Eric
RIP 10/6/2022
I only have a daughter but she's more bad ass than any boy. When she was a teen my favorite advise was hear me now, believe me later. We have now reached the point where she often says "you were right". ![Grinpimp :grinpimp: :grinpimp:](https://data.irate4x4.com/assets/smilies/grinpimp.gif)
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Man, my dad never told me anything that stuck. We get along fine but now I gots the sads.![]()
Man, my dad never told me anything that stuck. We get along fine but now I gots the sads.![]()
Yeah me neither. I love my dad, but if it wasn't for my mum, he'd have a sweet truck and a shitty apartment. I only realized he was an example of what not to do in my early 30s.
Actually, he did give me a couple pieces of advice. One was regarding shooting moose; "in the neck and on the road."
The other was regarding fighting, it was brought up when weapons started being used when I was in high school. The lesson was to assume that everyone is going to try to kill you if you're fighting them, so remember that there are no rules. Wear boots, kick them in the balls, kick them in the knees, punch for the throat, grab fingers and break them. When they go down, keep kicking until they stop trying to get up.
I've never shot a moose, and I'm not a big fan of fighting.
In short, the Stoics set the bar for knowledge very high and were perfectly willing to accept that knowing was the exception, not the rule, in human affairs. The only person we can be sure has any knowledge is the Stoic sage and sages are as rare as the phoenix (Alex. Aph., 61N). Everyone else is equally ignorant
Dad was always at a Bar so didn’t get much out of that.
He did recently admitted at 73 that he was proud of who I’d become and how much he respected my boys, so I guess I got that going for me, which is nice.
Good list fellas, keep it coming for the young Dads.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass. ...Yeah, I was loved.