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http://bit.ly/2RLKCId I soon began ruminating and replaying the events that transpired the night before: If I had previously wanted to have sex with him, but not in that instance, was it still rape? Are they right, and I’m just in denial? Their doubts made me question the legitimacy of my own trauma. Was my own…
Kinds of irreligion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion Secular humanism embraces human reason, ethics, social justice, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition as the bases of morality and decision making. Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or a god. Freethought holds that positions regarding truth should be…
#Apple #Siri #better #therapist
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The town that backed a child sex abuser
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#Why #Stay #Bad #Relationships
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#Low #self-esteem #prison #marriage #convicted #killer
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