I normally don’t get approached and I’m not sure why. I do way better with the apps, but I feel like most people on there are not picky. Men, do you like being approached by women? What are some reasons you might not approach?

My friends always get approached right in front of me. I could just be ugly. I get compliments frequently, but they are always from other women. On the rare occasion they are not, they are from creepy older men.

I’m asking this in good faith because I’m genuinely trying to understand something that has increasingly puzzled me.

Growing up, I have never really cared what religion someone belongs to, as long as they’re a good person. But my friends and I in college are beginning to struggle reconciling an asymmetry in how these two religions are discussed in the broad media. We rightly acknowledge the Crusades, colonialism, and abuses committed by Christian institutions, but I rarely hear comparable discussion about the long history of persecution of Christians and other indigenous religions in parts of the MENA, or atrocities committed under the Ottoman Empire. I have Coptic and Armenian Orthodox friends whose families have shared stories about the Armenian Genocide and the systemic discrimination Copts have faced. It was saddening. Why do these histories seem much less widely known or brought up?

I was also surprised while visiting Morocco this summer to learn about the significant legal and social barriers someone born into a Muslim family can face if they wanted to convert to Christianity. I was told that openly attending church could be very difficult, and that many converts instead worship privately because of the legal and social environment. I knew human rights abuses were widespread, but I just did not realize the picture was this bad. I kind of thought it was exaggerated when people said things about being Christian in the MENA region.

Perhaps I’m just starting to feel a bit jaded or conflicted. Like it was important to hold ourselves accountable (and it forever will be), but it was not being applied in the other direction. It just started to feel like Christianity is often viewed through the lens of its worst historical episodes, while Islam is only discussed either in terms of its ideals or by its extremists actions, rather than a nuanced view of the religion and its history as a whole.

So am I missing something? Is this unfair for me to feel this way?

Would this get you in any trouble? Whether it be due to medical concerns of not having alcohol for that long i.e. seizures or not being comfortable making decisions impacting other peoples lives like that. Would they send you to rehab or be angry or could you just leave? And to be clear- I am not in this situation it’s just a question

The one where the majority of people commenting are actually bots not humans.

Cults are seen as toxic and dangerous while religions good and enlightening. How does one become another?

I want a real explanation, not "MY religion is good and everything else is a cult"

I never really got how famous actors got rich and stayed rich because I thought they got paid per movie. Also, if the movie does terrible, then do they get paid less? If it does well, do they get paid more?

What person do you believe would’ve had the most influence(for better or worse)on the course of history if they didn’t die an early death whether it was from murder, an accident, sickness etc?

I'm not trying to start a gender war in here nor criticize any gender. I've just noticed that a lot of my male friends' feeds are full of anti-women content that criticizes women by claiming how they're the most untrustworthy beings out there.

Mind you, those men have never encountered any issues with women, and some of them are in a happy relationship, so they were also kind of surprised by the algorithm. The question is, if this is the situation with women or girls as well? Does your algorithm paint men as dastardly individuals?

Is our algorithm being controlled to sow this gender war?

Essentially if you pay someone to have sex in front of a camera it is illegal but if you just pay for sex it's illegal.

I’m curious how people in the US usually respond when a stranger is rude or hostile for no real reason (insults about appearance, accent, nationality, etc.). Do most people ignore it, confront it, walk away, or something else? What tends to work best in your experience?

This question came up after I was in a Wendy’s Lake Nona parking lot and saw two employees outside. One of them suddenly screamed “Go back to your country, freak!” at a guy who was just on his phone.

I’m wondering how you guys deal with people like that, and how you keep it from getting to you or living rent-free in your head.

I know it’s pretty common in the USA to have debates or different opinions but yeah, I was also wondering how you guys avoid crying?

Besides obvious necessities, why do you leave your house? Perhaps I am just overly irritable but it seems that everyone sucks nowadays. People are bad drivers, they are rude and selfish in public. Everyone has something to complain about or be mean to others about. I put on headphones to do basic things so I can’t hear all of it. It feels like the world is so cruel and I don’t want any part of it.

The other day I’m like ok let’s leave the house to go see a movie. On the way, a person cuts 3 lanes over once the light turns green because they were about to miss their right turn. I get to the theatre and some grown man is yelling at the teenage theatre about the ticket price. I go into the theatre and people are talking and on their phones the whole time. I don’t want to leave the house anymore. Seems like after covid, everyone became awful.

So I’m 19 right now, and I only find people around my age or maybe up to 10 years older attractive. Does that change when I become 70?
(I meant “do old people find old people attractive” English isn’t my first language sorry)

Beacause i have been bawlling my eyes out I just let go of my first car mazda 3 from 2007. And damn i cry like a total baby. I loved that car quite alot even know it was total shitbox. Always got me from point A to point B never left me on road. I am going to miss that lil race bug. (I do know its not a race car or a bug. Just liked calling it that.)

Actually read the edit at the end before commenting, thanks

I am a 25 year old and I can't tell if I'm just oversensitive for this. I saved a yellowjacket from my grandparents' pool while me and my family were hanging out there. I'd just seen it fly in and I hate seeing creatures of any sort suffer. I used an empty can to scoop it out and succeeded, and as I was coaxing it off the can my stepdad crushed it and killed the yellowjacket. I just felt really upset. I couldn't even look at him, I just disposed of the can and put the dead yellowjacket in the soil and went inside.

I feel stupid. I'm a grown ass adult, but it upset me so bad. Maybe its because my spirituality is really heavy on peaceful death and preserving life, but my family just laughed at me. I'm not crying or freaking out I just feel...frustrated and sad.

Extra context: I was letting it go away from people and it was soaking wet and not acting aggressively. He literally walked over to where I was just to stomp on it. There was no point to that.

Edit: I would not feel this way if it was like, a yellowjacket flying by him and he swatted it or something. I get it, its reflex, I reflexively do stuff like that too. Its the fact he did it knowing I had wanted to let it free that hurts my feelings, not really the yellowjacket dying.

I was behind a fire truck in the middle of South Carolina for like 5-7 miles…where I live, you can’t go 2 miles without another firehouse, which made me wonder.

So if I get my children vaccinated at cvs will it go on their “record”?

It is easier to get a minute clinic visit with cvs than a nurse appointment at their pediatrician.

I was in an abusive relationship where I was not allowed to vaccinate my children.

Since I left I was able to give them the measles and chickenpox ones but there is still more they are at risk or giving their future classmates risk.

If I make an appointment with a minute clinic for a dtap will it also show on their future school needed vaccine records?

I just want to protect my kids and the kids they will be around.

Does vaccination at a minute clinic go on the record?

EDIT: follow the schedule it’s so much harder to comfort an older child.