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Thank you, but it was not actually a loss but a gain. My father was not a good man. His dying was the best thing he ever did for our family.
I agree completely. I've always seen it as people looking for simple answers for a world full of complex problems. It's also my experience that they tend to not be doing well in at least some domains of life. The worst I've experienced, though, are the moderately successful ones. I have a couple of cousins in this category. They see their relative success as confirmation that their worldview is correct. There's nothing worse for me than dealing with a smug idiot who celebrates their idiocy.
Man, you dad must have messed up for his own kid to feel this way. O.O I hope you have other people in your life that can give you the stability and love your father couldn't.
I'll take your word for it when it comes to people woth moderate success. I don't really know any myself. Knew a guy once who inherited a lot of money and he became very smug too. Also burned through most of it in no time. Mostly on stupid shit he didn't need. I think I asked him once if he had plans to invest any of it to secure his future and he just ignored me and decided to show the electric eraser he had bought 🤣 at least he wasn't anti-vax, but he did start babbling about the Jewish question at one point and called me small minded for telling him he was on his way down the far right pipeline.
Having anti-vax family members who are doing well financially must be next level annoying, though.