Aw, your Dad loves you! 
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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Too late I’m ripping into him, you should’ve commented sooner
you should bully him for being an idealist
"Sure dad, I'll 'envision' in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first"
I did but he gets deeper into it
Oprah and Doctor Phil and their consequences...
I still vaguely remember back in the day when Oprah platformed "the Secret" and brought all this "manifesting" drek in to public view. Oprah has used her massive viewrship to cause incomprehensible damage over the years.
Her story really would be fascisating from a Marxist perspective. The way her platform gave her such an enormous soap box from which to steer and influence culture, and the ways that she and the systems that supported her show chose to use that soap box.
I HATE "THE SECRET"
I HATE "THE SECRET"
paging @[email protected]
I love The Monarch and I hate fake religions created by Western occultists by appropriating Eastern religions so this scene is a banger for sure.
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Ask him if he thinks that would work for Palestinians in Gaza
Or just tell him to refer to this emoji as a rubric for when idealism works vs doesn't 
Already asked him if he supported Palestine and the first sentence was “it’s difficult”
... but you do not make it just as you please; you do not make it under circumstances chosen by yourself, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
He has good intentions you shouldn't get mad at him.
I just want him to see me more than he does. He doesn’t come around he doesn’t call he just gives me pseudo motivation from an idealist perspective
Yeah, it's kinda like zen philosophy. If this is someone's response when you're sobbing over losing your job it's shitty, but when it's a one off comment in a vacuum, it's well-intentioned and innocuous.
Charlie Kirk if his face was normal sized
Tell him you really really want laser vision and flight
You can do what you want to do if you do it. - Michael Jordan
If I can see it, then I can do it
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it
–R Kelly
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-Also R Kelly
GOB BLESS
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My dad sends pictures of flowers with Bible verses or similar platitudes on them. And he does it to everyone constantly even at weird hours and even if they never respond. Most of us don’t have him blocked. I have him blocked because he crossed some major boundaries and I no longer trust him to make safe decisions around me.
So if this is the worst of it then, no, you probably shouldn’t block him. Without further context, this is annoying at worst. Also, by “block him” do you mean going no/low contact or do you mean literally just blocking his phone number and interacting with him as normal otherwise?
There's a good chance this is the kind of stuff that gives him hope and he just wants to share that. Even if it's annoying.
PS texting is a bad way to have disagreements, I def recommemd having a real convo if you want to push back on what is basically new age karma, which itself leads to victim blaming if one is logical about it.
"son, you can walk to the moon if you want it hard enough. no, I'm wise and experienced not an utter fool, why do you ask?"
Calvinism and its consequences
Need to shower with him more
So many dads, so little time.
kinda hoping to be an american stalin type figure but i kinda blew my early 20s by not robbing brinks trucks and banks
Tell your dad you are envisioning the collapse of capitalism 
I know it sounds cliche
THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS, FUCK "THE SECRET" AND FUCK SECULAR CALVINISM 
Imma be the next Lenin.
'Triumph of hope over mathematics'
Ask him if someone who dies in a car crash just wasn't desiring hard enough
It's nice that your dad is encouraging. Lots of people don't have dad's that encourage them. But I agree with other people that following your dreams leads too easily to career based sense of self, which is not healthy and gets even less healthy as late stage capitalism progresses to degrees of lateness we cannot currently imagine. But it is never healthy to derive self esteem from work.
I desire mercing my landlord and by gum, he's right. brb
"Hey dad, I have been thinking and I envision a life where my father doesn't send me stupid self help book style lies without having to block him and cut off all contact. You think that's achievable?"
I dunno, I have a pretty good imagination. I can envision myself retiring in luxury on the Moon.
thanks dad.
death to america