dagmaraka wrote:
Like surviving
U answered that question below.
Hopefully, there was no torture.
The commies were not above torture and murder.
again. life is not black and white. my father WAS a communist himself untill 1968, the invasion of the Warsaw troops. Then it became obvious to him it's a farce. He refused to sign the obligatory document that it was a 'friendly help' from allied troops. So he was let go from the University where he taught, as was my mother. Then in 1976 he signed the Charter 77 - again, he thought, everybody would do just the same, as all the document asked for was the government to abide by the international agreements (International Civil and Political Rights Covenant, Int's Social, Economic and Cultural Rights Covenant and the Helsinki Final Act) that it ratified. They didn't. Instead, they pursued all the signatories. There were over 1,000 in Czech part of Czechoslovakia. There were only 3 in Slovakia. My father was one of them. So growing up in that time was....interesting.Jail, house checks, arrests... No need to go in detail.
But... what relates to this thread.... I have always had FULL trust in my father. I esteem him. I value his judgment.
I have inherent belief in whatever he chooses to think or do.
Does this mean that u
believe whatever he chooses to think ?
i.e., he selects your beliefs ?
( so if I convince your dad to become a
l'aissez faire free marketeer
libertarian gun-loving hedonist, then
u will join our philosophical committments ? )
Quote:
It conditions my deep love for him.
I cannot understand how one cannot talk about love without trust.
Love is intense good will,
along with knowing that the object of your love
might act inimically to your interests;
e.g., an
extreme example to make the point, Andrea Yates' children
might have loved her, while suspecting that she might murder them.
Quote:It just doesn't exist that way for me.
