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Your Tango: Torn Between Two Worlds: What It's Like To Be A Mormon Lesbian
ABC: Hell to pay: Arson shakes a Church of Satan community
"Around age 13, I realized that I felt somewhat "different" from other girls my age.
I felt annoyed and ashamed when female peers would talk about the boys they were crushing on. One night, I told my best friend that I experienced "a weird feeling in my stomach" when I was near one of our other female friends.
Although my friend and I didn't understand my feelings at the time, I later discovered that I felt those butterflies because I found that particular girl attractive.
Even after the realization that I had feelings for my own gender, I never called myself "gay." I never told anyone about my attractions, either.
After all, my Mormon upbringing told me that homosexuality was sinful. I needed to live a moral life if I wanted to go to Heaven with my family someday.
I tried dating boys, but those relationships never worked out. Still, I fought against my "same-sex attraction" and focused all of my energy on my salvation.
I lived "in the closet" for 8 years, but eventually, I could no longer keep my secret to myself.
The moral dilemma around my sexuality caused me to experience daily panic attacks, severe depression, and even thoughts of suicide. For the longest time, I genuinely believed that dying would be easier than facing the reality of being a lesbian Mormon."
ABC: Hell to pay: Arson shakes a Church of Satan community
"Members of the Church of Satan are grieving the destruction of a historic "Halloween House" north of New York City that authorities say was set ablaze this week by an unidentified arsonist.The historic home, built in 1900, served as an Addams Family-style hub for local adherents of the religion, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports. One member of the church likened the arson to a terrorist attack."Everybody's in shock and everyone in the neighborhood is worried," the member, who goes by the name Isis Vermouth, told the newspaper. "Whoever did this is going to be hexed by all of us.""Now there's going to be hell to pay," Vermouth added.Surveillance footage shows a man walking up to the house after 5 a.m. Thursday with two gas cans, splashing liquid on the front porch and igniting it, people said. Two people escaped the house unharmed, authorities said."
"Countless bunkers, a mystical sect's paradisaical shrine and a royal palace – a journey through Albania to find the burial place.I cast my eyes up at the high wooden ceiling and see a painting of an upside-down paradise. A green field crisscrossed by canals of golden water, a golden fountain in the center and around it depictions of flowerbeds and fruits. Below the ceiling, around the perimeter, is a latticed gallery, and below that panels decorated with paintings of imaginary dream cities, and a strip with the 99 names of Allah encircling the entire space. Under that come wooden doors painted with flowers in the colors of joy, which open into cells of seclusion. Everything is bathed in a soft light which enters through large stained-glass windows, between the decorated ceiling and the strip, in all the splendid colors of the rainbow."
Der Spiegel: The Growing Problem of Online Radicalization
The raid on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., has shown clearly just how dangerous online radicalization can be. By promoting hate and inciting violence, social media platforms represent a danger to democracy." ... The fact that the insurrectionists filmed their crimes in real time, thus presenting clear proof of their misdeeds to the authorities, isn't just evidence of their limited intellectual capacities. It also demonstrates a certain loss of touch with reality among these self-proclaimed "patriots." Nourished by QAnon conspiracy narratives, fantasies of election fraud and Trump's unceasing stream of lies, they believed they were in the right and felt unassailable. As such, the events of Jan. 6 could also be seen as their arrival in a world where they don't feel at all at home: The real one.The fanatics on the front lines weren't the only ones who had one foot in the virtual world throughout that Wednesday. Hundreds of people in the crowd of supporters outside filmed what they saw on their mobile phones, posted selfies on social networks, sent pictures to friends and liked the images posted by others. The world became witness to the intoxicating narcissism of a mass of people who are constantly online and searching obsessively for clicks and likes. Trump's mob both inside and outside the Capitol were essentially an assault team made up of digital-world friends who had forgotten that they weren't in a video game, but at the seat of Congress, a place where the glass actually does break and people actually do die when shots are fired.ANZEIGEEuropean Commissioner Thierry Breton of France told the news website Politico that the storming of the Capitol was akin to a 9/11 moment for social media. Just as the attack on the Twin Towers in New York resulted in a paradigm shift of global security policies, Breton believes, the attack on the Capitol also represents a critical moment for the role played by digital platforms. Jan. 6, Breton makes clear, will go down as a day of infamy and could ultimately mark a turning point in the relationship between society at large and social media platforms."
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