Ok, so, I was curious, getting messages off a 'domme' on tiktok, I was curious, stressed that I had a partner and was just curious. She asked for my telegram, which I gave her, we were chatting for most of the day, she said she wanted pics of me naked and a video of me bowing and saying her name, I hesitated but decided what the hell, why not, i still want to know what the lifestyle is about, she was asking if I would be her slave, I said I couldn't commit but I was very curious and a bit tempted then BAM, three messages, saying that they've got my nudes and have screenshoted the conversation, threatening to send it to my GF. Now, I've had attempts at being outed or extorted before, but I was single the last couple of times, didn't really care, I just exclaimed "fuck" and deleted the conversation, blocked her on both platforms and deleted everything, I thought I'd be sure, so I called my missus, she got a message on Facebook (the third text chunk had an image of messenger open with her profile and 'your wife 😡' under it) from the scammers name 'georgette' but they'd unsent whatever they sent. I explained it off as someone sending me a weird message trying to scam me, she deleted it, we both blocked the blank profile completely and I've since deleted my telegram, thinking of deleting my tiktok too.
The point is, it was a near miss, and not the first time someone has tried it with me, I'm pretty savvy but even I make really REALLY stupid decisions. Stay safe out there. Oh, and I was absolutely NOT gonna go through with anything, tbh I couldn't even tell you why I sent the pics in the first place, boredom/interest maybe. Anyway, lesson learnt. Again.

Sorry for any spelling errors I'm typing this on my phone.
So some context... I (M17) "am/was" long distance dating my idek if she's my ex anymore because I just don't know (F15), we were a highschool relationship, I met her tail end of my high school sophomore year and tail end of 7th grade for her. We hit it off and within a week we were dating (mid may)... we moved really really slow.. like really slow... we didn't know what eachother looked like till like July. We didn't know what eachother sounded like till further on down the line... we didn't have our first call later aswell.. but things were great... it was real... she was doing online school and I was going to school.. I met her in her deepest state... she wasn't eating... depressed to hell... family issues... just issues. And I cared for her... reminding her to take her needed meds... helping her anyway I could only over phone, we took care of eachother, caring about mentally whenever our lived were rough, which is part of the reason I'm so hurt.
School flew... before we knew it it was our 1 year anniversary and that summer was the first time we sexted. Sometimes I initiated it ( ik bad call I learned that) and other times she did. This started June ish and pretty much all the way through July.
I went on vacation with my family the last week of July and into August. The whole time I knew something wasn't right with her... I wasn't getting the same girl I knew in my texts.. shorter texts... longer times to reply... I noticed a general issue with texting me...
Then that Wednesday I asked her and said "are we okay"? Long story short... she wanted a breakup... because when school started ( this school year) she wanted to make friends (she had none) and she saw that we wouldn't be able to text as much and she wanted to spend more time with family.. I said to her common heartbroken replies... and I tried to explain to her that I would be fine if we couldn't talk to eachother as much... but it just didn't click I guess... I didn't really get it... the breakup was a step that did not need to be taken given the situation I believe (correct me if wrong).
We exchange texts for a week or two after but.. there was no point. Eventually we both just stopped.. it felt like the year I spent with her never happened... never mattered... everything I did... didn't matter.
Time goes by.. tears are shed and dried. School begins I send a text telling her good luck with school and that was that.
Flashforward a few days after New Years and she texts me again.. asking how I was doing. I had a idea I knew what was coming and at some point. She gave me updates I already knew.. (I had her mom added on Facebook and she posts updates about everything) and eventually said that she loves me.. she never stopped loving me... and will always love me.. she said that she's sorry for everything she did to me and us... that all she knew how to do is push people away (which is true) (note I'm just scratching the surface of what I remember distinctly, there was more) and said that if it was ever possible maybe we could date again.
I was heavily thinking on this. Deeply.
I lied low... she was texting me first thing when she wakes up.. all up until she went to sleep rinse and repeat. I asked a few of my buddies if I should date her again.. and they all said I should "why not?" I waited the duration of the month... and assured to her how I felt about the breakup, and I could tell... she regretted her decision in the summer. By the beginning of February.. we were bsck together.
Things were pretty good.. I decided to change alot for her, figured it could help insure our relationship grows further than it ever did. I threw away my hobbies just so I can spend more time with her.. within the first 2 weeks she wanted to sext again... since I knew what it did to her mental health I advised seriously against it and she simply said to me "along as we don't do it too much I'll be fine" and that was that.
Things were good.. until the the first few days of March.
I started noticing behavior that I noticed on vacation. Although it could (probably was) her being busy, either with school or her newborn sister... I started to overthink. I told her how I felt.. basically just said that my days haven't been good.. she asked "why?" I said "well you just barely reply.. and when you do see my text you just open it.." and I said "it's okay... your just busy.." and she said yes. So that was that
That same day.. again barely replying .. leaving me on opened.. and it just seemed in her world I didn't exist. She was happy and talking to all her friends just having fun on the phone and I'm over here left on open... that's how I knew I was just put at the bottom of the list. That night.. I kind kf called her out on it... she said "wtf I said I was busy'" and then she said " I'll talk to you in a bit my head isn't in a good place right now." I said okay.
I asked and said... "can you let me know what's going on.. so maybe I can help? Helping you helps me. (I put her before myself everytime)
She then hit me with the... "I want to block everyone on my phone. I'm just done with everyone. I'm so stressed out.. and this day marks the death of my grandma and I just want to be left alone".
I tried to pull her out of it.. I told her that she didn't need to do that... and she insisted she did. We were both so disconnected from eachother that night.. I sent heartfelt message after heartfelt message... trying to shake her and make her see that I was there... that she shouldn't just blow everyone off.. a day passes like this.. I barely tested her.. maybe a handful of times that day..
then the day of her grandma's death hit, when I woke up I told her "I'm sorry about your loss.. ik it hurts I just want you to know I'm here for you.. I love you."
9 am hits... and I see she deleted her snapchat.. or blocked me (our saved pictures weren't there, her bitmoji wasn't there, snapstreak gone, nickname gone, chat history gone etc, snapchat gurus tell me)
later on I realize she's nowhere to be found on facebook.. I check her discord, and I was either blocked or she has that specific profile setting on.
(The really weird thing is... is that I couldn't see her mom on Facebook either... her account doesn't load and doesn't pop up on friends list.)
All I got left is her phone number and although I can't tell... she probably blocked my number. So I can't tell if this was a ruse on ME... or her needing alone time.. or anything I really need some opinions here. What do I do?... like.. do I move on? Why can't she just give me some sort of info? Tell me to move on. Tell me your coming back, tell me your getting better.. SOMETHING.. I shed my tears over this already.. but everyday at some point I find my mind racing about this.. possibilities.. was she lying? I just don't know... and I just need closure. What do I do?
Help me out redditors. Please.
P.S I'm sorry for the long story.. P.S P.S I will reply to all replies, unless ofcourse I just can't get to them so comment away! Any questions just send a comment. I probably have the answer.

Hi, I a 22 years old guy who's currently studying at college. I was born with a complete family but now in a broken family. I didn't know where to start this one but I want to open up about the feelings I'm having right now. Currently, I am facing extortion from someone because I fell into their bait. I lacked awareness at the most important time. Well, I don't know why I did that and why I'm that desparate to do that. So in context, there is someone I matched in dating app not to tell what is the specific app I used then fast forward, we talked to each other like a normal start or normal conversation and then suddenly, due to my desperation or lack of awareness, I gave in my information(facebook account to be specific) then afterwards we chatted for a couple of hours and then fast forward again, we decided to have a call socthat we can talk via phone and then suddenly, that person started to bait me like "you want something fun? Before we talk so we'll not be boring to each other?" So as a guy who got excite since I am not aware then I agreed to do so. Honestly, I am not feeling horny that time nor wanting to have that kind of call but I don't know how I fell into those words maybe due to my despiration to have someone to talk to then fast forward, when we first call I am not reacting to the girl posing as intimidating me but now I realized maybe it was staged. After that, the person looks dissappointed to me because I'm not reacting so it pushes me to take off my underwear and to go with the flow with her and then when I did that I wasn't aware that the person is already recording me and then crazy thing happened where that person threaten me to leak my video in social media platform and asking money in exchange for deletion. At first, I tried to beg to lower the price and that person said yes but here's the thing I discovered beyond that. The person just using caps lock to make me panic and then sending screenshots of my friends that warns me he/she will send my message to them and then they did it that's why my family already knows the situation then after that, I decided to block that account in telegram since I don't even have money to send and if ever, that's for my everyday life only so the risk I taken is just to whatever happens will happen. What a mess I did right? Just because I want someone to talk to and someone to be friended since I felt empty these past few days, It leads me to this part where I became a victim of what I wasn't suppose to. I feel ashamed because my families were affected and maybe some of my friends If ever they really sent the video. I admit it, despite of something's off or too good to be true, I didn't looked upon it and I've clicked the bait. For a meanwhile, I'm still observing if that person will haunt me in my social media accounts(where I make it all private) but I will delete the account I used to talk for safety. Beyond that, I am also struggling in my studies where I'm having three failed subjects, I already passed the one and I'm currently retaking the other one but before this semester, I also had one failed subject again. The thing I'm more upset is that because of that mistake I did, my families believed that I am not really having hard time in my acads which I am really in hard time and I am also pressured because if I will have a failed grades again this time, my brother will limit my time outside our home to let me focus my studies. I am so embarrased to myself because if itnot because of my actions, these things will not get any worse. I'm amid anxiety right now and I am feel pressured to the things I must do now, from thinking of what the fuck will happen in my video to thinking how will I pass my examinations so that I will pass al the subject I am taking right now. I am an engineering student btw for those who're wondering why I am having a hard time as a student. I know I should focus more on study but still, I can't resist to have more time to other things but the problem is that I bring up myself to a mess and I was baited into which I shoudn't be. I am feel so sorry to myself for having a hard time and I hope all of these things will be resolved in a good amount of time. Thank you for reading guys, I know some of you are feel ashamed of my actions but I'm here, still hoping to fix myself and be better again like how I was.
I hope here in this sub, I can find the advice or tip that I may used to overcome this difficulties I'm in right now

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• I have a zoom meeting with Ayaan Hirsi Ali! I became a founding member of her new platform Restoration, which promised this meeting. I'll be asking her to be the expert representing the apostasy issue. And I'm doing more than that. Please help me make the best of our upcoming meeting. Here's the outline of what I want to discuss with her, which I've already sent to her. If you intend to provide feedback, please do it in the comments below, not in the google doc.
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• Because of that podcast, I reached out asking people with other perspectives, and Wisam Hasan answered the call! We scheduled a dual livestream on Monday 5/4/2024 8AM Central. Wisam is an ex-Muslim (Shia), lived in Iraq until 2006, and after the war he worked for the US lead infrastructure reconstruction program. He's a co-founder of Atheism Without Borders. Here's his youtube channel, AWB. And here's one of the awesome things Wisam is doing - Quran in layman terms (youtube playlist)!
• Update on making this non-profit official/legal: Still haven't done it. Postponing for another week.

📢 Don't miss our livestream event June 14th 2024 12PM CDT

I chose this date and time because its the 50th Anniversary of Richard Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement speech titled 'Cargo Cult Science'. Feynman dedicated his speech to one thing, the biggest obstacle to progress worldwide. He coined the term Cargo Cult Science to refer to the pseudo-scientific methods people use, i.e. cult behaviors. Even physicists.
Our livestream will be a continuation of Feynman's speech. He explained the least of the harmful cult behaviors. We will explain the worst ones. Nations with apostasy laws. Nations treating whistleblowers as traitors. Nations and corporations creating fake science and other propaganda. Nations instituting compulsory education systems designed to make people smart enough to be economically productive but not smart enough to properly question the political status quo. Parents using the 'united front' concept and so many other things in the same vein. They're trying to discourage disobedience by sabotaging truth-seeking. They don't want us to talk, and that is what we must do!
Our livestream doubles as the launch of a non-profit organization called 'Uniting The Cults.' Its purpose is to be an agent of cultural change with a vision of a world without apostasy laws.. a world governed by scientific thinking, where people recognize love as the goal and rationality as the method to achieve it.
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• I have a zoom meeting with Ayaan Hirsi Ali! I became a founding member of her new platform Restoration, which promised this meeting. I'll be asking her to be the expert representing the apostasy issue. And I'm doing more than that. Please help me make the best of our upcoming meeting. Here's the outline of what I want to discuss with her, which I've already sent to her. If you intend to provide feedback, please do it in the comments below, not in the google doc.
• We still need people for the other areas. Politics. Universities. Parenting. Or any field that you think should be represented in this livestream. Nominate yourself at www.UnitingTheCults.com. Start a chat and say "I nominate myself for the livestream event for X topic." Then we'll do a zoom call to see if it makes sense. And if that discussion is good for the podcast, I'll publish it that way, with your consent of course. Also don't worry about anonymity.. every one of my 3 guests have been anonymous so far.
• Our 4th podcast episode is live! Iraq's federal/state system of government and the Iraqi Civil War, with Zorro. We are two ex-Muslim Arab (Sunnis), one from Iraq and one with Syrian parents.
• Because of that podcast, I reached out asking people with other perspectives, and Wisam Hasan answered the call! We scheduled a dual livestream on Monday 5/4/2024 8AM Central. Wisam is an ex-Muslim (Shia), lived in Iraq until 2006, and after the war he worked for the US lead infrastructure reconstruction program. He's a co-founder of Atheism Without Borders. Here's his youtube channel, AWB. And here's one of the awesome things Wisam is doing - Quran in layman terms (youtube playlist)!
• Update on making this non-profit official/legal: Still haven't done it. Postponing for another week.

📢 Don't miss our livestream event June 14th 2024 12PM CDT

I chose this date and time because its the 50th Anniversary of Richard Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement speech titled 'Cargo Cult Science'. Feynman dedicated his speech to one thing, the biggest obstacle to progress worldwide. He coined the term Cargo Cult Science to refer to the pseudo-scientific methods people use, i.e. cult behaviors. Even physicists.
Our livestream will be a continuation of Feynman's speech. He explained the least of the harmful cult behaviors. We will explain the worst ones. Nations with apostasy laws. Nations treating whistleblowers as traitors. Nations and corporations creating fake science and other propaganda. Nations instituting compulsory education systems designed to make people smart enough to be economically productive but not smart enough to properly question the political status quo. Parents using the 'united front' concept and so many other things in the same vein. They're trying to discourage disobedience by sabotaging truth-seeking. They don't want us to talk, and that is what we must do!
Our livestream doubles as the launch of a non-profit organization called 'Uniting The Cults.' Its purpose is to be an agent of cultural change with a vision of a world without apostasy laws.. a world governed by scientific thinking, where people recognize love as the goal and rationality as the method to achieve it.
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• I have a zoom meeting with Ayaan Hirsi Ali! I became a founding member of her new platform Restoration, which promised this meeting. I'll be asking her to be the expert representing the apostasy issue. And I'm doing more than that. Please help me make the best of our upcoming meeting. Here's the outline of what I want to discuss with her, which I've already sent to her. If you intend to provide feedback, please do it in the comments below, not in the google doc.
• We still need people for the other areas. Politics. Universities. Parenting. Or any field that you think should be represented in this livestream. Nominate yourself at www.UnitingTheCults.com. Start a chat and say "I nominate myself for the livestream event for X topic." Then we'll do a zoom call to see if it makes sense. And if that discussion is good for the podcast, I'll publish it that way, with your consent of course. Also don't worry about anonymity.. every one of my 3 guests have been anonymous so far.
• Our 4th podcast episode is live! Iraq's federal/state system of government and the Iraqi Civil War, with Zorro. We are two ex-Muslim Arab (Sunnis), one from Iraq and one with Syrian parents.
• Because of that podcast, I reached out asking people with other perspectives, and Wisam Hasan answered the call! We scheduled a dual livestream on Monday 5/4/2024 8AM Central. Wisam is an ex-Muslim (Shia), lived in Iraq until 2006, and after the war he worked for the US lead infrastructure reconstruction program. He's a co-founder of Atheism Without Borders. Here's his youtube channel, AWB. And here's one of the awesome things Wisam is doing - Quran in layman terms (youtube playlist)!
• Update on making this non-profit official/legal: Still haven't done it. Postponing for another week.

📢 Don't miss our livestream event June 14th 2024 12PM CDT

I chose this date and time because its the 50th Anniversary of Richard Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement speech titled 'Cargo Cult Science'. Feynman dedicated his speech to one thing, the biggest obstacle to progress worldwide. He coined the term Cargo Cult Science to refer to the pseudo-scientific methods people use, i.e. cult behaviors. Even physicists.
Our livestream will be a continuation of Feynman's speech. He explained the least of the harmful cult behaviors. We will explain the worst ones. Nations with apostasy laws. Nations treating whistleblowers as traitors. Nations and corporations creating fake science and other propaganda. Nations instituting compulsory education systems designed to make people smart enough to be economically productive but not smart enough to properly question the political status quo. Parents using the 'united front' concept and so many other things in the same vein. They're trying to discourage disobedience by sabotaging truth-seeking. They don't want us to talk, and that is what we must do!
Our livestream doubles as the launch of a non-profit organization called 'Uniting The Cults.' Its purpose is to be an agent of cultural change with a vision of a world without apostasy laws.. a world governed by scientific thinking, where people recognize love as the goal and rationality as the method to achieve it.
For details and to signup for email updates and reminders for the event, visit: www.UnitingTheCults.com

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TW: Suicide, SA
When I (M) was a teenager I chatted with girl I randomly met on Facebook and hit it off. That chat became kinky soon (me as submissive, but nothing explicit) and eventually it fizzled out as I got an actual real life GF like two or three weeks after.
Then, five years later, I try Facebook again and send out the typical requests to the “people you might know” - one of them was a friend of the mentioned girl (I didn’t know it was her friend).
Soon enough, the original girl is in my DMs having an absolute meltdown, telling me she won’t forget what I did to her and that I need to leave her and her friend alone - because apparently I had raped her.
That scared me so much. I had never even met this girl. We live half a country apart too.
It hurt especially hard because I was actually a victim to sexual assault by a partner I trusted, earlier that same year. (It’s a long story, essentially I’m asexual and had established that as a boundary when we first met, but she kept pushing herself onto me, eventually getting violent).
I didn’t know what to say to those hurtful DMs so I just apologised and promised to never reach out again.
It’s been 10 months since that outburst happened and I haven’t heard anything from either of them, so I guess it’s over? I’m so incredibly scared I’ll get “exposed” or sued over something that literally didn’t happen.
I’ve dealt a lot with suicidal thoughts in the past and eventually got over those, but I know that the stress of something happening related to that will be too much and I might end it on the spot. The immense frustration of nobody being willing to believe me and the incredible sadness and shame will leave me no other choice.
I live a panicked, paranoid and anhedonic life, knowing that each moment a person believing in untrue facts can decide to essentially kill me for no good reason. I struggle to plan or even picture my future. What will any career be worth when I can lose it instantly over the delusions of a past acquaintance? Or friends who will turn on me the second they “find out”?
What helped me make sense of it in the past was reading Reddit posts of people sharing “crazy girlfriend” texts, especially those from people undergoing delusions, stress episodes or psychosis, because they mimic the unhinged, nonsensical and malicious stream of consciousness I found in my inbox that day, and give me hope that maybe she just had a weird episode and now forgot about me entirely.
However, when I leave the house I get worried of her seeing me, being “reminded of me” and taking action. I carry what feels like 20kg of stress with me and have been for the past 10 months.
What can I do? I want to be happy again. Any actual actions to do in relation to her are off the table due to the immense risk. I’m mainly asking for how to process, reframe and feel at ease again. Thank you.

TW: Suicide, SA
When I (M) was a teenager I chatted with girl I randomly met on Facebook and hit it off. That chat became kinky soon (me as submissive, but nothing explicit) and eventually it fizzled out as I got an actual real life GF like two or three weeks after.
Then, five years later, I try Facebook again and send out the typical requests to the “people you might know” - one of them was a friend of the mentioned girl (I didn’t know it was her friend).
Soon enough, the original girl is in my DMs having an absolute meltdown, telling me she won’t forget what I did to her and that I need to leave her and her friend alone - because apparently I had raped her.
That scared me so much. I had never even met this girl. We live half a country apart too.
It hurt especially hard because I was actually a victim to sexual assault by a partner I trusted, earlier that same year. (It’s a long story, essentially I’m asexual and had established that as a boundary when we first met, but she kept pushing herself onto me, eventually getting violent).
I didn’t know what to say to those hurtful DMs so I just apologised and promised to never reach out again.
It’s been 10 months since that outburst happened and I haven’t heard anything from either of them, so I guess it’s over? I’m so incredibly scared I’ll get “exposed” or sued over something that literally didn’t happen.
I’ve dealt a lot with suicidal thoughts in the past and eventually got over those, but I know that the stress of something happening related to that will be too much and I might end it on the spot. The immense frustration of nobody being willing to believe me and the incredible sadness and shame will leave me no other choice.
I live a panicked, paranoid and anhedonic life, knowing that each moment a person believing in untrue facts can decide to essentially kill me for no good reason. I struggle to plan or even picture my future. What will any career be worth when I can lose it instantly over the delusions of a past acquaintance? Or friends who will turn on me the second they “find out”?
What helped me make sense of it in the past was reading Reddit posts of people sharing “crazy girlfriend” texts, especially those from people undergoing delusions, stress episodes or psychosis, because they mimic the unhinged, nonsensical and malicious stream of consciousness I found in my inbox that day, and give me hope that maybe she just had a weird episode and now forgot about me entirely.
However, when I leave the house I get worried of her seeing me, being “reminded of me” and taking action. I carry what feels like 20kg of stress with me and have been for the past 10 months.
What can I do? I want to be happy again. Any actual actions to do in relation to her are off the table due to the immense risk. I’m mainly asking for how to process, reframe and feel at ease again. Thank you.

Trigger Warning: Suicide, SA
When I (M) was a teenager I chatted with girl I randomly met on Facebook and hit it off. That chat became kinky soon (me as submissive, but nothing explicit) and eventually it fizzled out as I got an actual real life GF like two or three weeks after.
Then, five years later, I try Facebook again and send out the typical requests to the “people you might know” - one of them was a friend of the mentioned girl (I didn’t know it was her friend).
Soon enough, the original girl is in my DMs having an absolute meltdown, telling me she won’t forget what I did to her and that I need to leave her and her friend alone - because apparently I had raped her.
That scared me so much. I had never even met this girl. We live half a country apart too.
It hurt especially hard because I was actually a victim to sexual assault by a partner I trusted, earlier that same year. (It’s a long story, essentially I’m asexual and had established that as a boundary when we first met, but she kept pushing herself onto me, eventually getting violent).
I didn’t know what to say to those hurtful DMs so I just apologised and promised to never reach out again.
It’s been 10 months since that outburst happened and I haven’t heard anything from either of them, so I guess it’s over? I’m so incredibly scared I’ll get “exposed” or sued over something that literally didn’t happen.
I’ve dealt a lot with suicidal thoughts in the past and eventually got over those, but I know that the stress of something happening related to that will be too much and I might end it on the spot. The immense frustration of nobody being willing to believe me and the incredible sadness and shame will leave me no other choice.
I live a panicked, paranoid and anhedonic life, knowing that each moment a person believing in untrue facts can decide to essentially kill me for no good reason. I struggle to plan or even picture my future. What will any career be worth when I can lose it instantly over the delusions of a past acquaintance? Or friends who will turn on me the second they “find out”?
What helped me make sense of it in the past was reading Reddit posts of people sharing “crazy girlfriend” texts, especially those from people undergoing delusions, stress episodes or psychosis, because they mimic the unhinged, nonsensical and malicious stream of consciousness I found in my inbox that day, and give me hope that maybe she just had a weird episode and now forgot about me entirely.
However, when I leave the house I get worried of her seeing me, being “reminded of me” and taking action. I carry what feels like 20kg of stress with me and have been for the past 10 months.
What can I do? I want to be happy again. Any actual actions to do in relation to her are off the table due to the immense risk. I’m mainly asking for how to process, reframe and feel at ease again. Thank you.

If you missed the invitation post, see details below the progress update or here...

PROGRESS UPDATE AS OF 4/30/2024

• We have our first confirmed expert for the June 14 livestream event: Eli Schragenheim, representing the business world. He worked for decades directly with Eli Goldratt, the Einstein of the business world. Eli Schragenheim is a well known international management educator and consultant active in various fields of management like corporate strategy, supply chain, project management, shop-floor control, IT and HR. He worked with huge variety of organizations all over the world, including public-sector organizations, industrial, high-tech and start-ups. Eli has taught, spoke at conferences and consulted all over the globe, including the US, Canada, Britain, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Germany, Italy, Belgium, South Africa, Australia, India, China and Japan.
• I have a zoom meeting with Ayaan Hirsi Ali! I became a founding member of her new platform Restoration, which promised this meeting. I'll be asking her to be the expert representing the apostasy issue. And I'm doing more than that. Please help me make the best of our upcoming meeting. Here's the outline of what I want to discuss with her, which I've already sent to her. If you intend to provide feedback, please do it in the comments below, not in the google doc.
• We still need people for the other areas. Politics. Universities. Parenting. Or any field that you think should be represented in this livestream. Nominate yourself at www.UnitingTheCults.com. Start a chat and say "I nominate myself for the livestream event for X topic." Then we'll do a zoom call to see if it makes sense. And if that discussion is good for the podcast, I'll publish it that way, with your consent of course. Also don't worry about anonymity.. every one of my 3 guests have been anonymous so far.
• Our 4th podcast episode is live! Iraq's federal/state system of government and the Iraqi Civil War, with Zorro. We are two ex-Muslim Arab (Sunnis), one from Iraq and one with Syrian parents.
• Because of that podcast, I reached out asking people with other perspectives, and Wisam Hasan answered the call! We scheduled a dual livestream on Monday 5/4/2024 8AM Central. Wisam is an ex-Muslim (Shia), lived in Iraq until 2006, and after the war he worked for the US lead infrastructure reconstruction program. He's a co-founder of Atheism Without Borders. Here's his youtube channel, AWB. And here's one of the awesome things Wisam is doing - Quran in layman terms (youtube playlist)!
• Update on making this non-profit official/legal: Still haven't done it. Postponing for another week.

📢 Don't miss our livestream event June 14th 2024 12PM CDT

I chose this date and time because its the 50th Anniversary of Richard Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement speech titled 'Cargo Cult Science'. Feynman dedicated his speech to one thing, the biggest obstacle to progress worldwide. He coined the term Cargo Cult Science to refer to the pseudo-scientific methods people use, i.e. cult behaviors. Even physicists.
Our livestream will be a continuation of Feynman's speech. He explained the least of the harmful cult behaviors. We will explain the worst ones. Nations with apostasy laws. Nations treating whistleblowers as traitors. Nations and corporations creating fake science and other propaganda. Nations instituting compulsory education systems designed to make people smart enough to be economically productive but not smart enough to properly question the political status quo. Parents using the 'united front' concept and so many other things in the same vein. They're trying to discourage disobedience by sabotaging truth-seeking. They don't want us to talk, and that is what we must do!
Our livestream doubles as the launch of a non-profit organization called 'Uniting The Cults.' Its purpose is to be an agent of cultural change with a vision of a world without apostasy laws.. a world governed by scientific thinking, where people recognize love as the goal and rationality as the method to achieve it.
For details and to signup for email updates and reminders for the event, visit: www.UnitingTheCults.com

In uniting the cults, we cease to be a cult! 💘

Posted with permission. Questions? Comments? Criticisms?

If you missed the invitation post, see details below the progress update or here...

PROGRESS UPDATE AS OF 4/30/2024

• We have our first confirmed expert for the June 14 livestream event: Eli Schragenheim, representing the business world. He worked for decades directly with Eli Goldratt, the Einstein of the business world. Eli Schragenheim is a well known international management educator and consultant active in various fields of management like corporate strategy, supply chain, project management, shop-floor control, IT and HR. He worked with huge variety of organizations all over the world, including public-sector organizations, industrial, high-tech and start-ups. Eli has taught, spoke at conferences and consulted all over the globe, including the US, Canada, Britain, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Germany, Italy, Belgium, South Africa, Australia, India, China and Japan.
• I have a zoom meeting with Ayaan Hirsi Ali! I became a founding member of her new platform Restoration, which promised this meeting. I'll be asking her to be the expert representing the apostasy issue. And I'm doing more than that. Please help me make the best of our upcoming meeting. Here's the outline of what I want to discuss with her, which I've already sent to her. If you intend to provide feedback, please do it in the comments below, not in the google doc.
• We still need people for the other areas. Politics. Universities. Parenting. Or any field that you think should be represented in this livestream. Nominate yourself at www.UnitingTheCults.com. Start a chat and say "I nominate myself for the livestream event for X topic." Then we'll do a zoom call to see if it makes sense. And if that discussion is good for the podcast, I'll publish it that way, with your consent of course. Also don't worry about anonymity.. every one of my 3 guests have been anonymous so far.
• Our 4th podcast episode is live! Iraq's federal/state system of government and the Iraqi Civil War, with Zorro. We are two ex-Muslim Arab (Sunnis), one from Iraq and one with Syrian parents.
• Because of that podcast, I reached out asking people with other perspectives, and Wisam Hasan answered the call! We scheduled a dual livestream on Monday 5/4/2024 8AM Central. Wisam is an ex-Muslim (Shia), lived in Iraq until 2006, and after the war he worked for the US lead infrastructure reconstruction program. He's a co-founder of Atheism Without Borders. Here's his youtube channel, AWB. And here's one of the awesome things Wisam is doing - Quran in layman terms (youtube playlist)!
• Update on making this non-profit official/legal: Still haven't done it. Postponing for another week.

📢 Don't miss our livestream event June 14th 2024 12PM CDT

I chose this date and time because its the 50th Anniversary of Richard Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement speech titled 'Cargo Cult Science'. Feynman dedicated his speech to one thing, the biggest obstacle to progress worldwide. He coined the term Cargo Cult Science to refer to the pseudo-scientific methods people use, i.e. cult behaviors. Even physicists.
Our livestream will be a continuation of Feynman's speech. He explained the least of the harmful cult behaviors. We will explain the worst ones. Nations with apostasy laws. Nations treating whistleblowers as traitors. Nations and corporations creating fake science and other propaganda. Nations instituting compulsory education systems designed to make people smart enough to be economically productive but not smart enough to properly question the political status quo. Parents using the 'united front' concept and so many other things in the same vein. They're trying to discourage disobedience by sabotaging truth-seeking. They don't want us to talk, and that is what we must do!
Our livestream doubles as the launch of a non-profit organization called 'Uniting The Cults.' Its purpose is to be an agent of cultural change with a vision of a world without apostasy laws.. a world governed by scientific thinking, where people recognize love as the goal and rationality as the method to achieve it.
For details and to signup for email updates and reminders for the event, visit: www.UnitingTheCults.com

In uniting the cults, we cease to be a cult! 💘

Posted with permission. Questions? Comments? Criticisms?

So I had a stressful chat with my parents. They’re scared for my safety if I make a post on social media coming out as trans. To a point, I understand their concerns. I am definitely worried about being harassed , either online or in person, once I’m publicly out . And I know there are websites and social media conservatives who go out of their way to dox or harass trans people online.
I fully intend to live publicly as a woman once I’m further along my transition. But is a coming out message on Facebook necessary ?
On the other hand, I want to be seen for who I am and I want people, including old friends and acquaintances to know who I am.
For context I have a couple hundred contacts on FB.

I have launched many applications on Android play store all of them i have built with all my heartily effort. I have keep limited ads on all my apps to keep good user experience and have some earning out of it.
One is all in one activity and expense tracker app. There is very few or no applications on google play store which has Step counter, sleep tracker, water reminder, expense manager, medicine reminder and many more.
Another one is AI chat bot assistant where Google gemini and open ai APIs are integrated so that users can have both LLM and GPT model experience in one app and take advantage of the different capabilities and accuracy of these platforms.
I have published my app on product hunt, alternative to and other app directories as well to gain traffic from those platforms. I am also posting on multiple Facebook groups but the groups are private and most of the time admins are not approving the post. I have also tried running by google ads and get bot traffic on store and my almost 10k wasted.
I don’t know what mistakes i am doing to improve the ASO of my apps and get more and more traffic on my store. I am hardly getting 2 to 5 download and sometimes no downloads for many days.
Guys please assist me on my concerns. I am also putting my app links here so that you can also check my store listing and provide me suggestion on it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyani.ai.chat.gpt.bard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fitfinphy
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ilovedocs.pdf.imgtopdf.pdfmaker.all.converter

I met a therapist on another app I would rather keep it confidential and to myself for the time being. So from the moment I met the therapist who is in America I felt safe as he was an older man(around 50) and I am 26. He knows I have been assaulted and have trust issues. I told him I am going to America in the summer and he told me he wants to meet me for coffee and to show me around. At this point I felt the boundaries between us became blurred. So I changed him. Then I realized maybe I was exaggerating due to my past so I did something stupid and reached out on Facebook in desperation not recognizing it was inappropriate. We talked and therapy started from there. So he made it clear to me that despite him taking the usual certain price he lowered the price for me( I assumed it was because he knows people usually use me for money). Then as we were talking on the next video session he commented that my hair looks as if I changed the color. I said no I don't know how he noticed something so subtle. We then discussed how I dress and when I said rather conservatively he said he never liked girls who dressed cheap and always liked women to dress modestly.Then, he explained that he does therapy in a personal way so I didn't find it odd that he would talk about himself a lot. He gave me extra time around 30 min extra and in it we didn't talk anything regarding therapy and were talking about life. He talked about himself and then asked me again when I was going to America so we could meet up. He also said that after therapy we can always talk for extra time and we can randomly chat on Facebook and update him without paying. Also in the extra time as we were talking he began to show me photos of nature and places he has travelled to then randomly mentioned he is muscular and used to compete and then said (u probably saw the photos) I said no I didn't and then he continued to show me photos of him in only the competing undergarments with the rest of the body is on display. I don't know what to make of this. All I know is I am very stressed and it starting to get to my head. I want to know is what he is doing appropriate and I am overthinking or is something not right.

I (40f) have known Nathan (40m) almost my entire life. We went to elementary school together, all through high. Grew up in the same small town, about 2 miles apart. We weren’t exactly friends, but we talked to each other. He’s a sweet guy, nice. He wears glasses and is kinda goofy looking, so he got bullied in school. His older brother Chris (42m) was his protector. I’m more friends with Chris than I am Nathan.
Haven’t really talked to either of them since school, just the occasional text asking how things are. But Nathan posted a family picture on facebook the other day and I put 2 and 2 together…. He’s married to a coworker of mine. A woman that no one likes.
I texted another coworker friend of mine (37m) and asked what this woman’s last name was. He told me and I knew it was her. He then proceeds to tell me “she has a whole secret chat that she uses to talk to guys. She showed it to me once.”
Now, idk if she’s full blown cheating, if anything is an emotional affair. Or if she’s just looking for male attention. I know nothing about their marriage. I know they have a special needs child (11m). To me, cheating is abhorrent. If I was Nathan, I would want to know about this “secret chat”. But I also don’t want to create potentially unnecessary issues in a marriage that could be happy.
So, WIBTAH if I said something? Should I get more information? Or just leave it alone?

If you missed the invitation post, see details below the progress update or here...

PROGRESS UPDATE AS OF 4/30/2024

• We have our first confirmed expert for the June 14 livestream event: Eli Schragenheim, representing the business world. He worked for decades directly with Eli Goldratt, the Einstein of the business world. Eli Schragenheim is a well known international management educator and consultant active in various fields of management like corporate strategy, supply chain, project management, shop-floor control, IT and HR. He worked with huge variety of organizations all over the world, including public-sector organizations, industrial, high-tech and start-ups. Eli has taught, spoke at conferences and consulted all over the globe, including the US, Canada, Britain, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Germany, Italy, Belgium, South Africa, Australia, India, China and Japan.
• I have a zoom meeting with Ayaan Hirsi Ali! I became a founding member of her new platform Restoration, which promised this meeting. I'll be asking her to be the expert representing the apostasy issue. And I'm doing more than that. Please help me make the best of our upcoming meeting. Here's the outline of what I want to discuss with her, which I've already sent to her. If you intend to provide feedback, please do it in the comments below, not in the google doc.
• We still need people for the other areas. Politics. Universities. Parenting. Or any field that you think should be represented in this livestream. Nominate yourself at www.UnitingTheCults.com. Start a chat and say "I nominate myself for the livestream event for X topic." Then we'll do a zoom call to see if it makes sense. And if that discussion is good for the podcast, I'll publish it that way, with your consent of course. Also don't worry about anonymity.. every one of my 3 guests have been anonymous so far.
• Our 4th podcast episode is live! Iraq's federal/state system of government and the Iraqi Civil War, with Zorro. We are two ex-Muslim Arab (Sunnis), one from Iraq and one with Syrian parents.
• Because of that podcast, I reached out asking people with other perspectives, and Wisam Hasan answered the call! We scheduled a dual livestream on Monday 5/4/2024 8AM Central. Wisam is an ex-Muslim (Shia), lived in Iraq until 2006, and after the war he worked for the US lead infrastructure reconstruction program. He's a co-founder of Atheism Without Borders. Here's his youtube channel, AWB. And here's one of the awesome things Wisam is doing - Quran in layman terms (youtube playlist)!
• Update on making this non-profit official/legal: Still haven't done it. Postponing for another week.

📢 Don't miss our livestream event June 14th 2024 12PM CDT

I chose this date and time because its the 50th Anniversary of Richard Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement speech titled 'Cargo Cult Science'. Feynman dedicated his speech to one thing, the biggest obstacle to progress worldwide. He coined the term Cargo Cult Science to refer to the pseudo-scientific methods people use, i.e. cult behaviors. Even physicists.
Our livestream will be a continuation of Feynman's speech. He explained the least of the harmful cult behaviors. We will explain the worst ones. Nations with apostasy laws. Nations treating whistleblowers as traitors. Nations and corporations creating fake science and other propaganda. Nations instituting compulsory education systems designed to make people smart enough to be economically productive but not smart enough to properly question the political status quo. Parents using the 'united front' concept and so many other things in the same vein. They're trying to discourage disobedience by sabotaging truth-seeking. They don't want us to talk, and that is what we must do!
Our livestream doubles as the launch of a non-profit organization called 'Uniting The Cults.' Its purpose is to be an agent of cultural change with a vision of a world without apostasy laws.. a world governed by scientific thinking, where people recognize love as the goal and rationality as the method to achieve it.
For details and to signup for email updates and reminders for the event, visit: www.UnitingTheCults.com

In uniting the cults, we cease to be a cult! 💘

Posted with permission. Questions? Comments? Criticisms?

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I'm using a Kyocera 903kc but this should apply to any Android feature phone that struggles to run the bloated Messenger app (or anyone who doesn't want to use it for battery/privacy reasons).
Facebook officially deprecated Messenger Lite 7 months ago, and unofficially killed old APKs 1 month ago, such that the workaround of using an older app version no longer works. I've verified this by installing several different older APKs (from v.320 to v.253) -- the newer versions display the fullscreen "switch to Messenger" page and the older versions simply fail to load or send any messages.
Using Messenger in the browser also no longer works. Both m.facebook.com/messages and mbasic.facebook.com/messages display an error message saying to download the Messenger app.
Finally, I've tried the alternative messaging app Beeper, which can be used to consolidate your Messenger chats with other chat services, but I can't get past the verification screen because the app wasn't designed for small flip phones. The verification text gets cut off at the bottom and I can't scroll down to see it. The Beeper app prevents even using a screen mirrorer and navigating by mouse to scroll, so I suspect they (understandably) just didn't realize they needed to allow scrolling or supporting a low-DPI version for these small phones.
Are there any lightweight Facebook Messenger options left for Android dumbphones?