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Offline Karass

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« on: January 03, 2007, 01:31:40 AM »
"Dad, are you doing that advocacy shit again?"

"No, I'm just having a dialog with a bunch of people online. Sometimes I'm kinda of an advocate, and sometimes I'm a 'Program Parent,' sort of.

"You're just gonna get yourself all upset. Trust me, for me it's all good."

Then we get into another dialog about wilderness and TBS and all that. Maybe he'll join Fornits, but I think probably not. Between school and work and banging his girlfriend he doesn't have a lot of free time. Apparently I do. Maybe I should get a more challenging career...

BTW, he likes the phrase "mindfuck TBS." He never went to one, but he know several people who did and he think that's a pretty accurate description.
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2007, 01:55:46 AM »
He's right it will get you "all upset", but I don't think you're wasting your time. Sometimes I'll get so work up over a case I have to take a timeout and do something fun and/or stupid. But yeah, he's a young man living the young mans lifestyle so I understand him not wanting to get "involved".
If you feel like you have to do something because you feel guilty about sending him to wilderness, don't.
No guilt it doing what you felt you had to do and action done out of a guilty conscience is often wasted. I'm really jumping to conclusions based off of ASSumptions, so let me start with a question... Why did you get involved in advocacy?
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2007, 02:43:50 AM »
When I got home from scl it was so akward it wasn't even funny. Me and my dad were in open war pretty much, arguing openly at public functions and stuff like that. Don't ever play chicken with your kid.. you'll lose.
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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2007, 06:10:23 PM »
Rebel, just tell your kid that it has nothing to do with him and that, in the course of dealing with this business, you've discovered an evil that has to be eliminated. Make it clear that you're leaving him out of it.
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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2007, 07:45:03 PM »
Quote from: ""hanzomon4""
He's right it will get you "all upset", but I don't think you're wasting your time. Sometimes I'll get so work up over a case I have to take a timeout and do something fun and/or stupid. But yeah, he's a young man living the young mans lifestyle so I understand him not wanting to get "involved".
If you feel like you have to do something because you feel guilty about sending him to wilderness, don't.
No guilt it doing what you felt you had to do and action done out of a guilty conscience is often wasted. I'm really jumping to conclusions based off of ASSumptions, so let me start with a question... Why did you get involved in advocacy?


Well, it has been getting me "all upset" for about the last 6 months and hopefully I have helped educate a few parents and helped some of them avoid making a big mistake.

To answer your question, I think my motivation for getting involved is driven more by anger than by guilt. I tend to get that way sometimes when I encounter social injustice, scams, etc. I like the way MGDP put it: I've discovered an evil that has to be eliminated.
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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2007, 08:21:24 PM »
I would be nervous too if my dad was involved in programs in any way... that's understandable.. he just doesn't want to be mindfucked..

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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2007, 08:33:15 PM »
Eeek!! Turn that shit off PLEASE!!!!! Egadss!!!
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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2007, 08:36:21 PM »
Okay I turned it off.. I was going for "realism" but I guess I came a little too close..
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