kierancampire

[kierancampire]

I've not been in the best place today, and just crying on and off. I needed a good release before bed, hopefully I sleep okay last night, my body woke me before 5 am last night but I fought it. I hate crying at night, I get scared neighbours can hear me

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It is a therapy day today

I spoke about David, which was harder than I expected. But afterwards he asked have I been with anyone else or had any good experiences, I do keep thinking I need to talk about this, it just feels so hard. I couldn't talk for a really long time, but he never spoke again, I think he could see I was struggling, I said his name, I said there was Anthony, but I couldn't say more than that, I'm just not in a place to talk about it. It was a heavy session today, he clearly didn't feel great leaving me like this, as I visibly hadn't perked up and am visibly not in a good place, but I told him I'll be fine, I will be

Just, yeah

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I just said "Deep down I know it was me, but I refuse to accept that"

Which, that just feels like a good general quote

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Every single woman should have hairy ass armpits and they should always wear tank tops and show it off at every convenience

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Although obviously this all works out to be more expensive now, I shouldn't have to buy laundry stuff for a while! Although, I think that big bottle of fabric conditioner was only like £5.99? The other two were more expensive, like £11-13

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So I got into an argument with a dude who said that it is statistically proven that reading the bible improves all aspects of your life, and he refused to believe he was wrong, this dude sent me all his "evidence" for this comment. I broke it down in a much larger comment to him, but wanna know what happened? I will write a second thing in slightly more detail, but here is the short version:

Every single "study" he sent was made by a religious body or person, they only targeted religious people in their studies, like they literally only did these "studies" on people who already practice religion. On one study they had an incentive to participate by a store voucher, on another they only did it based on 54 people, and another they sent it to over 1,000 people, but ended up only going with around 300 responses. One "study" was a single woman who runs a blog, and another was simply publishing something based on the previous studies without doing any personal research themselves. None of the studies were peer reviewed, none were done accurately, none had control groups, seemingly none of them included non-religious people or people of other faiths, none were ran by anybody/anything that didn't get a personal gain from a positive outcome. But also, in a few of them it literally said how with people of faith, practicing that faith in any way improves your life, not just reading the bible.

So he said this is statistically proven, but he clearly read headlines, not details. And none of his "statistically proven" citations hold literally any weight, scientific accuracy, nothing. And at best they just state that for religious people, reading sacred texts benefits them, they say literally nothing about non-religious people reading sacred texts. So yeah, his comment is bullshit through and through.

In that first survey, they surveyed 1,046, yet only chose to select 351 people to use in the study. Of all those people, it said every single person is religious and went to church. So they were already religious people, and the "study" selectively chose what people to use. I also am struggling to find who did it, if it is peer reviewed, anything. However, from the little I can see, once again, a religious body did this "study" and is just posting it. So I completely refute that as it isn't scientifically accurate and every party involved is religious.

Your second survey was referenced by the first, however, once again, it is ran by religious people and shows the people who took part in the study were religious, some literally have the title of reverend. Also, it was 54 people, 54 people is not enough to base a statistical fact one. Also, it gives literally no details of the study, it just essentially says "We reviewed 54 people and found religion helped them" it does not break down in any detail what they did, how long the study went on for, nothing.

You can only read your third survey by buying it, which I will not do. However, looking at references and citations, once again they are filled with either religious bodies or religious people. Even then, like your previous two, I doubt they are official, peer reviewed, or done authentically.

Your fourth one is not openly readable, though once again, looking at the citations it also once again has religious bodies and religious people taking part, with a vast majority of them not seeming authentic at all, and I admittedly did not and will not extensively read every single citation, but the few I checked all meet your previous issues. The thing itself even says a degree of statistical significance.

And your final one. Once again I cannot read it. However. Once again not only is it published and done by religious people working at religious bodies, you can clearly see that in the author info, from the little I can see, they simply have done what you done, read these articles and then created a "study" on it, they seemingly did no actual research or testing themselves. They are just looking at this inaccurate and non-scientific studies done by religious people, for religious people, about religious people, and said they found the correlation, which, no shit. Also, in that final one they literally state that multiple factors come into play, like health, finances, general education, everything, it is not specifically just the bible.

Did you actually read any of these? Or did you just see something saying it did a study, didn't look into the details, but just took it as gospel? Cause that's what it's seeming like you did. And before you get on my back. Let me throw something at you. Let's say that a random person, not somebody qualified or verified, just a random person one day is in McDonald's, and questions 30 people there about how good McDonald's is, how much they love the food, and how often they eat it. Now let's say he selectively only chooses the most positive/frequent reactions/eating habits of those 30, now let's say McDonald's ends up helping publish this study after seeing the results and liking it, and they post it as fact without it being peer reviewed or having any other tests. Would you then change your views and habits on McDonald's because of this survey? No. Because it wasn't done officially, and the bodies and the participants behind the survey all have a bias towards saying something good about McDonald's. This is literally what every "study" you have sent has done.

If you would like, you can edit your comment to say that it is "statistically proven" though we use those words VERY lightly that if you are already religious, then practising your religion improves your life, as those studies do not always specifically link it to bible reading, some referenced things like praying, going to church and other religious activities, which once again shows to me you didn't actually read the details of these, just saw the headlines and ran with it. However, you have submitted absolutely zero evidence, and especially zero scientifically accurate evidence, that reading the bible improves everyone's lives, particularly non-religious people. Reading in general benefits people, which, clearly you need to do more reading since you did none here. But not specifically reading the bible. Which, just to give you a quick FYI, if the study was done by a body that doesn't benefit from a positive outcome, there were control groups, like people who didn't read at all or people who read but never read religious texts, were taken from a wide group of people, like non-religious people and people of other faiths, had no incentives (one of your "studies" gave them a store voucher for participating), was peer reviewed, multiple things, then you have a case on your hands. However, you keep giving what can be *VERY* loosely described as studies/surveys, ran by religious bodies/people, targeting religious bodies/people, that are then posting findings. Your comment is still incredibly inaccurate and doesn't accurately represent what these "studies" were talking about or finding. I suggest actually reading them next time instead of just the headline.

[kierancampire]

edward likes taking bella to the meadow because she gets eaten up by mosquitos who then become flying little snackies that edward doubles back for. edward leaps about the meadow snatching them up like a bass jumping from a lake

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The problem with playing smash or pass is that there's a lot of characters which I'm not sexually attracted to but I would fuck in a heartbeat out of sheer curiosity and ego, like I don't find Mickey Mouse attractive at all but if he approached me at a bar and went "Hey sexy, want me to show you my mouseketool?" I would say yes because then I get to tell my friends I fucked Mickey Mouse

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Oh by the way, another thing I've noticed with weight loss, or maybe muscle gain, or diet changes, I dunno what triggered it honestly. But the veins, they just are so prominent now. Like look at those leggy and arm veins, my weak points are on show

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2 things

1. I noticed you can see my calf muscles when I sit down, that felt cool

2. So at the top of my nose on the left side, like upper bridge, near the corner of my eye, I get this singular white hair that grows and it drives me fucking crazy. It just continually grows, I dunno if it'd stop if I never plucked it, and from the moment it started it has always been white. Just yeah, every so often I'll see a hair in my left eye and have to pull it out of my nose, it's always in the exact same spot, I get no hairs elsewhere. I don't get why it grows there!

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Apparently there was some kind of race scheduled at a local park or something so I've been trying to avoid the main trail but a little while ago when I had to cross near it I overheard the following shouted exchange

Higher feminine voice: woo, look at you go! You're jogging! Keep it up!

Lower masculine voice (panting): you know it! Last place is still a place, baby!

And goddamn if that didn't rewire my brain a little bit.

Last place is still a place, baby.

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I woke up 2 or 3 times last night, I feel a bit tired today. My body tried waking me at 5:45, but like, fully waking me. At first I was so mad seeing how early it was, feeling shitty and knowing I'd only feel worse as the day goes on. But I just laid there with my eyes closed, I had no hopes of falling asleep, I felt awake and can never fight my body on this. Yet the next thing I know, I'm waking up at 7:30

So at least I got more sleep in, I just, yeah, tired

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I added more veg this time, and I am slightly nervous as oh lord was I bloated and gassy yesterday evening :') After so much dairy and my veg my body probably wants to kill me. Also, back to fruit and yoghurt for now, it was so tasty :3 Having cereal was nice, but I love fruit, yoghurt and honey

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SOUND ON.

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WWWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Not joking, here's part 1. To be clear, it's the english VA, David Gallagher, and he still sounds just like Riku, it's great. No idea how long he's been doing gaming streams, but it looks like he's been at it for awhile, though he only just got around to KH, he just started KH1 a few days ago. Absolutely wild, what a time to be alive.

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Reblogging a clean version to add. I'm a 29 year old male, I have no face tattoos, body mods, nothing. I have tried multiple of these things and no matter what I try, they do not recognise me as a "live" person. How anyone has fooled them is beyond me, I physically cannot make them work for me trying to use them legitimately. It's so fucking frustrating being an adult, yet locked out of adult content since their face scans do not work.

people are clowning on this guy on reddit but uhhh let's pause for a minute and ask...so what happens if someone has a skin condition? what if part of their face has been burned? what if they're missing their eyes? and so what if they just have a fuckton of tattoos? recognition algorithms are aligned with the most ""average"" / ""normal"" features which means any deviation gets denied access to shit we didnt need age verification for 1 year ago. i dont care if it's a choice versus not, dont care if it's accessing porn or wikipedia, this needs to stop