Doubtfulness

Today is just one of those days. i cant leave my bed im crippled with anxiety 24/7. I have constant doubts about my own love and feelings towards my boyfriend. And then i tell myself i should listen to my heart or brain or whatever. But should i really be listening to this rotting piece of junk? I love him so much but i cant help but think sometimes it’s all a phase and how badly it’ll hurt when it ends and im always afraid he’ll go out and cheat on me even though he tries his best to make me feel as secure as possible. i also have a hard time understanding why he would even like me because im literally nothing lol and that scares me too bec once he realises he’ll leave me . I cant stand that because my life will be so empty without him, literally. He’s basically my only source of feeling ANYTHING but i cant tell him that because im scared he’ll run away. Anyway just a good old good morning rant lol

8th Article of Faith - We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

The church planted doubt in the Bible in me with that "as far as it is translated correctly" part since I was in Primary. Once I learned more about the Book of Mormon and lost faith in it as scripture the Bible and Jesus were quick to follow.

So with all of the talk about doubters and lazy learning I just wanted to make it clear that I memorized believed the the 8th Article of Faith including the instilled doubt. I found out the Bible's not what it claims to be and what is my reaction? I'm not surprised. I remember the 8th Article of Faith. In fact, it supported my doubt and accelerated my loss in faith. It's emphasis on how important correct translation is in scripture was like pouring gasoline on my dumpster fire of faith in the Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon.

There is no wonder in me why when Mormons no longer believe they skip joining another Christian faith and go straight to atheism. When the house is built upon the sand the rains come down and the floods come up and the Mormon faith is washed away.

hello mental health forum.. my anxiety over the years has increased to an exponential amount that i never knew i could develop to the point i could be doing something and someone asks me if i know what i’m doing and i completely forget how to do it and question my own skills it’s awful.... it makes me feel stupid and incompetent especially at my part time job when i used to be able to work quickly and very well.. what can this be? is this just intense anxiety and low self esteem? i am not looking for a diagnosis just someone who is also the same and can help me out..

Some say that God foreknows all that will occur, and the nature of all that he creates. Others adopt a more "open theist" position, (to varying degrees of openness regarding his extent of knowledge) saying that God cannot know (at least fully) something which does not yet exist.

With any of these interpretations, there is surely a point in his creation where evil occurs (evil by his own standards as much as anybody else's)

For me, the existence of such evil, and its continuation and perpetuation, mean that there is a distinct possibility that God lacks providence or that his authority, ability, or existence is questionable.

Hello.

I'm interested in how to remove blackheads on my nose area, but I'm in doubt about what to do. I've used Epiduo for just acne in general for about seven months, which has helped me so much as for pimples and such, and I'm still using it every night to maintain my skin. However, I still have a ton of blackheads on my nose, and I've tried the nose strips things, and a gentle charcoal mask, but they remain. I can feel them as "bumps" on my nose, so I should be able to extract them? I'm really afraid to use salicylic acid, since I know the harshness of the benzoyl peroxide in the epiduo (from own experience) and can only imagine the reaction that those two products would create together. I've read that epiduo should help maintain blackheads, so I'm just interested in removing the, already existing ones, but don't know how?

You may all, have a nice day.

In particular with things like math equations, I'll see a simple calculation and the answer will come to mind very quickly (seemingly without conscious thought). But I never trust that initial answer I arrived at, and find myself double-checking by working out the calculation more consciously, which usually takes multiple times longer than the initial process did. I imagine Ni is what provides the spontaneous answer initially, and Fi critic is making me doubt and double-check Ni's conclusion.

This also happens all the time with Japanese Kanji. I will see a character and the English translation will pop in my mind instantly, but I always feel the need to go back and consciously think about the mnemonic behind the character to see if my initial answer was correct.

I post this here because I feel like this is something that many people (non-INTJs) experience, but maybe it's more prominent in INTJs nonetheless? And what are your thoughts on Fi critic serving as a source of doubt to Ni hero's conclusions sound?

I've been seeing a LOT of posts from Bernie supporters today across the internet regarding today's news, from the Iowa poll to Hillary's Keystone position. I can understand why this can cause people to be feeling a bit down, especially if you've been pouring your heart and soul into everything Bernie, as I have been for the past few months. A day of bad news shouldn't be discouraging us at all. Remember what Bernie said? Do not fall down. You have to remember who we're up against. Of course it's not going to be easy. Of course we're going to be going through our ups and downs. I know it sounds cheesy, but as a 15 year old high school student who rarely posts here yet checks this reddit everyday and as someone who who has never been more inspired by another human than Bernie before, I just wanted to give my input. We need to make phone calls to people in New York (and FAST.) We don't win this fight by nitpicking every little issue within the fine print of polls or every little snarky remark someone makes on TV. This is a grassroots effort that's aiming to change the country for the better. Don't back down now. We can do this.

So this summer I(m23) went trough screenings for ADHD and autism. Tests and interviews. Turns out the doctor is 'pretty certain' i have 'quite severe ADHD'. I haven't gotten an official diagnosis yet, because the doctor needs to review it, but said it would take alot to change her mind.

I was not shocked, but felt skeptical. I could agree I have some of the symptoms of ADD. Still some of the things don't feel right. Now it is apparently called ADHD and there are different subgroups instead.

I never was the hyperactive type. More the daydreaming type. Inattentive if you will. Scatterbrained. Was never the crazy talkative one, but was still seen as bit of a clown among my friends, involuntary. I said stupid things without thinking about it, or didn't listen completely and then tried to join the conversation but came off as stupid.

Lost so much stuff (have lost my wallet 3 days in a row), couldn't finish anything but started new projects all the time. Sometimes I would involve my friend, and then lose interest and they would be frustrated and angry with me.

In my later teens, early 20s i became more depressed. And somehow it felt like I started to cope with it by stop trying at life. Since i know i got burnt before(laughed at for talking without thinking) i started to be more quiet and shy. I always arrive early to appointments because I know i might miss it if i focus on other stuff. I check everything twice, thrice so i dont forget something. Basically I know i can't trust myself. So i stopped doing things.

As I have red here I feel like I live in a thick fog, brainfog. I often feel like I can't think. Thoughts drops in and out of my consciousness, but i'm not in the drivers seat. It takes so much effort to direct my thoughts. Sometimes it feels impossible.

When it comes to the restlessness, it's like i direct it all inwards and I just become like a small compact ball of racing thoughts and anxiousness(i might seem calm on the outside). I will often have the feeling that I don't have time. Taking a walk? I don't have time(even tho i have all day).

So i started taking meds and there has been an effect. I feel more confident, social. I play sports and I even got a comment i play better from a teammate.

Today i upped the dose 5mg and felt amazing. I cleaned my apt, sent two emails. All that before noon. I just felt calm(less restless) but still energized. Just such a thing as listening to my favourite music felt b

I promise i won't let this get too far, i promise i'll keep cool and say ''no''...

But what if i can't keep my promise? What if i am forced into something i do not want to do and just can't get out?

I need him, because there are things only he can show me and teach me.I don't have anybody else, i'm so alone, i've let pretious moments slip through my fingers, i've already wasted so much time.I need him, because there is no one else i can turn to.

But i fear him. I wish he could simply be my friend, that is all i want. But he wants more. I don't want to be alone with him, but i have to. For the love of knowledge, i have to... Is it worth it? Is it worth taking all this shit from him, just so that i'll have stories to tell when i grow old?

I'm afraid that, either way i choose, i will lose something. I could either lose my dignity and innocence, if i choose to go with him, or i could lose the chance to see, to know, living with the thought of how wonderful my life could've been, had i not been a wimp.

Doubtfulness, fear, uncertainty...the recipe for failing your life

It's not easy deciding how to diversify your portfolio and especially so with just how many coins there are out there. There are of course Bitcoin and Ethereum which are very safe in my opinion and will break their ATHs again, but that's not the case with a lot of the coins that people decide to add to their portfolios.

It could be alts, it could be coins that are new, low cap, or you just got it shilled to in the reddit comments. But you do have to ask yourself the question that if we enter a Crypto winter, will your coin be able to make it through? Will it survive?

So what coins do you have in your portfolio that you have doubts about, about which you're uncertain if you should sell or not?

https://twitter.com/Charlie_Potter/status/1477079018222624774

The top comment of one of the first posts regarding the new GM is by a white guy who accuses the team of this being a political correctness hire, and claims the GM is inexperienced. I mean, he was taken to task by several people, but he had plenty of parrots, too.

I like this hire. Young, personable, wicked smaht. This will definitely be a massive culture change.

We're probably going to be drafting some players way earlier than they're forecast, and passing on popular choices. Building a team of fundamentally strong players will raise the floor. Star players will raise the ceiling.

It's going to take a while, though. There's going to be plenty of growing pains. So this GM is going to need our support. Let's not allow racism to derail this man's vision or his career.

Hearing loss is a massive issue that can be prevented easily and unfortunately people only realise once it's already too late.

If you're at a concert, club or other loud venue and think it's too loud - make it a habit to throw ear plugs in.

The reason I'm mentioning ear plugs for musicians is, that they almost work like the volume control on audio devices, they simply make everything quieter. They're a bit pricier but are definitely worth it in terms of sound quality.

The foam ones reduce everything to a muddy bassy fudge which is often the reason people don't wear them, you loose a lot of the "magic" from the music - I keep a pair in my wallet just in case I forget the others.

Nevertheless, anything's better than nothing, even if it's just a rolled up, slightly soaked piece of a paper towel - protect your ears - your later you will thank you. As people posted they went to the docs for stuck paper, maybe don't go down that road 😂 I used it a few times as a last resort and made sure to use big enough pieces - looked like an idiot but at least my ears were fine the next day

1st Edit: as people were asking regarding recommendations:

These are quite nice, what's really good about them is, that they come with three exchangeable filters depending on the loudness.

https://www.alpinehearingprotection.com/earplugs/musicsafe-pro/

I've also used those ones, which seem to be sold under various brands, if you Google "hearing protection musicians" those should pop up. Someone mentioned Eargasm which seems to be the same product.

There are plenty of earplugs in the sea and apparently you can have them custom made, too...who wouldn't love that!

https://www.scottishpipe.com/en/Bagpipe-Accessories/Ear-Protection/New-Original-Senner-MusicPro-hearing-protection-earplugs.html

2nd EDIT: I just wanted to stress that this post was initially meant for hearing protection at music venues like festivals or your band practice - if you're standing next to a rocket engine 8 hours a day you need proper gear, the stuff I linked very likely ain't sufficient. Check out dB levels of your environment and get protective gear that gets it down to the 70-80ies. (Your ears can go 80db for around 8hours max). I'm no ear health expert but just a simple musician who's seen a lot of fellow musicians or music lovers suffer the consequences of not wearing the proper protective equipment.

The main idea still holds up - PROTECT YOUR EARS AND WEAR THOSE GODDAMN EARPLUGS!!!

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I'm really enjoying this movie, but this idea that atheists will change their mind and suddenly put faith in a higher power when they're in a moment where they might be about to die is so fucking insulting.

We've all been there, at some point or another, someone says "you can't do it"... I've noticed those people in my life tend to be those who are themselves unsuccessful. What's your story? How'd you prove then wrong?

If you could say anything to your past self to keep them going, what would it be?

For context we have been together for 4 years, married for almost 1 year. Very shortly after our marriage I’ve been having feelings that I really don’t like, like the fact that everything he does seems to annoy me almost every day. I’m very easily irritated by him. I have good and bad days with this, some days his humor and goofiness and constant affection is endearing and most other days I find it aggravating and wish I could just go into another room and lock myself in for the night.

See me and him are already different in some ways, we still enjoy a lot of the same things, we like to go out and do similar things, we love to play video games together, he also has 2 beautiful kids that we get to put our attention on when they visit every other weekend. But we clash because I’m a person who craves alone time and I like to be by myself a lot, but he’s the opposite and craves affection and attention every minute of every day.

We have fought so many times over this issue, even after I’ve compromised more and more I finally gave up because every time I’d ask to have a night to myself or just go play video games in the other room for a couple hours he would take that as rejection and I don’t love him anymore so it would become a big argument. So our routine for about a year now has been he leaves for work and I leave for school at the same time, we come home roughly at the same time, we eat dinner together, and spend the rest of the night in the bedroom together either watching TV or playing video games and I feel like I get no time to relax by myself for fear of upsetting him.

His drinking is also a big issue for me even though episodes of him getting drunk and angry only happen 1-2x a month. A fight that we had several months back while he was drunk is when my feelings first started to dissipate. It was because he wanted to have sex and I said no because I feel weird sleeping with him when he’s sloppy and I’m more sober, so he took that as rejection and got really pissed. After that fight every argument we have now I have no interest in fixing it or talking it out, I just tell him whatever I’m over it let’s just go about life as normal.

I also feel that maybe I feel this way because I’ve never been on my own before. Him and I got engaged and I moved out of my parents house and in with him, that’s the biggest thing I think about is moving out and into my own apartment, I get excited about the thought of living by myself. But now even if I wanted to leav

tl;dr: former FED insider confirms FED would absolutely bailout the DTCC. This is important as the DTCC guarantees settlement [read: payment] for the equities, options, etc. for GME and means the DTCC, via the FED, effectively cannot run out of tendies.

Within the past week I had the opportunity to talk to Joseph Wang (former FED trader - https://fedguy.com/) in person.

Dude's very approachable, down-to-earth, and relatable. For those who don't know him, he was the actual trader in charge of executing the FEDs (or more specifically the NY's FED) reverse repo trading operations.

He's since left the FED, runs a blog (see link above), and provides an invaluable window into the inner workings of the FED.

That said, he stated in no uncertain terms the FED would 100% backstop DTCC (and by extension the daughter companies of DTCC such as the OCC, the Options Clearing Corp) much the same way any government would never permit a single regulator to fail...the implication being the DTCC is viewed as a defacto utility by the FED and would be defended/bailed out without hesitation.

The takeaway for apes is should an "event" in GME result in market makers, primary dealers, investment banks, etc. failing to deliver [kek] on their promises, the DTCC or the appropriate sub-company (e.g. the OCC for options) would become the bag-holder to guarantee delivery.

Should the DTCC itself fail - or more likely look like it's about to fail - you'd see the FED stepping up to guarantee its obligations. This is good news for apes as it means the FED itself would guarantee settlement [read: payment] by backstopping DTCC & co.

... I just saw that the DRS bot has 1.500.000 shares registered on under 10.000 individual apes so far, meaning an average of more than 150 shares per ape. Only here in tiny Sweden with our 10,3mn citizens, on my specific broker alone there are 20.900 individual GME owners. Here, in this relatively tiny country on a single broker! If we assume the same average, then that would mean 4.350.000 share owned just via my broker! That's insane!

Then, just think of all the owners on other brokers, institutional ownership etc, and extend that around the world to far bigger countries. There is no chance in hell we don't own the float multiple times over, and don't let the SHF's talking heads tell you otherwise.

The DD is rock solid, the hedge funds are desperate, the price is wrong!

Okay, first starters. I'm triple vaccinated by choice and had covid twice already. So I guess the vaccines were not that effective against contamination as I hoped for. But hey, maybe it helped for me not getting that sick, so okay. But, more people in my enviroment are doubting to get the booster. Some had covid, some even twice, none of them were actually really sick of it(from the people who are doubting). But the side effects of the vaccination were severe in one case (one person had to take blood thinners). Now this particular person doesn't want to take the booster as she had twice covid, wasn't that sick... etc. Now she really doesn't want to take the booster as she had such bad experience with the first vaccine (J&J) and wasn't sick of getting covid twice. To be fair, I understand... But now comes the part where people like her will be excluded from society. I think(as a pro-vaxxer)maybe we are going to far with limiting people because they are not taking the booster. What are your opinions on limiting freedoms for people who do not want to take their booster as they had covid already and didn't had severe problems? She is not "anti-vax" and understands that vaccinating people is helping a lot of older people and for people with underlying conditions is crucial for their protection, but in her case she doesn't see the point in taking another booster. I'm kind of in a dilemma on how to respond to this. I understand both sides... It seems the vaccines are not helping against the spreading of the virus(please proof me wrong) but are only helping a lot in hospitalistions.

Please give me some more insights

Surprise! Reconciliation did not work and I am finally vindicated in my assertion that my wife has been lying to me (and everyone else) this whole time. Please feel free to say "I told you so".

My daughter's birthday was on the weekend and so my wife posted an announcement on Facebook. Her AP commented on the post. This prompted two days worth of texting between him and my wife. She did inform me that he texted but would only give a vague description of the content of their messaging and said that it was only one or two messages. She would tell me he is asking how old our daughter is, etc. However, she is once again carrying her phone around the house with her now for two days and answering incoming texts instantly, just as she was back in the summer during her affair. She still has not given me her phone, but she doesn't know that I was able to guess her PIN number (she is very predictable in her choices of passcodes). Things started to get flirty and they started to reference what had gone on between them before. Nothing too clear in terms of a smoking gun. During this conversation he indicated that he was at home Monday and Tuesday due to the weather being very poor here and him working outside.

On Monday night she decides to dye her hair after the kids went to bed. I thought this strange since she had just done it before Christmas and it really wasn't that bad. In addition, she is back to working from home so who is there to impress? She was in the bathroom for well over an hour late night doing this and other grooming. I went to bed at 1130pm and asked if I could come in to wash up before bed. She said no and passed my toothbrush out through a crack in the door. I asked her what she is doing in there so long and she coyly says "I'm getting ready for you". Riiiiight. Sure. AP has tomorrow off and so I immediately put that together with her spending an hour or more in the bathroom grooming.

So Tuesday, before I leave for work I reset the trip odometer in her car so that I could easily determine whether she went anywhere during the day. She's in her usual sweats in front of the computer as I leave. During the day she texts me and says that she is taking a nap at lunch time. I come home from work and find that she has changed during the day into a low cut shirt and put on a bunch of makeup. I ask her what's with the boob shirt and she deflects the question. I thought maybe she might have changed to take our son to his activity tonight since she hangs