
Originally Posted by
anachronistic
How about you take your father less seriously and laugh at his jokes? You know, I'd give anything to have been able to go through life with a father. Go hug the man for me right now.
My dad mocked and humiliated me mercilessly when I was a kid. I would much rather have gone through life without him, thinking he must have been a great man, than to know he's nothing but an insecure asshole.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein