08-24-2008, 07:59 PM
o.k then.........
( Something about my father, ) the atheist,ww1 vet,angry with God ,alcoholic. who left home when i was 6 years old. After 10 years when i was just turning 16 years old, i got into serious trouble and was ordered to leave the state, not the town, but the state, or go to reform school until my 18th birthday. My mother called Dad and begged him to take me in and straiten me out. She found him still unmarried after thier divorce and living and working as an under ground silver miner in northwest Idaho. The Wallace, Kellog, Cour 'de lane area. He was making a lot of money, but never sent a penny to us or mom. He lived in a hotel. He agreed to take me in, and as you can imagine.....Things went from bad to worse in a hurry. The thing abouit him is that he made more sense, and seemed to have more common sense than your regular drunk, and it all rotated around him, and his actions, and not God's.
He always had some little saying's about everything, and they made a lot of sense to me. For an alcoholic he was very logical, although his actions always wern't. I feel like all of this is relevant to my religious beliefs, and if not it may still be interesting reading.
He was like a John Wayne type of drunk, who lived by a code, but always managed to get the first punch in, and kick a man when he was down. He could not accept loosing at anything. We eventually became best friends, not father and son. ( these were some of his rules )
He would say; " You have to earn trust and respect. Treat people like you expect to be trated."
" If a person extends courtesy, you show it right back."
" If a person disrespects you, defend yourself, always hold your head up high and proud of who you are. Don't ever look for a fight, but don't ever run from one either." Always look up, not down. "
" always give them the benefit of the doubt, but if it comes to fighting,
always try and land the first punch and throw the rules out the window, or prepare for a good a** kicking.
" Never depend on anyone or any God for anything. Only you will pay the bills and make sure of your survival, no one else will be watching your back." In life you will have many aquaintances, but very few friends.
you will know the difference when it counts.
One of his favorite was either " WISH or PRAY in one hand and S**T in the other and see which one fills up first.
" There are three things you never discuss at the dinner table, or in a bar. POLITICS,RELIGION, AND UFO's.........
So for 48 years of my life i tried to live by those rules, and eventually i became my father, with the exception of the beatings and domestic violence. I was a happy drunk, I loved a good joke. It was in 2003 that something happened in my life that put me on the path to JESUS.
...........More later..................
( Something about my father, ) the atheist,ww1 vet,angry with God ,alcoholic. who left home when i was 6 years old. After 10 years when i was just turning 16 years old, i got into serious trouble and was ordered to leave the state, not the town, but the state, or go to reform school until my 18th birthday. My mother called Dad and begged him to take me in and straiten me out. She found him still unmarried after thier divorce and living and working as an under ground silver miner in northwest Idaho. The Wallace, Kellog, Cour 'de lane area. He was making a lot of money, but never sent a penny to us or mom. He lived in a hotel. He agreed to take me in, and as you can imagine.....Things went from bad to worse in a hurry. The thing abouit him is that he made more sense, and seemed to have more common sense than your regular drunk, and it all rotated around him, and his actions, and not God's.
He always had some little saying's about everything, and they made a lot of sense to me. For an alcoholic he was very logical, although his actions always wern't. I feel like all of this is relevant to my religious beliefs, and if not it may still be interesting reading.
He was like a John Wayne type of drunk, who lived by a code, but always managed to get the first punch in, and kick a man when he was down. He could not accept loosing at anything. We eventually became best friends, not father and son. ( these were some of his rules )
He would say; " You have to earn trust and respect. Treat people like you expect to be trated."
" If a person extends courtesy, you show it right back."
" If a person disrespects you, defend yourself, always hold your head up high and proud of who you are. Don't ever look for a fight, but don't ever run from one either." Always look up, not down. "
" always give them the benefit of the doubt, but if it comes to fighting,
always try and land the first punch and throw the rules out the window, or prepare for a good a** kicking.
" Never depend on anyone or any God for anything. Only you will pay the bills and make sure of your survival, no one else will be watching your back." In life you will have many aquaintances, but very few friends.
you will know the difference when it counts.
One of his favorite was either " WISH or PRAY in one hand and S**T in the other and see which one fills up first.
" There are three things you never discuss at the dinner table, or in a bar. POLITICS,RELIGION, AND UFO's.........
So for 48 years of my life i tried to live by those rules, and eventually i became my father, with the exception of the beatings and domestic violence. I was a happy drunk, I loved a good joke. It was in 2003 that something happened in my life that put me on the path to JESUS.
...........More later..................