u/KieranMug

I was thinking if there was a way how I can relax and sit in a spiritual way since I’ve been constantly mentally standing all my life. I know some people claim that smoking the za or finding a way to put a rainbow mushroom up the forbidden door in your body relaxes you in an interesting way. Does meditation or some other thing work?

I am a 16 year old boy trying to appreciate my summer after exams right before going to collage but I can’t stop overthinking and stressing over things like healthy foods, money, the sun and other bullshit like that. First I overthink about the microplastics entering my body through unnatural products, then I stress about eating a food that contains meat, each bite thinking about the animal that cruelly died for my life, which is a carcinogen and I am one step closer than before I ate it to cancer, each second I spend in the sun I think about how it is going to age my skin, flourish it with acne, and increase my risk of skin cancer, then I go to bed and think about what would happen if I die in my sleep and then I wake up and pop my pimples to destress but then afterwards I remember that popping pimples causes scarring and I exaggerate it more when I think about how an acne scar will stay on my body till I end up in my casket, then I realise how much stress I went through and that causes a spiral of stress because I heard that high stress in someone’s life is a very big factor in someone’s life and high stress can ruin it.

Idk if I’m just a normal 16 year old that is slowly learning about life and these are things I naturally work on or if this is not normal and I should do something about it like talk to a therapist or change my mindset drastically. Reading this back, it sounds worse than it is, I live a very normal life but these things recently have been eating me up, not that I’ve let its effects change what I do but I’ve been keeping these feeling bottled up for a while now. Thank you for reading

Hello 16M, so last year I read Animal Farm for school and it was the first genuine book that I shown interest to. Last year’s Summer I read ‘Lord of the Flies’ but I was quite underwhelmed with the ending and the whole story overall.. I started doubting myself wether reading is really for me or not so I decided to give it one last try by reading ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ but it is depressingly slow, it’s great, but it’s slow. Now that I reached half of it in the span of 2 months, (yes I am a slow reader), my mum recommended me ‘The Fishermen’. I bought it and from the back paragraph it sounds very interesting (also because my mum said it was super macabre and I want to see how far books go gore-wise because I don’t think just words can unsettle me) but I realised it’s even bigger than TKaMb. Can I read two books at once considering I’m new to reading? Also are there any gory books or books that make reading really deep? Mr. GPT recommend ‘The Wasp Factory’ and ‘Tender is the Flesh’. Or even just an interesting book based off of what I read. (also I read ‘the subtle art of not giving a f*ck, but I don’t think it counts)

Thank you for reading all this.

I recently checked out that somewhere in Poland and other places a miracle took place where the Eucharist transformed into human flesh, presumably Jesus’s. Is this because we don’t have enough science to explain? Is it faked by the preist? Maybe aliens are hungry so they steal our bread in exchange to one of their victims and humans mistake it for a miracle so they do it over and over again until they land on earth and shapeshift into a human but then they accidentally reveal their supernatural powers but then humans once again mistake it for a miracle and treat the alien like a second coming and then he takes over the whole world?

Hello I am 16M, I recently saw a Jubilee video of a vegan guy debating a ton of meat eaters and it really stuck with me because I never really questioned anything. I thought of excuses myself and checked what the vegan lifestyle says and every single ”but” I thought had a good answer. Now that I am almost fully convinced I should morally be vegan, I still eat meat, I don’t know if it’s because I’m scared or because I’m lazy or because it tastes good, (which none are good excuses also) but I dont know how it would be if my whole family would be eating something like bolognese with minced meat and I would be the only one telling my mum to not give me any, they’d probably still buy the same amount of meat anyways and I think it would be much easier if I became vegan when I become independent, especially since I go to the gym and I am relatively quite skinny. My few questions are these: 1) Is the vegan diet satiating enough? Most of the time when I want to feel full and energised, I eat something meaty and if I don’t, although my stomach would be full, I would feel hungry. 2) Are all anima meats and products that we take from them bad for us? I heard red meat is bad for our health but what about things like milk, eggs, ect.? 3) This might be the most controversial and/or the stupidest but are all animals highly conscious? I understand that animals like cats, cows, pigs, sheep, ect… have feelings and emotions, but animals like bugs and fish in my eyes are just like little robots that are programmed by nature, I don’t know how to explain it but that is the reason why I’m considering going from meat eater to vegan pescaterian. Thank you for reading.

Hello, I’m 16 years old, I used to be a Catholic with this feeling of “I know I’m right and I just need to open my friends’ eyes because they are blinded”. Then when I started to reason and think further, I started leaning towards atheism, but now I’m wondering if now that I feel like I know the truth and I was previously blinded, how can I know for sure that this is real and not a fake sense of pride, or if I should never have a sense of pride. Also does the answer also apply for other stuff in life, like politics, vegansim/meat eater, stuff like that? Thanks

I’m not some fancy philosophy learning student (although I will soon) but I don’t get how people compare our lives to the Sims. They clearly aren’t conscious and if someone twists it and says that we are alive but it’s like the Matrix just hides behind the fact that we can never falsify that claim and so the theory makes no sense.

So what if we strapped a huge mirror on a planet far far away and then zoomed at it, wouldn’t it allow us to see the past since the light would be so delayed? I understand that you cannot see things before the mirror was placed but could this be possible?

Ok I understand that light in our atmosphere is not infinite fast due to it getting slowed down by air particles or whatever but in a vacuum there is nothing holding it back unless the very weak forces of gravity from a bunch of stars and/or planets does? And if so cant we somehow locate where gravity is strongest in the universe by seeing where light is slowed from where the most therefore finding the centre of the universe or am I just a total dumbass?

As I was going to bed I was thinking what if we found a way to zoom in really close at earth from a place really really really far away so that the light at that point would be so old that you could see everything that happened whenever so you could prove or debunk religions or anything else really similarly to how scientists from earth roughly know how the universe formed by seeing other planets from really far out to see old light. Or am I just a dumbass because we can’t outrun light?