Just call 1-800-MY-APPLE and stay on the line.............................................. ................... .................................................. .................................................. for a long, long time. It might work.
Good thing you don't have to pick up some porn magazines to get your son's number eh?
(I can't think of any other scenario where calling a 1-800 number connects to a long lost son than the one Paul Thomas Anderson told me!)
Anyone want to see a REAL (read: lighthearted and not entirely serious) world without Steve Jobs?
Pretty interesting (and informative) read!! I really am living a wonderful life right now with my Apple products. Of course, the movie itself was not one of my favourites. It definitely isn't Capra's best. That still is "It Happened One Night"!
Sounds like a pathetic person. It is the father who should reach out to the son and not the other way around.
I also think that people who adopt their babies away are only one step above people who throw their babies in the trash can and they have zero right to ever meet their offspring which they abandoned.
You seem to contradict yourself. On the one hand you imply the father is reprehensible and has no rights because he gave his child up for adoption, and you also say that he is pathetic because he does not reach out first.
In Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son.....when the son who squandered his father's fortune in wild living returns home, the father sees him 'a long distance off' and runs to his son and embraces him.
One of the things that is remarkable in that parable is that, culturally, it would be virtually unheard of for a father to do something like that. The son could come back and beg forgiveness, but the father would never allow himself to become emotional and abase himself by running out to his son. It would be undignified, in that culture.
So I don't judge Steve's biological father. He was of that culture, and I can understand his desire to not want to come across like he was seeking his son's money.
To those who made critical remarks in the earlier comments -- consider that our values in the West are different than the East. The reason that we think that a father SHOULD swallow his pride and run to his son is because the West has been influenced greatly by Christianity. It is because Jesus gave us this picture of God our Father running -- unabashedly -- to us his undeserving children -- that we have come to value a father reaching out to his son.
In Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son.....when the son who squandered his father's fortune in wild living returns home, the father sees him 'a long distance off' and runs to his son and embraces him.
One of the things that is remarkable in that parable is that, culturally, it would be virtually unheard of for a father to do something like that. The son could come back and beg forgiveness, but the father would never allow himself to become emotional and abase himself by running out to his son. It would be undignified, in that culture.
So I don't judge Steve's biological father. He was of that culture, and I can understand his desire to not want to come across like he was seeking his son's money.
To those who made critical remarks in the earlier comments -- consider that our values in the West are different than the East. The reason that we think that a father SHOULD swallow his pride and run to his son is because the West has been influenced greatly by Christianity. It is because Jesus gave us this picture of God our Father running -- unabashedly -- to us his undeserving children -- that we have come to value a father reaching out to his son.
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Really? So pray tell what race is discriminated against here...
Learn the meaning of a word before you use it. This (ab)use only demonstrates your ignorance.
Towelheads is just as 'racist' as 'suits'.
Relax: most people don't know the difference and demonstrate their ignorance every day.
Just call 1-800-MY-APPLE and stay on the line.............................................. ................... .................................................. .................................................. for a long, long time. It might work.
Good thing you don't have to pick up some porn magazines to get your son's number eh?
(I can't think of any other scenario where calling a 1-800 number connects to a long lost son than the one Paul Thomas Anderson told me!)
Anyone want to see a REAL (read: lighthearted and not entirely serious) world without Steve Jobs?
Pretty interesting (and informative) read!! I really am living a wonderful life right now with my Apple products. Of course, the movie itself was not one of my favourites. It definitely isn't Capra's best. That still is "It Happened One Night"!
Sounds like a pathetic person. It is the father who should reach out to the son and not the other way around.
I also think that people who adopt their babies away are only one step above people who throw their babies in the trash can and they have zero right to ever meet their offspring which they abandoned.
You seem to contradict yourself. On the one hand you imply the father is reprehensible and has no rights because he gave his child up for adoption, and you also say that he is pathetic because he does not reach out first.
In Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son.....when the son who squandered his father's fortune in wild living returns home, the father sees him 'a long distance off' and runs to his son and embraces him.
One of the things that is remarkable in that parable is that, culturally, it would be virtually unheard of for a father to do something like that. The son could come back and beg forgiveness, but the father would never allow himself to become emotional and abase himself by running out to his son. It would be undignified, in that culture.
So I don't judge Steve's biological father. He was of that culture, and I can understand his desire to not want to come across like he was seeking his son's money.
To those who made critical remarks in the earlier comments -- consider that our values in the West are different than the East. The reason that we think that a father SHOULD swallow his pride and run to his son is because the West has been influenced greatly by Christianity. It is because Jesus gave us this picture of God our Father running -- unabashedly -- to us his undeserving children -- that we have come to value a father reaching out to his son.
Bump.
In Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son.....when the son who squandered his father's fortune in wild living returns home, the father sees him 'a long distance off' and runs to his son and embraces him.
One of the things that is remarkable in that parable is that, culturally, it would be virtually unheard of for a father to do something like that. The son could come back and beg forgiveness, but the father would never allow himself to become emotional and abase himself by running out to his son. It would be undignified, in that culture.
So I don't judge Steve's biological father. He was of that culture, and I can understand his desire to not want to come across like he was seeking his son's money.
To those who made critical remarks in the earlier comments -- consider that our values in the West are different than the East. The reason that we think that a father SHOULD swallow his pride and run to his son is because the West has been influenced greatly by Christianity. It is because Jesus gave us this picture of God our Father running -- unabashedly -- to us his undeserving children -- that we have come to value a father reaching out to his son.
Thanks for the post frugality. (Matthew 10:32-33)