Let me tell you one thing: You’re doing alright.

Having your kids feel safe enough to be open like that and yourself sticking to listening and being there is probably the best anyone can hope for.

This.

I just wish we could collectively realize the whole enterprise is epistemologically bankrupt.

It is okay to stop trying to apply reason once you have encountered the first unreconcilable contradiction.

Being a 3-dimensional being I was only able to make sense of this by imagining what a 3D puzzle piece would look like.

This is of course a lie to make myself sound clever… it was the buttplug analogy that made it all snap into place for me.