u/Ill_Bookkeeper_1377

(I was looking for a suitable community and subreddit for my post, and this was the last option I had.

The text I wrote is in no way intended to insult any particular belief or group of people. I'm simply talking about my personal experiences of being born into a religious family and a religious country. I also tried my best to clarify my points and keep the wording as respectful as possible so that it wouldn't come across as rude or offensive)

Something that has been seriously getting on my nerves lately is people's stupid reactions and overreactions when they find out that someone's parents are religious, but that person themselves says they are not religious. Like, this is genuinely ridiculous. I honestly don't understand people like this.

They always seem to think that if someone comes from a religious family or a religious country, they must automatically be this stereotypical person like a girl who always wears a hijab, is quiet and obedient, and whose entire life is just praying and obeying God. But that's not how it works at all. We are humans too. We have our own choices and our own minds.

I'm genuinely tired of people being shocked or insisting that "this doesn't make sense" and that "you must be Muslim too" just because I told them my parents are religious, but my sister and I are not.

They act like religious beliefs are something connected to your blood or genetics. Like if both of your parents are religious, then you are automatically supposed to be exactly like them. And the worst part is that they don't understand that the level of religiousness is different for every person.

For example, "maybe there is a family that is so religious and traditional that they still follow thousand-year-old traditions and believe in them even when they don't make sense. Like believing girls shouldn't go to school, women should always stay at home and work, that LGBTQ people and homosexuality are a huge sin, and that certain people will burn in hell. Or, for example, cutting off your wife's head and beating your children just because they didn't listen to you, or because your wife accidentally put tomato paste in your food instead of mayonnaise, so what do we do? We cut off that woman's head and proudly walk around the street holding it in our hand like we just won a trophy."

Yes, families that are religious to that extreme do exist. But religion and how strongly someone follows it have different levels.

For example, take my own family. Yes, my parents are Muslim, but they are not extremely religious or fanatical Muslims.

My father can sometimes behave in a very stupid and narrow-minded way because of his religion, but he has never been the type of person who would hurt us severely or anything like that. Yes, he has had some restrictions and rules for us, but honestly, nobody in my family really took my father's words seriously.

Most of the time, we saw our father more like the funny guy in the house who thinks he is the boss of everything and sometimes has extreme opinions. But that doesn't mean he is a bad person or that he doesn't love his family.

A lot of the restrictions, rules, and things he says are basically just unwritten things that nobody really pays much attention to.

As for my mother, she is not extremely religious either. Yes, she is Muslim, and she chooses to wear hijab when she goes outside because she wants to. But that doesn't mean she wants to restrict her children because of her religion.

Sure, sometimes she yells at us over very stupid things, but you know how moms are. They can spend so much time yelling and complaining that eventually their words almost become meaningless or even funny.

So yeah, my parents are religious people, but they are not extremely traditional or the kind of people who spend their entire lives obsessively forcing their beliefs on everyone.

After we immigrated to another country and because of all the difficulties that came with immigration, my mother had to completely stop praying and doing religious things for a while because she was so busy. But that doesn't mean she completely abandoned it. She still sometimes prays and reads the Quran, just less often than before.

You see? There is nothing extremely serious going on here, at least not in my family and many other religious families where people aren't extremely strict about their beliefs.

I personally come from a religious country, and because of the severe restrictions that existed there, we had to immigrate. And honestly, people's reactions when they find out where we came from are really annoying. Their questions are often more than just annoying they are genuinely ridiculous.

For example, one time one of my classmates asked me, "Did you really come from that country?"

And I answered, "Yes, a hundred times yes." Because I had already told them multiple times that I was born there and grew up there until this age.

But what they said after that was one of the stupidest things I have ever heard in my entire life.

They said, "It's just that the way you dress and your style don't really match people from your country."

And at that moment I was just thinking: "Okay? And?"

Yes, I came from that country, but that does not mean every single person from that country is some kind of religious AI programmed to behave in exactly the same way.

The entire world is like this. Just because a country is religious does not mean everyone living there is exactly the way foreigners imagine them.

A society can have religious people, atheists, people who break rules, ordinary people who are just living their lives, and extremely religious people too. And none of that is strange.

I genuinely don't understand why people think that because you come from a certain country, you have to be like an emotionless robot following the standards of that country.

These kinds of questions are seriously exhausting.

I personally decided that I don't want to have a religion because I don't think it is something that works for me. And questions like "Are you really from this country?" or judging people based on traditions or the image of their country are incredibly annoying.

If someone reading this thinks like that, I just want to say: stop. You are only hurting people who are simply trying to live their lives.

For example, what exactly was wrong with my clothes that made someone question whether I was really from that country?

A pair of shorts and a short-sleeved shirt. Literally the most normal clothes that anyone on Earth can wear.

Just because I come from a religious country doesn't mean that in the middle of a hot summer or any other season I have to wear some ridiculous hijab every second until I feel like I'm burning inside it.

People's views about religious countries and religious families are often extremely shallow and narrow-minded.

I was never someone who wanted to pray since childhood, and my clothing style has always been like this. I wear these clothes because I can and because I like dressing this way. Nobody has the right to judge me for that.

Since I was a child, I hated very long tight pants and long sleeves. There is nothing wrong with that.

It is completely normal that a child who grows up wearing certain clothes, like shorts and short sleeves, might continue that style when they grow up simply because they are comfortable with it.

And I genuinely don't understand why people act like just because I come from a religious family and I am not religious like them, I have committed the biggest crime in human history.

I don't know what people's views about religion are, but I truly don't understand this reaction. It is ridiculous.

When you tell people "My parents are Muslim, but my sister and I are not," their eyes become wide open and they react as if they just encountered an entire generation of mermaids.

(I know that example was a little weird, but I'm just really annoyed right now T_T)

One of my closest friends reacted exactly like that. They looked shocked as if I had told them I was an alien or that the Tooth Fairy was real.

They kept insisting, "No, that's not possible. If your parents are religious, you have to be religious too. It makes no sense."

And I was just thinking: "What the FUCK do you mean? It absolutely makes sense."

Seriously, what is your view on religion? Do you really think beliefs are something connected to blood or genetics? That if someone's parents are religious, that person must automatically have the same beliefs?

There are all kinds of people on Earth, and it doesn't matter what country they come from.

Yes, it is true that if a child grows up in a family where they are taught certain things from childhood or raised with a specific religion, they might follow that religion too.

But unlike what many people think, the modern world and newer generations, especially Gen Z and people born in the 90s and similar generations, are different.

Many religious parents, especially those who were born in much older generations like the 50s, 60s, or 70s, became religious partly because they couldn't disagree with their families, wanted to follow family expectations, or wanted to preserve their reputation.

But for children of modern generations, things are different.

Maybe in the past if you forced something onto a child, they had no choice but to follow it. But today, that is not always the case.

When a child, especially in this generation, grows up in an environment where a certain topic or religion is constantly presented negatively, forced onto them, or they are pressured to accept it, they can become resistant toward it.

This happens all around the world.

When someone tries to force their beliefs onto you, you might even start rejecting those beliefs or at least dislike them.

And that is exactly what happened to my sister and me.

We were hurt so much by the religion and the religious environment of our country and parents, and it was forced onto us so much that slowly we became resistant toward it.

I hate the religion of my parents and my country and I am saying this without any intention of insulting the people who follow that religion or come from countries with that religion.

But it is simply a reality.

I am genuinely trying my best not to insult any religion or belief here because I don't want people attacking me, but these behaviors are becoming extremely frustrating.

People need to improve their social understanding about religious countries.

When someone says they come from a religious family and country but they themselves are not religious, people should not react like they have seen an alien.

Because with these reactions, you only make the other person feel uncomfortable and judged.

If you are someone who supports a certain group of people and gives yourself labels like "open-minded" or "progressive," but you only support that group in order to be against another group, that is not called being open-minded.

For example, someone who supports LGBTQ people but hides behind the mask of being progressive and supporting freedom just so they can give themselves permission to freely insult religion is not actually an open-minded person.

Someone who presents themselves as a supporter of Black people but is sexist is not open-minded.

Someone who calls themselves a feminist only to damage the image of feminism and give themselves an excuse to insult men is also not a feminist — and they are not supporting men either.

And I am not specifically talking about anyone here. These are just examples.

Freedom means freedom.

It means you can simply live your life normally without constantly worrying about being judged. Whether you are a religious person, an LGBTQ supporter, or someone who supports Black people.

But someone who only learned one thing about LGBTQ people and suddenly thinks they have a PhD, that they are some kind of expert in psychology, that they are incredibly smart and enlightened, while in reality they are just a narrow-minded person who learned one new thing like a child and only knows how to repeat it over and over again...

(Seriously, I tried so hard not to mention this, but I am directly talking about my uncle here. Yes, in reality this entire thing is aimed at my uncle, so don't worry, I am not insulting any specific group of people.)

People like this think they are fighting for freedom, but they are nothing more than extreme "woke" people.

And the main question that remains is this:

If you are someone who comes with the label of "freedom" but uses it to attack another group of people, and you force the version of freedom that exists only inside your own mind onto everyone else, destroying or attacking anyone who disagrees with you...

Then tell me, what exactly is the difference between you and the same kind of authoritarian government that forces religion onto people who are not religious?

Hmm?

When a religious person is simply living their life, not harming anyone, and you come along and humiliate them because of their beliefs, trying to force them to believe something they genuinely do not believe in, support something they do not want to support, or hate something they actually like...

Then what exactly is the difference between you and that same kind of oppressive system that constantly harms its own people and never allows them to live peacefully?

I say this as someone who has personally been hurt by people like this:

Freedom is not only for one specific group of people.

Freedom is for everyone.

Freedom means that you can be whoever you are and simply live your life comfortably without being judged. You don't interfere with others, and others don't interfere with you.

Are you religious? Live your life normally without forcing your religion onto others.

Are you an LGBTQ supporter? Support LGBTQ people without using that as an excuse to attack others.

Do you support Black people? Support them without targeting another group of people or making fun of their race.

Freedom means a world and a society where everyone, no matter who they are, what they believe in, or what they support, can live without fear of judgment.

That is freedom.

Not sitting there every day destroying someone else and forcing the thing you personally believe is right onto them.

Because if you do that, you are nothing more than a narrow-minded authoritarian who has convinced themselves that they are progressive and a supporter of freedom.

Okay, I feel like I talked a lot. Anyway, to anyone reading this, I hope you do not see my words as hate toward any group of people.

I don't know who actually had the patience to read this entire thing, but if you really did, thank you for taking the time to read it.

And if anyone felt that I insulted something they believe in or support, I sincerely apologize if I made you feel that way.

I wish happiness and peace for everyone on Earth.

This post was only written because lately I have genuinely been frustrated by certain behaviors from certain people. It was only meant to explain my perspective and clarify my feelings, and it was never intended as an insult toward any person or group.

Please share your thoughts after reading this, talk about your own experiences, and once again, I wish everyone health and a good day✨️

If we want to look at this realistically and judge it based on the anime, then no, it’s not like that. When the creators of the anime said, or when it was written in his biography, that whatever Rashomon touches Akutagawa also feels, it doesn’t mean what fans think or interpret it as. It’s true that Rashomon is biologically and mentally considered a part of Akutagawa’s body, and even if we ignore his coat and clothes, Rashomon is still a part of his existence. But that doesn’t mean their sense of touch is the same. Rashomon is connected more to Akutagawa’s subconscious and mind, not to his body or his sense of touch. And when they say that whatever Rashomon feels Akutagawa also feels, what they mean is that Akutagawa can perceive it, understand it, or evaluate things such as how far Rashomon is from a certain object or person, or how much speed is needed for an attack or to destroy that object or person. So overall, it’s not that everything Rashomon touches or feels is necessarily physically felt by Akutagawa. That idea is completely stupid and illogical. If that were the case, Akutagawa would have to feel a lot of pain during his fights, but that’s not what happens. That’s because Rashomon isn’t connected to or the same as his body or sense of touch; it’s only connected to his subconscious. And if you pay attention throughout the anime, when Akutagawa wants to control Rashomon or give it commands, he doesn’t control it with his hands or body movements. Most of the time he just keeps his hands in his pockets and controls it through his mind

Emochi is one of my favorite AI chatbot apps, and its rating is honestly very high, and it deserves that. However, recently it has been acting really weird and having some bugs.

For example, not long ago (I don't know if it was only happening to me, if it affected everyone, or if it's still happening to some people) I encountered a bug where none of the chatbots were working for several days. It seemed like it was caused by some new updates.

At that moment, I was honestly a little scared and disappointed because I had talked about this with a few other people before, and we had said that we hoped this app wouldn't end up having the same fate as PolyBuzz.

After doing some research, I was actually preparing myself to lose this app because, if it was a widespread issue, that probably meant the problem was with the app's main servers. And that meant our biggest concern shouldn't have been "What if it becomes like PolyBuzz?" our real concern should have been "What if it ends up like Qtoon?"

(If you know Qtoon, you probably know what I mean. It used to be extremely popular, and you could find all kinds of manga and manhwa there, but after a while it went offline, and they never fixed it or brought the service back.)

Anyway, thankfully, the developers fixed those bugs, and even some of my old chatbots that had disappeared from the servers came back and started working again.

However, that's not the only problem I have with this app. My main frustration is actually the comment moderation bots.

Don't get me wrong, I know this is a great app, but sometimes its comment moderation bots are extremely annoying. To the point where, if I wanted to leave even a short critical comment, I had to spend almost two hours editing and changing words because it would get deleted immediately.

The comment moderation bots on this app are somehow even more sensitive and annoying than the ones on apps like TikTok. On top of that, the tiny character limit makes it even worse.

For example, someone wrote an intro that sounded like we had personally stolen his inheritance. I wanted to leave a comment saying:

"Bro, chill. Throwing in lines like 'I don't give a fuck' doesn't make your chatbot look badass. It just makes people not give a shit about it."

But thanks to the completely useless moderation bots, instead of looking at the actual context and understanding the difference between criticism and direct hate, they just detect a swear word and delete the entire comment.

Even though this is a really good app overall, because of this small issue and the extremely frustrating and unprofessional moderation system, I had to take one star away from my rating.

What do you think about this?