Aster✨

Introduction: Greetings fellow web wanderers! You can call me Aster⋆⭒˚｡⋆ I'm an [19!] year old Arab North African from [REDACted... cuz you shouldn't tell people online where ya from if you're part of a marginalized group kids keep note], my pronouns are she/her, I'm heterosexual, and I'm an agnostic exmuslim! I'm a barely afloat [3rd year!] engineering student who's tryna get her shit together (ᵕ ´ ∇ ˋ ˶)

Likes: History, cats!, art, journalling, doodling, and tumblr ofc

Politics (rent-lowering gunshots if you're the kind to take offense for differing views): Pro-LGBTQ+, trans rights are human rights, anti-AI in its current form and under its current controlling powers for its environmental effects, data theft, and unconsentual use of artists' works, pro two-state solution, criticism of ideologies and religions =/= bigotry against followers, I don't support TERF and hating AMAB people for the circumstances of their life but rather the system of patriarchy and those who choose to follow its privileges.

I like to repost and write about different issues that i care about. Often I might share posts that I only partially agree with (I won't specify where because I don't like having online arguments and believe it's pointless to try to define stuff I still can't define without proper research). My opinions are ever evolving and I am a staunch believer in pluralism. I also want this to be an open space for having uncomfortable conversations so we can further reach the objective truth(s)!

Tags: Tried to personalize them for organizing purposes :) typed by aster: for posts I've made or stuff I've written under reblogged posts from others aster's guide to...: compilations of different topics I research. the same posts are edited and updated regularly. Advice and Solace: useful advice or encouragement for me or others. Aid and Action: all donation, petition, and calls for action here. Heretic's pinboard: for exIslam and religion-related posts.Starstruck✨: Amazing stuff being done in the world!

Subtags: (general- aren't the main focus of my blog) - lnd-miscellaneous: serious and semi-serious posts with no specific category - lnd-memery: unserious posts and memes - lnd-tech: 🧑‍💻 - lnd-lgbtq: 🌈 - lnd-feminism: 🍋‍🟩 - lnd-people and politics: 🥧 - lnd-art and artists: both sfw and nsfw art I like, and artists commissions - lnd-history: 📖 - lnd-current events: 📑 - lnd-mental and physical: usually ocd stuff - lnd-enviroment: 🎋

This was a concept that held me back from apostatizing, because it made sense to me; in real life we'd have to endure some things naturally until they pass, and we'd have to work hard or suffer sometimes to harvest the fruits of our labor, so it didn't seem unreasonable to apply that same logic and stoic acceptance to the abuse that a metaphysical being would inflict on his powerless subjects. And I do agree that when we're thinking within the logic that everything and anything God does is justifiable and Correct by association; because he defines and forms what is Correct, it does fall neatly into its narrative place. If god wants to test us in such a manner even if the reasons for such a test is undisclosed, then he can torture us in our lives, and make the pain magically end-- or amplify it if we don't react cordially to our mortal perils, all with a snap of a finger he makes things Be.

In fact most arguments defending Islam stem from that assertion; that because if God is the source of everything then he outsources the concepts of morality as well, so the only thing we can do is to follow that tide. This made me put up with my mental illness (which was directly correlated to my religiousness) and misery due to the rules because I couldn't be so selfish as to not handle temporary suffering when God could make it end and give me eternal bliss, as if I asked for temporary pain or eternal reward. Oh, and speaking of will, consent didn't matter anyway because it's "our natural state" to be submissive to wills and whims of God.