Oh sure no one is telling their parents or pastor.

Just want to clarify that the vast majority of even extremely observant Jews aren't nearly as crazy as the stuff you're seeing here... But yeah that's a thing.

Re the prayer issue - I've always thought that some people who throw around comments about praying for the needy etc have some sort of "catch-all" prayer get out. Like they say "Please God, help those who need help and love their families" or something like that (actually, probably nothing like that but I have no idea how the specifics work) - but they can rationalise this as being a prayer for any cause that they deem worthy.

"issue" is definitely a stretch. who cares, it's just a way to say they care about someones suffering and are keeping them in mind.

"Issue" in this case obviously means "topic". I mean, that is so obvious as to be painful to watch you asign it more meaning just to knock it down.

As far as who cares, it is an examination of what motivates people to tack on what, if you speak for everyone which you clearly think you do, amounts to meaningless religious flavor to an easily conveyed message that doesn't need it.

Know how I know? I show sympathy without invoking religious ceremony imagery 100% of the time. You just did the same. I am truly curious to what end or benefit the people who say this all the time do so. Whether it is just custom like asking "how are you?" as a greeting or there is more behind it is interesting enough for me to think about it and have an informal ****ing discussion when the topic comes up on a discussion formum. Now that I have explained why I "care" to you, hopefully to your satisfaction, what is your judgment? Is that caring about it more than I'm allowed?

I saddlebacked a girl my freshman year of college, so it definitely exists. It was her idea, so she could remain a virgin. I was like....okaaaasy. As long as I get to stick my penis somewhere, I'm happy.

Hahaha oh man that's awesome. That's the first time I've ever heard an account from someone actually encountering this in the wild.

I mean I was raised in a pretty sexually repressive environment and didn't have sex (vaginal or anal) until I was 24 but I'm pretty sure at no time did I think having anal sex was a way to stay a virgin. No idea when that specific thought gained traction but it's hilarious.

so by those standards, gay people aren't having sex, so aren't doing anything wrong?

If a man lies with a man as with a woman blah blah blah.

They can justify any hate they want, and ignore the parts they choose. It's the American Christian way.

But yeah I assume gold star gays and lesbians are all virgins.

In college I had a friend, who had Eiffel Towered a chick with another buddy, but since he did her anally he still thought of himself as a virgin. I immediately disagreed and considered him dumber than I had before after hearing that rationalization.

Wow, I've learned a few new phrases from this thread recently. Eiffel Towering is another one - it seems like this is your basic common garden poke-and-choke/spit roasting but where the dudes touch hands or high five at the same time. It's not exactly crossing swords, but sounds a bit overly friendly between the two dudes if you ask me.

Aren't you hung like a mule? Sheesh that poor girl.

I'm sure you get the gist of that. I don't even know the person yet it pisses me off

Facebook is not the ideal platform to share my thoughts, metaphors, feelings, or philosophies on.

Within the bounds of the hundred or so people I have on my profile, I am unable to spark truly meaningful discussions about anything beyond a superficial nature.

It's not validation, likes, or heart reacts that I'm interested in.

Rather, I seek to provoke thought, garner criticism, and to share & gain understanding.

Over-excited by my own introspective epiphanies, enthused and confident about my own wisdom -- some times I just have to share my break through's with my friends on facebook even though I know it won't be reciprocated.

This especially doesn't seem like the place to gain support for anything I do musically.

You people don't relate or care and I'm not really networking and meeting new associates *through* this site....

So I think I'm going to take my thoughts, works, hurts, and expressions somewhere else on the internet. (No, not Pornhub.)

I'm just going to make video's from now on, every time I have something to share, and I'm gonna make my presence on Youtube.

That way if people do care they won't have to read a **** load of text they can just watch a vid.

And when I die people can meme me with screenshots from my vids

above is clubhouse leader in the narcissism category

I think also really demonstrates how hard it is to fake that stuff. If I tried to be that narcissistic, it would read like parody, but that reads like a real post from start to finish.

btw, definitely deserves a place in this thread, going to have to l33tspeak some stuff in here because legit scared of somehow google searches...

My ex-gf and I used to live with this woman. She has worked high paying jobs in the past, her husband has a Ph. D. and she got a ~$US 200K payout some years back for injuries (of a dubiously incapacitating nature) from being knocked off her sc00ter.

So recently she got diagnosed with MS, which is horrible, and I don't want to make light of that. But. You've just been diagnosed with MS. What's the first thing you do?

Because her answer to that was "set up a G0Fu|\|dMe and ask your friends for cash". The description of the GFM doesn't even specify any expenses they have (bear in mind we live in a country with universal health care and they probably have private health insurance anyway). It's literally just "a **** thing happened to me, poor me, give me money". The target is $50K and as of my last viewing, it had raised $1,090.

This is pretty much an exact description of this chick (Donald Trump is an example of the counterpart, the "grandiose narcissist"):

The reason I post this is that I really wonder whether by posting the GFM, she is sort of engineering a "test" of her friends. I once vaguely knew a guy who was a total failure at all things female and whenever he met women, within 5 mins he would be complaining about being a virgin and how women hated him etc. Needless to say this was like spraying capsicum spray in the face of nearby females. This was then a cathartic confirmation of his own failure. I think this catharsis is common when people have deep seated fears, it's like your tongue constantly going to the gap where a tooth should be, people derive a weird satisfaction from confirming that there is something wrong with them. So I think subconsciously she's setting up a situation where people are either confirmed as Real Friends via giving money (yay!) or they're confirmed as Disloyal *******s (also yay, in this weird cathartic way).

Edit: The point here is that even were I narcissistic enough to think I deserve money because a bad thing happened to me, my immediate worry would be that I was subjecting my friends to an impossible choice between shelling out money and ignoring me appealing to them. Of course the level 0 interpretation is just that she doesn't give the slightest **** what she puts her friends through and just wants the $$$, but I don't think I buy that. I think on a subconscious level, she WANTS to subject her friends to a loyalty test. The uncertainty of not knowing whether her friends are Truly Loyal or not is agonizing. It's like Trump and his Loyalty Pledges.

That's probably too serious for this thread lol, but I think it's some interesting psychology.

Sounds a bit off - but, trying to give some possible benefit if the doubt, you may need to consider all things if you have MS. I know someone who has a mild form. She had an outbreak, undetected at the time (something to do with an eye), at age 18, then another at age 24, then her arm went numb for a couple of weeks at about 41 - detected at this point for sure as MS. Her kids at the time were fairly young and she had a major panic, and had to think about changes they could make to the house to let her get about if it got worse. It's not the treatment that is the issue, it's things like that and loss of earnings. She's 50 now and there hasn't been any more symptoms at all. Obv she's at the low end of the range.

From a news article about Trump signing a law into effect. Note, this wasn't a direct post by POTUS, so the odds of him getting the message are literally zero.

How does a grown-ass adult man post this kind of drivel?

I'd classify that person as a "drooler"

A drooler who would happily send millions to concentration camps if Trump told him it was the right thing to do.

This phrase "grown-ass man" is a weird one to me. The middle word just looks, sounds, and feels really out of place. It's very commonly used, so I must be the only one who thinks it's just really weird.

This is my latest FBS update.

You give skanks attention they create the most ridiculous bull****!!! Move along ***** no one wants your skanky ass

The latest update from emotionally stable woman. There is more preceding this although I'm not sure I really understand what's going on.