The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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As a theistic person, your post reads to me thus:
I am asexual. I cannot comprehend how sexual people like the way they are and I regard it as a sickness rather than recognizing myself as the one who is sick. If I can, I will fix the flaw in human beings which causes them to desire romance with each other. That is disgusting and it is clear to me that so much unnecessary pain could simply be avoided. I know so much better.
What I'm saying here isn't an argument. It's an apology. Best wishes to you.
Being asexual is not a falsifiable epistemic position, it's a personality trait.
I see the analogy as being someone deeply in love, say a parasocial relationship that's utterly unrequited. They suffer immensely, yet can't shake off the shackles as much as they want to. This causes them to go to a public forum and ask for help in dispelling these thoughts and desires that are unachievable yet cause them a great deal of pain.
Of course, the situation is even worse, since the object of their affection is outright nonexistent.
In such a scenario, who wouldn't want to help them sever that love that achieves nothing but sorrow with nothing to show for it?
I do pity the religious, and particularly the people who are just sane enough to know that the desires they feel are likely unfounded, yet by some quirk of biology are fundamentally unable to get rid of the same even if they rationally can see otherwise.
Of course, I'm self aware enough to see that you likely pity me, and I appreciate that, because it's better to pity than to hate, and at least you're living up to your standards as a good Christian.
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