To refuse to claim your privacy is actually to cede it, either to state trespassing its constitutional restraints or to a "private" business. -Edward Snowden
Addicted to drugs at 45.
Trapped in a 23-year career at 50.
At 51, I’m living in Thailand training Muay Thai, and in the best shape of my life.
The world will beat you to your knees if you let it. But you can rebuild at any age.
Stop waiting for "tomorrow." The fight starts today
Before you start your day, let me pray for you.
Father, I pray for everyone who comes across this post today. Lift every burden they're carrying. Bring healing where there's pain, breakthrough where there's delay, and strength where they feel weak.
Open every door You have ordained for them, and let every plan of the enemy against their lives be broken in Jesus' name, Amen.
If this prayer found you at the right time, drop a "Thank You, Jesus" below, and pass it on to someone who needs it today.
Livestream from Friday's bookclub, @willstevensonx reading the Treatise On The Word Person by @1_Stupid_Fuck (BrandonJoeWilliams)
https://t.co/dE7v10swbN
I sent this to every hitter I train. (You should do the same.)
It's a phenomenal example of what it actually takes and what it looks like.
Watch it. Save it. Send it to your hitters.
If you really want to be mad about something, the most infuriating thing is that our nationality was stolen from us. Our entire Constitution was stolen from us and some PERSONS begged to get little pieces of it back through the Incorporation Doctrine. But this doctrine is irrelevant to citizens of the States.
Even if you are so mad that you want to commit unspeakable acts, it does you no good... because there really isn't any one person or group you can point a finger towards.
The men who spoke on all this back in the 1860s and 1870s just never in a billion years imagined something like what has occurred in this country could occur. You even see the judges complaining about how the legislative branch is failing at their job in cases like the Plyler v. Doe case in 1982. The idea that the white people just completely forget who they are and their job as Americans just was never even part of their thinking.
If you would have asked Justice John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Samuel Freeman Miller, or Ward Hunt about this being a possibility in the future... they probably would have laughed so hard they would have fallen down.
So it's just strange. No one person could have carefully had all these disjointed pieces fall into place.
Even the Federal Reserve was an attempt to solve other issues. Same with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment. There were real issues behind each major situation.
It's just amazing how far our culture has fallen. We don't even know the most basic aspects of our entire programming language... which is the law.
But i feel like we have reached an incredibly high plateau right now. Seeing the ladies in the Bradwell v. State case as well as in the Susan B. Anthony case shows us that our ignorance on this whole situation is probably around 150 years old.
It's amazing our culture has lasted this long with 150 years of neglect and deepening ignorance.
Statutes have gotten bigger and more complex until eventually the legislative branch essentially stopped being able to do their job in maybe the 1970s. Then the judicial branch has been trying to pick up that slack ever since. And now they are on their last thread.
Even if i wanted to be mad... who would i be mad at? There's no one to target. So it's not worth doing because all you will do is exhaust that anger on the wrong targets.
The correct target for your anger is ignorance. A torrential and uneasing full aggressive and violent attack on ignorance is the only option we have.
Even if somehow you were able to figure out WHO was responsible and you were able to smash them into dust... you would turn around, with blood painted over your shirt and sword, only to see a completely ignorant and dazed public. It would really change nothing and you would then need to turn around and attack ignorance anyways.
I say if we are able to figure out who is responsible while we do our job at attacking ignorance then maybe we can decide to do something about it. But why not just be happy and live our lives and spend all our effort and time attacking ignorance?
The major weapon of whoever is responsible is ignorance and confusion. So we are sort of attacking them indirectly by focusing on ignorance and pointing at that as the true evil. Because even if there was no one behind any of this, the true evil in this world would STILL be ignorance.
If you really want to be mad about something, the most infuriating thing is that our nationality was stolen from us. Our entire Constitution was stolen from us and some PERSONS begged to get little pieces of it back through the Incorporation Doctrine. But this doctrine is irrelevant to citizens of the States.
Even if you are so mad that you want to commit unspeakable acts, it does you no good... because there really isn't any one person or group you can point a finger towards.
The men who spoke on all this back in the 1860s and 1870s just never in a billion years imagined something like what has occurred in this country could occur. You even see the judges complaining about how the legislative branch is failing at their job in cases like the Plyler v. Doe case in 1982. The idea that the white people just completely forget who they are and their job as Americans just was never even part of their thinking.
If you would have asked Justice John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Samuel Freeman Miller, or Ward Hunt about this being a possibility in the future... they probably would have laughed so hard they would have fallen down.
So it's just strange. No one person could have carefully had all these disjointed pieces fall into place.
Even the Federal Reserve was an attempt to solve other issues. Same with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment. There were real issues behind each major situation.
It's just amazing how far our culture has fallen. We don't even know the most basic aspects of our entire programming language... which is the law.
But i feel like we have reached an incredibly high plateau right now. Seeing the ladies in the Bradwell v. State case as well as in the Susan B. Anthony case shows us that our ignorance on this whole situation is probably around 150 years old.
It's amazing our culture has lasted this long with 150 years of neglect and deepening ignorance.
Statutes have gotten bigger and more complex until eventually the legislative branch essentially stopped being able to do their job in maybe the 1970s. Then the judicial branch has been trying to pick up that slack ever since. And now they are on their last thread.
Even if i wanted to be mad... who would i be mad at? There's no one to target. So it's not worth doing because all you will do is exhaust that anger on the wrong targets.
The correct target for your anger is ignorance. A torrential and uneasing full aggressive and violent attack on ignorance is the only option we have.
Even if somehow you were able to figure out WHO was responsible and you were able to smash them into dust... you would turn around, with blood painted over your shirt and sword, only to see a completely ignorant and dazed public. It would really change nothing and you would then need to turn around and attack ignorance anyways.
I say if we are able to figure out who is responsible while we do our job at attacking ignorance then maybe we can decide to do something about it. But why not just be happy and live our lives and spend all our effort and time attacking ignorance?
The major weapon of whoever is responsible is ignorance and confusion. So we are sort of attacking them indirectly by focusing on ignorance and pointing at that as the true evil. Because even if there was no one behind any of this, the true evil in this world would STILL be ignorance.
Never get so busy that you forget to thank God for bringing you home safely to the people who love you.
That's a blessing many people overlook, but one that's worth thanking Him for every single day.
It gets harder every level. That's the point.
Youth, High School, College, Pro.
Every level drops you right back at the bottom against better players.
You climb. Then you do it again. And Again.
And every hitter struggles with the mental part up there. Every one of them. (I know you think it's just you that struggles)
That's not the problem. That's the sign you're where you fought to be.
Better rosters, bigger stadiums, tougher arms across from you.
This is what you worked for. You wanted this. The struggle is the receipt.
Your whole job is the next level.
It's not supposed to be easy. If it was easy, the spot would already be taken.
So what are you gonna do about it? Get in or get out?