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You deserve self-acceptance, self-respect, happiness, and success. You deserve just as much to feel good about those things once they're inner fixtures. Do your best to not let insecurity, doubt, or the petty meanness of another hinder that.
I'm a "strict" or "true" agnostic in the sense I neither believe nor disbelieve in equal measure. I keep running into conversations that categorically insist that you're either an "agnostic atheist" or "agnostic theist," when in fact this is an unsophisticated hot take that ignores a lot of...
Single best Pokemon resource out there, and it's not close. I was also on another board back in the day when Mekkah got his start. Great guy.
Are "I'm new here btw" threads allowed in this subforum? Are they discouraged? Every board's culture is different.