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WCDT: 2636-2640 (Feb 10 - 14 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
rschill:
--- Quote from: Mlle Germain on 17 Feb 2014, 01:19 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Feb 2014, 19:07 ---Robots are people too, and one chosen for stability and empathy by the adoption agency could be better for him that the slowly recovering emotional cripples who surround him now. It's noble that he helps fix them but he may be using that as a distraction from confronting what he's going to do with his own life.
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You make it sound like Marten has sacrificed his own mental health in caring for the "emotional cripples" and like being a therapist for them is the whole extent of Marten's relationships with his friends. And that is just not true. Sure, the friendship with Marten and with each other has helped the others to get some of their psychological issues under control (among other things like therapy), but it is still ordinary good friendship from which Marten has also hugely profited (as he himself admits) - just look at the first comic strips and compare him to that. I would say that for most of the comic, Marten has been happy overall.
Also, I doubt another robot friend would help him more in finding his life's purpose than his current friends. I thought the whole point was that Marten should do something himself, not wait for others (humans or robots) to figure out what he should do. If Marten wants therapy to help with that, he should go to a professional therapist.
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Or maybe he should go back to school and study to be a professional therapist?
LittleKing:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 16 Feb 2014, 15:18 ---Well I'm glad someone else agrees with my points.
I'll stick around on the WCDTs then and see what happens. But if discussion continues to delve into the same level it has been doing lately, I think I'm going to have to step away for my own mental wellbeing because there have been times on here where I've felt like there are forumites who if they knew me, would think I should be ashamed of myself.
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I also really enjoy your contributions Gareth, you're a funny dude.
Thrillho:
Goddamn I'm blushing over here.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Mlle Germain on 17 Feb 2014, 01:19 ---You make it sound like Marten has sacrificed his own mental health in caring for the "emotional cripples"
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Then I wasn't clear enough. More "distraction" than "sacrifice". Does Marten even know what his own problems are?
Shjade:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 17 Feb 2014, 04:09 ---Goddamn I'm blushing over here.
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I also really enjoy your blushing, Gareth. It adds some much-needed color to the forum.
:3
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