Yeah it can be. But it’s one of those situations where he probably needs a lot of therapy and time to come to terms with it all.

He’s been medicated in the past. That being said, I know it’s a common belief that mental health medication and coping can make someone no longer creative, this is not based on real things. No one does what they want to do well while they are struggling with mental health problems. Medication doesn’t strip people of their skills and abilities. Every creative person will struggle with ‘‘writers block’’ ‘‘art block’’ whatever you want to call it. There’s real ways to get past it, and everyone deals with internal and external pressure in creative fields, like Pete Doctor talking about having a huge crisis of faith in his own work to the point he was sure Pixar was soon to fire him when he’s easily more original and productive than any other major name writer/director/animator they’ve had. Everyone goes through this. But when you real look at a ‘‘troubled artists’’ you see the mental health problems got in the way of them being creative not the other way around. Van Gogh was MONTHS away from being a world renowned artist when he committed suicide. Why did he do it? Well I can’t say exactly, but he was a man who spend years in mental hospitals, and couldn’t paint while in there, maybe he could somewhat, but not like he wanted to. He produced an average of one painting a day for two years straight when he was out of the hospital. He was out because his symptoms were under control and he was free to leave. Not because he was struggling with mental health. And when his symptom were getting worse again after the two years he painted clearly 10+ hours a day, he very likely didn’t want to go back to the hospital for who knows how many years? If being unhealthy made him an artistic genius all his famous work wouldn’t have come while he was out of the hospital having few symptoms, he wouldn’t have been painting when he was well, he would have gotten a job as a mailman or something. No healthy meant he could focus and work. Unhealthy meant he couldn’t.

It’s really unclear if he means he molested his cousin when his cousin was ages 6-14 or if he began molesting his 6 year old cousin then stopped when he himself turned 14.

Right after they pass laws that make their individual stocks go up.

Do you ever wonder how many carrots you could fit in your ass? Like. How much is an ASS LOAD of carrots really.

It’s a good thing your here to be a piece of shit about it. What would people think if you weren’t jumping into people talking about child abuse shitting on their life experience? They might think a religious person could be compassionate and respectful. Good you’re here to put a stop to that bullshit.

I don’t think all religion is child abuse. Not everyone is your polar opposite extremist.

Religious abuse is abuse. This isn’t a fantasy, there’s clear outcomes.

I enjoyed church as a kid because it was the one place they COULDN’T just beat the shit out of me for no reason. But still, the indoctrination, lies, manipulation, twisted fucked up world view, and sexual repression are all things ALSO fucking up my adult life. The abuse abuse was a much harder thing to live through and accepting that recovery is a lifetime process not a goal with a possible ending is fucking horrifying, but you know. They both did register as shit I wish I never went through.

This reflects my experience growing up with a religion really accurately. What really kills you in the end, is that you took it seriously, when you come out of it you realize no one else was.

Yeah I don’t. My kids love these stories of me dodging my dad’s insecurities, they wear whatever they want. And they mostly wear t-shirts and jeans.

I, as a boy, ran through my cousin’s to change my clothes on my way to the bus.

People were all ‘Dave portnoy is talking about losing money!’’ Yeah well, if you look into it, he still 100% supports Trump.

But have we learned from our mistakes? No.

Oh RED IN THE FACE mad when you say this shit outloud in the US, we don’t have this prison system because of back deal profiteering, we have this prison system because it’s DEEPLY held cultural beliefs that any crime can and should be met with draconian punishments and that prison should be a torture device.

Death penalty is wrong. Also vengeance prison is wrong, VERY unpopular opinions. I can’t tell you how many people will full on yell at you if you say this in public. I think rehab prison is what should happen for any prisoner that isn’t in for murder one or rape, domestic abuse. Financial crimes? House arrest, monitored assets, no access to exploitable systems. Property crime? Make sure they have a legitimate job, parole, house arrest if serious, garnished wages. We could have the vast majority of prisoners on parole or house arrest and in treatment, or jobs programs and out prison population would be at a normal percentage compared to the rest of the world.

AI will never surprise you.

I’m banned on enough accounts they auto ban me when I make new ones. I went off the rails on a lot of political topics. I never threatened anyone, but I did wish them unspecified harms, use the words of naughtiness, and made myself a target of a few pro Trump mods and that was it. Anyway, I’m fine here, I also didn’t start using this until years after the ban so, not very related.

I worked in customer service a long time. No one was trained on how to be law enforcement and no one was paid enough to be entrusted with public safety beyond the common sense everyday people have about these things. I reported every instance of child abuse I’ve seen, and that’s maybe 4 times in two decades. I have no problem with training and reporting, but you have to accept that the service staff aren’t going to police hotels.

To some 20%-30% of the country ‘patriot’ means ‘whites only’. Honestly, if your so dedicated to being a patriotic American you can’t stand up to a government doing everything it can to destroy America, you’re just an idiot.