My dad keeps sending me stuff like this should I block him

Aw, your Dad loves you! meow-hug

Too late I’m ripping into him, you should’ve commented sooner

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"

I did but he gets deeper into it
- Oprah and Doctor Phil and their consequences...
  
  I still vaguely remember back in the day when Oprah platformed "the Secret" and brought all this "manifesting" drek in to public view. Oprah has used her massive viewrship to cause incomprehensible damage over the years.
  
  Her story really would be fascisating from a Marxist perspective. The way her platform gave her such an enormous soap box from which to steer and influence culture, and the ways that she and the systems that supported her show chose to use that soap box.
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- Do you think the half a million children who die of malaria every year simply fail to believe in themselves hard enough? Or are we subject to physical reality?
- Ask him if he thinks that would work for Palestinians in Gaza
  
  Or just tell him to refer to this emoji as a rubric for when idealism works vs doesn't
- ... but you do not make it just as you please; you do not make it under circumstances chosen by yourself, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.

volcel-kamala speech-l

furthest-padded sentence I can read before hearing Kamala voice it over
- Honestly it's within the range of well intentionedness that I can hear saying this while he fails to solve a children's puzzle.
- “If you keep at it you can actualize your goals”

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

I just want him to see me more than he does. He doesn’t come around he doesn’t call he just gives me pseudo motivation from an idealist perspective
Yeah, it's kinda like zen philosophy. If this is someone's response when you're sobbing over losing your job it's shitty, but when it's a one off comment in a vacuum, it's well-intentioned and innocuous.

filing with the nlrb

American labour, bless your hearts you're not it
- Look, apparently it's frowned upon to tell people to "firebomb their boss's car." Because woke.
Charlie Kirk if his face was normal sized

Tell him you really really want laser vision and flight

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

If I can see it, then I can do it

If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

–R Kelly
- 🍆💦👶
  
  -Also R Kelly
- GOB BLESS

You play this website like a fiddle.

Elaborate

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

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?

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.

"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

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 sicko-yes

Need to shower with him more

So many dads, so little time.

'Triumph of hope over mathematics'

Imma be the next Lenin.

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

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.

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.

Turns out Lenin's daily affirmations were only enough to net him a big country, and then his discipline slipped and that's how he had a stroke
- Read that as "CBD" first, which, you know, would still be valid
  
  That helps too, but not as much as the THC that comes along with it
  
  But yes CBT is fairly effective imo as long as it isn't being approached like "The Secret" or used to mask negative external stimuli instead of actually dealing with them. I failed to appreciate many beautiful moments in my life because I wasn't ready to embrace them for what they were - it helps with stuff like that.
  
  Turns out Lenin's daily affirmations were only enough to net him a big country, and then his discipline slipped and that's how he had a stroke
  
  What a fucking poser!
Massive amounts of cock and ball torture?
- Whatever gets one through the day!

thanks dad.

death to america

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.