IFBB Pro Phil
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- Jul 16, 2021
I don't dislike Bob but half the posts I see about him seem to worship him. While he was certainly a better parent than Barb that's like saying I could beat Stephen Hawking in a footrace.He was a good man and knew much, and seems to have had a kind hart - surely too kind to end as a bugbitten corpse with such next-of-kin - but the social setting was too conservative/Christian and the infrastructure too underdeveloped. That set a hard cap on what Bob could achieve with the means at his disposal.
Bob encouraged and guided Chris's strange delusions that Megan and Michael Snyder were the troll ringmasters, and that the Game Place was conspiring against Chris to ruin his life. He refused any kind of special education for Chris which led to him essentially spending his whole childhood window shopping for a normal life that he was incapable of instead of having a more realistic outlook with coping skills that could help him. He got Chris on disability and just gave up to let him rot in the hoard. Reasons unknown, but he also was estranged from most of his family which typically doesn't happen to superdad.
I don't think Bob was a bad man by any means. He did what he thought was best and what he thought was right, it just turned out a lot of those choices were massive misfires. By the time he probably realized Chris needed some kicking in butt, Bob was infirm and living in a hoard that contributed to his death. An interesting character but far from the all-knowing intelligent, kind, and wise sage that people sometimes describe him as. In the end I think he gave up and I don't blame him.