manipulator
"Russell Brand Preemptively Denies 'Very Disturbing' Allegations He Says Are Being Used to Take Him Down"
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/16/russell-brand-preemptively-denies-criminal-allegations-he-says-are-coming-n2163886
it's a hard lesson to have to learn through experience: Promiscuity has many unknown possible side effects, not just venereal diseases but social diseases of black mail and slander are also part of it, too.
He's a scrappy fighter so he's probably do well in his battle against slander.
Forgiveness is important, and people do grow up.
a Libertine is usually also about freedom.
a person who is freely out having sex with anyone who wants to avoids those who don't want to.
ultimately it's a hollow lifestyle, as he has seemingly figured out.
my purpose in pointing out the article is as a warning to youngsters that they can learn from others mistakes and don't have to prove, for themselves, what generations and generations of wise old men (and women) will tell you: the libertine lifestyle is a deadend fraught with many different pitfalls.
well, I suppose I am not really sure about Libertines and if they ever force themselves on people . . .
each one is their own person.
'follow' has different connotations.
by follow if you mean 'watch them from time to time when they have an interesting video that is available to watch, and I'm in the mood to watch something interesting'
then that is what I do with him.
if you mean 'think of him as a guru who overflows with good advice', I don't think of him that way.
he was always in my prayers even when he was leading the life of dissipation that leads off into the wastelands of late life lonliness or early death . . .
as far as 'he's one of them', I believe in conversion as something that happens to people, even those 'of them', as you call them.
; )
why he went with Perry for a time I just don't get . . .
she always had me in the caution zone, she never seemed like she wasn't . . . on the dark path.