A visit home

[_lauren_]

This past weekend I returned to my parents for a short visit. I hadn't been to the farm since Christmas so it certainly was time for me to pay it a visit especially when everything is alive and green. My time spent with my parents, my childhood friend Phillip, as well as time spent basking outside in the clean country air while being serenaded by

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[ed_dirt]

Yay for weekends in the country!

Why do you think your Dad swung from the left over to the right?

[_lauren_]

I'm not sure why he switched sides. I suppose it probably is the area that they live in. Everyone tends to be pretty like minded there so he's been influenced quite a bit. Or what was once important to him no longer is. I don't know his reasons but I know he's not a stupid man and probably has good ones for doing so.

Its just a bummer not to get to see the guy who protested the Vietnam war and was more enviornmentally concious then than he is now. He was a long haired, pot smoking liberal ^.^

[ed_dirt]

I mean no disrespect by this, but maybe your Dad needs to go out back and smoke a doob. It's probably one of the things that got him to open his mind in the first place way back when.

[soarjubs]

How about read a book?
I'm not sure how many of life's great philosophers were smoking "doobs" for inspiration. Artists and Musicians perhaps. Thinkers, not so much.

[theblow]

nice quotes on your profile. i'm yanking one of them for my community.
you should check it out. wurds

[_lauren_]

Thanks, I'll have a look see.

[soarjubs]

So, it's unfortunate that he turned into a conservative that is narrow minded unwilling to listen to other opinions -OR- it's unfortunate that he's turned conservative (you know, those people who are narrow minded and unwilling to listen to other opinions?

[_lauren_]

Oy that sounds like the same thing, or did you mean for that? I guess what I ment is that its unfortunate that he has gone conservative. I don't think I'd venture to say that all conservatives are narrow minded and unwilling to listen to other opinions though. I think my dad does hear out the other side but has just become stubborn and set in his stance.

[soarjubs]

Heh. I feel like I've been burned. Well done. ;)
As an eager-to-listen conservative I can only say I can't stand people from either sides of the line that won't listen, analyze and adjust their philosophies if they hear something that opposes their current paradigm.
Some people fear getting pushed outside their narrow circle and don't see that adjusting and always re-evaluating your beliefs really make you an intellectually and ethically honest member of society. You don't have to constantly pull 180's, but I think consistent sidesteps here and there really help.

I guess all I can say is we don't ALL suck and hope you buy into it.

[_lauren_]

I agree with you and I realize you guys don't -all- suck ^.^

[trumpeteargurl]

This reminds me of a joke my mom use to tell. If you're a kid and you're republican then you have no heart, if you're an adult and you're liberal you have no brain.

[_lauren_]

Hah, thats cute.

[soarjubs]

Love this one.