How do you convince someone you're not a violent sociopath?

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Zebo

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What do you expect, she's your mom. Moms are enablers might be good to get second perspective.
 

illusion88

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I suppose the first step is NOT being a violent sociopath. I'm pretty normal and have never been accused of being a violent sociopath.
 

Dirigible

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My stepdad thinks I'm crazy and need counseling :hmm::hmm:

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Stepdad:

Librul. Self described pacifist. Grew up in Berkley. Votes (D) 100% of the time everytime. Union leader at a public school.

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Problem:

THERE IS NO PROBLEM. I'M CALLING SHENS ON THIS WHOLE THING.

A Bay Area liberal pacifist from Berkeley would not vote (D) 100% of the time. (A Bay Area conservative might.) A Bay Area liberal would vote Green party and sometimes Peace and Freedom party.

Admit your lies, schneiderguy! Then ride BART to my abode and pleasure me! NOW!!!
 

DominionSeraph

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Grow up?

Here's the thing: Kids look like kids to adults. When trying to put on the affectations of adulthood, their behaviors are weak and they are so stupid that they don't even know how stupid they are.
An obsession with firearms and knives shows you likely have a LOT of growing up to do -- not only that, it shows you're resistant to any sort of growing up as well, having fortified yourself behind your armaments to remain an emotional retard.

Weapons are tools, not emotional crutches. Anyone who needs them as an emotional crutch is not stable enough to be trusted with them.
 

schneiderguy

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How old are you, OP? I always thought you were on your own and had children.

20, in college.

No babby schneiderguys yet :awe:

Grow up?

Here's the thing: Kids look like kids to adults. When trying to put on the affectations of adulthood, their behaviors are weak and they are so stupid that they don't even know how stupid they are.
An obsession with firearms and knives shows you likely have a LOT of growing up to do -- not only that, it shows you're resistant to any sort of growing up as well, having fortified yourself behind your armaments to remain an emotional retard.

Weapons are tools, not emotional crutches. Anyone who needs them as an emotional crutch is not stable enough to be trusted with them.

I'm not obsessed with them. It's a hobby. I don't dress in camo and carry my guns around the house and pretend I'm killing terrorists. I can think of a lot worse uses of my time than practicing marksmanship or learning how to sharpen a knife.

I don't even have my guns and knives at my mom's house (they're all at my Dad's).
 

schneiderguy

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THERE IS NO PROBLEM. I'M CALLING SHENS ON THIS WHOLE THING.

A Bay Area liberal pacifist from Berkeley would not vote (D) 100% of the time. (A Bay Area conservative might.) A Bay Area liberal would vote Green party and sometimes Peace and Freedom party.

Admit your lies, schneiderguy! Then ride BART to my abode and pleasure me! NOW!!!

He votes (D) because they give $$$ to the teachers union when they get elected.
 

0roo0roo

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My stepdad thinks I'm crazy and need counseling :hmm::hmm:

Background:

Me:

I like guns and knives. I have 4 guns (one of which is a scary black AK74) and a collection of 15 or so pocket knives/fixed blades/bayonets. I also play violent video games and listen to death metal.

I'm perfectly normal. I don't even like killing spiders, I take them outside instead of squishing them.

Stepdad:

Librul. Self described pacifist. Grew up in Berkley. Votes (D) 100% of the time everytime. Union leader at a public school.

He's basically like HAL9000. Cept I have to live with him :colbert:


Problem:


I got home tonight and started flicking my pocket knife back and forth. My stepdad gets all pissy at me because "I'm making too much noise" even though he's blabbing on the phone 90% of the time he's home (he's the one making too much noise).

So I started to play GTA4 with my speakers on. I was driving around murdering prostitutes and listening to the WKTT station (conservative parody station, libruls don't understand it's a parody though), and he comes into my room and freaks out and tells my mom I need counselling. :awe::awe:

tl;dr:
My stepdad thinks I'm going to kill someone
I'm not
wat do

edit: inb4 "move out". I'm moving out in 2 months.

rock n roll = immorality for his parents generation, he learned sh*t didn't he.
 

DominionSeraph

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Aren't you the one that's obsessed with anime?

And you're telling me to be an adult :awe:

C.S. Lewis said:
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Yup, you need to grow up.
 

Taejin

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your stepdad sounds pretty cool. you would have benefited from his genes.
 

schneiderguy

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Prove that you're not.

myarms1.jpg

myarms2.jpg


As you can see, I don't cut myself. u mad?
 

sleep

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as long as he pays for everything, a councilor is not a bad idea just for more information about yourself.

but, your stepdad sounds stressed out and blaming the noise on you.
(don't listen to DominionSeraph she likes "my little ponies")
 
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Zebo

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Why don't you join the marine core shy? Get to play with all sorts of cool shit, paid for and decked out by uncle sam, move out, and piss off Mr Berkeley. Trifecta.