Yes, Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven makes that same argument. He did say that he’s using this religion as an example because Mormonism was created recently enough that there’s ample documentation. His underlying statement is that religious groups have started out this way. 

I’m sorry that that person experienced this. :/ Sending the kid abroad is definitely a shady move, including the parents signing over 49% of their guardianship rights. It’s bad that there’s little oversight with this school being abroad, and it seems like a lot of these really sketchy school and youth boarding…

I researched on these stories to figure out the parents’ reasonings, and they all come down to: drugs, promiscuity (whatever they define as), psychological effects of the parents’ unstable marriage, and the kids not liking their parents enough (This one is real. Parents can be true narcissists). In each of these…

I agree with you on the first one. I have to agree with ThoraZine, too, because people have been canceled unjustifiably. Marginalized folks receive harsher punishments and sentences, disproportionate to their crimes. 

I don’t understand what you mean about the usage of “begging the question” but I’m willing to learn!

Love the use of the GIF!

Well, I hadn’t, but that was a trip!

Oh shit, that is a scalding hot take! Mic drop. It’s awful because if you ARE deemed attractive like Margot Robbie, they say you’re walking around asking to get raped. If you’re not judged as “attractive enough,” then of course you’re just lying for attention. 

Thank you! I thought this in my head as a good idea. Leave it to the Scandinavians to lead the way, yet again!

It’s definitely important for Claudia to have an individual therapist (at least). I share the same concerns about them having family therapy and the Narcissist(s) who have all the power pretending that they care about their children and is trying their best, and make it look like the child has been the problem. They…

Exactly.

That’s really inspiring. I’m so glad you were able to find stability and self-reliance and achieved a lot. I hope to get there someday (I’m always worried about losing my job and then have to crawl home and be subject to their abuse. My job isn’t a professional one like a Ph.D. that I can easily carry over.) 

I’m not surprised by that. They are the ones willing to troll, harass & bully innocent and defenseless people. I really hope and wish for her to have the chance to hang on until she turns 18. Kellyanne is a blatant pathological liar and opportunist in public. I can’t imagine the depths of her abuse behind closed…

Thanks so much for telling your story. It was triggering for me, too. I do have OCD myself, and it was my parents who grew it with their abuse. I watched this video about the Self-Righteous Narcissist and it described me to a T. An anxious, obsessive person always striving for an impossible standard. I’m sorry that…

I don’t think you can describe Narcissists any better. As someone who endured abuse from narcissistic parents, I feel that pain and I really hope she can get out of that situation ASAP. I understand that feeling of defeat and living under their roof, having to depend on them is such a nightmare.

President Biden, President Biden, President Biden. The words are like an oasis. I’m so relieved I don’t have to say or hear “President” and “Trump” together anymore. He’s just back to fucking Trump now!

He really is a great rep for unity. 

Garth Brooks defies stereotypes of Country. “The Thunder Rolls” gets him a win in my book. Nice guy. 

I’ve had arguments with pseudo-intellectuals (in the Jordan Peterson & Ben Shapiro vein) who are like, “but what about ScIeNcE?” and Sportz and “What about Emergency situations where the sex of the person matters??” I was able to clam up one of them when I mentioned that my psych and biology education taught that…

Yes, it’s the same motto of, “Because... immigrants? And all the non-White people?”