This is the guy that set himself on fire. Figured we needed to dissect this
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I think this is what happens when the cognitive dissonance strikes so hard that it completely fractures someone's worldview. Some just cannot come back from that.
Having your worldview shattered, and finding out that everything you thought you knew was a lie, is too painful and distressing for some. It's why so many cling to their worldview no matter how shaky and untenable it gets, because for them this would be the alternative.
Suicide Weekend?
Wish he would have hung out with us here for a while. He would have been among friends and maybe not ended up like he did. (The video is horrific. Watch at your own risk.)