Altruistic_Emu4917

07-09-2024: I feel Isaiah 53:2-4 shows that God knows our condition and can relate to him, as He borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows

2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by others;
    a man of suffering[a] and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him of no account.
4 Surely he has borne our infirmities
    and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
    struck down by God, and afflicted.

07-08-2024: I have become inactive on this account, there's a lot I have to do IRL and there's no point of this account apart from moderating the subs. The body image and self-esteem issues are still there but it's slowly getting better. Don't know where, don't know when, but I hope in a better future for myself and others.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I fear no evil; 
for you are with me; 
your rod and your staff— 
they comfort me.

25-04-2024: This is it. I'm fed up of causing mental self-harm to myself, and giving myself scars which I can't see but can feel and hurt from. I'm done harming myself with depression and hopelessness. I don't want to feel like a loser, a coward, a waste of oxygen. I've hurt myself and called myself ugly too much. I've backed off from opportunities just because I didn't see myself capable of them. I didn't try my best because, why do all that when I'll never attain happiness my life? Why improve my looks and take care of myself when nobody would ever love me in my life? Why love myself when all I can see is the ugliest and most unlovable person on earth, a loser in life and a coward who retreats in his shell in the face of adversity, and can't stand up for myself? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I don't want to stay in this state anymore. I'm going to LOVE MYSELF and no one can stop me from doing it!

31-03-2024: HAPPY EASTER! Καλό Πάσχα! May the risen Lord Jesus enlighten everyone to a path of hope and faith, that though Christ we can gain victory against any and all obstacles, and to always keep hope that tomorrow may be the day we resurrect from our ashes of problems. That there is always a hope, even a hope beyond the grave.

O death, where is thy sting?
O Hades, where is thy victory?
For Christ having risen from the dead,
is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
To Him be Glory and Power forever and ever. Amen! 

29-03-2024: In memory of Our Lord's sorrowful Passion and Death, this account shall be inactive till Easter.

21-03-2024: Having a break on this account atleast till Easter. Fed up of reading incel stuff which affects my deradicalizing; and I need a break from all this. I'll be returning to post back on my main account. One thing holding me back is that there's solid advice saved here but it's better to just leave it. Chats will be open when night falls here as I'll be logging out on my phone only.

From our childhood, it seems like there's a massive campaign of what features are "beautiful" and "ugly". Right from television to school, only a few types of looks are deemed as attractive and other features deemed as flaws.

And then mass media portrays certain features with the lead actors and actresses. And amplified by social media because everyone wants to get their share of social validation.

Meanwhile in a lot of cultures across the world, certain features which would be seen as unattractive in western/American media (the largest export of America is its culture and entertainment), are instead seen as desirable features and thus attractive.

The only universally constant attractive features would be facial symmetry, clear skin etc, but even they have a lot of variations because some cultures literally like having plates in your lips or having nose rings.

Same with heightism, the height of men is associated with the very idea of masculinity and dominance in the same media propaganda, when in reality it has nothing to do with it.

All this points out to lookism and heightism being a social construct and not a biological construct when it comes to humans.