u/MellifluousManatee

I am so sick of seeing people obviously fishing for internet points drone on with their pathetic platitudes like "finding a way to fall in love with life again" and "getting back to your old self" even in situations where there is no evidence of a prior state of happiness. I have no idea what even fleeting happiness feels like because I have never experienced it. If you admit this, you’re almost guaranteed have at least one toxic positivist telling you how wrong you are and trying to gaslight you into their bullshit line of thinking. I can only speak for myself here, but I can honestly say I have never been happy once in my life. But I know I can’t be alone in this regard, unfortunately.

You see this nonsense everywhere, it's so nauseating. When a churchgoer dies, their fellow cult members fall over themselves claiming what a paragon of virtue the deceased was based solely on the fact that they attended church. But what if the dead man in question was a scumbag who openly abused his wife and kids, you ask? Oh, that doesn't matter because he stepped into their magical tax-exempt building once a week or at least sometimes when he felt like it, so all proof that he wasn't a good person is conveniently swept under the rug. And if you dare challenge the narrative, you're shamed for disrespecting the dead.

Whenever a church leader (priest, reverend, pastor, whatever) is arrested for a serious crime, people line up to defend him, blindly denying his guilt in spite of inculpatory evidence and insisting he couldn't possibly have done it because he's a "man of god" while knowing full well what so many of their precious men of god have gotten up to behind closed doors. And of course the media always gives the accused church leader the benefit of the doubt in a way it does no one else just because of his position.