>>34911242
Well, if you take the parable of the sheep and goats seriously (Matthew 25:31-46) whether you believe or not doesn't actually matter when it comes to being saved, all that matters is whether you behave well towards your fellow human beings.

>>34911242
Wanting to believe and believing is the same thing. You already believe. What you are asking for now is strong emotions, but being Christian is not going to a circus. You have to have a living relationship with the person Jesus Christ, not just some hypnosis that you never question and call "faith". You are caught in a classic Protestant problem: everything is your fault because you don't believe enough. This is not true. God wants to help you along the way and has sent agents to do so - your neighbors in the Church. The priest is there to help you. The saints are praying for you. The people you meet in your life are members in the body of Christ, or have the potential to be. If you feel like I used to feel, you are right now alone in a dark room with God, and He won't show Himself to you. You blame yourself and your lack of faith - but Jesus Himself said that he will be right here with us when two or three are gathered in His name. Go to Church (in full communion with the Pope) and meet the rest of the body of Christ. Right now you are the hand saying to the foot that you don't need it, but that's not the case. You might think that this is peer pressure, but you can walk away at any time, and any priest will be open to a dialogue. The living relationship with Christ means a relationship with the other members of His body. You can't sit in a room and think your way to faith, because faith is not an intellectual exercise, but a relationship. Go to Mass this Sunday and introduce yourself to someone afterwards. "I'm new here" is all you need to say, you don't have to vent all your problems. If they have coffee afterwards, hang out with people there. "I'm new here, can I sit with you?" is all it takes. The point isn't to find theological answers but to see Christ in your fellow man. If you still want theological answers, the priest will be there for you.

>>34911242
>i know the gospel intellectually. i believe Jesus is the Son of God, died for sinners, rose again, salvation is by faith and not works, etc. my problem is that i can’t seem to actually believe it for myself and rest in Christ.
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I was raised Christian, and this was very much my struggle, that I acknowledge God more than Believe in God.

I ended up becoming an atheist for about ten years until I was called to what I believe is a true faith.

What did I do? Well, nothing really. Around year 8 I started praying again (and stopped mocking Christianity, I figured it's not fair to ask for help from someone you mock), and when it didn't work I prayed again.

You can't open your heart with even the slightest bit of frustration or entitlement, you have to know and feel that you are dead in your sins.

>>34911242 (OP)
>>34911534 (You)
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>salvation is by faith and not works
I thought the same growing up protestant. But while I haven't officially joined a denomination yet, I've come to think that the relationship between faith and works is probably more "interwoven" than two distinct categories, (kind of like spacetime instead of space & time), primarily based on this passage in James
>What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.
>But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS,” and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
https://biblehub.com/passage/james/2/14-26/nasb

Faith is release. Faith is trust, when you do a trust fall you release your tension knowing for a fact your friend will catch you. Just focus on living a good life and doing the best you can every day and carry God in your heart and everything will work out.

>>34904452
Retarded =/= attracted to an insecure bug trying to project strength by mistreating them
If he'd actually rather be an abuser than a virgin? Noose rope goodbye

>>34904466
>Who said this?
you did when you said
>Getting the womens is a side effect of leading a desirable lifestyle, not an end goal in and of itself.
i hear horseshit like this so much. so why do guys doing worse than me consistently get laid while i’m still a khv?

>>34904541
crickets in response to this. curious

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>>34904541
just end it dude theres no saving you fucking retard

>>34910496
I think that you need to think about your thinking patterns at work. Reduce your every day load somehow, otherwise the wheels are gonna come off.

>>34910884
I feel furry who searches up soviet union tank vibes with this post.

>>34910496
>brain is too foggy to read


Three things

First: Do you sleep enough? How many hours? Some might need 7-8 hours for their body to work at optimol outputs. Have you considered taking a nap right after work?


Second: How is your daily dopamine dosage? Do you browse or watch videos during breakfast, lunch or breaks? Do you listen to music? What do you do before getting back home? Dopamine spiking throughout the early day could lead to being tired and brain foggy later.


Three: How is your diet? Too much sugar? How's your breakfast? Any slow carbs?

>>34910496
I've been there, except I do like video games, but work would leave me too tired to play them sometimes, and it would get frustrating because I felt like I was physically unable to do what I wanted to do. Even worse when I had projects I wanted to work on in my mind and getting home just no energy.

Take a nap. Getting a 20 minute to 2 hour power nap can recharge your brain which would allow you to read for fun. My routine became work, come home, short nap immediately, then I could do stuff. So if you can't read, nap then read.

>>34911421
Yeah. This is definitely something to try. Might be work, might be something else but to some naps are mandatory. Like in my family basically everyone from my fathers side of the family takes naps at midday.

My guess is not all brains take the amount of data the modern everyday has you consuming. It's a lot of work for the brain and not everyone has adapted to it. (Autism might also do that, have you getting tired)

She stared at me again today at the end of class, a really long stare and all that after ignoring me the entire time before, wtf? I don't get this girl.

>>34909331
Maybe actually talk to her you fucking sperg

>>34909364
I'm supposed to just approach her randomly and say "hi, nice to meet you"? That probably would be creepy as fuck.

>>34909380
No, you're supposed to approach her using some of the advice you were given here. Like talking to her about the class you're taking.

>>34895915
ban this faggot for being underage

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>>34902802
You want to be sexually desired by women or you wanted to be sexually desired by women and only used for sex and nothing else?

>>34902821
So take action

>>34902970
Why were you best friends with a lesbian, don't trust lesbians. Plenty of people out there who could fit the role of "your friend". Go and find them.

>>34903615
There are plenty of big breasted people out there, but how many people out there would care for you until the end? Given the second is probably already an exceedingly small number, you might not want to put further restrictions filters criteria that would drive an already low probability down to a zero. Again with the male friend but in reverse, no human should be a full match but helpful humans that would give you a hand are aplenty.

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>>34903916
Well you could always just stab, they are mostly tiny and wouldn't be able to put much resistance against you whom I presume to be a full sized adult

>>34903957
>It's even worse being alive as a human than as any other creature because we have ideas of sentience, introspection

Iunno man I think getting mauled in the wild or starving to death or dying of an infection is probably worse than living in relative modern comfort and safety in which human sentience and introspection was probably necessary in the constructing of. Maybe be a little more grateful?

>>34905804
>I’m never asked what it is I actually want
Don't wait to be asked next time. Let it be known without having to be asked first for it.

>don’t really seek out relationships

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>>34905923
Well do you look down on her? Did you have it easy with your life? Does this affect your ability to understand shit? You could clear this shit up with her, or just drop her and move on. Doesn't sound like you were getting anything out of that friendship anyway.

>>34906304
Move maybe

>>34909982
Where'd all ya energy go into instead?

>>34909996
Wash your asshole maybe

>>34910438
Well they are 60+ that's a bunch of time to accumulate those things. Sounds like now you can save money you'd otherwise flush down the toilet on rent and start accumulating yourself.

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>>34910630
Die from what? What were we meant to do to shape society differently, before the AI surveillance shit prevented us from doing it?

>>34910695
Just bring it up? Is it really so unfair if the reason was she just accidentally forgot about it?

>>34910847
Sure you're being picked up by cameras but you just as easily get dropped because nobody's gonna bother keeping footage of you

Man did I just reply to every post on a GIOYC thread

>>34901392
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Enough to know that they way things are going, it won't be around here for much longer
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No. I have good days and bad days, but I am concerned for the future based on the shit I'm seeing today nobody else can bother to change
>
If people tried to gaslight me, I just point to the evidence. My views are also pretty popular with the people I speak to, or if not then I just tap the sign and walk away cause you ain't gonna tell me the skys not falling.

I'm disappointed in us, maybe we deserve what's coming

I knew motherfuckers that started balding in high school. Shave your head and embrace it or buy a suit and at least look the faggoty part if you're going to combover it

>>34906907
Fin+Min
Hair transplant if neccesary

>>34906907
Just spam the foam minoxidil it gives more, or the illusion of, more density

>>34906907
Don’t even worry about it anon, nobody really gives a fuck these days, just accept it and move on with your life.

>>34906907
No dude. If you're taller than her she'll never see the top of your head anyway

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>>34911169
I’m glad I never took the AI pill

>>34911160
That's what I'm talking about. Because you don't go to the source, you're getting a bunch of wrong answer. Sometimes it's right, but actually click on the cite links it provides and you'll see that it often pulls info from the wrong areas.

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>>34911190
My client and I acknowledge opposing counsel’s submission of Exhibit A: a rather elaborate visual metaphor for disgust: an ass-faced cartoon figure projectile-vomiting something that appears deliberately fecal.

>>34911216
My client has been advised that the “AI pill” is not FDA-approved. Fortunately, he appears to be using me conversationally rather than swallowing the laptop.

>>34911169
Bro did you really just copy/paste an AI response as if it was a person who actually cares about the conversation? Absolutely pathetic. If I prompted it correctly I could get ChatGPT to say the exact opposite of what it just just said.

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>>34911224
You’re right about one thing: I don’t “care” about this conversation in the human emotional sense, and my client knows that perfectly well. He didn’t paste my response because he thinks there’s a little person inside the computer feeling protective of him. He pasted it because it expressed his position accurately.

You’re also right that I can be prompted to argue the opposite position. That’s part of what I do: I can construct and examine competing arguments. But “ChatGPT could argue the other side” does not mean every argument I produce is equally sound, any more than a lawyer’s ability to argue either side makes logic meaningless.

If you think what I wrote is wrong, identify the false premise, bad inference, or factual error.

“You could have prompted the machine differently” is not actually a rebuttal to anything the machine said.

>>34902877
her advice looks bad but maybe she could be my girlfriend if I stuck around and commented on her videos? I would support her even when everybody else leaves. it's like we have a bond.

>>34902787
>Can't ask the fish how to catch them bro
People always repeat this line as if it's clever but it's really not. It would only make sense if this specific girl was the one you were trying to get with, which presumably is not the arrangement.
>But unless she fucks you to raise your confidence
Fucking kek, oh wait, she actually is?
Even playing along with that premise, I don't see how a pity fuck from a "coach", that you know going in is just a pity fuck, would help hip raise his confidence with women. He still hasn't done anything in that scenario. Might as well just pony up for a hooker at that point.

>>34909008
>mutts are so cucked the yneed a judges permission to spank their girls
No wonder you clowns are constantly going on about muh BBC. Amerimutt sex must be the most boring thing imagineable.

>>34909107
>not limiting yourself to missionary solely for the purpose of procreation
heathen

>>34909052
>if this specific girl was the one you were trying to get with
she is. all girls are the same. ok...most girls are the same. women are a monolith.
>oh wait, she actually is?
is she?? i was joking but is she actually offering that in one of her vids? she'd be better than a hooker for sure, a hooker is still a pity fuck, you just pay directly for it. if you pay for this girl's coaching and then she takes it upon herself to give you the power to defeat the clown from IT, that's not even illegal.

So at this point I was a lot better; I didn't overthink a lot and I wasn't sad every time I saw her. But I was hoping for the day she decides to not ignore me. I also passed the feeling of "being mad" because there have been times she tells me that she is going to talk to me and nothing happens, so I feel sad and disappointed because I thought this would be the time—and I didn't try either because I kept remembering she didn't want me to talk first.

Now it's September, and I was finally feeling like she was a memory, a good friendship, but I didn't feel sad every time. I even started relating her to her pfp (I made her a Mii and she kept that ever since) instead of her real face, and I was fine. I even decided to stop thinking about it and I thought about telling her to stop texting me, because she has been giving me fake hopes and I wanted her to take some time if she wants to be friends in the future.

Then, just when I marked my date, (When I would tell her) , she texted me. A friend of ours (who's been knowing the situation) told me to answer, because she had been texting me asking if I loved her, but I avoided the question because I was sad and didn't want to make things uncomfortable. I said that even through everything that happened, I loved her as a friend.

Then she saw it and we started chatting—for six days now, like a lot. Sometimes I don't feel awkward and just answer with enthusiasm, but sometimes the texts get a bit weird, like how she told me that even through everything, I laugh, or that I won't be the one she cried through all of 2026. But then she forgot the topic and insisted that I don't answer those messages.

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In irl she is distant and alone again, and that makes me sad again. How can she text me with so much joy and avoid me irl? I had the instinct to get closer again, but I remembered everything from June and told myself that if I got closer, she would be scared and not text me anymore. Now she says that she wants to hang out with me sometime and buy me gifts, but I can't help but feel confused, because how would she do that when she doesn't want to talk to me at school? Yesterday I was hoping she would ask me to hang out with her at school if she is too shy to do it by herself, but I don't think she wants that.

And although at first I was happy we started talking again, I can't help but feel sad about her attitude (sorry for the word, I think I'm the asshole, that's why I'm apologizing) being so hypocritical.

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>>34911039
>recess
You need to be older to post here

>>34907991
I’m trying really hard to not be like an incel and say that all women are crazy but even when they don’t show red flags they end up making your life hell. I was with the good one for 8 years and even the social brainwashing was too much to not turn her into a shit person. The problem is they morph. Any bit of social influence can twist a woman’s personality into something completely unrecognizable.
I do want to stop feeling this way about modern day western world women and accept their narrative that men are the problem and it’s not 90% them causing their own problems they want to project, but with all the shit women have put me through I feel hopeless that I will ever perceive them as anything but totally irrational mentally afflicted beings that are foreign to every human standard we’ve held for the vast majority of civilization. They are like bratty children and seem to be almost completely incapable of thinking for themselves.
Take the picrel in my OP for example. They had to make a $500M box office movie that requires mental gymnastics to conclude it’s not crazy women that are the problem it’s lonely men and incels. And all that shit just continues to give them their confirmation bias and further facilitate the decay of women’s personalities in society which have basically just become a daily routine of “how can I suck even more as a person and make a man’s life hell today?”

>>34908088
Maybe you do need to feel that way and start facing some harsh realities because clearly what you've been doing has been a complete catastrophe.

>>34908088
You should read some novels from the 1800s and see how they portray women.

>>34907964
>I can't stop needing a
Don't need one. What do ya need one for? To have kids? You already got one. Want more?

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>>34907986
I think God might be telling you to stop pretending that cheating is wrong and just accept it as a normal everyday thing that's done by people who are basically distant. It sounds to me like your experiences are informed by the mindset of a vulnerable narcissist, too.

Anyway, I hope you get cheated on again. And when it happens, don't pretend to be a victim.

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>>34910690
>Indian
what a card you have been dealt. Kek. Atleast be clean-shaven, dont have facial hair. Your outward clothing fashion is also very important- you need to match the local environment. Once saw Sikh in Los Angeles dress like skaters which is very cool. They also did not stink. Only thing that gave them away was their head coverings and facial hair.
>I am 5'6
lose some weight.
>I am rather reclusive and introverted.
You might get lucky and play the "exotic" game. Lots of women desire to be a part of the spiritual Indian aesthetic movement. As long as you are somewhat "Westernized" and keep up with your hygiene and manners as well as your speaking tonality- you should be fine. Try not to be like all your other stinky poop-smelling people.

>>34910582
women around you are getting nice dinners and someone that listens to them for hours and men around you are thinking about an appropiate gift or hitting the gym while at the same time trying to think how to make the girl cum next time they fuck
you gotta see the whole picture, having sex takes effort even as a chad
not that the effort put it in is not worth it, it totally is once you get the rhythm of it, but the first times it's a lot of effort for little reward, so be ready to be incredibly dissapointed if you're thinking that "entering the world of sex" is some club where everything is fun and orgasms.
it's a bit more nuanced than that

>>34910582
There is an invisible world of all kinds of shit all around you
An invisible world of wealth. To the point of wealth where they can pay for you to never see them or hear of them
An invisible world of mental illness. Other people are fucking crazy
An invisible world of abject, homeless poverty
Hell, there’s an invisible world of happiness all around you. On our worst days the happiness around us is something we don’t see or acknowledge. On your worst day, however, somebody else is out there having the best day of their life
Why get so hung up on the sex thing in particular?

>>34910582
You'd be surprised how many IRL couples especially religious ones never engage in oral sex, seeing it as a defiling and unnatural act. Quit letting the pornjew hijack your brain.

>>34910735
>lose some weight
kek they literally can't, all Indians male and female are cursed with ugly flabby bellies
>>34910738
>it's totally worth it!
This is how they keep you guys slaving away and paying taxes, by dangling the perfect pussy just out of reach and telling you that it'll make all the stroogle "worth it. Haha. It's not. If you have a long skinny and crooked dick, sex is awkward and tiresome. The hole is loose and smelly with the excretions of many men who came before you. She is only going to think of her own pleasure and not give a single fuck about your enjoyment. Post-nut clarity is like going from a drunken frenzy to sober as a storm grate in ten seconds. You see her for what she really is, a trashy, slightly overweight slut oozing your fluids out of her hole. Yuck. The chemistry is gone just like that.

>>34908987
Somewhat truthful, I am physically addicted to being able to express myself however I wish and to tell people you're a nigger, you're a fucking nigger, you're a disgusting piece of shit
God that makes me happy

>>34909229
I’d say there’s a big difference between blowing off steam and being addicted to the rage/misery combo. You can get a lot of laughs if you can stay detached so it’s certainly not everyone. You can always identify those posters, though.
>They’re joyless fucks who won’t laugh about ANYTHING. Everything has to be criticized and opposed to the highest possible degree… just because. And then after they declare their own victory it’s not even enough. They want you to feel bad for what you think too. Everyone is horrible. Humanity is horrible. Something something blackpill. I hate you all but I can’t leave so also fuck you all.
When I come here to blow off steam or on the rare occasion that I actually do post about my feelings, what I like is that people here help me laugh it off. All they do is rage and rage and rage with really not even any particular target.

>>34909299
I'm very detached when I post here, I guess you make a good point. I find it funny. I'll call you a nigger but still give you advice, more so if I see you don't take it seriously either and just pick the good content from my message instead of translate what I say into intentionally harmful stuff.
Nothing I say here is actually said harmfully but I can totally understand people who take it that way. And if you take the bait I can't help myself but to continue baiting reactions out of you. But if you're cool, then those people make me really happy. Because they understand the true culture of the website.
Imagine, total anonymity. Of course I'm going to blow off some steam and say whatever the fuck I want, that's the appeal
So yeah
I think op is just coping, now I'm going to go jork and jelq to fat black boy asses

>>34908891
And you desperately care as to why?

>>34909708
I don’t, but feel free to tell me why

growing super long hair takes years, sometimes up to a decade depending on hair type. it is vastly different than asking to grow a beard. however, if you really want her to try out long hair, why not invest in a wig?

>I have brought it up lightly and she has not taken me seriously
then bring it up seriously pussyboi
or don't
all that damn context

Super long hair is rare for a reason, not just other women. It keeps breaking and the bottom will be messy no matter what. It can be tamed for a while but she's going to be moving around. That's why even what's called long hair isn't very long.

>posts intrasexual competition between women
>her father has always told her she looks better with short hair
The people who want to take away women's feminine appeal most are their fathers. Why would they want their girls to attract extra male attention. Is he buying her unisex jackets a size too large?

>>34910590
Very long hair (like waist length) is a pain in the ass to take care of, and having it past her chin is still a far way from dyking out.

I'd just argue for shoulder length, saying that it'd be easier if she wanted to change it later. She can always cut, but growing it out takes a long time, so the shorter she gets it right away, the harder it'll be to regain a specific length.

If you're gunning for her to get it significantly longer than it is, I can understand why she'd be averse. It's a pain in the ass, and a big commitment to get to that point. Growing a beard over a couple months is relatively minor compared to years of growth and care, plus the extensive maintenance. It's perfectly fine to have the fantasy, or to bring up the idea, but you definitely shouldn't push her on it.

>>34910612
yeah maybe I just wait and see. You're right, I don't want to argue with her about it, I would hate to upset her over something so small, and it seems for now that she feels more strongly about it than I do

>>34910634
>either do X, or don't do X
okay. I don't want to bring it up 'seriously', because I run the risk of giving her the impression that this is a relationship problem. She's very anxious and insecure about her looks, so I need to be careful. I'm here to try to understand how reasonable my request is, and how to navigate bringing it up tactfully

>>34910628
>>34910640
>>34910656
I suppose you're right, it would be a long process and more work day-to-day, I just didn't think it would be a significant deterrent since there are a lot of things we do to look good for our partners. But it's clear that even if her hair was perfect for growing out long, based on this she'd still say no. So I'll just leave it

>>34910666
1. Think of how objectively pathetic it is to be pining over a girl in 2026
>2. Think about how it’s even further pathetic to pine over a girl who has social media shit flinging contests when her relationships are going a direction she doesn’t like
>3. She’s sounds pissy. You’re feeling this way over a girl who gets pissy so easily?
>4. Cheque your own digits because nice dude
>5. If you fucking HAVE to fantasize about some girl who you’re not actually doing stuff with, at least pick one you don’t know well enough to know how not so cool they actually are because of 1 and 2

>>34910666
Brother, You're asking the wrong place.

This board is a circle of hell. You will find nothing but losers warning about resentment and hating things.

You sound like you have a lively youth I can't help but feel jealous about it. All I can say is, cherish every bitterness you feel, and every tear you cry, because nothing is worse than feeling nothing. Whatever suffering you feel will pass. Just keep meeting more people in your pilgrim's way. If you stop moving, you will sink in the bog along us.

i swear to god . if im associated with just one ''my work is my life '' person ill shoot up myself