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We won't find anything we truly need on the internet. No genuine encounters happen there, and genuine encounters are the only ones that can relieve us of our loneliness and isolation - Willigis Jager

I used to sleep with the rosary beads wrapped around my hand so I wouldn't be tempted to lust. I dwelt in emptiness and got off completely on piety. I would have expansive manic episodes of unbearable joy ( Read more... )

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Frequency What's the point of circumcision?
lordsluk parents want their sons to look like their fathers
Frequency Did you ever hear of that kid that got his entire penis burnt off with a cautering iron and got raised as a girl?
lordsluk yes ( Read more... )

I forget sometimes how difficult and how painful it wasgrowing up disabled. The emotional scars are healed but the social skills i should have developed are still missing. I went to a diner today, one I usually avoid because for some reason it encourages people to talk to each other. Its a very intimate tiny cafe. I usually avoid it because It ( Read more... )

i spent much of my adult life pursuing a career in counseling and the study of psychology only to abandon it at the turn of the millenium. Looking back I can see that i pursued psychology not to help people but for two other reasons. The first reason was to develop my intellectual needs through academic rigors. Secondly i became involved with ( Read more... )

It is easier to be a victum then to be an awakened person. Awakened doesn't mean having profound wisdom, just the courage to face each problem, each moment with dignity ( Read more... )

Dig a bottomless pit and enter through your stomach ( Read more... )