tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-668302614039424658.post3347471441601556968..comments2024-03-24T20:59:22.275-04:00Comments on Marash Girl: JUMPING INTO THE UNKNOWNMarash Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17039340567144001321noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-668302614039424658.post-39741716161573284602011-11-06T00:16:09.931-04:002011-11-06T00:16:09.931-04:00David Mamet told this story about his own father, ...David Mamet told this story about his own father, except I think in his case it was jumping off a mantlepiece. I always thought that must be what made him such a hard person.<br /><br />I think those kinds of lessons are very "old country." They wanted kids to be tough and it was important to teach them to be suspicious of authority for obvious reasons. Today we wouldn't dream of doing this to a kid, it seems so cruel. But we punish our kids for things like not sitting still, not being quiet, not doing homework, not conforming. Are we so much better?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-668302614039424658.post-18780786057805202222011-10-28T07:20:41.299-04:002011-10-28T07:20:41.299-04:00But your father expected you to trust him!But your father expected you to trust him!Karounhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11763907269436185515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-668302614039424658.post-59260745112141229612011-10-27T11:23:22.119-04:002011-10-27T11:23:22.119-04:00i heard that story many times. i think it was dad...i heard that story many times. i think it was dad's way of trying to teach us something that is elemental in life. He quoted, also, the Old Testament's caution many times: 'Cursed be the man who puts his trust in man whose breath is through his nostrils.' i never understood that verse until i went to college and began studying history. well, all you have to do is look at the carnage wrought by those to whom trust was given. hitler, stalin, mao, lenin, were all to whom trust was given and the curse was meted out commensurately.<br />the founding fathers of our country were similarly pre-disposed. they did not trust people, even less did they trust people who wielded power. that is why the premise of their political philosophy was 'that government is best which governs least, and thus designed a system of government intended to avoid the calamitous consequence of putting one's trust in man, which again is why they were opposed to 'democracies' and designed instead a 'republic', a democratic republic'. of course, uncle jack, our shoe repair man uncle, had it down perfectly. he attended the armenian apostolic church, and on those times that he was dragged to our armenian protestant church by his faithful wife, Mary, he never lost the opportunity to complain how untrusting Protestants were. one sunday, dad, having had enough of this, asked Jack for proof that Protestants were less trusting than those who attended the apostolic church. Jack looked at him with that sparkle of triumph, gold that glittered, and said, when your preacher reads from the bible, what do the people do in the congregation? why do they open the bible to the same scripture from which the preacher is reading? because they they don't even trust their own preacher, that's why.petersonnoreply@blogger.com