chapotraphouse

Aw, your Dad loves you!

you should bully him for being an idealist

"Sure dad, I'll 'envision' in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first"

He has good intentions you shouldn't get mad at him.

Tell him you really really want laser vision and flight

You can do what you want to do if you do it. - Michael Jordan

You play this website like a fiddle.

There's a good chance this is the kind of stuff that gives him hope and he just wants to share that. Even if it's annoying.

PS texting is a bad way to have disagreements, I def recommemd having a real convo if you want to push back on what is basically new age karma, which itself leads to victim blaming if one is logical about it.

My dad sends pictures of flowers with Bible verses or similar platitudes on them. And he does it to everyone constantly even at weird hours and even if they never respond. Most of us don’t have him blocked. I have him blocked because he crossed some major boundaries and I no longer trust him to make safe decisions around me.

So if this is the worst of it then, no, you probably shouldn’t block him. Without further context, this is annoying at worst. Also, by “block him” do you mean going no/low contact or do you mean literally just blocking his phone number and interacting with him as normal otherwise?

"son, you can walk to the moon if you want it hard enough. no, I'm wise and experienced not an utter fool, why do you ask?"

Calvinism and its consequences

Need to shower with him more

Tell your dad you are envisioning the collapse of capitalism

kinda hoping to be an american stalin type figure but i kinda blew my early 20s by not robbing brinks trucks and banks

Imma be the next Lenin.

I know it sounds cliche

THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS, FUCK "THE SECRET" AND FUCK SECULAR CALVINISM

'Triumph of hope over mathematics'

Ask him if someone who dies in a car crash just wasn't desiring hard enough

I hate this sort of thing due to my experiences with depression:

Visualizing your dreams and maintaining positive thinking can really help a suffering individual, but all you hear about is this "The Wish" sort of zealotry and you think "Obviously I cannot achieve literally anything and everything in life" which makes it all feel hopeless - like the only kind of people who benefit from positive thinking are those who already don't have any problems.

For people like me it takes massive amounts of CBT plus lowering my expectations and dreams to things that are realistic in my situation (which sounds awful but has made my life much better), and it causes a lot of dissonance when people act like it should be as easy for me as it is for them.

I don't know what your relationship with your dad is like, but if I was in your shoes and comfortable doing so, I would consider telling him that you appreciate his good intentions and that you will do your best to keep your head up and make your dreams come true, but that there will be failures and setbacks in life and it is not helpful not productive to pretend that anything is possible. That puts the onus for any and all failures entirely on your shoulders which is extremely unfair as well as a self-destructive perspective. And moreover it's not the way the world works - or else some of those would-be world rulers would have actually been successful by this point in time.

It's nice that your dad is encouraging. Lots of people don't have dad's that encourage them. But I agree with other people that following your dreams leads too easily to career based sense of self, which is not healthy and gets even less healthy as late stage capitalism progresses to degrees of lateness we cannot currently imagine. But it is never healthy to derive self esteem from work.

I desire mercing my landlord and by gum, he's right. brb

"Hey dad, I have been thinking and I envision a life where my father doesn't send me stupid self help book style lies without having to block him and cut off all contact. You think that's achievable?"

I dunno, I have a pretty good imagination. I can envision myself retiring in luxury on the Moon.

thanks dad.

death to america

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_bypass