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Mr. Blonde · 11-16-2010, 05:22 AM

My dad's been in Korea visiting for the past 4 days. He's democrat and liberal, also religious and has been most of his life. He is college educated and fairly bright, but it's becoming very clear that i'm leagues ahead of him in intellect.

We've regularly gotten into it, mostly about religion and him insisting on accepting eyewitness testimony and the way that religion "changes peoples lives" as evidence of God. Recently though, i've caught him on a few other very interesting/non Christian things he's been saying. His heart is in the right place, but his mind just isn't. Kind of like BDH.

sidenote:he actually just said from the other room of my small Korean apartment, about my typing in this room: "That has to be one of the most annoying sounds..." I turned a fan on high and closed the door separating the room.)

Examples of his terrible logic:

(On a man who cheated with a friends wife back in Elkhart) "I tell you what, that guy should be castrated" (on me saying that that's assault, brotha, and that the perpetrator would go to jail) "Nah, I wouldn't go to jail. He deserves it" (on me bringing up that affairs are not agains the law) "Well if someone did that to me and my wife i'd castrate him for sure"

Nice.

He visited the Korean War museum today and started talking about that South Korean ship that everyone alleges North Korea sunk back in spring. I brought up the possibility that it wasn't actually North Korea, that a lot of Koreans have other theories and that he should be more skeptical about things, and he flipped his shit. Got super angry, pulled out all sort of logical fallacies at my dissent, tried to make me look like I was being illogical and not accepting evidence from anyone, and claimed I try to be my own god. I tried to remain calm through all of this. I brought up the JFK assassination and that the government claims it was only one shooter, and he said "well...that seems unlikely".

Basically he is left leaning but is just as much as a parrot of left leaning news sources as the right wingers who repeat everything that is on FOX news. He is probably also annoyed that his son 30 years younger than him is owning him in debates.

Simple things like this have been happening all week. Just little arguments and whatnot. There are more i'll get into later, but I should try to defuse the situation in the next room. I don't know about you guys, but the basis of this is that my parents are very emotionally reactionary and most of my siblings are as well because this is how they've raised us. I've tried for the past several years to control my emotions more instead of just lashing out in a "rage mode" whenever I get into a disagreement, but it's pretty hard to break.

I've lost a lot of faith in my parents since i've become a young adult, but this is just icing on the cake. Anyone else feel like they're leagues and bounds emotionally and wisdom-wise when it comes to their parents?

Thanks for letting me vent.

11-16-2010, 05:22 AM	#1896 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	My dad's been in Korea visiting for the past 4 days. He's democrat and liberal, also religious and has been most of his life. He is college educated and fairly bright, but it's becoming very clear that i'm leagues ahead of him in intellect. We've regularly gotten into it, mostly about religion and him insisting on accepting eyewitness testimony and the way that religion "changes peoples lives" as evidence of God. Recently though, i've caught him on a few other very interesting/non Christian things he's been saying. His heart is in the right place, but his mind just isn't. Kind of like BDH. sidenote:he actually just said from the other room of my small Korean apartment, about my typing in this room: "That has to be one of the most annoying sounds..." I turned a fan on high and closed the door separating the room.) Examples of his terrible logic: (On a man who cheated with a friends wife back in Elkhart) "I tell you what, that guy should be castrated" (on me saying that that's assault, brotha, and that the perpetrator would go to jail) "Nah, I wouldn't go to jail. He deserves it" (on me bringing up that affairs are not agains the law) "Well if someone did that to me and my wife i'd castrate him for sure" Nice. He visited the Korean War museum today and started talking about that South Korean ship that everyone alleges North Korea sunk back in spring. I brought up the possibility that it wasn't actually North Korea, that a lot of Koreans have other theories and that he should be more skeptical about things, and he flipped his shit. Got super angry, pulled out all sort of logical fallacies at my dissent, tried to make me look like I was being illogical and not accepting evidence from anyone, and claimed I try to be my own god. I tried to remain calm through all of this. I brought up the JFK assassination and that the government claims it was only one shooter, and he said "well...that seems unlikely". Basically he is left leaning but is just as much as a parrot of left leaning news sources as the right wingers who repeat everything that is on FOX news. He is probably also annoyed that his son 30 years younger than him is owning him in debates. Simple things like this have been happening all week. Just little arguments and whatnot. There are more i'll get into later, but I should try to defuse the situation in the next room. I don't know about you guys, but the basis of this is that my parents are very emotionally reactionary and most of my siblings are as well because this is how they've raised us. I've tried for the past several years to control my emotions more instead of just lashing out in a "rage mode" whenever I get into a disagreement, but it's pretty hard to break. I've lost a lot of faith in my parents since i've become a young adult, but this is just icing on the cake. Anyone else feel like they're leagues and bounds emotionally and wisdom-wise when it comes to their parents? Thanks for letting me vent.