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I have been thinking alot about my parents and my own parenting lately. Since I have been spending much more large chunks of time with my 76 year old mother and 80 year old father lately some interesting things have happened and I am curious if anyone has experienced this as well or has any thoughts regarding the subject in general. I am not going to bore you will how great my upbringing was but with an interesting phenomena that has occurred recently between they and I. I have gotten to know them as "people" recently and not just as my parents. I have asked many questions about how they feel about different things (politics, religion, life, death, love, marriage etc) and things from their upbringings. One specific conversation I had with my father just about floored me. He is a physicist and a man of science obviously so I asked him about God and his belief and how most folks like him need proof. I went into the discussions we have around here about believers and non believers and everything in between. My parents are super religious, tithe and the whole nine yards and always have. My father said to me first that you can't prove there isn't a God just like you can't prove there is one. Then he said to me so matter of fact "well I guess you could say I am somewhere between an agnostic and a believer". I was like . He said if I turn out to be correct I go to heaven as promised and if I am wrong I have lost nothing. I never would have heard or believed it had I not asked. These thoughts and thread are in no way trying to spur on any religious discussion or I would have landed it elsewhere. I was just curious if anyone has any thoughts or stories of their own about knowing or "really knowing" your own parents or the person or persons who raised you. If you read through all of this I really appreciate you're patience and attention anyway.... :D
