{"id":2815,"date":"2021-08-20T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:09:40","slug":"self-abuse-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/self-abuse-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Abuse + Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"593\" data-attachment-id=\"2818\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/self-abuse-entertainment\/pexels-allec-gomes-3039659-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-allec-gomes-3039659.jpg?fit=2000%2C1159&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1159\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;pexels-allec-gomes-3039659&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pexels-allec-gomes-3039659\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-allec-gomes-3039659.jpg?fit=1024%2C593&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-allec-gomes-3039659.jpg?resize=1024%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-allec-gomes-3039659.jpg?resize=1024%2C593&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-allec-gomes-3039659.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-allec-gomes-3039659.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comedians have told me they don&#8217;t want to lose weight or gain weight because they will lose what&#8217;s funny about them. Writers have bragged to me about their isolation tendencies. I want you to know&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There are people creating things in good health<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are lots of people who are creating things while taking care of themselves. There are aspects to every experience of humanity that can be powerful and important to express in entertainment. There are lots of the experiences though. We don&#8217;t have to go thru the harmful ones, and we don&#8217;t have to stick with them just because we feel they might be working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re not better because we&#8217;re<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>obese<\/li><li>underweight<\/li><li>depressed<\/li><li>manic<\/li><li>isolated<\/li><li>mean<\/li><li>frantic<\/li><li>drug filled<\/li><li>tired<\/li><li>dishonest<\/li><li>overtraining<\/li><li>etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we want to have sex, but we think our virginity is causing us to make great video games, we&#8217;re wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don&#8217;t have to change who we are or what we&#8217;re doing to something more healthy, but we have the freedom to do it. Healthiness can lead to longevity and endurance. That can lead to creating more greatness for the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedians have told me they don&#8217;t want to lose weight or gain weight because they will lose what&#8217;s funny about them. Writers have bragged to me about their isolation tendencies. I want you to know&#8230; There are people creating things in good health There are lots of people who are creating things while taking care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10158666434799935_26707174888":"","twitter_aToyMjM4MTQzMDs=_22381430":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc33gc-Jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2066,"url":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/ultimate-entertainment-advertising-is-not-subjective\/","url_meta":{"origin":2815,"position":0},"title":"Ultimate Entertainment Advertising is not Subjective","author":"scot","date":"December 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"When reaching out to a customer, the honest entertainer doesn't want to sell them a thing they don't want. 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