(March 21, 2014 at 3:00 pm)Tonus Wrote:Quote:He says he will mourn his father, “not for the man he was, but for the man he could have been.”I suspect that those people who had a heart-wrenching situation made even more horrible by Fred Phelps and his sign-waving goons are having a bit of trouble seeing past the man he was. Now that the miserable old wretch has passed on, they're supposed to imagine a world where insensitive douche bags didn't add to their mental and emotional agony?
My father said the same thing when we attended his mother's funeral. She was a nasty, narcissistic and abusive woman.
When you're a victim of child abuse, what do you say to cope when the abusing parent finally dies? Apparently, this is the defense mechanism, if these two examples are any indication, to imagine a fantasy universe where the abuser was a completely different person. Sure it makes no sense but most defense mechanisms don't. I can't judge anyone in that situation, who went through that pain and must find a way to reach some resolution. Let them find peace any way they can.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
