Hell, the "midlife crisis" is yet another recurrence, directed at long-gone parents when you realize they got their hooks deeper in you and determined more of your core values than you realized when you first moved out It's in this fighting with your past self that we grow
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
And anyway Parents in the old days were huge assholes about the "Terrible Twos" and did NOT "respect their child's 'No'" AT ALL My parents sure as hell didn't, lots of fun family stories about literally dragging a screaming toddler into the car repeatedly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Spock's advice seems almost too heavily weighted on the other side -- "I guess we're canceling our playdate entirely because he said 'NO'" -- but it's a necessary corrective Because damage from having your "NO" overridden *by force* and being told it's for your own good lasts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Dr. James Dobson was the anti-Dr. Spock and my parents treated his Dare to Discipline as a bible when I was little And he just straight up said it -- those gratuitous "NO"s, the ones not borne of a "rational" disagreement but designed just to "test" you, must be squashed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
They are the sign of a child's perverse, rebellious will and they must be met with force -- a child's sinful nature being subdued by the loving hand of a strict parent is in microcosm how God quells the sinful delusion of mankind
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I really struggle to get my head around the worldview of those people who say God gave us metaphysical free will and then will punish us harshly if we don't use it to agree with Him.
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Replying to @Bird92Enormous @LizardOrman and
It is not, in fact, a bad thing to be.
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Replying to @Bird92Enormous @mssilverstein and
You've come off lightly. In this thread, it has been assumed that I am, simultaneously, middle class, a suburban mom, a Republican male, Christian, lived before the era of internet porn (apparent I'm time travelling) and a sock puppet. I can hardly keep up!


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I didn't say you WERE a Republican Christian man, Carol, just that you have very similar beliefs to one
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