I am currently pursuing a master's degree in the UK, and my final lecture for the semester is on the 18th of June. However, my submission is on the 3rd of July, marking the end of the term. I am not physically required to be at the university since the submission is online. Therefore, I went ahead and booked tickets to Thailand (I have a family wedding) for the 19th of June.
I applied for an e-visa and was asked to provide a letter from my employer addressing the Royal Thai Embassy in London. Since I am a full-time student, I requested a letter from my university. Unfortunately, they did not accept the request and said they couldn't authorize it since it's during term-time.
I emailed them explaining the situation, but since I am running out of time, I submitted a letter I received from the university earlier, which says "To Whom It May Concern."
My question is: will this affect my visa? Thank you in advance.

The profusion of identical green tents at this spring’s anti-Israel protests struck many as odd. “Why is everybody’s tent the same?,” asked New York mayor Eric Adams. Like others, the mayor suspected “a well-concerted organizing effort” driving the protests. More recent reporting shows a concerted push behind the Gaza protest movement. But it is not as simple as a single organization secretly rallying protesters or buying tents. Instead, the movement’s most determined activists represent a network of loosely linked far-left groups. Some are openly affiliated with well-known progressive nonprofits; others work in the shadows.
The movement also draws on diverse but generous sources of financial backing. Those funding streams may soon be augmented by the federal government. As I chronicled last year in a Manhattan Institute report, “The Big Squeeze: How Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda Hurts the Economy and the Environment,” the administration’s massive program of environmental justice grants seems designed to prioritize the funding of highly ideological local groups. The Inflation Reduction Act, for example, earmarks $3 billion for “environmental and climate justice block grants” intended for local nonprofits. Today, hundreds of far-left political groups include language about environmental issues and “climate justice” in their mission statements. If just a fraction of planned grants flows to such groups, the effect will be a gusher of new funding for radical causes.
As the Gaza protests spread across U.S. college campuses, many observers noted an eerie uniformity among them. From one campus to the next, protesters operated in disciplined cadres, keeping their faces covered and using identical rote phrases as they refused to talk with reporters. The Atlantic noted the strangeness of seeing elite college students “chanting like automatons.” Students held up keffiyeh scarves or umbrellas to block the view of prying cameras and linked arms to halt the movements of outsiders. At Columbia University and elsewhere, protesters formed “liberated zones,” from which “Zionists” were excluded. Around the edges of the encampments, the more militaristic activists donned helmets and goggles and carried crude weapons, apparently eager to mix it up with police or counter-protesters. We’ve seen these tactics before—notably during the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, when full-time agitators helped ignite riots, set up a police-free (and violence-plagued) zone in Seattle, and laid nightly siege to Portland, Oregon’s federal courthouse.
In a remarkable work of reporting, Park MacDougald recently traced the tangled roots of organizations backing pro-jihad protests, both on and off campuses. These include Antifa and other networks of anonymous anarchists, along with “various communist and Marxist-Leninist groups, including the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the International ANSWER coalition,” MacDougald writes. Higher up the food chain, we find groups openly supported by America’s growing class of super-rich tech execs or the anti-capitalist heirs of great fortunes. For example, retired tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, who is married to Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, funds The People’s Forum, a lavish Manhattan resource center for far-left groups. As the Columbia protests intensified, the center urged members to head uptown to “support our students.” Following the money trail of other protest groups, MacDougald finds connections to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and—surprising no one—the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation.
Of course, the current wave of anti-Israel protests also involves alliances with pro-Hamas organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine. Last November, Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies testified to the House Ways and Means Committee that SJP and similar groups have deep ties to global terrorist organizations, including Hamas.
For many keffiyeh-wearing protestors, however, a recently professed concern for Palestinians is just the latest in a long list of causes they believe justify taking over streets and college quads. In Unherd, Mary Harrington dubs this medley of political beliefs the “omnicause,” writing that “all contemporary radical causes seem somehow to have been absorbed into one.” Today’s leftist activists share an interlocking worldview that sees racism, income inequality, trans intolerance, climate change, alleged police violence, and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts all as products of capitalism and “colonialism.” Therefore, the stated rationale for any individual protest is a stand-in for the real battle: attacking Western society and its institutions.
In the U.S., this type of general-purpose uprising goes back at least to the riots at the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In those protests, mainstream liberal factions—including labor unions and environmentalists—were joined by “black bloc” anarchists and other radicals eager to engage in “direct action” against police. That pattern—relatively moderate demonstrators providing a friendly envelope for hard-core disruptors—formed the template for many later protests: the Occupy Wall Street encampments in 2011, demonstrations following the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, 2016’s Standing Rock anti-pipeline movement, and of course, the calamitous summer of 2020.
These uprisings were not entirely spontaneous. In some cases, activists spend months planning mass actions—for example, against economic summits or political conventions—and can recruit street fighters from across the country. In others, an event, such as George Floyd’s death, sparks popular protests involving neophyte demonstrators. Those attract far-left activists, who swoop in to organize and expand the struggle, often tilting it toward more radical action.
That has certainly been the case at the college Gaza-paloozas. At Columbia, the New York Times spotted a woman old enough to be a student’s grandmother in the thick of the action as protesters barricaded that school’s Hamilton Hall. The woman was 63-year-old Lisa Fithian, a lifetime activist, who Portland’s alternative weekly Street Roots approvingly calls “a trainer of mass rebellion.” A counter-protester trying to block the pro-Hamas demonstrators told NBC News, “She was right in the middle of it, instructing them how to better set up the barriers.” Fithian told the Times she’d been invited to train students in protest safety and “general logistics.” She claims to have taken part in almost every major U.S. protest movement going back to the 1999 “Battle in Seattle.”
America’s radical network has plenty of Lisa Fithians, with the time and resources to travel the country educating newcomers about the “logistics” of disruptive protests. And these activists appear to have played key roles in the college occupations. The New York City Police Department says nearly half the demonstrators arrested on the Columbia and City University of New York (CUNY) campuses on April 30 were not affiliated with the schools. One hooded Hamilton Hall occupier—photographed scuffling with a Columbia custodian before getting arrested—turned out to be 40-year-old James Carlson, heir to a large advertising fortune. According to the New York Post, Carlson lives in a $2.3 million Park Slope townhouse and has a long rap sheet. For example, in 2005, he was arrested in San Francisco during the violent “West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization and March Against the G8.” (Those charges were dropped.)
For a quarter-century now, Antifa and other anarchist networks have worked to refine tactics and share lessons following each major action. At Columbia, UCLA, and other schools, authorities found printouts of a “Do-It Yourself Occupation Guide” and similar documents. The young campus radicals are eager to learn from their more experienced elders. And, like the high-achieving students they are, they follow directions carefully. MacDougald asked Kyle Shideler, the director for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, about the mystery of the identical tents. There was no need for a central group to distribute hundreds of tents, Shideler said. Instead, “the organizers told [students] to buy a tent, and sent around a Google Doc with a link to that specific tent on Amazon. So they all went out and bought the same tent.”
In other words, America’s radical class has gotten very skilled at recruiting and instructing new activists—even from among the ranks of elite college students with a good deal to lose. How much more could this movement accomplish with hundreds of millions in federal dollars flooding activist groups around the country?
From its first week in office, the Biden administration has trumpeted its goal to funnel more environmental spending toward “disadvantaged communities that have been historically marginalized,” partly by issuing grants to grassroots organizations. Previous environmental justice (EJ) grant programs were small in scope. But, with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, a huge pool of grant money became available. EPA administrator Michael Regan told reporters, “We’re going from tens of thousands of dollars to developing and designing a program that will distribute billions.”
More than a year and a half later, it remains hard to nail down just where the Biden administration’s billions in EJ grants will wind up. Money is being distributed through a confusing variety of programs, and the process of identifying recipients is ongoing. To help outsource the job of sifting through proposals, the EPA last year designated 11 institutions as “Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmakers.” These groups are empowered to make subgrants directly to community organizations, under streamlined EPA oversight. In all, the Biden administration has entrusted these outfits with distributing a staggering $600 million in funding. The money is expected to start flowing this summer.
The EPA’s grantmakers include a number of educational institutions and left-leaning nonprofits. For example, the EPA chose Fordham University as its lead grantmaker in the New York region. Fordham, in turn, lists as partners two nonprofits that oppose immigration enforcement. (One, the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, states on its website: “NJAIJ believes in the human right to migrate, regardless of citizenship or political status.”) Neither group claims expertise in environmental issues. Given that the IRA’s eligibility requirements for EJ grants are extremely vague, however, perhaps that’s not a problem. Almost any activity that could help “spur economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities” (in the words of Biden’s EJ executive order) might qualify.
Perhaps the most prominent—and problematic—EPA grantmaker is the Berkeley, California-based Climate Justice Alliance. The CJA is a consortium of mostly far-left activist groups. It describes its mission as working for “regenerative economic solutions and ecological justice—under a framework that challenges capitalism and both white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy.” The group is a vigorous proponent of the omnicause, embracing almost every left-wing concern as a manifestation of climate change. For example, the CJA website proclaims: “The path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine.” MacDougald notes that the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, one of CJA’s affiliated groups, “organized an illegal anti-Israel protest in the Capitol Rotunda in December at which more than 50 activists were arrested.”
The CJA website also includes a section dedicated to the cause known as Stop Cop City. It refers to an effort to halt the construction of an 85-acre police and firefighter training center outside Atlanta. Rag-tag activists from around the country have gathered around the facility since 2021. They have repeatedly battled with police—sometimes with fireworks and Molotov cocktails—and used bolt cutters to enter the site and torch construction equipment. (CJA’s Stop Cop City page features a cartoon illustration of three childlike activists; one brandishes bolt cutters.) The group also backs a legal defense fund for activists arrested in attacks on the training center or in other protests. For those looking for more inspiration, CJA links to an interview with former Black Panther and self-described revolutionary Angela Davis.
The Alliance is not an ideological outlier in Biden’s EJ coalition. On the contrary, when the White House assembled its White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC), a panel of outside experts meant to provide “horizon-expanding EJ advice and recommendations,” it chose CJA co-chair Elizabeth Yeampierre to help lead the committee. Like other members of the panel, she sees environmental issues through an ideological, not a scientific, lens. “Climate change is the result of a legacy of extraction, of colonialism, of slavery,” Yeampierre told Yale Environment 360. As a group, radical EJ activists tend not to focus on pragmatic ways to reduce pollution and carbon emissions; for them, the real goal is overturning what they see as an exploitative economic and political system. Since these are the voices the White House chose to help shape its EJ policies, we can assume this worldview will dominate grantmaking decisions.
In February 2023, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, along with fellow committee member Pat Fallon, wrote to EPA administrator Regan asking for more information on the EPA’s grant programs. They noted that the EPA’s own studies of EJ grants issued in previous years showed sloppy supervision. According to an EPA report, an earlier version of the program funded projects that did “not logically lead to the desired environmental and/or public health [result].” Without better oversight and more clearly defined goals, the congressmen wrote, the EPA’s EJ grant machine risks becoming simply a “slush fund for far-left organizations.”
Since then, the administration has done little to reassure skeptics. To the contrary, the EPA has put at least one far-left organization—CJA—in charge of distributing $50 million in grant money. No doubt, many of the EPA grants will go to worthwhile projects. But money is fungible. A group that gets a large grant to, say, clean up dirty parks or teach children about recycling will also be able to hire more staff and divert more resources to political action.
With graduation behind them, most of the anti-Israel college protesters have stowed away their keffiyehs and moved on to summer vacations or internships. But the peripatetic activists who helped guide and intensify those uprisings are doubtless already planning their next actions. After all, two political conventions are looming. This fall, the college protests will likely flare up again, though by then perhaps focused on a different facet of the omnicause. And, with hundreds of millions in fresh funding flowing through the activist ecosystem, the groups that quietly nurture extremists—like those who firebombed “Cop City,” or who chant “Intifada Revolution!,” or who block bridges in the name of “climate”—will be more emboldened than ever.
A Slush Fund for Radical Protesters? City Journal (city-journal.org)
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EXTENSIVE Rebirth, Remake, and OG FF7 spoilers in here.
This is a continuation of What's Actually Going On in FF7R (The White Materia) where I attempt to make sense of everything the Remake continuity added to the OG FF7 story. It really is best if you read the other thread first, just because this will be easier if i've already explained my theory on the White Materia and it's associated spell, Holy.
Another disclaimer : This is, still, just a theory, aGameTheory. Don't hate me (or square?) in the event it's completely wrong, which it has a decent chance of being.

There are only 2 things about FF7's Story that have fundamentally changed in Remake.
The White and Black Materia. Or more specifically, the Magic granted by them.

But what I want to discuss this time is (what I personally think, as of Rebirth) is one brilliant misdirection from Square Enix...in hindsight, anyway.

The Whispers

Oh no

"....What the hell was Square thinking?" -- You, probably, watching the ending to Rebirth and/or Remake

Well, they were thinking exactly what you were thinking. And they used it against you.
So getting right to it. TLDR;
The Whispers are exactly what they were said to be -- they protect fate by rejecting any changes to the Lifestream. The misdirection here is how YOU have been goaded into misinterpreting this information.
The White and Black Materia can fully explain their existence and purpose. And it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the OG FF7.
Let's start with what we learned from the previous thread about the White Materia:

So what does the White Materia ACTUALLY do in FF7R?
The White Materia (Holy) gives the user access to the Lifestream. Not just a piece of its knowledge, like regular materia....but the actual lifestream itself. In doing so, they gain knowledge, like all Materia allows them to do. Knowledge of the past, the future, and everything else in flux.
But this is NOT knowledge that you're not supposed to be able to actually do anything with, **because unlike casting Fire or Lightning....**knowing the future allows you to change fate.

Materia are orbs containing knowledge of the ancients. In effect, they contain information from the lifestream itself. The White Materia's magic (Holy) is special though. The magic it contains seems to allow the user to traverse the lifestream itself. This means, in effect, the ability to interact with (and take knowledge from) the actual memories of the Lifestream.
As we know, the Lifestream is everything, everywhere, and every time. All life comes from the lifestream, and when something dies, it returns there. And its memories stay there forever, as physical places within the lifestream.
This is something Tifa observed for herself in Rebirth. In her brief time floating with the WEAPON, she was reunited with her very own memories...in a very literal fashion.
Tifa, inside the Lifestream in the middle of the Gongaga Reactor
This is the Mako pool in the Lifestream underneath Gongaga. We literally watched Tifa fall in, and physically swim to this location........so why is Tifa's house here? Along with...the Nibelheim Mountians?
A Fragmented Nibelheim, including Mt Nibel and the Bridge that Tifa and Cloud almost died on in the past.
Tifa's memories are not only being played out here....they are physically real. This is because she's inside the Lifestream. She hasn't gone anywhere, she's still in Gongaga, but look at the extent to which this pool of Mako is able to interact with one person's memories.
And also....wait a second.
This space beneath the reactor is filled with White and Black Whispers.
...I thought we killed all the whispers? What are they doing here?
We'll come back to this later.
Lets back up a bit.

Why you [probably] hated the Whispers.

Hear me out.
The "OG Storyline" has never existed in Remake. It's not a thing. And the Whispers have nothing to do with it.
\"Oh, the Whispers came because Reno doesn't die in the original game\" -- You, probably

"The whispers were put into the game as a meta commentary on how the developers just want to create their own story, but the fans won't let us, so the party fucking KILLS FATE so that Nomura or Nojima or whomever is most annoying can write whatever they want." -- The Internet. Also you. Probably.

Everyone thinks the Whispers only existed in Remake in order to ensure that the story never deviates from the OG FF7 Storyline. Every time something important is about to happen that didn't happen in the original game, the whispers intervene and correct the timeline.
This is the typical, widely accepted "Meta Commentary" explanation of the Whispers.
But it's wrong.
No, not just because this theory says so. This interpretation was ALWAYS wrong.
So the whispers are canon police, but are just gonna IGNORE stuff like this?
FF7R's storyline is self-contained. If the whispers existed to "protect the old events", then why is even Remake chocked full of shit that never happened in the OG and would actively change the story if it did?
But don't be confused -- the writers ABSOLUTELY wanted you to think this way. It's what bothered me about Remake's ending. But they were actually clever about it, and Rebirth vindicates this decision.
"Changing the Future", "Defying Fate", and "The Future is Unwritten" has nothing to do the OG FF7.
Okay good we got this out of the way, I can stop talking about Meta Analysis and get to the actual good stuff.

What the whispers were ACTUALLY doing

Remake explained what the Whispers are verbatim.
They protect fate -- the Lifestream. From Aerith, and Jenova.
The Lifestream IS Fate.

Red -"Perhaps best described as arbiters of fate. They are drawn to those who attempt to alter destiny's course and ensure they do not."
Tifa - "And you're saying that flow is somehow...fixed?
Red - "Yes. For it is the will of the planet itself."

Barret then speaks about possible bad fates. And Red XIII says this:

Barret - "So if we're destined for a bleak future, these Whispers will try to keep us on that course?"

"....Now wait just a damn minute. How in the hell could you possibly know any of that? Spouting that cryptic stuff -- which could all be bullshit!"

Red - "When Aerith reached out to me...I found this knowledge of the Whispers."

In the previous thread, we explained how Aerith has been messing with the Lifestream by mistakenly using the White Materia to obtain information she has no business knowing. The Whispers are simply reacting to her blatant misuse of this, and act to correct it.
This is very consistent, even in Pt1. The Whispers in Remake ONLY appear when someone is either:

1. Using forbidden knowledge from the Lifestream
2. Manipulating events by sharing forbidden knowledge from the lifestream
3. When something foreign attempts to force its will on the lifestream

This is the only time they act. But the THIRD one is the most important. I'm going to go through a few examples in Remake and show exactly what's happening that is causing the Whispers to intervene, and explicitly why.
After I show you this, please go back and watch videos of all these sorts of events in Remake. You will see exactly what I mean.
Okay, buckle up kids!

Violation #1 Using forbidden knowledge from the Lifestream

Watching the first appearance of Aerith in Remake gives us full clarity of what's actually happening.
Aerith is attacked by an invisible force.
Aerith is being attacked by Whispers. This is because she possesses the White Materia, and has constant access to knowledge she isn't supposed to have. They are taking it from her.
Thing to note here. Cloud cannot see the whispers. This is because he is not violating any of the 3 rules.
Sephiroth makes an appearance here.
The appearance of the \"Mental Static\" used in both Remake and Rebirth
This is a Red Herring...in fact, this is THREE brilliantly placed Red Herrings. Because the "Memory Static" that appears here belongs to both Cloud AND Aerith, and serves to confuse you on what it actually means.

1. Aerith sees Cloud, and immediately gains knowledge about them both that she is not supposed to know. Also, if you pay attention, Aerith is NOT frozen during this sequence. This is her scene just as much as it is Cloud's.
2. Cloud has yet another vision of Sephiroth, caused by his Jenova cells. This is a huge misdirection, to eventually make you think Sephiroth is popping up in places he "shouldn't be."
3. This is where Remake starts to fuck with your head. They're using the same memory effect for two different characters, for two different reasons. But the result is essentially the same -- the characters involved are having their perception altered. Remake does NOT distinguish between static caused by Holy or static caused by Jenova. They are treated equally in Remake.

The biggest red herring here though is Sephiroth.
It SEEMS unnatural that Sephiroth is appearing here, this early in the game. But it isn't unnatural -- Cloud is plagued by these visions all the time in this continuity. This is why the game gave us a Sephiroth appearance immediately after the Bombing Mission.
Now. Notice how, despite being attacked by invisible whispers, Aerith mostly seems unbothered by this.
...Almost as if she's used to it. Similar to the way Cloud is equally used to visions of Sephiroth. They BOTH carry on with the conversation as though NOTHING has happened.
The game is explicitly showing you that both of these occurrences are seen as normal for these characters. Suggesting that they have actually been dealing with them for much longer than you would think.
Aerith has another Whisper attack. Cloud is once again very confused, until this happens:
Cloud's violation of #1 through contact with Aerith
Aerith touches Cloud.
We learn later that Aerith touching you gives you knowledge you're not supposed to have. Thus, Cloud is now in violation of Rule #1 -- Forbidden Knowledge. He can now observe whispers for the rest of the story.

Violation #2 Manipulating events by sharing forbidden knowledge from the lifestream

The Church Scene is a great example of this. In fact, most of the moments in Rebirth involve Aerith doing this to some degree.
The White Materia is explicitly the cause of the Whisper Attack in the church, and the game goes out of its way to make it very obvious.
Cloud Memory Static, this time it's Holy, not Jenova. (I don't have enough attachments to spell this out, so please go look at the scene after you read this.)
This is another VERY good example of Remake fucking with your head.

• Aerith brings up her White Materia in conversation
• Cloud looks at the back of Aerith's head. He has a memory static attack, and then immediately has a vision of the White Materia.
• Cloud ignores this phenoemon, because things fucking with his head is completely normal to him. He doesn't skip a beat, and suggests Aerith just doesn't know how to use it.
• Aerith playfully agrees.

The Red Herring here is obvious -- the vision of Aerith's Death. Yes, it was a vision of her death. But her death wasn't the important information the game was showing you in this scene. The White Materia was.
Regardless, the whispers did not intervene here, despite Cloud obviously glimpsing forbidden knowledge.
So why DID they intervene?
\"...Huh?\" - Cloud
Because Aerith couldn't keep her mouth shut.

1. She tells Reno that Cloud is her bodyguard. He isn't. Reno is.
2. She exposed that he was a Soldier. Reno explicitly does not like Soldiers.
3. She already knew that Cloud was doing mercenary work, and used this to persuade him.

Cloud told her none of this information. But it caught Reno's attention. And what was the result?

*Sizes Cloud up*

"Well, you're weird enough to be one."
\"What Class are you?\"
Reno doubts Cloud's Identity as a First Class Ex-Soldier. And Cloud violently reacts to protect it.
The whispers stopped Cloud from killing Reno, NOT because Reno survives in the OG game...but because Reno's life wouldn't even be at risk here if Aerith didn't instigate this fight.
And just like the Flower scene, Remake actually sets this one up with prior character information too. -- Cloud was shown from the beginning of the game to be prone to extreme violence. He would have also executed Johnny without Tifa's intervention. So we KNOW he would have killed Reno if the Whispers didn't intervene.
Hopefully you're beginning to see a pattern here.
Here is the most obvious example of this rule triggering the Whispers.
Aerith attempting to stop Barret from doing something....
In this scene, we see Aerith clearly knows something she isn't supposed to. She wants to share with Barret that killing the President isn't a good idea...And the whispers immediately appear, threatening her to stop. By this point, Aerith is beginning to become aware of why the whispers are harassing her so much.
I covered this scene in my last post, so I wont again...but this scene is crucial towards understanding what's happening in this game. Everyone should watch this scene again. Pay attention to what happens to Aerith the moment she says "Follow the Yellow Flowers". Aerith is clearly not herself as she says this. It's almost as if someone possessed her to say it. And the Whispers absolutely swarm her as a result.

Violation #3 -- When something foreign attempts to force its will on the lifestream

And here we go. The one that caused like 90% of the confusion in Remake. To be fair, this could only really be understood in hindsight after playing Rebirth.
There are many cases in Remake where the Whispers do something that seems...odd, given their explanations as arbiters of fate. Like attacking Sector 7, silencing Hojo, or literally helping Sephiroth at the end of the game. This is because although it's clearly whispers doing it...in Remake there is no visual indication of which Will any given Whispers serve -- The Planet, or Jenova's.
They all LOOK the same.
But they absolutely ARE NOT the same -- they are separate (black and white), just like in Rebirth.
But Remake included subtle clues as a nod to this reveal in Rebirth.
The Whisper Attack on Sector 7
This is another situation where you're expected to believe that the whispers are causing a ruckus because Cloud isn't going on the second bombing mission with Avalanche. Which is something we know he does in the OG game.
But that's just because we likely misinterpreted the clues that lead up to this moment that explain exactly why this is happening : The white whispers are attempting to correct the deliberate isolation of the main party by the black whispers.
A whisper is seen lurking around in Sector 7 the day before this happens. It's extremely easy to miss.
A whisper was present in Seventh Heaven. This was shown immediately after Barret told Cloud he wasn't on the next mission and has to leave.
See...if you're comparing Remake to the OG, then this whisper shown here is 100% going to force you to misinterpret what it's doing here.
In Seventh Heaven, multiple things happen that result in a break up of the entire main party.

1. Tifa is feeling anxious about the next mission. Jesse goes out of her way to voice concerns about her involvement, leading to her getting kicked off the team for the mission.
2. Jesse then tries to aim to get Cloud placed on the team instead. Barret refuses to do this because he "doesn't want the team leaning on him."
3. Barret pays Cloud, tells him he isn't wanted on the next mission, and kicks him out the bar.
4. A whisper will literally stop you from entering Seventh Heaven again after this happens to make sure you can't fix it.

The side mission with Jesse happens.....and then this.
A whisper with Sephiroth's voice trying to keep Cloud sleep
A Whisper with Sephiroth's voice approaches Cloud in the morning. He wants him to sleep through Barret, Jesse, and Biggs going on the mission. This would have likely isolated Barret, resulting in his death. Something Jenova tries again towards the end of the game.
She really does not want Barret to stay alive, because he is the glue of Avalanche, and the main reason the events of the story begin the way they do. Cloud also likely never would have met Aerith in the church.
Jenova's whispers are trying to prevent Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, and Barret from getting together. This event would have succeeded in separating all of them.
That's why the whispers are at war with one another.
The Black ones are trying to isolate you. The white ones are correcting their meddling.
The game even STOPS you mid-combat to bring attention to the fact that the Black Whispers are being exposed.
Black Whisper being made vulnerable by something external

• You don't have to do anything to these whispers for this to happen.
• The entire screen gains a Static Memory effect....as though Cloud is being shown the truth. He even comments on it.
• After they go vulnerable, they become Black/Purple until they die.

They stop attacking after a whisper manages to isolate and injure Jesse, at which point the battle is over and all whispers leave.
And of course....there's most obvious example of this kind of massive violation from Remake....The Infamous Chapter 18.
But that's gonna have to wait for another post.
I'm out of attachments again.

TL;DR : FF7R is messing with your head.

Aerith using the White Materia in Remake is literally going through the events of the story the exact same way the player did -- with "forbidden knowledge" about how things are "supposed to be".
In Rebirth, the White Materia is empty. She no longer has knowledge of what's "supposed to happen", and thus has to accept that whatever happens, happens. This is why the "The Journey is Unknown." Not because the party killed the whispers, therefore the writers can do whatever they want. But because Aerith hid her knowledge of the future (Holy) from herself. She used to be able to know what was going to happen. Now she can't. The real Meta thing is that FF7R only really starts to make sense when you willingly abandon what you thought you already knew about the story. Those who look with clouded eyes see nothing but shadows.
Now go back through Remake with the new perspective and tell me that everything doesn't make way more sense.
Also, please tell me im crazy so I can stop writing these.
Otherwise, stay tuned for pt3 -- The Black Materia.
....Oh. One final hilarious mindblowing. Remember this?

This is where Remake starts to fuck with your head. They're using the same memory effect for two different characters, for two different reasons. But the result is essentially the same -- the characters involved are having their perception altered.
Remake does NOT distinguish between static caused by Holy or static caused by Jenova. They are treated equally in Remake.

Rebirth DOES distinguish the visual effects of memory alteration.
But only for the player.
Cloud still can't tell the difference.

A nurse at a New York hospital won an award for compassion from her employers — and then got fired for using her acceptance speech to accuse Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza.
Palestinian American labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, 34,delivered the fiery remarks as she was being honored earlier this month by NYU Langone Health for her efforts in caring for mothers grieving lost babies.
“It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza,” she said during her May 7 acceptance speech, according to a video she posted on social media.
“This award is deeply personal to me for those reasons,” Jabr said in her brief remarks, during which she twice used the word “genocide” to describe the Israeli war.
Jabr says she was “dragged” into a meeting with NYU Langone’s president and vice president of nursing on her first day back to work after the ceremony, on May 22.
She said in an online posting that the meeting was called to “discuss how I ‘put others at risk’ and ‘ruined the ceremony’ and ‘offended people’ because a small part of my speech was a tribute towards the grieving mothers in our country.”
Near the end of her shift, however, Jabr was again “dragged” into an office where the hospital’s director of resources, Austin Bender, read her termination letter before she was escorted off the premises by a plainclothes cop, her post said.
In a follow-up post, Jabr took aim at the medical center, lobbing a number of accusations.
In one, she claimed a labor and delivery doctor at the hospital once “pulled [her] aside” in a delivery room as a patient who had just given birth was being stitched up to scold her, allegedly telling her that her people “were the cause of the current bombardment that was happening to them at the time.”
The Post reached out to Jabr by phone and left a voicemail but did not immediately hear back.
NYU Langone spokesman Steve Ritea said in a statement that Jabr was “warned” in December following a “previous incident” and had been admonished “not to bring her views on this divisive and charged issue into the workplace.”
He did not elaborate on the details of the alleged “previous incident,” but because of her failure to heed that warning at the award ceremony, Ritea said, “Jabr is no longer an NYU Langone employee.”
NYU would also not comment on Jabr’s accusations of mistreatment by hospital staff.
NYC nurse fired after calling Gaza war 'genocide' during award acceptance speech (nypost.com)
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I gave my boards and JEE this year and got 80% in boards and 59%ile in JEE (yeah ik very low) and have almost given up hope of getting into in a decent or avg colleges but i applied to BML Munjal just cause why not, i wasn't even serious about it but they accepted my application and offered me CS and now are asking for an Acceptance Letter along with fee till 6 June. So i want to have opinions on if I should accept it or not as I am also giving NATA soon (I have been doing art for 3-4 years and am pretty decent at it) and have filled applications for B.Arch Colleges also but that will all be done till the start of July. So should I send an Acceptance Letter ?

My players so far have been doing really well traversing Barovia with only one of them dying so far. However Strahd with his many plots has of course been laying traps for them this whole time.
The setup: During the dinner at Ravenloft, Strahd managed to get the party to bleed themselves into his glass so he could "enjoy dinner" with them. The party doesn't know that he kept some of each of them in vials. When the party met the Vistani in the camp after returning Isabella, they partied all night and were rewarded with a "Resplendant suit of armor", that the party equipped to Ireena since the party was all squishies and made her the tank. I didn't give a "destined ally" and I'm doing more of "recruit who you want to join you in the final battle" so they have motivations to meet and talk to NPCs and get that "building an army to overthrow the dark Lord" vibe. Also I have it where if a player reaches 0 HP, they are offered a dark gift which if accepted before they either die or stabilize, revives them to full health and grants a boon. They don't know the "gifts" are from Strahd. Only 2 players have taken it as of right now and one of them is the one who died. :(
The Twist: In the final confrontation when they finally challenge Strahd, he will reveal his trap. The blood vials are used to bind those they belonged to, paralyzing them until the vials are broken, and their dark gifts from reviving are stripped. Ireena's armor is the animated armor from Strahd and yields to him to restrain her. I then hand the Players the stats of the NPCs they have available in the party that aren't caught in the trap and tell them "Save yourselves".
Strahd wouldn't stick around for the entire encounter, leaving the vials with someone (probably Rahadin) and letting them do the dirty work.
Thoughts?

Hey guys! I would like to share my story with you. Nobody knows I'm a narcisse, only my brother pointed out to some of the traits. Even he doesn't know my deep dark thoughts and doesn't have a clue I'm entitled as hell etc. But deep down, well, meet the dark queen of the nether vortex.
My N story began in my childhood. My mother has most probably BPD and back then I was having just a little bit of asperger traits - I had my rituals, was conservative in food and clothing and was just different. She was furious that I wasn't doing what she commanded me to, so it ended up with a lot of abuse, physical and emotional. From her, I've never heard any kind words like "you're great, I love you". My brother, as a younger kid, wasn't that exposed, he's just avoidand, I guess.
My dad and his family, on the other hand, were different. For them I was prepared to make miracles. They enjoyed every achievement with me. I would not say it was a toxic praise, but my mother's attitude was sooooo different, that it made a huge contrast and that's the point where my obsession with perfection began. I was the best. Everytime. In everything.
This is probably what made me a narcisse. Although, the alternative - living solely in my mother's hell - would be much worse. Thanks to this I have a great life. I have the best education I could get in my country, I speak several languages and I was able to buy a house in my 20ish. The alternative would be some whiney bordeline loser like her.
But then I had a relationship with another narcissist. Grandiose, manipulaltive, abusive. He used my perfection and fear of abandonment against me - I had to be perfect, otherwise he would leave me. I fulfilled his every desire, eventhough I didn't want to. He once said he's only with me because I'm beautiful and intelligent. He used it against me, the thing that I was the most proud of. It was several years. I was still a kid, basically.
And then, broken as hell, I had the greatest luck. I started dating a cute nerd, younger than me, but very intelligent and insightful. It didn't work out, I had no clue how to make a normal relationship work, but when we broke up, he sent me the most beatiful letter I've ever received.
Among other great things, it sais: "And slowly, I started to see the other you. Not the perfect girl you showed to the world, but your real, sensitive, beautiful soul, and I love you for that deeply."
So someone could love me for me and not for the show!
Then, I started to work on myself with my shaman (who knows, knows). Alas, I met another guy who fell in love with the show and I spent years with him. It didn't work out, because he wasn't able to accept that I am not perfect and don't wanna be perfect (among other things people can use this to manipulate you).
Slowly, with my shaman, I succeeded in analyzing my soul and my true self. I didn't gave up on my grandiosity, I still have it. I just... connected the elements of my grandiosity with respective parts of my soul. So it's not a charade, it's not a show. I use my grandiose performances to communicate with the world. I try to be honest in a way that people would know who I am.
Like, I still feel I am more important than other people and I should be treated better and I hate the rules, but those are things I am ok with. I am focusing on my close relationships, I want them to be true, authentic and real. I really don't want to fall into the "I love your mask" trap again. And I am still working on my insecurity and abandonment issues, but I will manage, because I am the best.
I guess you guys get it, but who else could be great at therapies than us? :D Some borderline crybabies?
Plus, I found out that the idea I will meet someone great once helps me. Having this idea of my future husband on my mind helped me with my drinking problem - I take it as something I have to do for both of us. I wanna be ready. And I still hope there is a soul out there, who will understand me and we will have this beautiful meaningful relationship in which we can share time, laughter, thoughts, travels and silence. I really do.
It's long. Sorry, not sorry. I like to listen to myself. :D

We started dating in high-school and haven't been with any other people except for each other. I don't remember much from the beginning other than that we had alot of fun and enjoyed spending time with each other. Gradually things changed and we spend less time with each other now. Im always the one who calls and asks if he want to hang out. On the rare occasion that we go on a date I'm the one who asks him out and make all the plans. I'm the one who starts a conversation between us. I'm the one who tries to do things. I tried to convince myself that we have different love languages but latley I don't know anymore. When I'm myself it feels like he's bored or annoyed at me. I put on my cute side and then he tells me I'm cute and cuddles with me (basically the only time he gives me compliments). The only time I feel like he wants me is when hes horny, which I rarely am. The sex isn't passionate or romantic anymore, just sex. I noticed it the last time we had it, I felt somewhat used afterwards. I love him and I know he loves me. He has helped me and my family through alot of financial troubles but he kind of makes me feel guilty about him helping sometimes. I always look my best for him and try to be my nicest version of myself. I put in alot of effort to make things work. Latley he's been getting alot into guitar and everytimw we hang out he plays it. He is completely focused and dosent even aknowglede my existence. I get annoyed sometimes and beg him to stop playing but afterwards he gets annoyed and irritated at me. Don't get me wrong I love that he is passionate about something but I feel a little worthless when hes more passionate and focused on a guitar than me. When he eventually stops playing he just sits next to me quiet. He never wants to go out or do anything. On valentines day he is the sweetest but other than that he is treating me kind of weird. Ive told him multiple times that I don't feel appreciated and that it wouldn't hurt if he took me on a date or gave me a gift (date=a picnic in the forest, gift=flowers that he literally can pick outside?).wI've explained that he dosent need to buy anything, he could literally give me a rock as a gift and I would cherish it. Whenever Damn it sounds kinda sad now that I'm writing it out. He tells me hes going to try more but he never does. That's the thing. He never does. Whenever we fight he always tells me that I make him feel like the worst boyfriend and that he is always wrong and never right. He also yells alot when he is mad something that I have explained to him that I really don't accept. I've always felt like I could manage it and that it was fixable until the other day when we were with his friends that I've recently gotten to know. I tried to be cute and nice to him but he straight up ignored me. His friends spoke to me and we had really fun but my BOYFRIEND literally ignored me. Whenever we're in a group setting it's like I'm not even there. I love him and I've put in so much effort into making all this work but it's really hard lately. He sometimes makes fun of me in a really mean way. I used to always Handmake gifts and love letters. Ive bought him flowers and taken him on dates. When I try to talk to him about all this he makes me feel like I'm too demanding. He uses exuces as well. That he is stressed out or that he has alot going on... WE ALL HAVE BUDDY. Idk maybe I am over thinking all this even though I'm pretty sure that I'm not. I love him more than anything. I'm happy when he's happy, he just never seems happy when I'm with him. What do you think I should do? Please help. What can I do to make things better? I think he loves me but I'm pretty sure that he doesn't like me.
TLDR: My boyfriend dosent really appreciate me and he makes me feel bad about it. I put in alot of effort and he would rather spend his time on a inanimate object than me. Don't know what to do.

I’m genuinely not earning as of now & I have put up all my savings. I just have one question and wanted to know if it’s a yes or no & if it’s the right direction for me?
To tell you all , I have received an offer letter from a university called La Trobe, Australia. There’s a problem about financial aspect, stating my dad’s ITR ( income tax return is less ). This all is basically considered for granting me a visa & admission in this university. So my question is , Will I successfully get my admission in this particular university and fly in month of July,2024 to Australia. I have been dealing with so much anxiety and stress and that now it’s affecting my health in bad ways. Past 2 days I m having fever and bad headache.
The anxiety is genuinely killing me. I know what this exactly feels like, because I have prior got rejection from other universities and it was hella bad feeling. This is my one last attempt for Australia. I m really looking forward to this university Can you please , I REQUEST . please consider this reading?

People go on about enjoying the old style of filling up HP bars and conserving mana, instead of the current yoyo-ing of health bars and preventing 1 shots.
However, the current design is because of the community. People always want more, people always want their class/spec to be stronger, people put out a big stink whenever something gets taken away.
Well, go look at old videos, the healers healing the raid, is basically equivalent to DPS specs healing themselves up on their own right now. Tanks right now require 0 healing in the entire dungeon and raid, so all of the healer's job is concentrated on healing burst damage on DPS. DPS now, with the damage taken from old content, would require literally 0 healers, due to the defensive bloat we've received.
For healing to be like the older times, that requires pruning, and SEVERE healing reductions across the whole board. I am talking like havoc losing most of its leech, ret paladin losing all of its healing and like 50% nerfing its shield, warriors to lose its leech, impending victory, ignore pain, and that fury talent that leeches on bloodthirst, mage would return back to only iceblock that doesn't heal, a loss of greater invis DR, a nerf to their barriers and removal of talents that grant them any sort of recovery.
Basically, every DPS should be doing 0 healing, apart from a little bit from specs like DH/DK. And do you realize what a stinker that would cause from the community? Blizzard can make the old style of healing come back, but the community would rip them to shreds, because they dislike becoming weaker.
For a history lesson, Path of Exile did one of these pruning sessions in a patch, and they received overwhelming negative feedback, and the playerbase dropped and the averages have been down after that patch.
Blizzard already dug themselves into this hole trying to cater to the community all the time, always wanting more, never accepting less.

My Blood Covenant Salvation Prayer
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus Christ. I believe You love me and sent Your Son to remove the sin which separates me from You. Father, I repent of all sin in my life. Please forgive me and cleanse me by the blood of Jesus Christ. By faith, I receive Your forgiveness and cleansing in Jesus’ name. Your Word says I am brought near to You by the blood of Jesus Christ, through which I enter into blood covenant salvation relationship with You now. Lord Jesus, I invite You to come into my life, and I submit totally to You and to Your Word (John 14:23). I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord. I believe in my heart God raised Him from the dead. It is with my heart I believe and am justified, and it is with my mouth I confess and am saved (Rom.10:9-10). I ask You to be Lord of my spirit, my soul (mind, thoughts, will, intellect, and emotions), and my body (I Thess.5:23). You are faithful to complete the work You have begun in me (Phil 1:6). By faith, I confess sin shall no longer have dominion over me because your Holy Spirit lives in me. I confess I am saved. I am under covenant through Jesus Christ to receive the promises that are for me including salvation, deliverance, healing, renewal, and all God’s promises for His children. I renounce the authority of Satan or any authority other than Jesus Christ over all areas of my life. I renounce every stronghold or influence of the devil, including ungodly soul ties, masonic attachments, ungodly beliefs, bitter root judgments, all personal sin, and everything inherited through the generations. The Word tells me I have a heavenly Father, and I now inherit only from Him. Lord, empower me to live for You. Release the Holy Spirit within me, that He may convict me of sin. I have access to the power of the Holy Spirit and the right to every spiritual gift (1 Cor. 12:4-11). Help me walk daily in the fullness of the Spirit filled life. I open my heart and ask You to fill me now with Your Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Prayer to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus, Your Son, Who has saved me. I repent of my sins and ask You to wash me clean by the Blood of Jesus. Jesus said, “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever—the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.” John 14:16 (AMP) In Mark 1:8, John the Baptist promised that while he baptized with water, You would baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. So, Lord, I ask You to baptize me with Your Holy Spirit and fire. I am thankful as I ask for your empowerment and fire, it will refine me into who you have called and created me to be. I know You indwelled me at my salvation (John 20:22; Romans 8:9). Now, I ask You to fill me to overflowing with Your Presence, Your power, and Your joy. You promised in Acts 1:5-8 that Your disciples would receive power and ability when the Holy Spirit would come upon us. You promised to give us power to be Your witnesses even to the ends of the earth. This wonderful promise was fulfilled at the Feast of Pentecost in Jerusalem, as described in Acts 2. I pray the Holy Spirit come upon me now. I yield myself to You. I pray you breathe on me a breath of refreshment and empowerment. I receive by faith the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I welcome you, Holy Spirit, in the Name of Jesus. Thank You for empowering me for Your service. Fill me with boldness and courage to speak Your Word with power. I receive this wonderful empowerment by faith. As promised in John 14:26, send me the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, to teach me all things and remind me of everything You teach in Your Word. I desire spiritual gifts according to Your Word and ask You to grant me Your spiritual giftings according to Your will for my life. I joyfully accept Your gifts for me, in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer to Break Generational Curses and Sins of the Bloodlines:
Dear Heavenly Father: Thank you that the blood of Jesus is able to take away all sin. I believe this and receive it now in Jesus’ name. I pray forgiveness for the sins of my father, of that bloodline for all generations back, and I ask You to wash me clean now, by the blood of the Lamb. I pray forgiveness for the sins of my mother, of that bloodline for all generations back, and I ask You to wash me clean now, by the blood of the Lamb. I receive Your forgiveness and believe that by Your blood I am cleansed from the sins of all my generational bloodlines. I take the authority I have in my blood covenant with Jesus Christ, and I break all generational curses on my father's side all generations back, broken now, by the blood of the Lamb. I take this same authority and break all generational curses on my mother's side, all generations back, broken now, by the blood of the Lamb. With this same authority I have under the blood covenant of salvation in Jesus, I break any spoken curses on my family bloodline. I break the power of all seals of silence and all vows of secrecy. I take the same authority in the name and the blood of Jesus, and I break all covenants and contracts to satan including blood covenant contracts. I pray forgiveness for the sins of my family line of all those things that happened in darkness, such as any attachment to slavery or any kind of persecution or mistreatment or abuse of any people groups or individuals, and I pray blessings on all descendants of the persecuted groups or individuals. I pray forgiveness for the sin of all idolatries attached to the American Indian bloodline and break all related curses. I break any attachments to family superstitions and idolatries, ungodly beliefs, wives tales, luck charms, and rhyme curses in Jesus’ name. Thank you, Jesus, that Your word says, "Cursed is the one who hangs on the tree." You took our curses, and You took our sins, so that we can have life more abundantly, and we praise you for it. I receive by faith now all generational sins and all generational curses are broken by the blood of the Lamb, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Prayer to Break Ungodly Soul Ties
Father, in the name of Jesus, I submit my soul, my desires, my will, and my emotions to the Holy Spirit and Your Word. I confess as sin all of my sexual relationships before marriage and any sexual relationships outside of marriage. I confess as sin all ungodly relationships involving any part of me, whether spirit, soul, or body. Father, I thank You for giving me the keys of Your kingdom and the keys of spiritual authority. What I bind is bound, and what I loose is loosed (Matthew 16:19). I ask You to loosen from me all soul ties to past sexual partners and ungodly relationships in Jesus' name. Please uproot all tentacles of sexual bondage, emotional longings, dependencies, vain imaginations, enslaving thoughts, and thought patterns. I bind, renounce, and resist any evil spirits that have been reinforced through those soul ties or may have been transferred to me through ungodly associations or promiscuity. I also repent of the sin of the idolatry attached to my pursuit of perversion. Jeremiah 2:20-25 says that my Heavenly Father's perception of this perversion that I have been pursuing is that I will not serve him, and I love foreign gods, and I must go after them. Therefore, I repent of the sin of this idolatry, and I apply the blood of Jesus to it now. I submit to the Lord Jesus Christ and to His Word that tells me that I must forgive so that I will be forgiven. I repent of the sin of unforgiveness and judgment toward the people who have violated me sexually due to incest, molestation, or rape. I choose to forgive and bless them, and I break any soul tie attachments to these people in Jesus' name. Please cleanse my soul with Your blood, renew my mind, and help me to forget all illicit unions so that I am free to give myself, body, soul, and spirit, totally to You. Father, I receive Your forgiveness for all past sins of ungodly soul ties and unrighteous sexual activity. I believe that by Your grace, I am forgiven. Thank You for remembering my sins no more and for cleansing me from all unrighteousness. I commit myself totally to You. By Your grace, please keep me holy in my spirit, soul, and body, as I choose to renew my mind in Christ (Romans 12:1-2). In the Name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Prayer for Release of Bitter Root Judgment and Expectancy
Dear Heavenly Father: In the Name of Jesus, I repent for the sin of judging Your creation. I have judged and condemned others, although I am not a righteous judge and have no right to judge anyone. Jesus committed no sin, and was righteous, but He judged no one. Jesus entrusted Himself to You, the One who judges righteously. I now entrust myself to You. Please forgive me for this sin of judging and condemning others. I now bless those who I have judged. I bless those I have accused. I bless those who hate me and have cursed or abused me. I break the power of the spiritual law of sowing and reaping. I forgive, release, and bless them. I ask You to bless them and give them what they need. With this change in me comes a new expectation of reaping blessings, as opposed to reaping curses. When I “sow” differently, I will “reap” differently. I now intend to sow blessings into my life by blessing those people who have despitefully used me, in Jesus’s Name. Thank You, Lord, for forgiving me and helping me to forgive others. I ask these things in the Name of Jesus Christ. SCRIPTURES Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Gal. 6:7 Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Matt. 7:1-2 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. Heb. 12:15 Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you. Deut. 5:16 Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Luke 6:37-38 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Romans 2:1 This is what the Lord says-the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? Isaiah 45:11
Prayer of repentance of personal sin
Dear Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I repent of all personal sin in my life. I ask You to forgive me and cleanse me. Some areas of sin I know; other areas of sin I do not recognize. But Your Word promises You are faithful and just to forgive all our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. I ask You to reveal all areas of personal sin, known and unknown, so I may more deeply repent. Your sheep hear Your voice. You will speak to my heart and mind, and I will hear You. If there are areas in which I am perishing for a lack of knowledge, I ask You to reveal Your truth to me. In Jesus’ Name, I will not reject Your truth. I specifically repent of anger, pride, perversion, idolatry, addiction, greed, fear, control, manipulation, judgment, accusation, gossip (here insert area of specific sin or sins, such as fear of lack, fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of success, etc.) Convict me of my sin, O God, so I may see my sin and repent to the depths of my soul. There is no righteousness in me on my own, but I am made righteous by the Blood of Jesus. Your Word promises that as we repent, we step into the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Your mercy is great toward me, and You will freely pardon. As far as the east is from the west, so far have You removed my transgressions from me. By Your Holy Spirit, empower me to overcome personal sin in my life. I confess I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. The prayer of a righteous person will avail much. Show me Your ways, that I may know You more and walk in Your ways all the days of my life, in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer to Release and Remove Ungodly Thought Processes, Mindsets, Devices, Defense Mechanisms, and Wrong or Unbiblical Reactions
Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I _____________ ask You to forgive me for the sin of failing to cast my cares upon You because I did not know how to cast my cares upon You. There have been times in my life when I suffered from a lack of knowledge of knowing how to handle life's situations, difficulties, decisions, traumas, and not casting my cares upon Jesus as Your Word says to do. I confess I have used ungodly thought processes, mindsets, devices, defense mechanisms, and wrong or unbiblical reactions. I confess that I sought to handle and control my own problems in my own ways. I devised methods and systems for my self-preservation. Now, I choose to ask You, Lord, to gather and remove the devices I have created and used to get through life's difficult circumstances. I repent for the control I used in creating these devices instead of trusting in You. I release all control, anger, revenge, unforgiveness, and judgments, and all altered states of mind into which I entered to handle trauma in my life. I relinquish my self-preservation, and I trust You for my life and choices. I release to You all trauma, known and unknown. I bind and break the power of all soul tie attachments, longings, emotional bondage, enslaving thought patterns, and dependencies in the name of Jesus Christ. I now purpose in my heart not to reenter these altered states of mind, devices, and mindsets that I have become accustomed to using. I pray in the name of Jesus that You give me the renewal of mind to recognize these devices when they reappear due to life's circumstances. I release to You all disappointment, bitterness, and resentment about my past. I choose to renew my mind through the ongoing study of Your Word. I choose Your truth instead of altered states of mind that have caused me to revisit painful feelings or paralyze and distort my response to abuse or other behavior patterns toward me. So, I speak to all altered states of mind, ungodly thought processes, mindsets, defense mechanisms, devices, and conditioned reactions. I command all such devices to align themselves with the Word of God and release their power over me, my mind, my emotions, my personality, and align with my will in the name of Jesus Christ. I desire as the head and not the tail (Deut. 28:13) to have Jesus Christ and Your Holy Spirit come into me and restore my soul. I forgive, release, and bless everyone who has hurt, abused, or misled me. I repent and ask forgiveness for the sin of carrying any unforgiveness or judgment toward these people. I ask You to bless them and give them what they need. Please bring me into a place where I am fully restored and made whole in spirit, soul, and body. I ask You to renew my mind so that I will not return to these old ways of thinking. I thank You for teaching me to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). I ask You to give me the renewed ability to maintain this fresh way of thinking for my new godly lifestyle. According to James 1, I can ask You, Lord, for wisdom, and You will give generously to all without finding fault. I ask that You give me the wisdom to maintain godly thought processes in this new season of my life and not return to the old, ungodly thought processes. I desire that all of me be able to worship You in spirit and truth (John 4:23-24). I desire to worship You with a sound mind, undivided heart, and clarity. I thank You and ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
PRAYER TO BREAK WORD CURSES
Dear Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus, I take the authority I have received through my blood covenant of salvation by accepting Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I bind and break the power of all spells, curses, and incantations spoken over my life from any source, including my family, church relationships, work relationships, friends, enemies, known demonic sources, strategies of the enemy using any sources, and all word curses from known or unknown sources. I break the power of these curses and declare their functions null and void. I speak the mighty Name of Jesus Christ over these evil words. The Name of Jesus Christ is above every name. His Word is above every word. His power is above every other power or principality. I pray His Word over anyone who has knowingly or unknowingly cursed or abused me. And I pray, heavenly Father, that you bless them and give them what they need, in Jesus’ Name. I thank You, Lord, that You have the ability to hear the curse and turn it into a blessing. Amen.
PRAYER TO BREAK TERRITORIAL STRONGHOLDS ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR MISSIONARIES For Missionaries traveling and entering territorial strongholds in countries such as China, India, the Middle East, or Africa, especially if entering mausoleums, temples, shrines, or other places of heathen worship. Cover yourself with a prayer such as the following:
Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I take the authority I have received through my blood covenant of salvation by accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I thank You for teaching us our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 6:12). I bind and break the power of any influence of territorial strongholds that may attempt to attach themselves to me as I embark on a journey to serve the Most High God. I bind and break the power of any spell, curse, or incantation from the spiritual realm empowered by the idolatrous and vain worship of Buddha, Hindu gods, Krishna, Allah, Mohammed, local deities, ancestor worship, necromancy, animism, voodoo, witchcraft, idols made with hands, or other false gods. I declare the power of all such forces aligned against me to be null & void. I bind and break the power of any influence of territorial strongholds that have become attached to me due to my service in ministry. I bind and break the power of any influence of territorial strongholds over the areas in which I travel, in which I serve in ministry, and in which I reside. From Satan to the Prince of Persia to the least of the territorial spirits, I speak the mighty name of Jesus Christ over them. I bind and break the power and influence of these territorial strongholds, and call their function null and void, in the name of Jesus Christ. I thank You that he who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty (Psalm 91). The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). And a curse without cause will not come to rest on me (Proverbs 26:2). I thank You that no weapon formed against me will prosper, and I will refute every tongue that accuses me. I thank You this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is our vindication from You (Isaiah 54:17). Thank you, Jesus, for the power of Your name.
Prayer of Repentance for Prior Involvement in any Other Religion or Spiritual Practice or Teaching
Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I come before You. I praise You for making a way for the forgiveness of my sins. I acknowledge that Your Word requires that I repent and ask forgiveness for my sins, in Jesus’ Name. I acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God, slain for the remission of my sins and the sins of the world. I acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God. I believe He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, suffered and died on the cross, was buried, and rose again. He ascended into heaven, where He sits by His Father. Under my Blood Covenant of Salvation, through the acceptance of Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I repent of the sin of believing any teaching that does not line up with the Holy Bible, the Word of God. The Scriptures say Jesus Christ became the Word of God (John 1:14; Revelation 19:13). Therefore, I repent of believing anti-christ teachings and entertaining anti-christ and unbiblical thoughts. With the authority I have in my Blood Covenant of Salvation with Jesus Christ, I break the power of all spoken or written oaths, curses, vows, decrees, chants, blood sacrifices, and rituals. I repent of the sin of receiving or aligning with these anti-christ oaths, curses, vows, or decrees. I repent of the sin of participating in any anti-christ chants, blood sacrifices, or rituals of any description. I repent of the sin of receiving any anti-christ attachments to my mind, intellect, heart, feelings, and emotions. I repent of the sin of receiving and agreeing with unbiblical principles, teachings, and spiritual deceptions. I acknowledge these have caused attacks on my physical body, mental wellbeing, relationships, and finances. I bind and break the power of all of these ungodly attachments in the mighty Name of Jesus. The Word tells me I am to forgive and bless those who persecute or despitefully use me, as Jesus forgave and blessed. (I Peter 2:21-23; Matthew 5:44). I repent of the sins of anger, unforgiveness, and judgment toward anyone who has mislead or misguided me in any way, in the Name and Blood of Jesus Christ. I pray that you bless them and open their eyes to your truth. Thank You, Heavenly Father, that through my acceptance of Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and my acknowledgement that He is the only Way to You, I become an heir to the promises of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). I stand in faith and believe that all Your promises are Yes and Amen, through Jesus Christ (II Corinthians 1:20). Amen.
PRAYER FOR MILITARY (Good for anyone)
Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray in the authority I have received through my blood covenant of salvation by accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord & Savior. Lord, I ask for Your mercy & protection as I travel in obedience to orders during my service in the Military. I acknowledge & repent of my sins. I ask You to forgive me & wash away my sin by the shed Blood of Jesus. Your Word says as I confess & repent of my sins, You are faithful & just to forgive me & purify me from all unrighteousness (I John 1:9). This causes my prayers to be righteous, powerful, & effective (James 5:16). I bind & break the power of every influence of territorial strongholds that have attached or seek to attach themselves to me as I serve in the Military. I bind & break the power of every influence & assignment from territorial strongholds & other demonic powers as I travel from place to place during training & tours of duty, & embark on every change of assignment & change of residence. I call the function of each of these territorial strongholds & demonic powers to be null & void. In the Name of Jesus, I bind & break the power of the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning and is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44). I bind & break the power of every such assignment of the devil that would cause or seek to cause physical injury, mental torment, or death to me. I bind & break every assignment of calamity, destruction, sudden death, & suicide by any person. I bind every lying tongue that would persuade a person to commit suicide. I call the function of every such demonic assignment null & void, in the mighty Name of Jesus. I bind & break the power of the enemy to steal the Lord’s call on my life or rob me of the blessings of His covenant promises, including health & a full life span (Exodus 23:25-26). Jesus stated, “The thief comes only to steal & kill & destroy; I have come that they may have life, & have it to the full.” (John 10:10). Thank You, Jesus, for health and a full life span. LORD, (you) are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. I call out to the LORD, & he answers me from his holy mountain. I lie down & sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me. I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side. Arise, LORD! Deliver me, my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked. From the LORD comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people. (Psalm 3). Lord, You know when I sit & when I rise; You discern my going out & my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways (Psalm 139:2-3). You will never leave or forsake me. (Deut.31:6; Hebrews 13:5) Lord, thank you for teaching us to put on the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18). I stand strong in the Lord & Your mighty power. I put on the full armor of God, so I can take my stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggles are not against flesh & blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world & against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore I put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, I may be able to stand my ground, & after I have done everything, to stand. I stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around my waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, & with my feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, I take up the shield of faith, with which I can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. I take the helmet of salvation & the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And I pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers & requests. With this in mind, I am alert & always keep on praying for all of Your people. Thank You, Lord, for teaching me to pray & trust You for protection for my body, soul & spirit (1Thess.5:23). I thank You that no weapon formed against me will prosper (Isaiah 54:17). In the mighty Name of Jesus Christ, I bind & break the power of every spell, curse, blasphemy, & incantation from the spiritual realm empowered by the idolatrous & vain worship of Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, any Hindu deities, local deities on any continent, ancestor worship, necromancy, animism, voodoo, witchcraft, idols made with hands, or any other false gods. Further, I declare the power of all such spiritual forces aligned against me to be null & void. I declare I will dwell in the shelter of the most High & rest in the shadow of the Almighty. In the mighty Name of Jesus, I declare I will not fear for the terror by night, the arrow that flies by day, the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. I will say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and I will make the Most High my dwelling, & no harm will overtake me, no disaster will come near my tent (Psalm 91:1-10). I declare null & void the assignment of post-traumatic stress disorder against me & all military personnel. I declare the threefold cord of feaanxiety & trauma & torment will not destroy us. I bind & break the power of all traumatic & stressful experiences of warfare. In the mighty Name of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, I speak His peace, “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts & your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7). Lord, I ask You for the continuing ability to cast my daily cares upon You, as You direct me to do: “casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, & all your concerns, once & for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, & watches over you very carefully]” I Peter 5:7 (Amplified). In the Name of Jesus, I declare these attacks will not destroy or harm my body, emotions, mind, or will. The enemy’s schemes for evil, terror, & ongoing torment in my life, I declare to be impotent before the Lord God Almighty in Heaven above. Lord, I stand on Your Word, which promises “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and love, and a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7 KJV). I ask these things in the Name of my Savior, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Messiah of Israel.
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My girlfriend just told me she needed an indefinite break and she’s going to pick her things up from my apartment soon. She doesn’t want to see me. I honestly thought everything was okay till last week she got really mad at me out of nowhere and hung up the phone on me, she then texted me we’re breaking up which I took as a joke obviously. I noticed she wasn’t really playing and just tried talking to her which didn’t work much, eventually we just ignore the issue and went on an our lives. This week this happened again, she kicked me out of her car and broke up with me, I saw her yesterday and we were “friends” since we were officially on break “which I didn’t think was actually happening” hanging out felt somewhat normal besides not kissing and saying I love you, today felt normal till tonight she finally explained everything. She explained how she has felt ignored for the past month, which to be honest is true, I was not the best boyfriend this past 2 months. I was on the process of finding a job, getting enrolled into my masters program and dealing with student loans, this whole thing was extremely stressful while also going through my final semester of college, regardless this is not an excuse just trying to put some context into it, pretty much I was always stressed and busy and when I hanged out w her I honestly just tried to avoid any negative conversation because in my mind why would I ruin the time I get w her with the stuff that is already stressing me out throughout t the day. She mentioned how I pretty much failed as a boyfriend, she also mentioned she loved me, but also mentioned she doesn’t want to make the wrong decision in her life and marry someone that will make her miserable, we are not engaged but we were both set on marrying in the future (dating for almost 2 years now) I told her I was sorry and I get being worried about the future I understand that is an incredibly important decision and I wouldn’t want her to resent me her whole life. She told me she wanted to find herself as she hasn’t been able to while dating me and that is why she needs a break, she mentioned talking to an ex but then also said that she wasn’t planning on dating him, she then mentioned how maybe our relationship isn’t meant to be and if she stays with me she won’t ever know who she could’ve met, I mentioned how it would be fucked to wait for her while she explores and then she said that’s not what she meant which I believe but got me very confused. I guess she is entertaining the guy somewhat because she wants to feel happy and I don’t make her happy. I don’t know where to start or what to do. Anything helps really. I’ll probably be answering and correcting whatever I said wrong, this just happened couple minutes ago and I’m very emotional and going through it all at the moment.
TL;DR. My girlfriend wants to take a break because she feels I failed as a boyfriend, obviously am sorry and I accept I haven’t been the best, but I don’t think this should end what we have built. What can I do to show her that I genuinely care for her and I took her for granted at time? Words don’t do much.

Minecraft's first-ever campaign features five unique endings (SOF Ending, CORS Ending, COE Ending, Lone Wolf Ending, and the Brotherhood Ending). Most of these endings are the same, with the biggest differences located in the Brotherhood's ending. I will explain the choices and consequences that factor into the differences in each ending. I am doing this because replaying the story is NOT WORTH IT! It takes a long time to get back to Act 3, and you are not missing much in the ending variety. Unless you want to experience unique boss fights. Yet most of the boss fights are the same.
SOCIETY OF FREEDOM ENDING:
This ending is only worth doing if you have completed each side's quest in favor of the society of freedom. This includes Killing the Ice King, taking the nether star, telling Roberto the truth about Virgil, saving Foo Foo, creating the antidote, helping Melinda with her golden carrot, and giving Monty's love letter to Melinda. The society will be very weak if you do not assemble all the members. In some cases where the side quests are not completed or not completed in favor of the society, only Roberto Flemen and Dr. Kynes will be in Act 3 (this does not change everything; it just changes the characters who give certain story-specific items. The society will be much weaker without the full army and thus Act 3 will be much harder). The epilogue will also feature a smaller version of Freedom Town.
Synopsis: Fight Janice Dei (the society ending with only unique boss fight) to get the flint and steel. Use the portal gateway to kill Ramon and Gregory. Use Kyne's lab to travel to Bedrock Castle. Fight Mother of Nature, Vargas, Mad Librarian, Twin Witches, and The Admin. Choose Norman or Billy. Fight Ender Dragon. You wake up at Freedom Town and choose to be mayor or adventure into the world. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. The End.
CULT OF RED SHROOM ENDING:
Only do this ending if you do the side quests in favor of this cult. This means not stealing water of life, not killing the general, and not giving the Virgil intel to Roberto. If you weaken the cult and then side with them, Act 3 will again be MUCH harder.
Synopsis: Travel under the base to the Warden's ruins and fight the ghost of the Warden. Establish a home in the Mushroom Temple with Ramon. Travel with the general through Mushroom portals to defeat Gregory the Grim and Roberto Cullen in his mech. Use Ramon's secret portal to travel to the Bedrock Castle. Fight Mother of Nature, Vargas, Mad Librarian, Twin Witches, and The Admin (using the ghost warden's abilities that you get after killing him at the beginning of Act 3). Choose Norman or Billy. Fight Ender Dragon. Wake up at Mushroom Island, a secret cult sanctuary built by Ramon as they are wanted by the village trade network (same as the society of freedom). He gives you the choice to lead the cult or adventure in the world on your own (same as the society of freedom). He gives you coordinates for Angel's Shack in the swamp. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. The End.
(the society of freedom and the cult of the red shroom are essentially the same in terms of endings except for different characters and locations for the home base and epilogue. The only difference being the Ramon Fight and the Roberto Flemen fight (and the Janice Dei fight).
CULT OF ENDER ENDING:
Only do this ending if you do the side quests in favor of this cult. This means giving the nether star back to Alice Grim and doing the extra unlockable Alice Grim side quest in Act 2 (this is only unlockable if you give her the nether star). If you weaken this cult and side with them, Act 3 will be MUCH harder.
Synopsis: Establish a home in the Ender Spyre. Travel with Alice Grim through Ice portals to defeat Ramon and Roberto Flemen in his mech. Use Gregory's secret portal to travel to the Bedrock Castle. Fight Mother of Nature, Vargas, Mad Librarian, Twin Witches, and The Admin. Choose Norman or Billy. Use the Warden, in the End, to tame and ride the Ender Dragon with Gregory to the countryside and destroy the winter season (this makes it so it cannot snow in your world, and there are no more ice or snow biomes) (you will not have to fight the Warden as the dragon kills it once it is tamed). The dragon then dies of weakness from its fire breath. Gregory establishes a democracy with the village trade network, and the two factions join under the label "The Countryside People." In the epilogue, you live at the Ender Spyre. Franklin and Gregory ask you to lead the Countryside People. You have the choice to accept or adventure in the world. Gregory gives you the coordinates to Angel's Shack. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. The End.
LONE WOLF ENDING:
Only do this ending if you have not done any side quests or have not fully shown loyalty to one specific faction. This Act 3 is hard as you are all alone, apart from the help of Franklin.
Synopsis: Establish a home in Franklin's Village/Radio Tower. Use the village trade network portals to kill Ramon, Gregory, and Roberto Flemen in his mech. Use Franklin's secret portal to travel to the Bedrock Castle. Fight Mother of Nature, Vargas, Mad Librarian, Twin Witches, and The Admin. Choose Norman or Billy. Use the Warden to kill the Ender Dragon, but then have to fight the Warden in another boss fight after the dragon as it goes crazy. In the epilogue, you live in Franklin's village. The village trade network appoints Franklin as its new leader, and Franklin gives you the choice to become mayor of his village or adventure in the world. He then gives you the coordinates of Angel's shack. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. The End.
BROTHERHOOD ENDING:
Only do this ending if you have not done any side quests or have not fully shown loyalty to one specific faction. This ending makes Act 3 very easy.
Synopsis: In Act 2, Intermission, you travel to the Eye Casino again, and the Admin makes you kill either Norman or Billy in cold blood to prove your loyalty to him (this is the replacement for choosing them in Act 3 in the bedrock castle). (if you choose not to kill any of them, the Admin will teleport you back to the real world, and you will be given the four other ending choices with Franklin's radio tower again). You then establish a new base with the Admin in the end in his bedrock castle. You ride the Ender dragon with Vargas to kill Gregory the Grim, you ride the Ender dragon with the Mad Librarian to kill Roberto Flemen in his mech, you ride the Ender dragon with Mother of Nature to kill Ramon, and you travel with Connie and Bonnie to kill Mayor Franklin and his army of village trade network soldiers (this is the only somewhat unique boss fight in this ending). You then return to the bedrock castle and are invited to the bedrock sanctuary. The Admin tells you the truth about his wife and that he has been looking for someone worthy and strong enough to kill him finally, as his powers make it so he cannot commit suicide. He gives you admin powers, and you have a final fight with him; in the process of the epic admin power fight, the dragon is also killed (this fight is much grander and epic in scale compared to the regular Admin fight aa this time you have admin powers instead of warden powers or no powers at all). In the epilogue, the four henchmen of the admin ask you to become the new admin and rule the End and the Bedrock castle. You can choose to lead them as the new admin or adventure in the world. They show you the vault and you find the coordinates to Angel's shack. Find the mirror and either Billy or Norman (who vow to make you suffer and find Issac). Get message from Angel. This time, Angel will thank you for freeing William but will be very angry at you for helping him take his anger out on innocent people and killing all your friends. She will seem like she does not want to watch over you but does anyway because you freed William, and there is a "chance" that you may be good. The End
This is everything. Thank you for reading! Mojang seems to tease a sequel at the end of the campaign!

My girlfriend just told me she needed an indefinite break and she’s going to pick her things up from my apartment soon. She doesn’t want to see me. I honestly thought everything was okay till last week she got really mad at me out of nowhere and hung up the phone on me, she then texted me we’re breaking up which I took as a joke obviously. I noticed she wasn’t really playing and just tried talking to her which didn’t work much, eventually we just ignore the issue and went on an our lives. This week this happened again, she kicked me out of her car and broke up with me, I saw her yesterday and we were “friends” since we were officially on break “which I didn’t think was actually happening” hanging out felt somewhat normal besides not kissing and saying I love you, today felt normal till tonight she finally explained everything. She explained how she has felt ignored for the past month, which to be honest is true, I was not the best boyfriend this past 2 months. I was on the process of finding a job, getting enrolled into my masters program and dealing with student loans, this whole thing was extremely stressful while also going through my final semester of college, regardless this is not an excuse just trying to put some context into it, pretty much I was always stressed and busy and when I hanged out w her I honestly just tried to avoid any negative conversation because in my mind why would I ruin the time I get w her with the stuff that is already stressing me out throughout t the day. She mentioned how I pretty much failed as a boyfriend, she also mentioned she loved me, but also mentioned she doesn’t want to make the wrong decision in her life and marry someone that will make her miserable, we are not engaged but we were both set on marrying in the future (dating for almost 2 years now) I told her I was sorry and I get being worried about the future I understand that is an incredibly important decision and I wouldn’t want her to resent me her whole life. She told me she wanted to find herself as she hasn’t been able to while dating me and that is why she needs a break, she mentioned talking to an ex but then also said that she wasn’t planning on dating him, she then mentioned how maybe our relationship isn’t meant to be and if she stays with me she won’t ever know who she could’ve met, I mentioned how it would be fucked to wait for her while she explores and then she said that’s not what she meant which I believe but got me very confused. I guess she is entertaining the guy somewhat because she wants to feel happy and I don’t make her happy. I don’t know where to start or what to do. Anything helps really. I’ll probably be answering and correcting whatever I said wrong, this just happened couple minutes ago and I’m very emotional and going through it all at the moment.
TL;DR. My girlfriend wants to take a break because she feels I failed as a boyfriend, obviously am sorry and I accept I haven’t been the best, but I don’t think this should end what we have built. What can I do to show her that I genuinely care for her and I took her for granted at time? Words don’t do much.

I need some advice. Had an offer accepted on a Category C listed building that had been renovated quite extensively. Planning permison was granted but building regs and certificates never issued. Looking at the old and current floor plans can see that ALOT of work has been done. Including pulling down internal walls and changing the layout.. property questionair stated no alterations had been done and therefore didn't need any paperwork. Solicitors are struggling to get any info about it and EA has said to leave it with them and they will get back to me. Due to the amount of work been done I don't think indemnity insurance is worth the paper it's written on. I'm so close to pulling out of the sale as what else has not been disclosed. Has anyone else been in this situation?
Edited for clarity Category C

I just have one question and wanted to know if it’s a yes or no , and if this is a right direction for me.
To tell you, I have received an offer letter from a university called La Trobe, Australia. There’s a problem about financial aspect. This all is basically considered for granting me a visa & admission in this university. So my question is , Will I successfully get my admission in this particular university and fly in month of July,2024 to Australia.
I have been dealing with so much anxiety and stress and that now it’s affecting my health in bad ways. Past 2 days I m having fever and bad headache.
The anxiety is genuinely killing me. I know what this exactly feels like, because I have prior got rejection from other universities and it was hella bad feeling. This is my one last attempt for Australia. I m really looking forward to this university Can anyone please , please consider this one reading for me?

The High Court has stated that where there is a lack of evidence of a promise to give an individual or an institution money, there is no binding obligation on the estate of a giftor to continue paying sums of money, even if the giftor has been paying sums of money in the past.
Kevin Price, a black chauffeur who worked for Robert Crow for 15 years, saw his son expelled from New Charterhouse School for boys, a £27,000 a year boarding school in Hertfordshire, after just one year at the school for non-payment of tuition and boarding fees.
The £40,000 a year chauffeur says that his boss - Robert Crow, a retired fund manager and investor - offered to pay for Price's son to attend a fee-paying school as thanks for saving his life. Two armed individuals had attempted to kidnap Crow one evening, but Price fought them off and drove Crow to safety before calling the police. Price's son had begun to attend New Charterhouse, with tuition and boarding initially covered by Crow, but then Crow died unexpectedly a year later and payments stopped, leading to Price's son being suspended from school, with a threat of permanent expulsion unless overdue fees were paid in full.
During a court case, Price insisted that Crow had "promised" to cover fees for his son from Year 6, right the way through to Upper Sixth (eight years and at least £240,000 in fees, not accounting for inflation and fee rises).
But, he says, in the aftermath of Crow's death, Crow's son "became belligerent" and "unfriendly", fired Price "because we don't need drivers; we drive ourselves" and said he wasn't owed any money and they - as the surviving heirs of Crow - were not obliged to give Price anything at all.
Although Crow left a will, there was no mention of Price - his chauffeur of 15 years - nor any mention of the arrangement or "promise" to pay for Price's son's tuition and boarding.
The High Court ruled that there was no evidence of a promise to pay for Price's son's education and a history of previous payment "neither constituted evidence of a promise nor an obligation to provide further payment".
In a further setback for Price, the court also stated "there was no mention of this promise in Crow's will, which had been updated 30 months prior to his death and even though Price had been Crow's driver for 15 years, Crow was required to include Price in his will, if Price was to receive anything at all from his estate and the fact that he was not included and Crow already had two clear heirs to his estate, meant that Price would receive nothing and this would be lawful and proper".
A long historical relationship also did not constitute an automatic inclusion as a beneficiary of an individual's estate where there was an omission, especially where there are heirs clearly stipulated in the written will (Farrow v Purple Lion Mens Association).
Crow's sons have confirmed again that they would not be assisting Price with his son's private education "because they believed Price was a liar and did not believe their father actually promised to pay at least £240,000 over 8 years to a complete stranger". The pair also called Price "a black thief and liar" and are currently embroiled in a legal row with him over the return of a £320,000 2011 Rolls Royce Phantom Extended Wheelbase, which was owned by Crow, but used by Price to drive Crow around as well as drop Price's own children to school. Crow's sons say it now counts as "stolen property", after Price refused to return the vehicle. However, with the current High Court judgment regarding the school fees, it appears Crow's sons may indeed be on course to win the case to recover the vehicle and the court could grant bailiffs permission to recover the vehicle as early as next week.
Price says that he is "very disappointed at his treatment by the court system" and says his son's education has "been completely disrupted by this whole saga" and "to make things worse", he says, he is now receiving "threatening" letters from the local authority, warning him that he could be fined and even jailed if his son is not is not in full-time education, citing new government regulations concerning truancy and school non-attendance by children under 16. Price says he and Price's mother are scrambling to temporarily get his son into a school, but are "worried about just enrolling him anywhere following his expulsion from New Charterhouse".

FYI I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THIS POST I WAS ASKED TO REPOST ... SORRY AITA… Am I the AITA for, I ( 36f) want my 17 year old son to know the truth, that his father didn’t just let him come live with me, I fought for him tooth and nail, spent over $15000s (not that the money means anything at all I would do it 100 times again if necessary) and many more truths he is completely oblivious of. My main goal is not to put his father down and make him look bad ( he can do that just fine on his own ;)) my main goal is for my son to understand that I never gave up trying to get him, trying to find him, tried to bring him home, and that not one minute ever went by that he wasn't on my mind. MY SON (17) has resentments with me and he is having a hard time adjusting to life not knowing the truth I feel. A therapist discouraged me from telling him " my truth" Let me share some facts before you judge. Almost 9 years ago my sons father (my ex that I was never married to, which is an important fact later on) took my son for a weekend visit, ONE OF THE FIRST WEEKEND VISITS IN OUR SONS ENTIRE YOUNG 8 YEAR OLD LIFE, and then took off out of the state. This began the UNIMAGINABLE journey of parental abduction and alienation, my son being moved to over 30 locations, some of those were living in a car, over 12 states that my son can remember, and 8 years of trauma and awful experiences that no child should ever be exposed to. Again Before you judge when I realized that they had taken off and were not at the address that was provided to me the first thing I did was notify the police. This contact with the police would set the tone for the next 8 years. The police absolutely made me feel like I had done wrong like I was guilty of some horrific crime by allowing my son to visit with his father because The father and I were not married and we did not establish any kind of set custody in the courts because up until this point my son had always been with me the father had not been really involved in his life the police informed me that this was a family court issue I needed to take it to the courts. I was extremely confused I thought that because I was his birth mother that I had custody, I continued to press the matter with the police and question them and ask them for some kind of direction or help or what can I do? Can they do anything? They said sure do you have an address to where they are? do you know where they're located right now? Not knowing or having any idea where they were they said there was nothing they could do and since I couldn’t prove that they even left the state or had intentions to leave the state that FBI couldn't help either. Also keep in mind I was in my early to mid 20s at this point very naïve a distraught emotional wreck and just clinging on to any kind of hope that the police were going to help. So a brief Cliff notes to the next about six years of hell I would artempt to go to the courts to establish emergency custody but unfortunately because I had no idea where they were I could not serve my son's father with court documents. I spoke to a judge off the record where he informed me to hire lawyers and a private investigator find where they are located have a welfare check done to make sure eyes are on my son to make sure he is OK and while that is going on start the process of having him served with court documents. Again being in my young 20s an emotional wreck not in my right mind at all because my baby boy was abducted hiring a lawyer not only where I lived, but also in the state they were hiding at in that time and private investigator on top of that just was not financially possible for me. My family and I however were able to hire a private investigator. This started another game of cat and mouse. I was trying to do this the “right” way. I was trying to obey the laws and go down this “checklist “ so to speak of what I needed to do, but whoever made this “checklist “ did not understand the mind of a narcissist Every time the private investigator would locate my son he would contact me immediately and just like the judge he would suggest to have a welfare check done to make sure my son was OK physically and also hope by some off chance that maybe the police would pick up on something illegal and that they could intervene in some way. (YA RIGHT THIS MAN IS WAY TO GOOD AT ACTING AND MANIPULATING TO BE CAUGHT SLIPPING,) Of course as a beyond worried mother all I NEEDED TO KNOW at that moment was is my son ok? Well IMMEDIATELY AFTER police or department of children and families would make contact before the court documents could be accepted by the courts my sons father would disappear with our son once again! My son was coached And taught how he was to respond to any kind of authorities when they were interviewing him, what to say if he was asked if he was safe, if anyone hurt him, he was told what to say to every possible question. I would request have DCF go and interview my son at school in hopes he would be comfortable to tell the truth away from his father, but it turns out that he was more afraid of repercussions from his father.( These interviews at the school turned out to be extremely helpful and a god send to my son. They were the only glimmer of hope my son told me he had that myself and my family were still looking for him, still loved him, and still even wanted him) there were a few instances when the planets would align and I was able to get the appropriate documents submitted before they would move again, but only to find out that because they had not lived in that jurisdiction for at least 6 months that the courts did not have authority to rule on the matter. More or less the courts didn’t want to deal with a case with so many variables. There are a ton more awful things I could and I may say at a later time but long story short my sons father finally stayed in one place long enough for the courts to have to claim jurisdiction, I was finally able to pay a lawyer To get the process at least started for me to a point I could take over, and it got to a point where my son was going to finally be able to speak to a court appointed guardian ad litem and that scared the father to death because he would end up with not only a child abuse investigation but possibly loose the other children he had and was receiving financial aid and benefits for. The Judge granted me full custody after realizing the reasoning and apologized that system failed us for so long. Now I have an extremely confused teen, who defends his father out of fear, still afraid of what his father could do to him, and he doesn’t know anything close to the truth of our horrible experience So I ask, AITA FOR WANTING MY SON TO KNOW AT LEAST SOME OF THE FACTS? Let me know if you would like more details or questions answered. Parental abduction is an unbearable situation that affects so many people for their entire lives. You would think there has to be help or organizations that can help, but at the end of the day money is the main factor and it is the victims that have to spend the most money to receive any bit of justice! :(

2 years ago I (25F) almost killed myself. Very closely might I add. Close to 3 feet from driving off a mountain side. I was going through a very rough custody battle. My son’s (4M) father (26M) threatened to take my son away and not let me see him. For 2 weeks I was begging him and his wife (25F) to let me see him. During this time I went down a dark path of drinking, getting blacked out, not remembering anything from the previous days and nights. I drove and drove, didn’t pick up my phone for anyone, went MIA. Going over 50mph down washboard dirt roads I thought that night would be my last. With tear clouded eyes, windshield dappled from the rain, I couldn’t see well. My car spun out on a sharp curve I couldn’t correct my steering and at that point I didn’t want to. I let go, let off the gas a bit and prayed I’d drive over the edge. My car hit a berm and I hit the brakes. My head bounced off the steering wheel and all I saw was black. Over the next few weeks I started remembering what happened that night. Some things are still blurry. But I now know something had their hands in my life. Wether it be the thought of my son not having his mom in his life, or one of my past relatives I know that night was a blessing for me. Im alive and I have my son. I will never take my life for granted. I love everyday I get to spend with my son. I’m sober now. I don’t have the career I’ve dreamt of, but I don’t need money to love my life. You always have something to live for. 2 years ago I hated my life. 2 years ago I could’ve been 6 foot deep. 2 years later, I love myself, I love my life. Look to the future, you have your whole life ahead of you. It’s taken me 2 years to come to terms with what happened and to let it off my chest. It will always be apart of me, I accept it as I’ve accepted every traumatic event that has happened to me. The scar I have from this, and everything else will always show, I show them with confidence that I have survived through my worst of times. With whatever you’re going through, someone loves you, someone will miss you even if you don’t think anyone will.