type of guy (gender-neutral) who ends prayers with "ok, good talk"
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most of my prayers end with something like "thanks for chatting, I still don't know if you're real, you're kind of a dick and I'm going to grill you for an explanation for [thing from my childhood faith] later. jerk. love you. bye. jerk."
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it's the only thing that works for me when I try IPF. I try parents, I try grandparents, but they always eventually turn into This Fucking Guy
I asked why, once, and he said "because this is the Type of Guy you can understand"
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I don't think it's possible for me yet to interact with an idealized anything without baggage, even the ideal of "ideal," and even an idealized future self a la . I've lost faith in too many things. the only way forward is to deal with the baggage.
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seems like the best god like the best friend is not the one who’s most polite or most perfect but the one who picks up the phone
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I think God by definition is someone who wants to talk with you, who is capable of talking with you in an appropriate and necessary way, who can be with you in second person joint attention and witness the world together
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linking my God thread because it's my main achievement on this site
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I would like to write something about how I’ve found God to be a very interesting and useful entity to relate to but it’s kind of weird. It started with a book recommended to me about a new metaphor for understanding Aquinas’s modification of Aristotelian virtue ethics
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wow this is really good. you just gave me a whole new direction to try exploring with ideal parent figure stuff, thank you 🙏
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that's amazing, thanks! always interested to hear takes and thoughts on these topics!!
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i have... i think exactly two memories of a joint attention experience with my dad, and zero with my mom
omg yeah parent–child relations can lose this aspect and become more like adversarial and that really seems like the "original sin"
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