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I love my family but they are nuts. My pastor always tells me "I'm just glad you're here." I live 509 miles away for my family. I moved out for school when I was 17 and I had no clue it was actually salvation to me. I'm really not sure how to respond to my family though. I have two Christian relatives, an they are really the only people I share any common ground with. For the most part I tend to just observe the conversations from afar and stay out of them.
I have 5 brothers and 2 sisters. One brother is a Christian an ex-military. He was in the Black hawk Down battle. He's convinced the government is trying to control him and he is so concerned that it rules his life. He's always posting stuff about crooked government and he latches onto any conspiracy. I could say thy of just about everyone in my family.
Another brother is a pot and goat farmer. He basically lives off the grid where pot farmers live... Somewhere in the foothills away from town. He lives in a single wide trailer with his wife and ten dogs, and the occassional sickly kids (the goat kind). Luckily he keeps his pony outside. He posts "legalize marijuana" posts and related political satire all day long. However, most of his antigovernment stuff stays online. I can actually have a conversation with him that doesn't center on his "convictions".
One younger brother is the worst. He's so angry about gun control and anything the government wants to govern. He goes on political rants several times a day about legalizing marijuana, killing bad guys, government taking away his ability to hunt (he's the one who lived in his truck by a river so he could
Live off the land), his ability to protect himself, etc. Yet, a few days ago he decided he was going to start lookn for government jobs so he could make more money.
Now my cousins are in on the battle. It's all very strange to me. We have so very little in common. I find myself a fairly fearful person, but I just don't buy that the government it out to get me or that if they take away my weapons I'm defenseless. I feel like there are so many worse things to be concerned about rather than your opinion of people who are selling their guns. I mean, my younger brother is so angry with people giving up their guns. I do understand that they have the right to be concerned over what concerns them... But I really don't know what to say or not say. Guns are not my defense. God is. If the government is out to get me, God is still bigger and Hes still my defense.
So many of them are so paranoid that they latch onto any anti-government conspiracy as if its gospel. I have my concerns about the government, but it doesn't rule my life. Its so frustrating I guess because I love my family and they seem so fearful. I want to help them, but I can't.
I have 5 brothers and 2 sisters. One brother is a Christian an ex-military. He was in the Black hawk Down battle. He's convinced the government is trying to control him and he is so concerned that it rules his life. He's always posting stuff about crooked government and he latches onto any conspiracy. I could say thy of just about everyone in my family.
Another brother is a pot and goat farmer. He basically lives off the grid where pot farmers live... Somewhere in the foothills away from town. He lives in a single wide trailer with his wife and ten dogs, and the occassional sickly kids (the goat kind). Luckily he keeps his pony outside. He posts "legalize marijuana" posts and related political satire all day long. However, most of his antigovernment stuff stays online. I can actually have a conversation with him that doesn't center on his "convictions".
One younger brother is the worst. He's so angry about gun control and anything the government wants to govern. He goes on political rants several times a day about legalizing marijuana, killing bad guys, government taking away his ability to hunt (he's the one who lived in his truck by a river so he could
Live off the land), his ability to protect himself, etc. Yet, a few days ago he decided he was going to start lookn for government jobs so he could make more money.
Now my cousins are in on the battle. It's all very strange to me. We have so very little in common. I find myself a fairly fearful person, but I just don't buy that the government it out to get me or that if they take away my weapons I'm defenseless. I feel like there are so many worse things to be concerned about rather than your opinion of people who are selling their guns. I mean, my younger brother is so angry with people giving up their guns. I do understand that they have the right to be concerned over what concerns them... But I really don't know what to say or not say. Guns are not my defense. God is. If the government is out to get me, God is still bigger and Hes still my defense.
So many of them are so paranoid that they latch onto any anti-government conspiracy as if its gospel. I have my concerns about the government, but it doesn't rule my life. Its so frustrating I guess because I love my family and they seem so fearful. I want to help them, but I can't.
