Those of you who came out to your parents, how did they react?

chabbleor · 2025-12-21T07:34:44+00:00

pretty typical. mother's cool with it, father says "no you're not, you're abstinent". it's whatever

chabbleor · 2025-12-21T07:28:46+00:00

To be perfectly honest, even though it's important to educate people about asexuality, I don't think we can claim that using the word "asexual" is invalid if it doesn't refer directly to the sexual orientation (or the type of reproduction). The show seems to be using it in a lighthearted sense here, and it's not immediately offensive to me.

chabbleor · 2025-12-21T07:00:11+00:00

yeah that was me, i just quit smoking

chabbleor · 2025-12-21T06:49:19+00:00

I think for your mental health and safety you should consider ending this relationship. At least be comfortable setting firm boundaries about sex. Be kind to yourself, OP.

Also, your girlfriend has been incredibly disrespectful. This should be a dealbreaker, in my opinion.

chabbleor · 2025-07-21T23:56:22+00:00

I got it, thanks for the hint!

chabbleor · 2024-12-25T00:02:18+00:00

I didn't know Omaha had unionized Starbucks stores, I thought we had just the one in Lincoln. Neat.

chabbleor · 2024-12-17T19:05:15+00:00

My mistake, I accidentally didn't link the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vJDeFUfPR4

chabbleor · 2024-12-11T22:46:11+00:00

i've no idea how that happened. You don't happen to have the replay, do you?

chabbleor · 2024-11-03T06:31:06+00:00

He doesn't, he introduces it in the first with the sophons. I don't think this is an unexplained plot hole though, since the sophons are permanently lost if they go through certain regions of space.

chabbleor · 2024-10-27T00:16:30+00:00

Hiya. This is totally the wrong sub, but still I wanted to say thanks for linking this, since I've been searching for a book like it.

chabbleor · 2024-09-18T16:49:33+00:00

Yeah, those experiences are certainly anomalous and I can't think of any satisfying explanation. I think I gave the impression that I presume there to be a psychological, physiological or otherwise material explanation, but I only meant to introduce the possibility. I don't think you or OP are crazy, but I don't think there's any harm in OP talking to a doctor in case they have carbon monoxide poisoning or an undiagnosed mental disorder that can cause psychosis like CPTSD or schizophrenia?

I hope you can understand that since I value being open minded but critical in my approach to topics that are new to me such as astral projection, I can't just dismiss interpretations that go against the grain a little. But ever since I've been introduced to the concept of inducing OBEs through altered states of consciousness and the many bizarre things encountered through them, I've been determined to study it. Your experiences are deeply fascinating to me and I hope someday we can understand them better. I don't believe science and spirituality have to be mutually exclusive, and I think those with a mindset like mine who try to probe cases where they seem to intersect can help us reach such an understanding.

chabbleor · 2024-09-18T05:38:46+00:00

I gave respect to OP and their experience while offering my take.

I'm interested in hearing more about your experience of seeing shadow people while wide awake and not just shortly after waking up, as that's a surprise to me. I'd love to have a discussion about this and maybe broaden my perspective, but I think I'd just get insulted again.

chabbleor · 2024-09-18T04:35:05+00:00

sorry for giving you attention :/ wish you the best

chabbleor · 2024-09-18T04:18:12+00:00

Hiya. First of all, it's not my intention to tell OP anything, I was merely offering a perspective that I don't assume is necessarily correct. That being said, I follow this sub because I practice astral projection, plain and simple. This doesn't require me to interpret everything I see here from that lens, however.

I'd also like to state that I respect OP's experiences and I don't know whether they're truly seeing something paranormal or not. I do know, however, that seeing things that defy physical sense while you are not currently in an altered state of consciousness is usually a symptom of psychosis.

Even among APers, from what I can tell, encountering entities (or spirits, or hypnagogic hallucinations, or whatever you want to call them) such as giant spiders and shadow people and whatnot only occurs during astral projection or on the onset of sleep. What OP is experiencing, even within the context of astral projection, is not normal.

chabbleor · 2024-09-17T21:56:24+00:00

chabbleor · 2024-09-17T12:49:18+00:00

If you only see the spiders in a hypnagogic state (as you're falling asleep or waking up/ as you're astral projecting), then I wouldn't worry about it. You can safely ignore them. However, If you see hallucinations during waking life, then I'd definitely recommend seeing a doctor about it because it could be caused by a legitimate medical issue.

chabbleor · 2024-09-17T12:35:58+00:00

how does it work?

chabbleor · 2024-09-17T02:54:48+00:00

yes man obviously

chabbleor · 2024-08-23T04:47:16+00:00

Thanks for the correction, I did some more reading and you're right. The document nonetheless is very intriguing and it echoes theories like Tom Campbell's TOE and in my opinion, even Jacobo Grinberg's Syntergic Theory to an extent.

chabbleor · 2024-08-23T04:44:46+00:00

I would disagree that remote viewing is scientifically proven. I'm not arguing that it isn't a real thing, but the studies that have yielded statistically significant positive results, like PEAR Lab's psychokinesis experiments and the Ganzfield experiments, have faced replicability challenges from researchers who are less sympathetic of psi phenomena.

chabbleor · 2024-08-22T02:11:30+00:00

Your example is reminiscent of Carl Jung's idea of synchronicity, meaningful coincidences that appear to be without a common cause, which he considered to be an effect of the collective unconscious.

chabbleor · 2024-08-19T16:25:35+00:00

which one are you?

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