(February 28, 2016 at 9:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: And so it begins...
Just got an email from my brother - he's getting married.
My mother has already hit him up to have a church wedding. Tim, an atheist (which is apparently my fault despite the fact he lost any interest in religion while serving in Afghanistan), just wants to have a secular wedding somewhere nice - and not in a church.
And I'm bound to get the blame for that, too.
My family: because the Three Stooges can no longer be hired!
It's their day (well, her day). Your parents can show up and have a good day n celebration of that.
My mom said the same thing about my brother's liberalism. I am happy to take the mantle, even though I had nothing to do with it. He lived (on purpose) in the inner city, teaching at shitty schools and trying to affect the communities. He's liberal and has thrown away much of the literal Bible because he has experienced the real world. Nothing to do with me.
My mom can think what she likes and blame me for whatever. I'm strong enough to cast that aside as her reaching for a reason that her upbringing and plan for two out of three of her children failed miserably. We didn't turn out the way she wanted (ironically both of us are awesome dudes) and she needs to have a reason for that other than that her version of reality doesn't line up with actual reality, and we chose not to live in that fantasy world.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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