One thing I could think of from Filipino culture is the manananggal (rough translation: one who removes). It’s a sort of humanlike being, but with wings and a very long tongue. At night, its body from the waist up would fly away and leave its lower half behind, then it would hunt for food. It would go on top of pregnant womens’ rooftops and using its long tongue it would feed on the fetus. Once the manananggal gets back to its lower half, the fetus would be gone forever.

In order to get the fetus back, you can prevent the manananggal from returning to its lower half by putting something on the lower half, if you find it (not sure if it was salt or garlic or something else).

One interesting thing that I’m not sure is quite related, but if you have a miscarriage, people say that ‘nakunan ka’ (rough translation: you were taken from / x was taken from you). Could be left over from the idea that the manananggal takes fetuses?

I remember finding a website once where you can create your own universe by clicking, dragging, etc and at some point it dies. I found it through Bored button. Hope to find it again.

Hmm seems like most people didn’t get it.

Once, I’ve had thoughts of doing that. Never actually did, but I was in a bad enough state to want to, just to make a message of how my pain isn’t something I can just ‘suck up because others have had worse’. Kind of to say that my mental health was deteriorating so much that I would be willing to.

IMO if you think it’s immoral, don’t do it. You’d be totally in the right to not bribe them.

If you do wish to bribe… then idk… but I feel like bribing could potentially cause some legal trouble.

First of all, not all theists, in my experience, believe in the exact same things. Me, I don’t think God would punish people for the ‘slightest deviation from acceptable behaviour’.

Second of all, don’t generalize. I’m aware that there are many self-proclaimed ‘Christians’ who oppress minorities, but not all. So please, no ad hominem :)

ooh we should do that, but o ly for people who still use reddit. No use rejoining

Am I not free for believing in him?

I just go to Google or use my own pics (photos or art or edits)

No. In fact, you’re helping your instance. If people don’t want to see your niche instance, they gotta get out of the All feed and go back to their Home.

Just don’t follow any NSFW and people don’t be bothered.

National Geographic Kids Almanac. Read them as a kid and I learned a lot from them.

Also the dictionary. I need to make sure I use my shiny new hard words the right way.

not really. It’s just weird to watch, especially with parents.

I was 13 when COVID started, and after, I felt the same thing. I felt more mature, got into tech, lost some friends and gained new ones.

I’d say my teenage years were my butterfly years, but really it’s different for everyone. Maybe COVID was the common factor that did it, at least for me and perhaps for you too?

Me personally, I think God created all of our planets and all of our stars and whatever life lives in the universe, even outside of Earth. People who believe the same way would just stay the same and would praise God more for how great he is.

For the others though (iykyk)… well, they’re gonna be like all the other flat-earthers or they call these aliens devil spawn or whatever.

What attack? Sorry if I’m not updated.

If you say you’re ambitious, I imagine you have a plan in your head of what you want to be in the future, or what you want to do, and it’s something that takes effort to do and you’ve thought of how you would get there.

If a plan is ambitious, I’d say it’s not easily done and pretty unrealistic, but could be achieved if you’re good enough.

An ambition is what you would want to work as or do in the future, like become a doctor.

I’d say I’m ambitious, because my ambition is to become a programmer and I learned how to program with online sites so I could reach that goal. However, my plan to work at a huge Silicon Valley company is quite ambitious considering I don’t live in the US and I have only ever made chat bots.

good bot

I can easily tolerate my own farts if they’re loud (they don’t make a smell when they’re like that), but the slow, silent ones… they smell horrible and I just have to keep a straight face and tolerate them.

Diarrhea farts though… I have no idea how my nose survived.

I meant I would auto-post using a program, so yeah it won’t be done manually.

I just noticed that in general the Japanese make good quality products and they put a lot of passion into a lot of things they do. Car manufacturing included, I suppose.

My dad has a 14-year old Mitsubishi and it’s had zero problems except when the brakes broke once (it was fixed easily though). It’s in almost perfect condition.