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It does kind of follow that you'd want a boat to escape a flood, yeah.

Floods are one of the most common natural disasters. It makes sense that lots of cultures would have stories about great floods. They didn't often have the capabilities to predict floods or the infrastructure to divert them. They often didn't know how far things went on from where they were, so if all the land they could see was flooded, it makes sense that they would think the entire world may have flooded. The details in every flood story are different; the only similarities are large floods, and yeah, I imagine those did happen and they didn't understand what was going on and it likely became a more grandious story as it was passed on through generations.

Are you in Canada? Have you already gone through the process?

Family often sucks. Their opinions don't matter. Your mother ruined her own life - you had nothing to do with it. You were simply there. She ruined YOUR life by bringing you down. She made the choice to have a child and then refused to do what was necessary to raise a child who felt safe and loved. You can still have your own life. I know it's extra, extra hard being so sick but you'll miss out on so much and so many people in the future will miss out on you. You'll die someday, there's no need to rush. Enjoy even the small moments while you can.

I know. I know you feel like it's a logical response but despite the logic behind it, there's more logic against it.

Do you want to talk about it more?

You will hurt others if you decide to end it. It will be traumatizing. As you are now, you may feel that you're hurting people with your existence but you also very likely make people laugh, can be fun to talk to, etc. If hurting others is what you're worried about, I can almost guarantee that tapping out will hurt them more. Out of the two options, staying alive or tapping out, the latter is definitely the most harmful. The pain will end one day, it's only logical to keep going if only for the glimmers instead of rushing it and missing out on a limited time offer. I know how you feel though. I've struggled a lot with this feeling myself but in the end, I know acting on it would be worse than struggling through. I think it's okay to take comfort in knowing the pain will end someday and it's good to keep in mind that even small joys can only be experienced for this short period of time.

You'll have eternity to not exist. Even if it's small stuff, stick around for the small stuff that you won't be able to experience when you inevitably die.

I'm not angry, I just think it's really sad that people believe something that is both illogical and cruel.

I'm in the UK fostering 8 kittens at once from an independent rescue. They have kittens all the time. My fosters and many others that the rescue has taken on have actually been surrendered by breeders who couldn't afford to take care of them until they were ready to be sold. Please don't encourage the process. It not only encourages breeders to make more kittens, but also to irresponsibly overload rescues when they're already struggling with strays.

I rescued my Bonnie at one years old. She had been in the shelter for 4 months, overlooked because she was very withdrawn. She had been through a lot and was never comfortable with being picked up, but when she saw that I respected her boundaries and loved her no matter what, she quickly warmed up to me and would often sit in my lap and make air biscuits when I pet her tummy. She unfortunately passed suddenly last year at only 6 years old but I regret nothing. I loved loving her and being loved by her and it's been one of the greatest honors of my life to have been her guardian.

After she passed, we rescued another cat in need as I believe it's what she would want. He's a senior, about 12 years old. He used to live on the street before being rescued and his previous guardian passed away. He's an absolute snuggle bug. Daily, he "asks" for me to lay on the couch so he can sit on my chest for snuggles.

Definitely consider an older cat. If you do get a kitten, make sure it's from a rescue and try to adopt two at a time if there are multiple in a litter. Too many kittens are being bred on purpose when so many are homeless. I'm currently fostering 8 kittens that were relinquished by a breeder to a rescue. I love them all very much, but breeding kittens was very irresponsible as so, so many need homes and the rescues are bursting at the seams.

I think a living God would want you to help yourself by seeking therapy and/or rehab. Good luck on your path to healing.

I just can't imagine having intimate relations with someone knowing that they have had SAed a literal child. I generally hope that people can change and be better but... It's just so sickening.

Thank you so much!

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Has Google abandoned the products? It feels like they do less and less. Couldn't get the recipe function to work at first. Now it can't even play resin sounds, which it could do no problem a few months ago. With AI becoming more powerful, why is the Google assistant worse instead of better? 😞

I always pronounced that as g-noo because of the song