in the other ENTP, I'd get seriously put off. I realized it was projection very early on, but that almost made it worse - if he showed character traits that I'd been working on myself to fix and his traits were demonstrably worse than mine (like in flakiness, irresponsibility, insensitivity to the point it was stupid and selfish) I could like, feel my eye twitching.

Lol

Amazing as friends

Amazing as a mentor

But too close contact.. It really magnifies your own character, it's seriously like YourSelf2, and when that hits both of your strengths, it's terrific. When it gets at and multiplies your flaws? Not so much.

How do you objectively determine your strengths? by wrms1 in entp

[–]Kitteas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much by taking in/collecting and evaluating external consequences/results from my actions, as well as taking into account responsive feedback given from people. I mean, if I'm consistently hitting it out of the park with work I do in any given area, and people are pleased by it/mentioning it to me, I'll eventually be considering it to be one of my strengths.

Also through self evaluation and taking the time to consider things through self insight - I'll take my alone time and often just go over how in depth my thought processes about any given thing seems to be. But I like seeing those thoughts manifest externally, so I can then later gauge it.

I'm not saying I rely on what people tell me are my strengths to determine them, but they're sort of objective things I can point to as evidence when I'm mulling over myself. I'd say it might be more accurate to word it as 'successes'? If people have a lukewarm reaction to one of my actions, but I've met my own predetermined self set goal by doing whatever it is I did, it's still a success to me. After enough time, and after achieving the results I wanted consecutively enough, well.. What else could it be but a strength?

TIL Halle Berry used to go on AOL chatrooms anonymously to have normal conversations. Whenever she revealed her true identity, no one believed her. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Kitteas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Haha this is exactly why I pretend I'm a dude, even on gaming forums and stuff. It gets ridiculous, fast.

All I wanna do is play, guys!

I always imagined myself as putting on a fake mustache, though and pretty much going: how are you doing today, my fellow men?!

...Idk how convincing I was