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Post by Miss Rozelyn on Aug 18, 2013 21:27:30 GMT -5
What is the most important thing your father taught you?
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Post by True Patriot on Aug 20, 2013 17:16:20 GMT -5
What size shoe do you wear? 10 1/2 Wide if available. Are you left or right handed? I'm right-handed. |
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Post by Steph on Aug 20, 2013 17:19:01 GMT -5
Does the man in your signature represent your personality?
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Post by True Patriot on Aug 20, 2013 18:26:38 GMT -5
What is the most important thing your father taught you? Thank you for this question. It led to much introspection and memories of my father who I rarely see, but love and respect very much. The most practically important thing that he taught me would be mechanical skills and how to drive. I was never very good at mechanical stuff, which frustrated us both, but the general knowledge has helped me throughout my life. My father collected vintage Volkswagons and we rode 'enduro' motorcycles as a family, so I learned at a young age how to maintain the machines, deal with different driving conditions (mud, sand, hills, etc.), parallel park a car, back a trailer, how to push-start a car or bike, not to mention spinning brodies on a bike or in a car or riding a wheelie. But probably more important was his unintended example of perseverance despite tremendous heart-break and difficulties. Perseverance without perspective is futile, but perseverance as opposed to surrender has served me well. Unfortunately, in an America that emphasizes dependency and support as a 'right' perseverance is an attribute that is less valued today and that our country is weaker as a people because of it being the case. My father was raised in a strict home. He endured the death of a wife and child from a first marriage and the death of a child from the next. He took three tours of Vietnam, was part of the Strategic Air Command and retired at a very a high non-commissioned rank. He was a strict father himself by current standards but made it clear that he loved his family. My father has always been a generous man to a fault to those who are deserving and because of consequently being taken advantage of in the past was not afraid to call out liars and thieves. When we were ever caught stealing or lying he would tell us that there is no difference between a liar and thief. I have found that to be true and as most can recognize I have taken this philosophy to heart myself. I am also guilty of often being selfless to a fault in the real world even if my regarding my integrity as non-negotiable and zealously defending it from unwarranted assaults gives a different impression. Thank you for the thought-provoking question. |
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Post by True Patriot on Aug 20, 2013 19:03:56 GMT -5
Does the man in your signature represent your personality? Another interesting question. This is a picture of an Iraqi father who despite the genuine threats of death or injury by authoritarians is shown with a broad smile of defiance as he proudly holds his daughter aloft while also displaying his ink-stained finger because he knows that his support for a constitutional republican form of governance will improve the lives of future generations if it is able to endure. He is, in my opinion, a true patriot. A person who understands that support for a system that empowers the governed over the government in a way that provides for the appropriate needs of the majority while protecting the expressing of the unalienable rights of the individual is far more preferable, if imperfect, to the unrestrained whims of a central authority, and is far more important than any issue that may be used to gin up the citizenry into forgetting the importance of their rights and the liberties of future generations for the sake of political expediency. I only wish that more Americans would be as supportive of America's great system and principles first and foremost and were not so myopic about the immediacy of personal agenda items. I am a George Mason Constitutionalist and an anti-authoritarian, so in my eyes this picture encapsulates my principles and the reasons I hold them. In real life, I'm quite a jokester and gregarious so if that is what comes through then I suppose it fits. |
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Post by Alexander on Aug 21, 2013 18:11:47 GMT -5
I think I've enjoyed learning about you more than any other motm.
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Post by True Patriot on Aug 22, 2013 9:39:51 GMT -5
I think I've enjoyed learning about you more than any other motm. You are extraordinarily kind. Was it my saying, "I'm quite a jokester?"...Just kidding. Thank you so much for the compliment. I need a few of those occasionally...LOL |
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Post by Stumpzzz on Aug 22, 2013 15:30:50 GMT -5
Paper or plastic or do you bring your own reusable bags?
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Post by True Patriot on Aug 22, 2013 18:53:38 GMT -5
Paper or plastic or do you bring your own reusable bags? Any of the three depending on the circumstances. I don't really participate in the 'green' games if I can help it. |
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Post by True Patriot on Aug 22, 2013 22:43:05 GMT -5
As a major detractor of mine I didn't expect you to participate. Interesting. Do gold fish in a fish pond count? Started bringing them indoors for the winter so I suppose they are legitimately pets for at least half the year, otherwise they're pretty much on their own. |
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Post by Cheap Trixie on Aug 24, 2013 9:42:09 GMT -5
Do you like the name your parents chose for you?
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Post by Rube on Aug 24, 2013 9:42:27 GMT -5
Were you in the army?
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Post by Alexander on Aug 24, 2013 12:44:46 GMT -5
Favorite holiday and why?
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Post by True Patriot on Aug 24, 2013 15:46:58 GMT -5
Do you like the name your parents chose for you? I suppose if I had to say one way or the other I'd prefer a different name for certain inconsequential reasons, but it doesn't really matter that much. No. |
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Post by True Patriot on Aug 24, 2013 17:33:32 GMT -5
Favorite holiday and why? My favorite holiday has always been Thanksgiving. I'm not comfortable with giving or receiving because one is required or expected to do so. It feels unnatural, contrived and manipulative. Thanksgiving is a day for family and friends to simply share and enjoy each others company. It is a holiday that is quintessentially American with a wonderful, enlightening and potential instructive history for those who have not been blinded and deafened by contriving present day authoritarians. Thanksgiving was set aside as a day of unity for Americans to celebrate and express their gratitude for the blessings and opportunities afforded by their constitutional republic form of self-governance, to remember the struggles endured and challenges overcome to attain it and to be thankful for any divine intervention. Thanksgiving was the first national holiday proclaimed by a United States President. President Washington's proclamation should demonstrate that he and the first Congress, contrary to modern revisionists, were indeed guided and assured by their faith in a higher authority. In essence, George Washington called for a national day of prayer and remembrance not in the aftermath of a tragedy but in celebration of what many Americans today too often take for granted. | Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious being, who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us, and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best. |
How sad it is that Thanksgiving has become nearly lost between the far more celebrated holidays of Halloween and Christmas and that Americans no longer recognize that our nation was intended to be a federation of states with nearly autonomous governments limited in their powers over the people by the people themselves rather than a nation dominated by a central authority, which is exactly what our forefathers sought to rid themselves and future generations of. |
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