Board Thread:Hosting Game/@comment-28906670-20181206201254/@comment-31953669-20181207164634

Addfire wrote: KarpToEndAllKarps wrote: "I'm not a therapist by trade, I'm actually an interior designer. I'm simply skilled at dealing with mental illness and the human mind because of my own experience with it.

Innovation is certainly important, but stuff like the color wheel has been known for a long time. Chasing fads and new ideas is how you end up with embarrassment when that fad dies and people realize that asymmetrical design is aesthetically displeasing.

Still, I get your point. I suppose in a field entirely comprised of vague, complex ideas, nothing will stay the same for too long."  "Oh, you aren't a real Therapist? That sorta sucks... I was hoping to explain why my ideas got so much traction, but if you just have, like a knack with mental illnesses then I guess we don't have much to talk about, right?" "I'm sorry to dissapoint.

However, I will say that I'm fairly sure your ideas gain so much traction is because of what you said earlier. The religious crowd can rally around what their respective teachings say the meaning of life is, but atheists don't have teachings like that to hold up. Many of those people were already nihilists, but you taught them to find solace and even freedom in that seemingly depressing philosophy." ​