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Old 09-03-2012, 09:04 PM   #98
Peter Debelak
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Default Re: Faith and Politics

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Originally Posted by Ohio View Post
I'm just doing my best to follow along. Seriously.

Your background, education, and experience is diverse from mine. I see things in a simpler manner. I normally have to communicate my ideas to those around me who never made it to college.

Let me use a bad example. My son is in finance. He has immersed himself in a culture that is entirely foreign to me. Stocks, bonds, and mutual funds are child's play compared to the activities he is engaged in every day. I still cannot grasp all the implications of derivatives and hedge funds. I plan to visit him soon, and he wants some time alone to discuss his new employment. I am terrified.

Perhaps this thread can somehow assist.
Just a quick note for the flow of the thread: I edited my last post since you posted this...

And, for the record, you communicate more wisdom in your posts than any university degree could possibly achieve.... And, believe it or not, the life-path I chose puts me around folks with whom I can't use scholarly argument. I have to, ineptly, meet them where they're at and more times then not, I am the learner, not the teacher... It's mind-blowing, but only if I'm not "too cool for school."

And on the "I don't know how to engage my son on the substance of his work," I am familiar. I can't tell you how many times I've invoked artists and poets and philosophers to my dad, only to get a blank stare back. But he still engages, not quite sure where I'm coming from, but giving food for thought. If I was antagonistic, I might think "you have no clue what you're talking about." Instead, I see it as his heart-felt way of engagement with me, take his comments to heart and - amazingly - often find an insight I never saw in all the "expert" writings I poured over...
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