What a cheapskate.

Beautifully written!

Now There's something worth carving into a monument and mounting on courthouse lawns across the country.

I'd enjoy etching it into the windshield of Harry and Nancy's cars so they'd be faced with a little reality whilst driving to work every morning. If they could be bothered to drive themselves anywhere, that is.

Hey and I voted for him too.

Kinda cool but I think my 8 year old would call CPS if I got her a letter for Christmas.

You owe me.

Simpleton writes cynical, reductionist pablum. Bah. Misuse of concept.

You forgot 'Humbug', Grump....

the article said --

...This article was originally published as a syndicated newspaper column, dedicated to my 9-year-old daughter.

Some wise thoughts to ponder in the column the man wrote for his daughter, but not when she's only a 9 year old girl. At that age she's much too young to be able to evaluate the type of advice her father was trying to give.

The father summed up the advice he gave her by saying --

...That understanding has served me well with friends, business associates, lovers, sales prospects, and strangers...

Get serious. How many "friends, business associates, lovers, sales prospects, and strangers" would his daughter have come across in her life by the tender age of 9. Practically zero.

The words the father wrote would have been more appropriate for a daughter age 20 than a daughter age 9.

Chicken soup for the soul... for suckers.

If I have a kid, I would teach her to screw over anyone 6 ways to Sunday.

I'm surprised at you Chris. He understood that she wouldn't understand it completely at nine or 19. It's a concept that many adults don't understand or are not willing to accept. Many people go through life not only expecting things from others but they are confused and depressed when they don't receive them. Sometimes it's us, others times it's not. Haven't you known someone who you wanted something from, but they were not willing to give it freely? Love or just friendship? Sometimes we have to accept that it is us that is lacking, or it may not have anything to do with us. I have a nine year old daughter that I read this to. No, she didn't understand it completely. But, if in time, she's in a friendship or a relationship and she remembers these words, it could save her some pain. I owe her that much and more for what she has given me.

Good job Tosser. Maybe you and Jackass wouldn't have to lie about who you are if you understood it really doesn't matter to anyone else here.

it could save her some pain.

The only thing that will save a little girl any pain, is if you develop her mental skills to be sharper than a knife.

For example, 3 times a week, show her the front page of a newspaper for 30 seconds and see how much she recalls. Make a game out of it.

In 6 months, she'll have a near-photographic memory.

Teach her how to catch people lying.

Teach her how to have eyes in the back of her head.

Etc etc....

Just talk and more talk won't do anything for any kid. LOL

Maybe you and Jackass wouldn't have to lie about who you are

Hold it right there, buddy.

When did I lie???

I have simply never told you who I am. I make sure you know nothing about me.

An Indian who pretends to be a Paki with a pizza guy?

There is a time and a place for everything including teaching your children lessons about life. Christmas morning, IMHO, is not the time to instruct them about the ways of the world, ESPECIALLY when they are nine years old. What a jerk.

An Indian who pretends to be a Paki with a pizza guy?

You only say that because you were raised as a sucker..... the same way you raise your kid by reading her inspirational crap written for suckers. LOL

Anyone who is only a little brighter than yourself, would know that Indians don't use the English language the way I do. There are differences that are typical.

But then, you guys are stoopid, so what can anyone do?

ESPECIALLY when they are nine years old. What a jerk.

No shit.

All she wanted was a Barbie's Dream House and instead she gets a great big load of Dale Carnegie bullshit.

... no one has to love you. If someone loves you, it's because there's something special about you that gives him happiness. Find out what that something special is and try to make it stronger in you, so that you'll be loved even more.

Encouraging self-reliance is good, but the above passage is a recipe for unhappiness. You can't control how other people react to you. While you can make yourself a better person, you can't rely on other people responding to that in the way you want.

There are a lot of bad relationships out there where one person is hanging on to the idea they can make the other one love them "even more."

The only way to be happy is to be able to control your social space as well as your physical space and to have the capacity to project pain on more than one level.

Without the skills and awareness to make that happen you are toast. Somebody will walk all over you. LOL

The only way to be happy is to be able to control your social space as well as your physical space and to have the capacity to project pain on more than one level.

Now here's the thing. I agree with you 100%. The problem is that to carry it out in the West, and especially in Suburbistan is difficult, dangerous and expensive.

The only way to be happy is to be able to control your social space

Very difficult in the west.

The only way to be happy is to be able to control...your physical space

Only slightly easier in the West.

The only way to be happy is to be able to control...to have the capacity to project pain on more than one level

This is impossible in a near total democratic society. The problem with this is that it goes against this minor thing called human rights.

Causing pain deliberately is an obvious contravention of human rights even if it is fun. Now you and I coming from an old land of South Asia where human rights are a new and novel concept sort of realise the duality of both fun and justice. And we know that it is the total control of our surrounding space that makes lives easier for us. In Pakistan it's easy for some one as rich and well connected as you to say:

Without the skills and awareness to make that happen you are toast. Somebody will walk all over you.

But in the west, first of all you can only walk over someone if like that moron who came on here who described how he paid money to work you legally agree to that kind of humiliation. Other wise you can only randomly do it to people if you are extremly rich.

And in terms of walking all over someone, the thing is that institutions in the West can do it to a person. As far as I know only rich people *might* be able to do this in North America. But you can't do it as an ordinary human being in North America. You'ld be "violating" human rights. Plus you wouldn't have the treasure chest full of cash required to buy a good lawyer.

Dude... we're basically talking of little girls.

I meant projecting emotional pain.... emotional blackmail... little girls only get better at that kind of thing as they grow up.

All we have to do is tell her, not to be ashamed to use this skill. Embrace your natural talent. Sharpen your talons like the bird of prey you are, you little b--ch... LOL

Oh, and of course, I will most defiantly tech her how to be good with knives and guns and "other stuff".

That goes without saying... never know when you might need it.

But you can't do it as an ordinary human being in North America.

Wanna bet?

I bet anyone can destroy anyone else anywhere, if they can get to them and if they don't have to be held to a time limit.

And all without touching them or using too many resources.

All it takes is a twisted mind.

we're basically talking of little girls.

Wow...OK

I meant projecting emotional pain

Aah, girls and hurting your "feelings". Nah...just ignore 'em. I tell 'em Bye!...OK so I'm in my early twenties; but really.

little girls only get better at that kind of thing as they grow up.

You know what I thought? If they get good at emotional blackmail, and they feel horny, they can get man-tail easy by being bitches, so better not teach them how to be manipulative. Yeah - better to not teach a girl how to be manipulative.

The earlier part you wrote about sharpening up their minds? That part I agree with.

don't have to be held to a time limit

Possibly.

Twisted Mind

Yeah - a requirement.

I disagree.

A father owes his child unconditional love.

Always.

"Maybe you and Jackass wouldn't have to lie about who you are"

Stir you don't know shit about me and I like it that way.

#28 | Posted by jackass

I only know the things you have told us. Every version no mater how contradictory creates a picture of you.

Maybe so, but that I just hope that when I die people will say, "That SOB owed me a lot of money."