"Any person who obeys his parents cannot ask them any questions.”
Wow, you’re an idiot.
I was enlisted for 20 years and while there was never any question about obeying the officers appointed over me, I had to ask questions ALL THE TIME.
“Who are you to ask your father any questions when he instructs you to do anything?”
If he wants anything done, I’m the one needing amplification.
My dad once told me that the two WORST things you can hear from a subordinate are:
’That’s what you told me to do.’
and ‘You didn’t tell me to do that.’
If Dad, or the LT, or even God gives me an order that conflicts with a previous order, I need to know if the original is still in effect. Is there a priority?
Or maybe details are not as he expects. “Back the truck out of the driveway.”
“Okay. But should i move the trailer before I do that?”
"If you should do that, then of course, you must die.”
Oh, bend way over and suck your own ass, fascist prick.
“Who are you to murmur against your father for giving you instructions?”
Since Dad had a little dementia in the last couple of years before he died, who i am is the grownup.
“Who are you to be annoyed against your father for advising you?”
The older he got the more conservative he got. Constantly telling jokes about how worthless government workers are… Forgetting that my wife and I are both government workers. He doesn’t get a pass for that just for being my dad.
“If you should ask any questions, you are inviting death.”
Yes, yes, that’s the ideal interpersonal relationship, top-down authority, bottom-up sucking up.
“Whatever your parents ask you to do, you should obey them implicitly in order to receive God's blessings.”
The god that punished two children who couldn’t even tell right from wrong, and is STILL punishing us all for that gross miscarriage of justice?
Fuck his blessings.