Joe Forti

Follower of God, animal lover, subpar shooter, weekend ski bum. Hoosier at heart.📍Utah. Unofficial president of Refuge Church ski club.

[signüll @signulll]

travel is great sure. but nothing hits like walking back into a space that feels intentional & composed.

in many ways a beautiful home is where you return to yourself.

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

We do not have to co-exist with savages.

[Joe Forti @Joe__Forti]

@IanDodds_ Patina has an draw to it when applied correctly

[Joe Forti @Joe__Forti]

@IanDodds_ Aye I was just backpacking there a few weeks ago

[Brutal American Podcast @BrutalAmPodcast]

New podcast episode is up on the need for physical standards and tests within brotherhoods 🦅🇺🇸

In this same vein, we recently ran through the @GBRSGroup Fitness Standards. On the show we talk through the test and let y’all know how we did via our Patreon channel. Check it out🤘🏻

[SurgiFi @FiSurgi]

Here’s something that should be more popular but isn’t.

The military is the smartest decision to rapidly gain a high lucrative career on someone else’s dime.

It should be higher on a lot of folks lists as options for the future.

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Maturing is realizing this is a bigger deal than the Super Bowl

[Naval @naval]

A man expresses love through duty.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Nothing will shape your worldview as much as simply reading how humans from the past thought.

You realize very quickly that our time is a radical anomaly in human history.

[Joe Forti @Joe__Forti]

@thovght_crimes What about Guard SF?

[Tate Taylor @StonecuttrStr]

Audacity is a closer friend to the hero than a high IQ score.

You can just do stuff.

[Joe Forti @Joe__Forti]

@IanDodds_ Dang…didn’t know I had one

[Joe Forti @Joe__Forti]

@StonecuttrStr I have been learning this the hard way

[Joe Forti @Joe__Forti]

@JulianFried @JulianFried what's your definition of a welding engineer?

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Time moves fast. I know it’s cliché, and it’s cliché for a reason. It’s one of those clichés you should actually take to heart.

At the end of 2024, I took my family on a big vacation down to Fort Myers. Flew all 10 of us down there, got an incredible Airbnb, rented a boat to go fishing out on the Gulf. It was only five days, but we planned it smart. One-way flight. Airbnb only a few minutes from the airport. We were able to make the most of every day.

I think it was one of the best family vacations we ever had.

A lot of memories were made. I spent good time just hanging out, swimming in the pool or the ocean, talking with the kids, being present.

What I did not know at the time was that it would be the last family vacation with just me, my wife, and our eight kids.

Before we could take another one, my oldest son got engaged at 19 and married at the start of this year.

Now, I couldn’t be happier. I love him. I love my daughter-in-law. I’m eager for grandchildren. And I’m sure before long we’ll do another big trip, only this time two Foster families will go together.

But I didn’t know that was the last one.

And I’m very glad I went all out and don’t have regrets.

It makes me think: what “last thing” will I do this year? This summer? Even today?

So I pray…

God, keep me sober-minded. Help me make the most of what You’ve put in front of me.

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

Contempt for metaphysics is one of the telltale signs of modernism.

Most accelerationists couldn't define the term metaphysics, and they have no interest in the subject. They prefer an ideological program of imposing their wills on a neutral natural order.

Sometimes this is done in the name of dominion.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, ask your chatbot for help.

[Joe Forti @Joe__Forti]

@synerGy_FAB This makes me want to get back on a factory floor

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

There is no such thing as, “just a tool.”

Tools are the products of intelligent design, reflecting an outlook on the world, and amplifying our agency.

But there is a metaphysic present in every tool, working in and through them. And as we use tools we are shaping ourselves even though our attention is directed towards shaping the world; this is because we are creatures, relying on our surroundings, and embedded in them, as brain science has so helpfully shown.

It’s the thoughtless use of tools that irritates me, a carelessness and insouciance that is both stupid and reckless.

It is said that, “experience is the best teacher.” Not always the case. I’ve known people who’ve never learned a thing from experience. They did the same stupid things repeatedly.

Experience is the school for people without a little imagination and prudence. We should have known filling schools and churches with screens would make us dumber, not smarter. Some people did warn us, but we didn’t listen because technophiles have a first class propaganda machine that serves to equate technology with intelligence.

[The King's Hall @The_Kings_Hall]

Our friend @crwiley1962 recently dropped an episode with Adam Madden, author of the new book, "The Productive Household" (coming soon!).

Great stuff on starting businesses, including your kids, and passing on generational wealth.

https://t.co/xw96iLcozE

[Sam Costner @samuel_costner]

"You HAVE to go to Dubai"

I don't though