My motto: “Produce abundantly. Give generously. Leave me alone.” The only thing government does better is nothing. Muck-wader w/ high boots. I ignore nonsense.
@amongtheheathen Nah, we won’t let that happen!
You have siblings right? If you aren’t being compensated for providing services for your mom’s care, you should be. If she still has lucid periods, maybe consider putting the house into a trust.
My older daughter’s best high school friend is Indian. They competed for Duke TIP back in the day. My daughter received national Grand Recognition while her friend got State. Her friend’s parents were very upset that she wasn’t on top (and I was told they physically punished her). Two takeaways:
1. Indians tend to be very competitive, sometimes (not always) to an unhealthy degree.
2. You don’t have to engage in unhealthy practices to beat them.
I think point 1 is the source of a lot of the ill feelings, but point 2 mitigates it and is ignored. I agree they are great neighbors!
I don’t know anything about Pearl, but the obedient wife part is merely one piece of an equation (which is part of what you’re saying) and arguably the minor piece. There’s no point in presenting it out of context. I also disapprove of incel ideology. My kids learn about all sorts of topics, but I decide when, how and in what framework.
My younger kid endured the COVID era as a young middle schooler with more internet than the ideal during a time when everyone was a little crazy.
A few things she attempted to contract, but I said “absolutely not” so she dropped them:
1. ED/ARFID
2. Gender dysphoria
3. Asthma
4. White guilt
5. Social Anxiety
6. “Cutting”
7. Dysautonomia
I have allowed “the spectrum” because every person is on it somewhere.
@DuckieLouise What fabulous ideas!! 😍 I stole all of them!! My older girl is a nature girl and a spelling champ who loves yellow. These ideas are perfect for when she has a baby.
AND it was entertaining to read!
You are the best!
My mom’s Hamburger Pie going into the oven!
Mom’s cooking was generally pretty bad but this recipe is actually my favorite food. 😍
I haven’t had it in a long time because I like the short crust and I’ve been keto for several months. But I just discovered there’s a keto version of Bisquick so I had to try it! The filling and topping were already keto-friendly.
@CrazyGamerJC It was dumb and that’s enough reason! But the church usher guy told her they were blocking her because they didn’t want the children exposed so that’s I had to work with. Lol
She stood outside churches with a sign asking if people agree that wives should obey their husbands. One church did the human blockade thing so families didn’t have to see her, which she and the chronically online incels determined must mean they disagreed with the statement and therefore the church and the parents are bad. Of course, there are many other imaginable reasons why one might not want a kid exposed to her even if one did agree. The hypothetical example I offered was not wanting kids who are being brought up with the goal of a healthy husband-led marriage to be prematurely aware of the existence of manufactured social controversies.
Parents can and should delay exposure of their children to things that are not in their best interest until they determine they’re mature enough. That doesn’t mean anything beyond a parent making a decision about their kids. Last time I checked, this is America. 🇺🇸 But it put the incels into a slanderous frenzy.
I see little difference between “you can’t shield your children from incel ideology,” and “you can’t shield them from trans ideology.” They are the same concept to me. Both are repugnant to basic liberty and therefore evil. I’ll shield my kids from whatever I want and my refusal to engage may simply mean I don’t like you, and nothing more.
@CBHeresy That sounds even worse than the celebrity perks that were so loudly dismantled in order to champion the common man not too long ago.
Smoke and mirrors, I guess.
@CrazyGamerJC I went into the online scratch-offs and turned it into about $80 and then lost about $20, so I have around $60 waiting there for the next time I feel lucky. Which actually is a decent result!
This is a prime example of why I say the fringes of left and right are identical. One coin. Two sides.
My only position in this thread: Parents have a right and a duty to shield their children from things they find repugnant or damaging.
He accuses me of phobia.
Sound familiar?
Then it would be best to leave your children at home.
I am not speaking to your children.
As long as you and your husband see to it that they are raised right according to God’s law, Leviticus and Deuteronomy, there should be no issue.
And it’s not Jesus speaking.
“… the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”
John 14:10 KJV
It’s quite the head spin!
Genesis 2:7 the breath of life is God putting the Holy Spirit into each and every one of us.
Elihu, a rather mysterious character says the following before God himself responds to Job.
“Who hath given him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world? If he set his heart upon man, If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.”
Job 34:13-15 KJV
Ever wondered how God knows your sins? Yeah, quite the head spin!
New Testament attests to the same.
“neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
Luke 17:21 KJV
“Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,”
Acts 4:8 KJV
1 But, brothers, I do not want you to go on being ignorant about the things of the Spirit. 2 You know that when you were pagans, no matter how you felt you were being led, you were being led astray to idols, which can’t speak at all… 11 One and the same Spirit is at work in all these things, distributing to each person as he chooses. (1 Corinthians (1 Co) 12:1-11 CJB)
“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
1 John 4:4 KJV
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13 KJV
You might prefer :
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13 NIV
Or
“Here is the final conclusion, now that you have heard everything: fear God, and keep his mitzvot; this is what being human is all about.”
Kohelet (Ecc) 12:13 CJB
You shouldn’t be afraid of one woman asking a simple question.
Christianity has nothing to do with it. As it’s not about one being obedient or submissive to the other, but to God alone.
You’ve now diagnosed me as phobic, narcissistic, anti-Christian, afraid, and a poor parent.
Meanwhile my position has remained exactly the same: Parents get to decide what interactions their own children participate in.
You seem deeply committed to diagnosing and explaining why strangers make parenting decisions. I’m deeply committed to the idea that it’s none of your (or my) business.
So, we’ve identified the disagreement. We have a very wide divergence on foundational questions of liberty. As I noted earlier, there is no way for us to communicate effectively.
Enjoy your day!
@CrazyGamerJC My church doesn’t view Revelation as a predictive timeline. We know there will be a final trial and the Antichrist, but we don’t have enough information to identify the political structure involved with certainty. So, from my POV, there may be such a thing. There may not.