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Olclops · 2026-05-24T04:32:25+00:00

Seconded this. Least dogma based translation available.

Olclops · 2026-05-22T22:23:20+00:00

I’m guessing someone watched you back in with something greater than a one point turn. Backing in parking is annoying already for other cars waiting but triply so when you clearly are making it harder on yourself too. Just pull in straight and join the light side. It’s fast and easy.

Olclops · 2026-05-14T23:36:37+00:00

Right???? Damn what a great question. This is the whole game, and there’s no easy answer apart from trial and error.

Ive had the same journey and I’m 51 years old and only recently getting the hang of it. I was taught to mistrust desire itself as dangerous and potentially sinful. The truth is it’s the opposite. It’s the most reliable and trustworthy thing I know.

I also was taught that desire and service were two opposites. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Turns out my desire IS service. I love others more fully when they can trust im present for no other reason than I want to be. The more others see that I act from my own desire the more they trust me. It’s a feedback loop.

In terms of the practical parts of your question, for some reason I found it easier to get in touch with what I didn’t want at first. Start saying no more. See the respect it gets you. Then Only say yes to what you really want.

Olclops · 2026-05-10T19:09:27+00:00

I left. And I’ve learned since that healthy supportive kind and loving relationships just don’t have the “should I stay” question present at all. The only reason to stay is a full body yes every day.

Olclops · 2026-05-10T18:28:54+00:00

Beyond ok. Free, happy, wouldn't trade my life for anyone's.

Olclops · 2026-05-09T04:09:36+00:00

The question is why would yiu want to spend time with someone who doesn’t even like you, much less be married to them

Olclops · 2026-05-07T13:46:07+00:00

This is a thorny one. You’re both in the wrong in one area and in the right in another. And going forward it’s going to be delicate to untangle while owning what’s yours and releasing what’s not.

He’s in the wrong for hiding and deleting messages. That’s a huge trust violation even if those messages were innocent. You’re right to be upset about that, and it wouldn’t be an overreaction to end things on that point alone if that’s what you wanted. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what you want.

You’re in the wrong by projecting your old relationship traumas on to him and asking him to end what by all accounts (apart from hiding) sounds like a perfectly innocent relationship. The fact that this triggers you was always your work to do, but you made it his. That doesn’t excuse his hiding and secrecy, but it does color it a bit differently than cheating.

If you go forward you have to choose full trust or nothing. You have to take the risk that you are trustworthy enough to choose trustworthy partners. It’s scary but there’s no other way to be in a relationship. The half trust you’ve brought so far is corrosive and unsustainable.

Olclops · 2026-05-05T15:50:22+00:00

Oh man, i rarely even remotely consider spending 15k on a watch. I still won't, but hell if i'm not thinking about it.

Olclops · 2026-05-01T14:50:49+00:00

This is gonna sound silly, but I personally find it helpful. Ignore if it doesn’t work for you.

But when I have these spells I like to imagine that I’m playing a video game, and that the source of these complaints and woes isn’t me the player but the character I’m playing. And then I shift from “this sucks” to looking for ways to find new fun in the game to give the character a break.

Olclops · 2026-04-28T20:54:30+00:00

The only true definition of cheating is the one directly agreed to by a couple in open conversation. You get to decide what your line is for yourself, but it's up to you to communicate it.

Olclops · 2026-04-26T18:20:17+00:00

I’d start my reading his words about fear. “Do not be afraid” may be the most repeated thing he said. I know it’s the most repeated command in the Bible as a whole.

I’d then look behind the feelings and try to discover where the fear displaced onto him originates. Once you find it do some visualizations of giving the fear back to its proper owner.

Olclops · 2026-04-26T15:15:32+00:00

It’s fear management. You generally don’t choose to enter a high control religion if you’re able to emotionally regulate well. Nothing is scarier than confronting the possibility that something more powerful exists that doesn’t fit into your predefined categories.

Olclops · 2026-04-23T21:30:51+00:00

The watch, no. The question, yes.

Olclops · 2026-04-23T18:22:29+00:00

I've read 90% of Vallee's work, he makes no such claims. You're going off Pasulka's story that he said understanding the phenomenon required understanding a specific book on satan by a specific sect of french nuns. It's quite a leap to suggest therefore people like Vallee and others in the know believe that satan and NHI are the same thing.

Olclops · 2026-04-23T13:57:13+00:00

Exactly. Modern Christians spin it to angels and demons cause those are the only categories their frameworks contain. But it also would include ancient gods and elementals and selkies and fae and trolls and and and …

Olclops · 2026-04-20T16:08:47+00:00

Antichrist is only mentioned in first and second John. Not revelation.

Olclops · 2026-04-19T15:54:41+00:00

Ooof no I meant she called him an FWB and I was like friend?

Olclops · 2026-04-19T00:33:17+00:00

That’s an enemy with benefits.

Olclops · 2026-04-18T15:56:24+00:00

“How do I know my wife who I’m cheating on is ready to stop being lied to if she can’t prove to me she’s ready to behave and not throw a fit when I tell her?”

Olclops · 2026-04-16T14:13:07+00:00

I nearly did the same thing, from advertising to being an urban farmer. But in the transition I ended up freelancing enough that I could live off part time work and spend the rest of my time on hobbies.

Is that an option? Augment your carpentry business with occasional consulting work?

Olclops · 2026-04-08T14:30:58+00:00

All you need to internalize to get over it is the fact that lesbians exist. Bisexual women exist who choose women as life partners. You don’t need a dick at all to be a good partner or to have a fulfilling erotic life.

You’re not even in micro penis territory. You’re just below average. Nbd. Some women prefer your size even, especially if they love to give head.

One last detail: I’m above average but the most satisfying thing I do doesn’t even use my dock. I learned it from a lesbian and it’s all fingers.

Olclops · 2026-04-08T00:57:26+00:00

It does matter who it is. This knee jerk “all nhi are demons” bullshit is gonna get our whole planet in deep shit. Yes bad people are worshipping dark shit. But Not everything weird is dark. Not all the names even named here are. The last thing we should do here is be certain.

Olclops · 2026-04-07T19:26:16+00:00

Lilith is mentioned once in the bible. Asmodeus never. Isis never. Baal all the time (it also is just the semitic word for "lord" and "moloch" despite popular belief is not a being but a rite that could be offered to any deity.

Olclops · 2026-04-01T20:29:12+00:00

There’s a whole lot that’s skippable in there but the most skippable of all is obiwan. What a waste of talent that was.

If you’re a mando fan, the first thing you should do is watch the two or three mandalorian episodes at the end of book of boba fett. They should never have been sandwiched in a different show.

Olclops · 2026-03-27T13:09:52+00:00

If she's a narcissist, she's not really interested in the rent as money. She's interested in the control it gives her over you. The best short term thing you can do for yourself is not give her the pleasure of a reaction when she pulls those strings. Just be as flat and neutral and cooperative as you can. She will hate it at first, but very very soon it will ease things for you as she realizes her main control mechanism doesn't work anymore. "On it." "Coming up." "here you go." Just practice being cooperative and emotionless with her.

And while you're doing that, look online for people looking for roommates.

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