A Confession

To himself. Thats when it becomes faith. Athiests are always proving their faith too. We are all free to choose for ourselves.

 

Haha. No chance man. It's all good!

 

As far as the bourgeois attitudes and sentiments and trying to impress people, I grew out of that sometime around 35 and usually don’t care what anybody thinks about me now that I am close to 40. Also living in a large city for a few years (New York) helped cure me of all that. You realize those people are mostly blue-pill idiots and slaves to the system and slowly stopped really caring if they thought I was cool or sophisticated enough for them. But when I was in my 20’s and early 30’s that type of stuff still bothered me a little and I was still trying to impress people with cars and living in the trendy part of town. Now I live out in the country, drive a 20 year old diesel truck I paid cash for a few ago, and mostly gave up on chasing women after figuring out most of them are not worth any more trouble than a night or two of fun. Not wanting kids that was pretty easy for me but I realize that is a big goal for a lot of guys and I don’t have any meaningful advice to give there other than “choose wisely” or there will be hell to pay later.

 

When I started trucking, I was a kid. I was always the youngest driver. It was then that I noticed how the old fat fup who was going to talk down to me always first would walk up and find a way to volunteer his employment history. After the employment history, he was going to tell me that he has driven more miles in reverse than I have going forward, or something stupid like that. Too bad you don't get paid for going in reverse, hand.

"Have you figured out what you did wrong?"

This is what my Sgt asked me when I ran headlong into a domestic fight. White knighting it, I put the guy down to save the lady and the lady hit me so hard that she loosened all of my teeth. Sarge walks up, pops her right between the eyes and drops her. Have you figured out what you did wrong? He let my dumb arse run into a domestic and didn't warn me. Well, I never did that again. Everything is educational. Even getting your head knocked off.
I find that's the best way to approach the Young Guns. If you talk down to them, they will only close their ears. Let em run in be first me me me, POP. Help em up and ask them about their education. "Have you figured out what went wrong?" A decent kid will learn. Stupid won't. As soon as you realize a person is stupid, you have to do the social distancing, because the Stupid Virus is the most contagious, deadliest virus ever.

 

Oh! I'm so slow. I finally got your "Don't make a liar out of me" comment.

No worries; I have nothing but respect for those who are on this thread with a different perspective. I sense they feel the same and so am still hanging around here with my fellow truckers.

My best friend is a Missouri Christian who voted for the guy with the orange hair and grew up on a farm. I was born in DC, college educated tree-hugger, voted for Hillary, and living in Washington state for many years. Even though we are social opposites we discuss political and religious ideology for hours at a time without losing one inch of friendship.

Isn't that the way the world is supposed to work? I've always thought that if the world was faced with an enemy that threatened our annihilation we would all forget all the philosophy that daily divides us and rally under the flag of humanity.

Deep down we are all from the same family. You see evidence of THAT belief right now as our front line warriors--aka health care professionals--who bravely risk their lives to save those they have never met simply because they are human beings. Beautiful, eh?

 

I won't hold that against you! LOL, j/k.

 

Thank you. And I won't fault you for being a Texan. I mean, nobody is perfect !

 

I love this place sometimes!