![](/static/66c60d9f/assets/icons/icon-96x96.png)
![](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/fed50129-04e7-4dbc-8f54-4ba5bae58370.png)
My brother and I used to play a game called Splatterhouse on Turbografx-16. It was humorously horrifying, given the highly pixellated gore on screen.
My brother and I used to play a game called Splatterhouse on Turbografx-16. It was humorously horrifying, given the highly pixellated gore on screen.
Maybe you can copyright the prompt itself. But not the output.
But there is nothing about the person themselves that affects the outcome of the prompt.
You probably actually wouldn’t when it’s 5 times more expensive.
You do know it’s not an either- or situation, right? You can be both.
I see you’re an optimist.
Apparently more than you do.
Then you don’t know much about religion.
And nothing heinous has ever been done without religion?
The faithful give over three times as much in charitable donations as the secular, and volunteer three to four times as often.
Plus, the religious have been persecuted for their beliefs as long as there had been human history, which is what you are proposing by suggesting that religion should be eliminated.
This is a great stance to take until the government forces you to regularly go through a life-threatening procedure to harvest your bone marrow so another person might live.
Even if it’s life, no life is allowed to commandeer another person’s body to survive. Period.
That’s not religion. That’s abusers using religion to control people. Which unfortunately the most vocal make sound like that’s all religion.
I am fairly faithful, though more liberal than many in my faith. My kids have come out to me maybe a dozen times in total, and have been disappointed every time because I didn’t go crazy on them. Most religious people don’t hate LGBTQ, even if they also don’t agree with some of it. Most religious parents love their children AND their faith, and are willing to let their kids make their own choices.
Don’t let a vocal few and their media response cause you to try to squish your parents into a box. They can love you and not love your choices, but also support you making them. Not everything is black and white. If you have kids, some day your kids will subscribe to ideologies you don’t like, too. It’s part of parenting. Parents are allowed to be disappointed when their kids reject the things they love.
Just stay true to what you feel is right, try to love your imperfect parents, give it a few years and everything will look much different one way or the other.
Two thoughts: this is mind-blowing AND there’s no possible way this could go wrong, right? Right?!?
I would go back to the day of my wedding and tell myself to trust my gut, that it wasn’t just cold feet. That the embarrassment and financial loss of calling it off was nothing compared to what I lost that day without even realizing it.
I would lose my kids, but maybe I’d still be myself and they would be somewhere with a mother who isn’t a mother-shaped empty shell.
Weren’t they saying this back in the 90s?
I was going to respond, but you said it so much better than I could have.
The tension between liability and control is real.
I agree with school, just disagree with local community voting. They don’t own or rent homes, and therefore have near-zero consequence for the outcome.
Besides all the reasons other commenters have said, it’s because mental health is a pseudo-social phenomenon among teens.
Having a mental illness gets them attention, online and in person. I have two teens, and even though both have diagnosed mental illness due to trauma from their other parent, they still seek, discuss, and revel in self-diagnoses.
If a friend claims to have something, they rush to the internet to do “research,” and begin exhibiting “symptoms.” Same thing is true with other labels.
We have a dearth of parenting, due to needing two incomes to make a household run. Adult attention is scarce, so teens make up for it with wild claims and garnering attention from other teens. The internet makes it easy to model behaviors. So yes, there is an increase in mental illness, but not the kinds, nor for the reasons the internet would have us believe.