BasicDesignAdvice

at your current age, this is may be true. sucks to say but its the truth. as you get older you will more than likely find a) you are more willing and able to get what you want b) more comfortable with yourself and your faults and c) potential partners will be less interested in your sexual capacities and more interested in you as a person.

just stick it out. in fact, if you're gay than i am willing to bet there are a number of kinky gay dudes who would totally be into it. gay dudes are pretty kinky. you should call the Savage Love Cast. i bet he would be up to advise you.

its a call in podcast by Dan Savage a sex advice columnist and gay advocate. people call in with all kinds of shit looking for advice. personally i think he gives amazing advice for a lot of people and it is a huge and wide mix that call in. from simple relationship problems to really unique situations like yours.

everything i hear about Pao just sounds like the same crappy manager we all know and love. self-centered, profits over people, control freak, same old story.

Which leads me to, after nearly 200 hundred rejections, why haven't you recognized that maybe you aren't supposed to be a writer?

i think a better question is "after 200 rejections, why haven't you figured out where your deficiencies lie?"

in my estimation, most people with artistic goals simply don't know how and where they should be focusing their study. they merely pound their head against the wall, never growing as a craftsman. usually due to ego (naming his site THEmichaelanthony.com is a red flag here).

OP said he started in high school, and if you read the first chaper (on Amazon) he still writes like he is in high school. and honestly Death as a character? how lazy and cliche can you get? and the first chapter, holy plot exposition. OP, have you never heard "show, don't tell?" its like a basic principle of good writing.

However, the argument that the founders of the country wanted no religion involved in government at any levels is patently absurd.

and:

Everyone quick to point that out doesn't look at basically every other document of the time

Treaty of Tripoli.

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion

1797

so yes, there is an argument, stemming from the documents of the time that the US had specifically separated itself from organized religion in government.

We are talking about a bunch of people living in an age where the only explanation for basically anything was god did it.

all of this was happening during the Age of Enlightenment which was a time when reason and scientific method (in fact the scientific revolution had occurred almost a century earlier) had begun to trump the idea that "god did it."

during this period we have the American Enlightenment which was pretty much the same thing. in fact, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and John Adams were all considered deists of which the founding principle is that reason and observation of the natural world can be used to determine the direction of civilization. with an emphasis on the rejection of organized religion to that point.

i find the assumption that the founding fathers had no scientific knowledge ridiculous. this period of time was the scientific Renaissance, more than any time in history people in the elite circles were into the idea that organized religion was not the answer and that the observable world and the scientific method trumped any kind of "god did it" concept. they had not reached our level of understanding, but to say they lived in a time where the only answer was "god did it" is an insult to the Founding Fathers and shows a general lack of knowledge of the history of science on your part.