My mom is the best.
Offline My mom spoils me rotten. Yesterday was Fathers day. I don't have kids, nor do I want them. But when I visited her yesterday she had a surprise for me. It was a brown box, with white mailing label, with a card taped to it. She knows I don't care if a gift is wrapped.
So I opened the card and on the front were a cat and dog, I have a cat and dog and those are my kids. I have taped that card to my wall in my bedroom. She loves cute stuff like that, and I am a softy too and I love that stuff too.
So when I noticed the print on the white label on the box it said "Amazon", and since the box was book sized, I quickly came to the conclusion it was a book. So I open part of the box to expose the yellow covering and slowly pull it out to see part of the print of the title and the top of what I recognized as H ..... ant the top of two numbers. She bought me a copy of Hitchen's Hitch 22.
My mom is a Catholic, but over the years she really has made great strides in accepting me as an individual and wants me to be happy.
I have the greatest mom in the world!
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Brian. And pretty awesome gifts all things considered. If only I could get my mother to buy me LaVey's Bible I'd feel accepted, too. But then she might expect me to buy her a hymn book or something...yikes.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
On other holidays and birthdays she has bought me "Infidel", "God Is Not Great" "End Of Faith".
And that is the short list. Like I said, she spoils me rotten. She knows me well and all I can say is WOW, what a great mom.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Respect.
I do not mean to downplay it or to be a downer in general at all but if she had read them before handing them over that would make it perfect.
Faith is the word but next to that snugged up closely "lie's" the want.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in god, in none."-Charlie Chaplin
I think the only book I would try to get her to read would be Infidel, since it isn't only a story about Ayan's journey to atheism, but it is also a great story for any woman who seeks to get away from the oppression of men, even in the context of a domestic partnership outside the issue of religion.
It is also a woman power book. I think I could get her to read that one.
But no, I think it is really hard if not impossible once someone gets past a certain age, especially someone who was raised in a scripted generation where things go a certain way, it is hard to change them. I am just feel lucky enough to have a mom who seeks to connect with me in some way.
I am just glad she sees me as an individual. But we do have some things in common. We are both Redskins fans. We both like quiet living. And we love cute animals and cute animal pictures. But with what she has done and continues to do for me, I am happy with her the way she is.
I think about all the other parents who completely disown a kid because they are gay, or atheist, or don't want to go into the business their parents own. My mom, ALWAYS sticks by me, even with the differences we have.
She even asks me about my debates here when I tell her what theists say. She'll ask me "So how did they respond to what you said". That is so much more refreshing than the average theist.
I think her teaching career and watching me grow up liberal when she is conservative has, over time, at least shown her that life is not as black and white as when she grew up. I am proud of her because she really has changed in so many ways although I suspect superstition will still hold on to her. But she is far more liberal than she wants to admit.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
Check out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under Brian James Rational Poet, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter and my blog at www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog