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Seriously. Do you know what HAPPENS when Satan and God both take a vested interest in a human? Do you want to be Job?

You’re right. I’ve done it before - didn't mean to do it, didn't even realize I was - but I yanked someone around because *I* wasn't ready. It was shortly after the suicide of my ex. I just didn't realize how messed up I was at the time. To the OP - I am sorry for the loss of your relationship; it sounds painful. Give…

I didn’t expect him to be THRILLED but his reaction was way over the top, right?!

I am too but it will make me feel better from now on to think of it in terms of my usefulness in rap battles ;$

Just quote the bitch some bible verses. That calms the, down, or at least disquiets them.

Call me a bigot but I’m not ready to accept a Republican

Exactly. I take great comfort in the fact that most people apparently perceive me as being competent, intelligent and talented, when I perceive myself as being a bumbling oaf who screws up everything he touches except when tremendously lucky.

I read this and thought, what about the opposite problem? What about when your colleagues and students think you’re smart and funny, your family thinks you’re loveable and reliable, your husband thinks you’re sexy, but you yourself think you’re dumb, incompetent, and unattractive? Based on my experience and those of…

I really don’t want people to realize I’m as fat and mean as I know I am.

Yeah my thought process is usually “my friends are really awesome people, and they all seem to like me a bunch. There must be some reason to it. But whyyyyy.” Been better about it lately, but through, you know, therapy.

Preach. Even people who hate me don’t hate me anywhere near as much as I hate me.

People seem to like me, wish I could see myself in a more positive way. I actually present as confident and fun, but that is mostly down to psychiatric meds and a background in the theatre.

I actually read it as “how to see yourself the way others see you” and I was like “oh, sweet, lemme get in on this.”

Right? I am trying to do the exact polar opposite of that, 24/7. I wish I could see myself even a tenth as well as other people apparently do for some incomprehensible reason.

Same. But I definitely have a way that I WANT people to see me- like a narrative about who I am, and generally I think I pull it off, at least with people who aren’t super close to me.

literally my first thought. I would be murdered almost instantly.

I overheard one of the cops say someone had pulled out an .85

Exactly. Bruce doesn’t apparently get any kind of hate over it. It’s just boys being boys, amirite?

As one simple counterpoint, I think some sort of registration system is a good idea. Obviously, this is a professional chef with a legitimate kitchen, but if some family with good intentions tries to do the same good deed and accidentally* gives a bunch of homeless people food poisoning, I think health officials…