RE: Funeral Question
March 4, 2014 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2014 at 8:20 pm by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(March 4, 2014 at 5:53 pm)Cato Wrote:(March 4, 2014 at 4:01 pm)It Is i Wrote: So leaving the apple directly beneath the tree from which it fell is the solution? Yes, let failure breed contempt! Fuck everyone who doesn't perform to our standards!
Seriously? Now we let our father's failures become our tenor? Personally, I'll not perpetuate my father's failures by allowing them to make my heart cold on top of all the perceived loss in my earlier life.
Seriously? Your argument would have merit if I had repeated his failures as a father. Cold heart? Hardly, things could change if he decided to return calls/communications, but he doesn't. Contempt? You bet your ass, he earned it.
I attend funerals out of respect and fondness for the one who passed or out of respect and fondness for a person that needs support while grieving/paying last respects. I do not attend funerals because of some unwritten obligation based on biological closeness. If people are concerned about their funeral attendance, they should do a better job of fostering relationships while they're living.
As far as the 'fuck everyone that doesn't perform to our standards' jive, my standard for fathers is simple...help rear your children. If a man can't live up to this standard, then yes, he can go fuck himself.
I suppose you haven't seen the women those men have to cope with. The guys that don't leave sometimes end up killing their entire families because the home environment has grown so caustic. At least you are alive so you should be thankful for that.
(March 4, 2014 at 3:15 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:
I'm sorry... what? What a jerky thing to say.
OP, I think you should just politely decline anything being said for you.
Please be so kind as to post a list of approved comments I may include in my responses. I don't want to inadvertently run afoul of your delicate sensibilities. After all, this is America and only approved thoughts are allowed to be expressed.
"...in the United States, alone among the great nations of history, there is a right way to think and a wrong way to think in everything...in the most trivial matters of everyday life." H.L. Mencken, 1918
