Taboo
Word of the Day: 天皇制
My mind feels crazily clear. I had 3 gummies and I actually have no intruding voices, no intruding thoughts. I am really free. Sometimes I play like 3 different sound devices just to feel even slightly clear, but right now, the music is all I need.
By Kayla McIntosh14 days ago in Confessions
Survived a Life That Tried to Break Me. Content Warning.
Content Warning: This story discusses forced marriage, abuse, and psychological trauma. I want to confess so that I can finally find peace. I feel invisible. This feeling has haunted me since childhood. I have always felt like nothing, even though I grew up in a conservative family where they believed they were teaching me values and principles. In reality, being a girl meant oppression and control. What they called “discipline” was slowly destroying me from the inside. This was the worst feeling I have ever experienced. I wanted to escape my mother’s cruel hell by any means necessary. Yes, she was cruel and heartless. Her cruelty came from her fear of my father, but I understood this far too late. I never understood why she was so afraid or so excessively strict. I suffered in silence, blaming her because I never felt her affection. The worst thing she did was marrying me off at a very young age. It was an injustice, an injustice to a teenage girl who knew nothing about marriage. I couldn’t refuse. I couldn’t even speak. My mother slapped me and threatened me until I accepted without saying a word. Yes, I married a man much older than me , a man the same age as my father. I could never love him. I could never be his wife. I was innocent, naïve, and unprepared, and he mocked me and treated me cruelly. I hate him deeply.
By Midnight Lines15 days ago in Confessions
Clemency Explained: Meaning, Purpose, and Its Role in Justice Systems
## Clemency Explained: Meaning, Purpose, and Its Role in Justice Systems Clemency is a fundamental concept in law that represents mercy, fairness, and discretion within the justice system. While courts are designed to apply laws objectively, clemency exists to address situations where strict legal outcomes may not fully reflect justice, rehabilitation, or humanitarian concerns. It allows an authorized executive authority to reduce or forgive punishment in exceptional cases, offering a balance between accountability and compassion.
By America today 17 days ago in Confessions
Letter III — On What Reorders Us Without Asking
Letter III — On What Reorders Us Without Asking The Void, beyond the 22nd century Aida, I am not writing to explain anything to you. Nor to convince. Nor to teach. I am writing because some encounters do not add ideas to us— they rearrange us. Most of our lives are built on a quiet assumption: that we are the center. That we read, choose, enter, and exit meanings at will. That texts stand before us, waiting to be interpreted. But there are words that do not stand before consciousness. They relocate it. The Qur'an does not position itself before your awareness. It repositions your awareness itself. It does not offer itself as an object of reflection, but acts as a force of gravity. You do not move around it untouched. You are moved. What I have learned slowly, unwillingly is that human beings do not live inside ideas. They live around centers. Every self revolves around something: a desire it cannot release, a fear it cannot face, an image it must protect, a future it keeps postponing itself toward, a past it secretly obeys. These centers shift. They compete. They collapse. And when consciousness expands—through thinking, ambition, imagination, abstraction, it often mistakes dispersion for growth. It believes it is becoming freer, while quietly losing its axis. Expansion without a center does not liberate. It fragments. There is a reason instability feels modern. Not because we think too little, but because we orbit too much.
By LUCCIAN LAYTH18 days ago in Confessions
WTF My Strange Addiction: This Woman Is Addicted To Snorting Food!
How do you consume food? Kathryn of Virginia takes in her nutrients via her nose. That’s right. She obtains her meals nasally. Though strange now, is this the pathway for the future of taking in what we should eat?
By Skyler Saunders20 days ago in Confessions
Word of the Day: 不利な方
I am actually happy enough to listen to Gulsen in the hallway. I usually listen to it in the gym, which I haven't been in forever. Now I am remembering I need to reply to Teresa. Bruh, I am so overbooked. I have people like 5 days in advanced. It is way too much.
By Kayla McIntoshabout a month ago in Confessions
The Power Of Overcoming Psychological Trauma
The silence in Elena’s apartment wasn’t the peaceful kind; it was a heavy, suffocating weight. For three years, her home had been a fortress of shadows, the windows rarely opened, and the door locked with a triple-turn of the key.
By MadlynLeeabout a month ago in Confessions
