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.

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?

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

"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?"

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.

Calvinism and its consequences

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

Tell your dad you are envisioning the collapse of capitalism

Need to shower with him more

'Triumph of hope over mathematics'

Imma be the next Lenin.

"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 know it sounds cliche

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

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

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.

thanks dad.

death to america

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