Ahh, the plot thiccens...

So tell me again how someone leads by example with (paraphrasing in modern day English) "I don't resent these people who are torturing me to death. They don't understand who I am. Don't retaliate against them."

and then down the road his followers are judging people for being attracted to drawings?

I suppose this is the same reason y'all hated gay people? Just because it doesn't make pregnancy happen? Yeah that ain't so much of a problem anymore. Got a few billion humans. We'll manage.

And you realize that if your religion is right, your deity has no limitations on ability or awareness. He wouldn't need to make deputies out of mortals. He'd know everyone who's breaking the rules, and handle it himself.

I'm not tryna be a dick. It just sucks to see belief systems that aren't doomed to fail still fail because of misuse. Amend the damn book. Or at least read it.

Look at the other Levitican laws and see if you're following them.

Huh? I had to look that up.

You mean this?? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coomer

That's like, really specific 🤔

You're coming to that conclusion just from what you've seen in this comment section?

Well, if it's gotta be only one or the other...

Js, when you settle down you can't smack your wife's boobs every time she stands up or sits down within arm's reach.

At least I don't think so. I don't know anyone whose boobs are that tough, but my body count is low for an adult.

I've certainly heard of more surprising stuff than boob smacking, that much I know.

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Oh God, what painfully awkward questions to ask to one of the few people smart enough that he might know the actual truth 😖

To be put on the spot like that while under a moral obligation to uphold a society-wide charade, but lying would feel awful because the people asking the questions trust you, so you gotta just not answer, which makes them feel disrespected 😑

Excruciating 😤

Hehe, I will never tire of airhead characters 😆 I adore them,

She still thinks those four kids are all androids 😆

She lives in a world where there are no real kids since nobody can reproduce, so normally when you see what looks like a kid it's really an android meant for people to buy so they can basically play house as adults, pretending to be parents.

That concept is so fucking cute that by comparison it'd make Gelato taste like black coffee, but if they were just tools for fun then wtf would be the point of 4 androids just playing with each other unless the "parents" were watching them?

That'd be like having a humidifier and a dehumidifier right next to each other on the roof of your house 🤣

You are very welcome! 🙂 It's what I do 🙏

Try not to get too mad at the people who say unhelpful things to you when you show your heart like you just did. They're not bad people, they just haven't been treated right.

A person who isn't being taken care of even by the people who play ongoing roles in their own life can't fairly be expected to exceed those people's effort levels for the sake of someone they're never gonna see again.

I grew up in the same cruel world as everyone else, but my home was a sanctuary. Kindness is all that has ever been expected of me. My parent didn't tell me to make them proud or be the best or carry on a legacy or anything like that. They told me to keep myself safe and become happy without hurting people.

That's a very low bar, so without any unfair expectations to live up to, I had a lot less stress in my life. I was treated the way all people should be, and just like the people who've been mistreated, I'm passing on the energy I was given. I'm not better than them, I'm only more lucky. Life isn't fair, but it could be.

To someone who knows they would be scolded even by their own parent for saying the same thing you said, it can seem absurd to see it in a context like this where we're all strangers to each other. Just remember, they're not your enemies, they're your comrades. They're suffering too. I know they don't behave like comrades, but that's only because they don't know they are.

I don't have the pressure of a career or raising kids crushing me like most people do, so guidance is my life's work. I've been shown some outstandingly touching gratitude before but nobody ever told me they printed out my comments. That felt amazing, and I'll remember it forever. Thank you 🤝❤

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Saotome is smart, he's hardworking, and he's got an amazing heart. But he is falling into the same abyss that most people do. He's obsessed with productivity and competition. He can't just be happy to be doing what he loves. He won't be satisfied unless he can say that he's better at it than other people, with enough evidence that only the most stubborn delusional people will deny it.

When it comes to having a job and making money, yes, that's a competition. There's only so much money in the economy, and everyone who's in your industry is targeting the same customers as you. No amount of progressive idealistic thinking will not make that go away. The toxicity comes in when that principle infects other aspects of life, like dating. When someone is not capable of seeing anything without applying a competitive mindset, that's a problem.

Satome sees his memory of bringing people together and making them happy with his skills in that fashion show, and he sees Koharu do the same thing. The healthy way to feel about that is to focus on the effects they had on people. Happiness. Unity. He should see a comrade, not a rival.

Saotome is gonna spend his time chasing a carrot on a string, while Makoto is able to see that there are free carrots all around him. His life is gonna pass him by in the blink of an eye. He's gonna be one of the people I meet all the time on my advice accounts.

They wake up one day and realize that they've lived 30% to 50% of their life and have nothing to show for it except money and respect of the masses. No deep fulfilling relationships with anyone. No memories happy enough to be worth re-living over and over. No sense of belonging.

After decades of careful planning, intense focus, and relentless effort, they are empty. Achieving their goals didn't make them happy, because they set the wrong goals. They don't know what to do except ask a stranger to explain why they should even carry on. "What is the point of playing if winning doesn't make me win???"

The point is PLEASURE without harming other people. You weren't supposed to be trying to win. Indulge without exploiting. That is LIFE.

Makoto and Saotome both have their strengths. They're not bad people. Nobody is inadequate. Nobody is superior. Nobody failed. Nobody got rejected. They just don't belong together.

Please listen to me dude 🙏 I know it's long but please 🙏 Once you are armed with this info you will save your life. Maybe someone else's too.
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This is the most unhealthy counterproductive outlook anyone could possibly have on dating, yet somehow it's like, pretty much the ONLY outlook anyone has.

Okie-dokes...

It's not a rejection.

Nobody has ever rejected someone's request for a relationship.

They have declined an offer for a relationship.

That might sound like it's the same thing, but that choice of words makes all the difference in the world.

The word "rejection" has connotations that imply a lot of negative things. It implies elements of success/failure, adequacy/inadequacy, and superiority/inferiority. Those are the three most harmful things that could possibly be going on in your head when it comes to your confidence.

The word "decline" simply means you're choosing not to do something. The word "offer" simply means you are suggesting something potentially happening.

Dating is about compatibility, not adequacy. Someone being uninterested in dating you does not make them your superior. Them declining your offer doesn't mean you failed.

Eligibility to be a relationship partner is not an objectively quantifiable thing like a video game score. There is not some kind of linear hierarchy of attractiveness that dictates who can reasonably expect to be able to date who, based on the size of the gap between their rankings.

Saotome did not reject her request. He declined her offer. The issue was not that she was inadequate in some way. It was simply that his current interests do not align with hers. Using what knowledge he has to go on, his judgment is telling him that them being a couple would ultimately go against their interests, and he's right.

It's okay to like someone, the heart wants what it wants. But we've all got to remember that our heart is for feeling, and our head is for thinking. Our heart isn't smart.

Makoto is focused on embracing the social aspects of life. She cherishes every moment. She is unapologetically exactly who she is in all contexts. She lives as she sees fit. She doesn't conform just for the sake of conformity. She does not have a thirst to establish any form of superiority over anyone else. That may be the way of the world she was born into, but it's not HER way.

Makoto simply wants everyone to be happy. This is the right way to live. She's the healthiest character in this whole thing. Her one legitimately harmful flaw is that sometimes she listens to her heart more than her head. That's a big flaw, but it's only one.

I hope you're right about that first thing, because I know you're right about the rest.

I feel very fortunate that as a kid and as a teen I only liked shounen stuff, and that I didn't get into the slice of life genre of anime/manga until I was an adult and had already done enough dating to understand what it's really like.

Like I was so impressionable and naive back then, I'm seriously considering the possibility that if I had started reading this stuff when I was too young to date, it might have sabotaged me. If I expected it to be this easy... Idk.

Even if I was told upfront that it was unrealistic and not meant to be used as a baseline for my expectations of dating, it would still have affected my perception to some extent.

I wish I could talk to whoever the editor is. They have clearly been mistreated 😔

Judging by how good of a job they did on this and how little they seem to think of themselves, I'm guessing they're one of those people who raised with unreasonably high expectations just because either they're smart and/or their family is well known and/or cares too much about money.

People who come from that sort of background tend to feel like nothing they accomplish is worth anything unless it gets them either money or respect from the masses. Looks like this was made several years ago... Wherever they are, I hope they're feeling better.

Anonymous editor, if you ever see this, know that you can decide for yourself what constitutes success. If you can fulfill your own personal criteria of success and become happy/content/secure, the morale boost will make you more capable of fulfilling the more traditional criteria too.

Whoever made you feel like you don't matter is a dick, but try not to hate them. They're probably a victim just like you. Instead of resenting them, resent the cycle of mistreatment. Make sure it ends with you.

Be the change you wish to see in the world. ❤🙂🤝
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You're welcome! I'm like a good-aligned Hermaeus Mora. I am compelled to over-explain things to people even if they're only mildly interested, because failing to understand things is very frustrating to me 😣

Especially things that seem completely absurd but have been going on for so long in so many places that I know there's got to be some kind of logic behind it.

Like even if I have to talk to someone who I'm not gonna like, and even if I know the real reason is just hatred, I wanna know how they're seeing it.

That's pretty wild how the racism/slavery is so intense that a human having an elf or dwarf as a lover is looked at as if they're banging a pet or farm animal or something 😳

Like it's so weird of a thing to do that it can compel you to acknowledge a hooded stranger as a genuine person.

Like "Okay... I suppose it's gonna be pretty hard for me to distrust someone who volunteers THAT information... They're probably not lying about the other thing..."

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Prison violence is normally curbed to an extent because everyone is in a gang and it's understood that extra people will become involved in any conflict, so it's just a practical decision to avoid a fight when the conflict is only between you and one other person. You don't wanna get your own people hurt over something you can resolve on your own.

There were other white supremacists in the prison, so normally it would be kind of a standoff. It wouldn't be worth the collateral damage to take out one guy who pissed them off particularly bad if it would exacerbate an ongoing large-scale conflict.

Thing is, the MC had also pissed off the white supremacist gang somehow (Can't remember) so he didn't have any protection. He kept walking past the black gang members expecting them to kill him any day, since they knew nobody was gonna retaliate.

It didn't make any sense why they were letting a nazi stay alive, so he was confused. The black guy he befriended denied any involvement, but the MC was pretty sure it was him who told the black gang members that he had changed. There was just no other plausible explanation.

Sure enough, when the MC got out of prison he tried to talk sense into his old gang, because he had new perspective that they didn't, and he saw the situation for what it was.

But they wouldn't listen. They had a lifetime of firsthand experiences that contradicted what one guy said, so it wasn't enough. Everyone they'd ever met was hostile, but it was all an illusion. None of them were born like that. They were poisoned. It was too late.

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It seems bizarre to me too because I grew up away from it, but I saw a movie called American History X that explained it well.

In the neighborhood and time period it's set in, racism has been going on for long enough that nobody who was involved in the original conflict is still alive, and everyone in the neighborhood now was raised with the belief that everyone in the other race wants to hurt them.

So they basically get pitted against each other when they're so young they just believe whatever they're told, so "that race is dangerous" is as much of a no-brainer to them as "Don't get in a stranger's car". They never meet under circumstances where they can feel each other out with their own natural judgment.

It's frightening that it's actually logical in that case, because what both sides teach is true in an effective sense. They really do all wanna hurt each other. And yeah it's just that neighborhood, but since this is before the internet was big, that neighborhood is basically their entire world.

They never get to meet anyone of the other race who doesn't already hate them on principle and is instantly hostile, so how else could they feel? But it's really only happening because they're making it happen. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

❗Spoilers ahead❗

What happens is the MC (white supremacist, nazi) goes to prison, and a lot of people think prisoners just sit in a cell all day, but really they're forced to do free labor.

The guy he's assigned to work alongside is black, and the black guy is racist too, but they know if they fight each other, all that's gonna happen is they'll get more prison time, so that'd just be dumb.

They spend lots of time in one room doing thoughtless work, so there's nothing to do but talk. They're pretty mean to each other at first, but eventually there's too much common ground to ignore.

So the MC stops shaving his head and he's not a white supremacist anymore, but he was already in deep shit with the black gang at the prison because he was very outwardly racist when he got there. It was just him and that one other guy in that room, so nobody knew.

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Hell yeah m8. You got it 😎🤜💥🤛

The humans probably have a certain degree of rationality behind the belief that all the other races are inferior.

It's probably based on how they never see them doing anything that fits their personal criterias of success. Like none of them are wealthy or famous for any kind of skill or leadership or knowledge or anything.

But that's because they've always been pinned down by the status quo. They're not dumb or lazy, it's just not a level playing field.

Once they get equal access to education and other resources just like the humans have, it's all gonna come down to effort and determination.

It'll become clear that they have the same wide spectrum of people with varying degrees of "success" that humans have.

Like there's probably international sports, the scientific communities of allied nations probably compare their notes, and of course there's manufacturing and all other commerce, exports/imports of goods.

No matter how prideful someone is in their area of expertise, if their skill level can be quantified in a way that's objectively undeniable, they'll respect an equal.

It would be disgraceful to still act like you're better than someone else when your accomplishments can be expressed numerically and their numbers are the same.

Scientific advancements would be a little more subjective to compare, since they'd be too different. But if all of us play the same sport then who has the points? If all of us make boots then whose last the longest?

If we're equals, we can all tell. It's our profession. Denying what's right in front of us in favor of our own ego would be as disrespectful to ourselves as it would be to each other.

That's not gonna be enough to stop racism, but it'll disperse the smokescreen. They think it's valid because it's based on ability/accomplishments, but once that's off the table its gonna be obvious it's more of a cultural thing. That's progress.

Haha, pages 34 and 37 would look so horrifying if seen out of context and untranslated 😅
I know he's still got all his clothes on and all of them are covered up too, but still looks bad

People who are sensitive about loli stuff would shit bricks. Like BANG!!!! 😱💥💩

Hint hint, if any of y'all are seeing this in Latest Comments, that means "Don't look.", not "Look."
Remember the lessons you learned with meatspin, lemon party, blue waffle, tubgirl, etc.

What? Why does Myuu dropping out mean Tau wins? The other girl was tied with Myuu for first. I'm not objecting, I'm glad it happened, I just don't like failing to understand stuffs.