Thank You!

You made my day!

Electing Obama failed to end racism. Must be systemic racism.
Higher crime rates because more Blacks are committing crimes, is because of …
White systemic racism.
Must be.
But isn’t. But all their friends are Democrats! and against racism!

They are against racism. Reality is racist.
Believing you are for and against reality causes mental illness.

It wasn’t courage, it was….compartmentalization or something.

Maybe conservatives compartmentalize better and so the hard times don’t affect their lives as much. Then there’s the chicken/egg question.

My comment came right after yours only because of when we posted. It was not aimed at you.

It sounds like you are very smart. The traumas you suffered may have triggered something that was already there. I do think highly intelligent people often have underlying issues that can surface. It seems to be some kind of trade off between high intelligence and some kinds of issues.

Based on an IQ test I had in the seventh grade, my IQ is significantly above average, yet OCD and / or intrusive thoughts , at key moments in my life, have helped to created all kinds of issues for me. It is easy to get caught up in the ” what ifs? ”

There was a link I posted on my earlier comment. It was from a sermon a guest preacher gave at my church last Sunday. A sermon about personal tribulations in this life. This pastor has two disabled daughters that were born with some kind of genetic defect.

You write “women are socially encouraged to do as they wish.” That’s not a world I recognize. Yes, on TikTok or something like that, there are some women who act out mightily. But in real life, the women I know certainly don’t “do as they wish.”

What passes for our ?education system is the opposite. It teaches that victimhood is power. If you really absorb the lesson mental illness will follow like night follows day.

Your entire comment is thoughtful and well thought out, but this part seems especially apt, regarding why so many people are depressed and/or bitter:

“…thinking about others in your life’s sphere as opposed to the macro is much healthier and more constructive.”

And, as you stress, the “thinking about” is how one can be service to them on their path of struggle. NOT, thinking about how one can find a human target or targets to hate and punish.

True, Art, but how often is that conceit rather than arrogance? And how often are those professional accomplishments devoid of any real significance? Akin to “Kaitlin” Jenner winning “Woman of the Year”.

Or ANYONE winning Time’s “Person of the Year”… EVER?

Or the Peace Prize, for that matter…?

I’m sure they crow about those as major accomplishments, but a short review of the winners shows they are anything but.

Males are more likely to be schizophrenic. See this.

OK, I stand wrong on one aspect of the statement. I would still assert that women are allowed to be so, men are told to buck up and do what they are supposed to. Women are socially encouraged to do as they wish, and the consequences are someone else’s fault. Men are usually given no such pass, and are often responsible for things they had no authority over, or even the same level as a woman not held responsible.

Yes, many exceptions to both, but it’s the way to bet, and has been for quite a while.

Come on, Neo — the whole of the Left’s position in general is to “avoid reality, we’ll help!” This feeds it no matter the gender, and most of postmodern 3rd/4th wave feminism is directed in the same way — give women more power, while not adding any responsibility.

So, I concur: you have disproven one aspect of my basis for reasoning, but not most of it.

I’m also very curious about the age breakdown on those statistics. Curious how much of that is associated with younger people raised as millennials, and if that’s changed much from the post-WWII decades to the last three decades covered. I honestly don’t know. I did encounter that statistic quite a while ago. Either the original source was wrong or it’s changed.

Your entire premise is incorrect.

Males are more likely to be schizophrenic. See this.