I'll say "troll" if
you say "crazy" or equivalent.
He's either someone with serious mental issues who doesn't like atheists much, so he's trolling, or
He's someone with serious, serious anger & maturity issues who doesn't like atheists much, so he's trolling, or
He's an unemployed actor/sociopath who is constructing an elaborate persona over a period of years in order to, whatever... or,
He's someone with serious mental issues and anger issues who half-wants to reach out to people and half-wants to dominate them and confound them. (like I've discussed.)
And it all comes out to the same thing, in a way, for us.
No-one's going to stick around, or give him money, or even give him that much advice, or pity.
But he ain't
funny.
Oddly enough, it's easy enough to fool psychiatrists in person, as various documentaries have shown. Actors pretending to be mentally ill have gotten admitted to mental hospitals, only to really feel like they were going crazy.
These are doctors who have the person directly in front of them, to talk to.
How can we do any better than that? We can't.
Prisoners (in jail) simulate mental illness, sometimes, thinking that they will get transferred some place.
It really doesn't matter to us, since we're not responsible.
But whatever the case, it goes beyond just taking the piss.
Maybe we can all agree on that.
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Look, to go on a tangent about acting: I've
never seen an actor actually simulate mental illness (or neurological damage) in a convincing, naturalistic way. Not DeNiro. Not Christian Bale in
The Fighter. The actual guys that movie is based on, shown at the end of that movie, are a
lot scarier. Same with autism.
Rain Man? No.
Of Mice and Men? No. Malkovich has way too much of a gleam in his eye.
With actors, there's a lot more spark, a lot more presence. Joie de vivre. They are way more interesting, and well, dramatic.
Counter-examples?
