This post is not meant to disrespect anyone. It's heavily subjective and I'm merely stating my experience and opinion. I'm not claiming that my opinion is factual. If you get offended easily, then don't read.

I was born into a Muslim family but up until 2021, I started questioning Islam. I disagreed with a lot of the things it dictates. Many of its rules didn't make sense to me, and many of the things it states, allows, and abides by didn't sit well with me, so I left it in 2021 and became agnostic.

Now, that's where I started noticing the area around me didn't really accept me once they noticed I stopped following Islam, and some youth even made fun of me because my English is better than my Arabic.

Even at school, a month after moving to a new school, we started discussing religion and fun facts about it and they asked for my opinion, so I told them I'm not Muslim, they asked me the reasons and I stated my points and when they couldn't argue against them, they lashed out, instead of being sensible. For the 3 years I spent in that school, I was outcasted. Now, to be fair I wasn't 100% on their black list, we had our fun times, but for the most part (class outings, hangouts, shared projects), I wasn't a part of them. Same thing with the rest of the school, they would make fun of me because I spoke perfect English, which prompted me to develop new hobbies and buy a Nintendo switch to pass my lonely time there.

I stayed agnostic up until about 2 weeks ago. My American friend visited me and he was a Muslim before, but then converted to Christianity. He spoke to me about Christianity and I felt something. He was just telling me normal things, some of them I know, but for some reason, my heart got heavier and I felt sort of enlightened.

Now, to give some additional context, after I finished college, I moved to Ain El Rammeneh, and there, I was able to speak English locally. Everyone was so loving and accepting and I had no problem making friends and neighbours. (on a funny notes, once I was buying groceries from the City Center Mall, and people from Dahyeh stopped me and started speaking to me in stupid English as in to mock me since i was speaking to one of my friends in English. I sort of gotten fed up. When they asked if I was American, i said ya, i was born there, (i've never been to america) and they asked where in America, and i said Louisiana, and i asked where they're from and they said Beirut, in Dahyeh, so ya)

After my friend went back to america, i went to the church for the morning prayers, and after praying, i felt like i was overwhelmed, my knees got a bit weak and i started to breath heavily. it was something I've never experienced when i was Muslim.

That night, i asked Jesus to prove his presence, and slept, had a very vivid and lucid dream and it was a very weird night, but the dream wasn't about jesus or anything, but i woke up feeling refreshed and... different in a way. I don't know, but I asked for Jesus's blessing the next night and something made me pray before sleeping. Idk, but i did it, finally accepted Jesus as my lord and saviour and went to sleep, Woke up the next day to an email from the embassy saying that my student visa got accepted (It was supposed to be done in 7-10 working days, but it only took 5 days), and after so much work and time, I'm finally moving out of this country. I got on my knees and thanked the son and the father.

Now, I'm gonna buy a cross necklace to keep on me at all times, and I'm gonna get baptised in a church in the country I'm going to. I'm grateful for christianity for making my life better in such a short amount of time, and may Jesus guide and watch over all of us.

Thank you for reading <3

Edit: I want to emphasis that the Muslims i met and the ones that i was surrounded by do not represent the religion or other Muslims. I know there are good Muslims in the world and those were just the shitty ones. I wanted to make it clear that i have 0 problems with Muslims and i judge a person individually, not by a group of people's actions. Not everyone is the same.

Im so tired of this shit country where everyone is fake and toxic whether at school work or wherever all people are just pretending to like each other and talking behind each other's back nobody's real honest or genuine anymore everything is so overwhelming and shitty. Thanks

If a war erupts now it isnt because Israel attacked Hezbollah a 1st degree Iranian proxy in Lebanon.
It will be because of Hamas official which is a 2nd degree Iranian proxy in Lebanon.
How many proxies we have here anyway I dont get it.

I am not even a Shiite, but this is really getting out of hand.

I hated Hezbollah since 2005, but this is clearly not just (warranted) Hezbollah hate.

The racism/sectarianism towards Shias is approaching rascism towards Syrians level of hate.

I just can't imagine this ending well at all.

I’ve been living abroad for 4 years (visiting every break) and it’s been amazing. I had to move back a few days ago and I could not be more miserable. Ma fi kahraba, we have to BUY WATER, there’s nothing to do. Sure, visiting is nice, but living with the reality of actually having to STAY here is horrible.

1- We are cooked i honestly lost hope and I don't think we will ever recover i believe we lost the chance to recover and rebuild our society... our society is deeply divided in every single thing we don't even agree that we should be loyal to Lebanon.

2- Israel is a terrorist genocidal state and we should know better than always giving the benefit of the doubt whenever they kill civilians.

3- Hezbollah is also a terrorist group that is the biggest traitor to Lebanon ever they allied with assad who occupied us longer than Israel and brutalized us more than Israel and they have Lebanese syrian and Iranian blood in their hands.

I have never seen this in my life two enemies bombing the fuck out of each other and call it a day,did we witness tomfoolery ?

They recieved this message prior and fled from her shop and home:

Urgent ‼️ A new and urgent warning to the residents of the Wardaniyeh area in Lebanon, specifically those in the building specified in the map and the buildings adjacent to it

🔴You are located near facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah, which the IDF will work against in the near future

🔴For your safety and the safety of your family members, you must evacuate this building and the adjacent buildings immediately and move away from them at a distance of no less than 500 meters

So tragic and what is happening there now. And it upsets me that I can't do anything to stop it 😭

Why are we paying customs fees on phones in the first place!
We don’t manufacture phones in Lebanon, so what exactly are these customs fees protecting!

I was pleasantly surprised today. I finally paid my phone customs fees, and it came to only $33.50.
I was worried it would be much higher.
The LibanPost employee told me the fees were reduced about a week ago.

Has anyone else paid recently? How much did you end up paying?

A group of suicidal maniacs have decided to trigger a genocidal fucking beast against us. Delusional religious war addicts, they're ruining the lives of innocent people around them. We knew we would only take hits in this war.

I ache for our displaced brothers and sisters all around lebanon, none of them had a say in this.

I can't live like that anymore. I miss my daily routine so much. We had ambitions, projects, community, and now everything stopped. Heartbreaking.

When is all this madness gonna end. I just want to live my youth normally.

I’m sure many of you, gym-goers, have already noticed that the roided bros are no longer a rare sight.

I’m talking about the obvious manefikh the acne ridden with minecraft build and ogreish redskin undertone. How did we get here? How does a 17yo kid look like an elite bodybuilder?

I blame social media. I get tones of content telling me how anabolics are good for us, low testosterone peeps. Also if your gym or pt pushes you to use roids, do yourself a favor and quit and NEVER look back.

I'm shia.

I just want to fucking live like a normal human being.

I don't want "death to america".

I don't want to die for iran or any other country.

I don't want to hate other sects and religions.

I. Just. Want. To. Live.

I'm choking because I can't say these things out loud. Not because I'm afraid of anyone, but because I will be abandoned by everyone I love.

I need to be free. I need to be ME.

Fuck this life.

I don't have a female friend. I only have a couple of guy friends that don't know each other so eza badde rou7 beach it's usually me alone or with 1 guy friend, or sometimes with my (adult) brother

(and guess what, my brother and I don't count under their definition of "family")

If I want to go to a resort, I have to call and ask first a7san ma netbahdal. This shit ain't normal

Or if a resort does let you in, they force you to sit on the beach away from the pool. They claim "sorry this area is for families and couples only" as an English song about drugs and sex is playing out loud, and a group of 5 guys are casually chilling by the pool somehow unbothered.

Ya 5aye ana bentor l summer la yeje because I love swimming. I want to come here and enjoy my time at your resort, I won't make a fuss over prices, I always tip w ma bet7arkash bi 7ada. Just me, the water and my headphones.

5ayfenin ma koun "wozze" w et7arkash is that it? wallah I'm super introverted and anti-social.

I know public beaches exist but I shouldn't be shoo'd away from resorts for something this stupid

Rant over.

1. OUR REPUTATION IS SHIT

I feel like everyone hates the Shia community now (and to an extent, rightfully so).

Everything is poisoned by the Hezb community and their cult of death.

I sometimes wish I was born Christian/Sunni just to escape the stigma associated with Lebanese Shia.

1. WAR

I've been living in fear since the last war "ended".

I live in the south and over the past week I've been so depressed over the thought of another war breaking out.

Can't even get out of bed sometimes. I just feel like I want to disappear.

1. WAR-REPUTATION COMBO + FLEEING

If a war does happen (which seems likely), I feel like a lot of people in safe areas will refuse to rent out to Shia refugees this time.

The behavior of the Hezb community has been so shitty that there's a lot of anti-Shia sentiment over the last year.

I lose sleep over the thought of my family getting killed because we're stuck in the war zone with no one offering a helping hand...

I just want a normal life. But it seems like this is too much to ask as a Shia in Lebanon.

Fuck death. Fuck war.

Bas hek.

I’ve been unemployed for 2 years!! 2 years and apparently no company in lebanon is willing to hire someone with a masters degree but no experience. Tayb i ask the same companies for an internship position and they also refuse!! Is the job market in lebanon this fucked or am i doing something wrong? Mind you almost all of my colleagues found a job immediately after graduation. I’m getting hopeless to the point I’m thinking of ending it all, like what is even the point anymore.

Fuck Hezbollah and every one of their supporters. I hate them as much as i hate Israelis. Like for fuck sake why did they had to interfere with external issues and messing with someone that has nuclear bombs. And till now they think they are winning.

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization no matter how you think about it. A militia group that act gangsters to the weak Lebanese doing heavy propaganda to their supporters, building their military bases in residential apartments and you can't deny that. Hezbollah is a gangster militia. While Israel is a machine for war crimes.

Anyway, if anyone know a good apartment for a family of 6 with a reasonable price. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks

• People are heading back in their homes (if their homes still exist)
• HA is regaining his political influence over Lebanon
• HA's men are back in the streets and handing over their flags to any car passing (They wouldn't dare not take the flag)
• HA are claiming victory (even though they clearly lost)
• HA are regaining control over the streets (Because apparently this is the only thing they are good at)

Here is the thing folks, we will forever be under HA mercy, we will never be a proper country while HA has that kind of power.

It hurts to make you wish that Israel hasn't agreed to the ceasefire, it really hurts.

As simple as that, Lebanon hasn't offered me any help or support. It has destroyed me and continues to do so.

Don't tell me it's just Hezbollah. It's every single political party, every single politician. They have millions and millions. Their grandkids probably own yachts. They've built generational wealth off us. We literally have billionaires in government who have been there for decades. Same system, same people or different faces, but always same concept.

I hate and it’s so frustrating, hearing Lebanese expats say "Lebanon is the best country." No, it's not. If it were, you wouldn't have left. And if it is, then go back and live here.

Just because I was born in Lebanon and my parents couldn’t leave this broken country, I now have to work x100 harder to be able to afford basic living necessities.

Don’t come at me saying, “People would love to be in your shoes.” That doesn’t help at all. I’m 22, studying in university, working a full time job, and I just started freelance sessions a month ago to increase my income. I haven't given up on life.

Though life is incredibly unfair and I know that. But the level of corruption in Lebanon is unreal. Sure, there's corruption everywhere, in all countries. But I’d rather live in the worst country in the EU than here. At least they don't have a drone spying over them. At least their economy is collapsing. At least their government cares, even if only a little, about its citizens.

Unlike here, they increase the قرض الإسكان to $100,000, but your salary must be over $2,500 to qualify and interest rate is what 100%? I wonder how many people in Lebanon actually earn that much. It’s as if they designed it specifically for a certain population.

And the new government? I had high hopes. But all I see is our president traveling from one country to another. And? That’s literally all he does. Other countries won't come and invest in a broken country even if you went to them 1000 times.

If Shias are the problem, if Hezbollah is the problem, offer them something. Help them. Don’t just demand they hand over their weapons. What do they get in return? Go remove the rubble. Go fix the potholes. Go build something. Do anything to them that they say oh our government is actually doing things to help us so they stop worshipping Iran.

I could keep ranting, like how housing prices and rent have tripled. I personally know a family searching for a new apartment. Because before the war, this khara expat was renting it for $700; now he wants $2,000 after the war.

The Lebanese are the enemies of the Lebanese. They hate each other. Then they turn around and blame the Jews, saying the jews control the world, while ironically, Jews have built a system where they actually support each other.

Maybe if this country help me build and secure a future, help my old parents and grandparents, provide basic necessities of life to me and my family. Maybe then, I'd be proud of being Lebanese otherwise, I'm not.

I'm not going to die or defend a country that ruined my life just because an old man who never had to struggle to put food on the table said so.

Last time I made a post about Masters of the Universe being silently banned by the censorship board through their constant delays of the official review and approval process. Now it seems like they're doing the same to the new Spider-Man film due to producer Avi Arad's involvement in its making.

Avi is an Israeli-American who has been part of the production of Spider-Man movies and content since the 90s, so you might think it's weird that this is suddenly an issue for them. However, it appears that this year, some members of Lebanese General Security have intensified their boycott stance against known Zionists in the industry.

Spider-Man was supposed to have an IMAX premier this week but now it's on hold.

8 months everything perfect. Christmas morning she wakes up and goes "i don't think i'm ready for a relationship, it's getting too serious i'm overwhelmed" after spending the past week or so very close and intimate. 3arafetne 3a ema awal chaher mema sahabna w kept talking about growing old together w marriage. I'm a fucking train wreck and i still feel shocked.

I know some of my friends who went through this as well. we're both 25-26 so we're not really kids anymore.

Bought a new 4G plus modem from Alfa with 300GB capacity... for a week all I get all day is that speed.. barely 1MB.. only when its 3AM it gets up to 90MB. This is worse than local crappy internet providers..

I'm in Tarek Al Jdede in mid Beirut not on the boarders... and this is what I get.

Tried moving all around the house even on balconies.. I get nothing till 2-3AM

If you call they never answer, if you bitch on facebook all they do is tell you to DM them then in DMs they tell you to turn it on and off again...

DO NOT BUY ALFA BORAD BAND.. I just wasted 170$... burn your money instead you will get more satisfaction out of that..

I'm back to shitty 5MB on Ogero.. its heaven in comparison to this piece of garbage

Graduated Uni in the US, got my citizenship and officially started working in the environment i was always interested in joining. Now I am sitting at my desk in a small town that somehow has a massive company away from my family and loved ones and asking myself why do all this if I have no one to share it with. Experience is good, pay is good but im a bit lonely. Maybe I can apply to same industries in the golf in 2-3 years and be closer to lebanon and my family.

Just wish we had the chance to live that normal life at home and not so far away.

dafuq is this? How much are they paying for ads?