you and your family's values

Whenever I hear the term 'family values' I immediately think of the Republican Christian right wing in the US.............probably due to all the times they have used it in their talking points on the news and various media.

Edited by dr wu23 - June 20 2016 at 15:33

Guldbamsen wrote: Icarium wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: My parents come from completely different backgrounds, so I gather I got the best of two worlds. My mother is a country girl with magical powers in the kitchen. She has no degrees of anything of that sort, but she is emotionally wise and tend to look right through people, myself included. My dad on the other hand comes from a long line of theatre/movie folks and has worked with pretty much every interesting Danish actor/director. He reads all the time and that has probably rubbed off to his son. While both very different from one another they've always worked as a team in raising me and my younger sister the best way they could. No religion but lots of ethics and kindness in general. I feel lucky. so your father have worked with Lars von Trier ,  Yes. He even brought me along one time I was sick. They were shooting a series called 'Riget' in Copenhagen's main hospital bearing the same name (or Rigshospitalet). I remember drawing these abstract figures whilst in a fever haze and having Lars complement me on them. He also gave me some chocolate

I have looked all over but still can't find a way to watch Riget. :(

someone_else wrote: My political orientation is a bit left of the center [...] and rather conservative. [...] I am an anti-EU extremist.

Edited by Modrigue - June 20 2016 at 07:34

Icarium wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: My parents come from completely different backgrounds, so I gather I got the best of two worlds. My mother is a country girl with magical powers in the kitchen. She has no degrees of anything of that sort, but she is emotionally wise and tend to look right through people, myself included. My dad on the other hand comes from a long line of theatre/movie folks and has worked with pretty much every interesting Danish actor/director. He reads all the time and that has probably rubbed off to his son. While both very different from one another they've always worked as a team in raising me and my younger sister the best way they could. No religion but lots of ethics and kindness in general. I feel lucky. so your father have worked with Lars von Trier ,

Edited by Guldbamsen - June 20 2016 at 03:48

JJLehto wrote: My mother is so as well, and more so politically. She's a fairly dedicated and unwavering Democrat, voted for Carter both times, and even Mondale over Reagan

No shame there, Mondale was a good candidate.  Dukakis not so much.

Guldbamsen wrote: My parents come from completely different backgrounds, so I gather I got the best of two worlds. My mother is a country girl with magical powers in the kitchen. She has no degrees of anything of that sort, but she is emotionally wise and tend to look right through people, myself included. My dad on the other hand comes from a long line of theatre/movie folks and has worked with pretty much every interesting Danish actor/director. He reads all the time and that has probably rubbed off to his son. While both very different from one another they've always worked as a team in raising me and my younger sister the best way they could. No religion but lots of ethics and kindness in general. I feel lucky.

so your father have worked with Lars von Trier , 

Dad was born in a small oil and peanut town built on fertile and beautiful red earth in Texas. Mom was born in San Antonio and raised in a small Texas oil town. Not the same one as Dad.
He was raised Baptist. She was raised Catholic.

He got a psychology degree from UT. She got a nursing degree from Incarnate Word.
He went on to business school and began working for Continental Bank out of Chicago. Then Trans Union Leasing. Then Gates Learjet. Then another bank. Then a concession supply business owner.
She spent time in the trenches as a dependable emergency room nurse for all her years after graduating, until my sister, and then I, came around. Then she just became a fantastic MOM. Love was never spared in our homes growing up. From either of them.

We were raised Catholic.
Dad got tired of the overbearing dogma and sought out something more palatable. He enjoyed the idea of a connection, but neither Baptist nor Catholic met his need.
Several years after my First Communion, Mom gave up her Holy Trinity card and we all started going to the Episcopal church that Dad had settled into.
Oh, yeah. Somewhere in there my sister and I both spent time in a Lutheran school.

While we were all tied to religion and faith, loosely and comfortably, they had a very liberal approach to raising me and my sister. We were acolytes. We were involved. But religion never guided their and, ultimately, our decisions.

Dad reflexively voted (R) most of his life, while never investing much in politics beyond what would allow his employers to profit the most. But it was also the last lingering part of the ingrained mentality he strove to leave behind in small-town Texas the minute he was old enough. Reagan's second term was his full turn-about. Mom had always been pretty liberal, despite her upbringing.

Suffice it to say, my sister and I are both sensible left-leaning realists with a fair knowledge of, but disconnected understanding of religion.

I think she's still more open to the idea of religious congregation than I am. I despise the idea of organized religion. Faith and religion are not the same. Organizing beliefs as a group is dangerous.

My parents are center-left. Both of them were raised mildly religiously (different religions) consisting of nothing out of the ordinary. Though now my dad really doesn't practice at all (except little things like no meat on Fridays during lent) and my mom occasionally attends church when circumstances allow it.

my grandmother was a conservative, but she was crazy and not very bright so we never had to pay any attention to it.

My parents are extremely religious fundamentalists and very conservative Republicans. So are my brothers, although my youngest brother isn't as much of a Bible-thumper. My sister isn't particularly religious but is a conservative.

I'm pretty much the opposite on all counts, but am generally considered the one who turned out most 'normal'.