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11/6/21 - one of a few final messages. written on a microdose.

may the winter rains assuage these constant flames. (that burn fiercely throughout my entire brain.)

…………….

“you can blame me, try to shame me and still i’ll care for you.”

and, “the world may think i’m foolish.”

but so what?

-irma thomas, “anyone who knows what love is will understand.” that’s it. that’s the song. #1.

i never had the chance to properly say goodbye to you or our friendship. i don’t think you even realize how much it’s fucked me up over the last year. it’s just written off as something that i need to get over without any regard for how hurt i’ve actually been. but what if i’m not over it by now - after a year? i’m viewed as someone who still needs help, someone who is still unable to cope with these painful emotions in a healthier way. in a way that meets societal standards. i’m trying my damned best, but to expect constant perfection is absolute bullshit once you’ve been disposed of like this. i’m not sure how healthy it is to keep writing into the void, but i feel so immeasurably alone and abnormal in this situation. what else am i supposed to do when all my words go unheard? my feelings are already disregarded by you; why should i have to keep quiet about them too? in an attempt to appear sane? that ship has already sailed, as i feel completely inhumane (nah, i could never be that cruel. i’m just deemed inhuman by someone who used to recognize the human). … but never inhumane. that will never be me; i’ll never stop projecting empathy.

sometimes i just don’t know where to place the pain, because there isn’t any room left in my heart. it feels so heavy and primed for explosion.

are you mad? mad at me for writing to you for an entire year and receiving a decent response from everyone else? while you ignore my efforts, and treat me like i don’t exist. do you hate me even more because of it? i wonder if you’ve been here. i wonder if you’re judging every bit of the way i’ve moved through this pain. the logical part of my brain knows that you stopped giving a shit the second you disappeared from my life. i’m not going to sit here and pretend like you still care, because it strains my mind every time i let that thought linger longer than it needs to.

do i miss you? yes, yes i do. my heart has been working overtime and i’m convinced that it wants to kill me for emitting all of this feeling. i’m going to use the word ‘heart’ a lot in this letter, because it

This sounds weird but when I was a kid I'd listen to trailer music and movie soundtracks to help me craft a fight scene or chase scene in my head. And ASN an adult I'll sometimes hear something like say Hanz Zimmer's BMW concept car engine sound and it just makes my brain feel like someone is blowing bubbles up through my eye sockets up into the front of my skull and deep into my brain tissue.

It's fine and dandy. It doesn't hurt. But it always accompanies a strong flood of visual ideas or visualisations from the sound while my eyes are closed.

I know that ASMR stuff makes Goosebumps and can send shockwaves down your and spine. This doesn't feel anything like that. This is just my brain. No neck or skin. No tingling. And it's weird. Like the Doom soundtrack has a few songs that hit it too. It's just one of those things that triggers when I'm trying to listen to music and let my mind run wild and it is....weird. Any idea what it is? Is this normal? Is it strange? Am I dying? What's going on?

This may be lengthy. Somehow during my Spanish class, with said teacher, we started talking about politics. He's a very conservative, Mormon, republican. I'm a very liberal, atheist, democrat, a rare breed in rural Idaho. I started trying to convince him Ted Cruz is an ignorant idiot by reading Cruz's plans to eliminate the department of energy and basically any agency that monitors climate change and CO2 emissions. To my surprise he took all of that as a plus for Cruz, since he didn't believe in climate change either. That opened up a can of worms. For about 20 minutes I tried to drill facts into my high school teacher, which all seemed to bounce right off the invisible bible shield he had around his head. After I told him (with my high pitched frustrated voice) he's not a scientist, he then started listing off his reasons for not believing in climate change. The main one being the huge ass flood which happened in the bible, you know, the one Noah built the arc for. Since many scientists don't acknowledge this flood as an event that actually occurred, they cannot be trusted. Religion should not interfere with your acceptance of facts. Facts are fucking facts. There was no way I could argue or reason with a person who doesn't accept facts. That's one of the main problems with religion, one the religions seriously have to work on. Most of the other students in class actually agreed with the teacher's asinine reasoning. I lost a little bit of faith in humanity that day.

Quite a few times, I come across videos on youtube where Noah's flood is said to borrow from, or in some other way recycle, various components of Sumerian and Mesopotamian folklore that is much older than the writings in the book of genesis. I have looked into the validity of this claim, briefly, and am having a hard time verifying if it is true or not. So primarily, I want to know if this claim is accurate but I am also wondering if there is a standard by which historical claims may be verified for accuracy?

Social media companies can partner with organizations doing this to avoid flagging their fake content.

The flood surprise attacks the species in question. When I say species, I mean like an advanced civilization (Celestials, Asgardians, Kryptonians, etc)

Of course I'm happy he wasn't left tied out in the yard to drown, but look at his feet and tell me he hasn't been habitually neglected. https://twitter.com/CourtneyABC13/status/901786105883787264

And they’re the same fucking cartoons over and over again.

We get it, you think hosing a soccer ball is scientific. It isn’t.

I mean shit, look at fucking Fortnite.

Their PVE mode is pay to win/mega grindy (yet mildly fun) garbage, and even they realized that if they made their battle royale mode pay to win it'd be suicide. So they made the promise that "We will not sell items that give a competitive advantage". And it paid off for them, they get over 3 million concurrent (as much as PUBG, though split between 3 platforms) now.

I'm just saying, all the continued anger at unbound in general will be nothing compared to the flood of shit that will happen on battleground's launch.

Assuming he had an unlimited supply of water.

THE ARK AND THE ANIMALS

##Qur'an 11:40

>At length, behold! there came Our command, and the fountains of the earth gushed forth! We said: "Embark therein, of each kind two, male and female, and your family - except those against whom the word has already gone forth,- and the Believers." but only a few believed with him.

####Tafsir Al-Jalalayn

>We said ‘Load therein in the ship of every kind of every male and female that is of every species of these two two a male and a female

####Tafsir Ibn Kathir

>At this point, Allah commanded Nuh to select one pair from every kind of creature possessing a soul, and load them on the ship. Some said that this included other creatures as well, such as pairs of plants, male and female. It has also been said that the first of the birds to enter the ship was the parrot, and the last of the animals to enter was the donkey.

##Qur'an 23:27

>So We inspired to him, "Construct the ship under Our observation, and Our inspiration, and when Our command comes and the oven overflows, put into the ship from each [creature] two mates and your family, except those for whom the decree [of destruction] has proceeded. And do not address Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are to be drowned.

####Tafsir Al-Jalalayn

>bring into it admit into the ship of every kind of animal two mates a male and a female that is two of every species thereof ithnayn is an object; min ‘of’ is semantically connected to usluk ‘bring into it’. According to the story God exalted be He gathered all the beasts of prey and the birds and other animals for Noah. As he Noah pushed forth his hands into each species his right hand would fall upon a male and the left upon a female whereafter he would take them on board the ship

####Tafsir Ibn Kathir

>O my Lord! Help me because they deny me.) At that point, Allah commanded him to build a boat and to make it strong and firm, and to carry therein of every kind two, i.e., a male and a female of every species of animals, plants and fruits etc.

^(Note: Bolded parts are for those who claim there was only cattle on the ark)

If it was a local flood then there is no reason for Noah to take a pair of each animal with him, because obviously not all of them aren't going to get annihalated. Funnily enough, birds would also be included though the question is why when they could just fly away. I would also like to point out, that the majority of scholars didn't interpret the verse to m

I am in the United States, Northern Virginia.

This has been going on for the better part of 6 months now. I live on the bottom floor of a 4 story apartment. Each time it rains, the landry room adjacent my apartment floods via the circuit box, in which water floods the room and makes its way into my apartment. For around the same time, there has been a fan to dry out the area outside my door that blows moldy / nasty air directly into my apartment, and somehow, the leasing office fails to actually fix the leak. They come, they patch, they set up fans, they bail.

This is now the 7th time this has happened. I've tried to get in contact with the parent company that runs my complex ( UDR ), but they give me the runaround and redirect me to the leasing office, who has proved wholly ineffective. To comply with their requests, I have tried to send them the evidence of the leak ( along with the 2-3 inches of standing water in the laundry room ), but each time I call the leasing office, the individual who I'm supposed to send this too is either not available, refuses to give me their email, or redirects me to their maintenance crew.

I don't know how to force these people to fix this problem. They raised my rent by ~10% with the renewal of my lease, which is far above what I expected, and are unable to fix the issue of my apartment being basically constantly flooded at the front entrance all the way through to my living room. I'm hoping I have some kind of recourse to get these people to just, at least, fix their goddamn pipes.

I have been stuck for a week trying to remember the name of one VHS tape I had when I was 5-10 years old. I’m 23 now.

The details that I can remember are hazy, but I will do my best.

As stated in the title, the characters have to ride in a Khufu ship to a different section of the tomb that they are in because the pyramid begins to flood. The Khufu ship is initially propped up and supported by wooden beams, but these get broken away by the water.

I can’t remember if that main characters are rodents or humans, but for some reason I feel like it might include both. Whatever the case, there are definitely different groups exploring different parts of the pyramid after they get separated.

I’ve been looking between Google, IMDB and this sub with no luck. Gold goes to anybody who solves this for me because I’ve never gone this long without figuring it out!