Not all boomers are brainwashed idiots but a damn good majority are. Imagine what it's like growing up with them and watching them do mental gymnastics to deny everything happening in front of their faces. My mother is very proud of being very informed by MSNBC. It's a nightmare world for me. I just talked to my father for the first time in 3 years and the first thing he says is "You have all of your shots right?" My answer " Not a fucking chance." That was probably the last time I'll see him again, he's 89.
You still have to "honor mother and father" and that's a natural commandment.
It's not at all about "respect is earned," not with your parents.
It is a tenet that is necessary for a stable society. They gave you life, they took care of you when you were helpless (though with a thousand faults, like all of us), utmost honor is due them.
And consider why in the world would you have been any different from them if the tables were turned.
"For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?"
I love and respect my father. My mother is a manipulating egomaniac who has caused pain and misery to everyone around her even her grandkids.
You are a good person.
Don't let her sin become your sin.
The obligation to her is of God and TO God, you will be blessed for honoring Him by honoring her.
This is unbelievably well put. I am stealing this.
I appreciate reading your perspective. And I agree. Other than a few exceptions most of us should naturally show respect and patience to our families and especially parents. Even if they are normies.
Thanks, yes it's just Biblical teaching of course based on the fifth commandment and elucidated (for lack of better word, I guess 'expounded upon' would work) by the great European theologians of the 1600s.
It's difficult for sure due to some parents' faults and sins but necessary for order and also it's a blessing to those who endeavor to keep the commandment.
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth."
Appreciate whatever time you may have with them. If you don't, you'll regret it later on.
Just say yep, got them all. Now tell me how great the 40/50s were again
As my grandpa would say, them good old days weren't all good.
Bullshit. A vastly more White and more Christian society is going to be by and large better in so many ways. He's only projecting whatever crap he was personally going thru
I know the few left from the "Greatest Generation" or "Siilent Generation" get on your nerves but I always admired how they can do calculations in their heads.
Not all boomers are brainwashed idiots but a damn good majority are.
That was probably the last time I'll see him again, he's 89.
God fucking Damnit. 89 is 12 years too old to be in the Baby Boom Generation. The oldest Boomer today is 77. 89 years old puts him in the Silent Generation, same as Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, and McConnel.
You young people suck at anything that has anything to do with math! How the fuck do some of you manage to program computers without knowing basic arithmetic?
I'm actually a boomer and meant my friends are the brainwashed idiots. I started another paragraph but should have started with the older generations are worse. Soon as I posted it I thought to myself, someone's going to call me out on that mistake. Good job.
Well, to be fair, Clinton and W were both Boomers of the upper caste, and look what knuckleheaded dipshits they turned out to be.
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