I like mothering my bank account. A lot. I buy it socks for Christmas. Super-cute ones with little spruce-coloured £ signs.

really strange..sounds as if we still live in the 50s..if a woman wants to be a mom of anything - great! If not - so what? Seriously: So what?

Why are we as women obliged to mother anything?

It's not that I have anything against Maria—in fact, I hope she's making videos off of these fetish (would you call them fetish?)

Yeah, I get ASMR randomly sometimes (like, every five years or so something trips it, usually someone trying to sell me something, which probably says something fucked up about my psychology), and these videos only really get me when they're tapping or whatever.

It very much is like the cilantro divide. You get the tingles or you don't. I find Maria and Ilse and Heather and Aly and Emma and all of them (well, most of them) to be the most relaxing things on the interwebs. But they make my bf want to rip his hair out. I used to be a bank teller, and I had one regular who only…

I'm so ashamed... and so relaxed.

Ooh I have ASMR, but I didn't realize it was a unique thing or that it had a name until the This American Life story about it that has already been mentioned. It was the weirdest revelation to realize that this thing I had been feeling literally my whole life is an actual thing with a name. I don't know how to explain…

I've tried ASMR vids before, but all they seem to do is make me cry for no reason...

I confess, I am an ASMR "user" (is that the right word?). I got into it when someone shared a video of a "man ironing a shirt" and that was a gateway drug that led to someone shining shoes, and from there I discovered this lady. She has a freakishly relaxing voice and has helped with my insomnia. Her POV "fitting for…

While I got introduced to ASMR via GentleWhispering, I've actually enjoyed Heather Feather's videos a lot more. I haven't really gotten the tingle thing going, it's been amaaaazing for my insomnia - instead of lying their for hours and eventually getting up and doing shit while daylight marches towards me, I listen…

I can't listen to these because I do get this weird physical reaction to them that is tingly and pleasurable and stuff but I'm like embarrassed by that because from New England.

Wasn't there a This American Life about this? I remember this: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives…

Who cares how "insulting" it is to people who hold delusions, when it so obviously goes against critical thinking? If this was a matter of faith and you really personally believed that Jesus was magically implanted in his underage virgin mama, who then went on to give birth to him without having done as much as…

Why is the world being created in 7 days more ridiculous than a virgin birth though? Both go completely against what we now understand with science. If you truly do believe in virgin birth, and you do so as a matter of faith (possibly whilst simultaneously holding a contradictory understanding of biology) then what…

The Immaculate Conception does not refer to Jesus' birth. It refers to Mary, Jesus' mom, being born without sin.

Well, there are a plenty of Christians who don't necessarily believe the Bible is 100% literally true word-for-word. I do think there are people who feel comfortable believing in God without necessarily taking the story of the virgin birth at face value. I think it's interesting they don't make a better showing in the…

Not religious at all, but isn't the virgin birth kind of a pretty essential part of Christianity? If you don't literally believe in the virgin birth, you probably wouldn't literally believe in the whole Jesus dying so everyone isn't punished for their sins after they die s or the part where he comes back to life after…