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Thursday: walk, TV
Feb. 15th, 2024 11:59 pmI walked with M.
I watched last night’s and tonight’s Alex Wagner, mostly by fast forwarding through a lot of the commentary on the trials. I also watched the new episode of NCIS. It was okay; I did not fast forward through it.
I got A. through her history homework and a shower. We also talked through how the Crusades were justified at the time. I’m not convinced she really gets it, because she — like a lot of people who exist entirely outside a group — is trying to reconcile how the group behaves vs. what it says it believes in. Lots of autism in the, wait, but you believe in X so why are you doing something so wildly Not X. I tracked down a more-complete-translated-text of Pope Urban’s speech and broke it down in pieces: he went to a bunch of people who were already killing each other, and said, hey, y’all go together and beat up on the Muslims instead of each other, and in exchange, all your sins will be forgiven and you will get into Heaven. I _think_ she got it this time, but we’ll probably have to take a few more swings at it.
Oddly, I think this would confuse her less if I trash-talked religion more. Which is not precisely where I expected to be at this point in my parenting arc. I think she kind of expects people to actually live their values, which of course is not actually that normal.
I watched last night’s and tonight’s Alex Wagner, mostly by fast forwarding through a lot of the commentary on the trials. I also watched the new episode of NCIS. It was okay; I did not fast forward through it.
I got A. through her history homework and a shower. We also talked through how the Crusades were justified at the time. I’m not convinced she really gets it, because she — like a lot of people who exist entirely outside a group — is trying to reconcile how the group behaves vs. what it says it believes in. Lots of autism in the, wait, but you believe in X so why are you doing something so wildly Not X. I tracked down a more-complete-translated-text of Pope Urban’s speech and broke it down in pieces: he went to a bunch of people who were already killing each other, and said, hey, y’all go together and beat up on the Muslims instead of each other, and in exchange, all your sins will be forgiven and you will get into Heaven. I _think_ she got it this time, but we’ll probably have to take a few more swings at it.
Oddly, I think this would confuse her less if I trash-talked religion more. Which is not precisely where I expected to be at this point in my parenting arc. I think she kind of expects people to actually live their values, which of course is not actually that normal.