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Thanks, Open Eyes.
It sounds like you had a productive conversation with your father; I'm happy for you.
I started a more thorough reply, since you brought up a lot of good points and touched on a lot of issues for me, but I don't want to threadjack Lavalamp's conversation further. You gave me a good jumping-off point to start a thread about my own issues. I've been up for ~33 hours, so it's probably time to sleep. But it's on my agenda for tomorrow.
Thanks again.
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"As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair." -- Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
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