Sending your boys to public school where an overwhelming majority of teachers are members of the Lindsay Clancy fan club might be why so many are "failures to launch." They are emotionally abused from day 1.
Nothing produces a villain so efficiently as a brilliant mind left to ferment without God. somewhere right now there is a man with a beautiful mind for mathematics curdling into a petty manipulator because nobody ever gave him anything larger than himself to serve. history is full of these rotten brilliant geniuses, every single one of them had the same blank accountant's stare by the end, that same flat calculating quiet that passes for composure but is actually the calm of a man who has already decided everybody around him is less than him and is merely waiting for the correct time to say so
The only parenting advice I find useful: You can't teach your kids anything. You just have to embody the things you want them to learn. Make a list of the traits and values you want your kids to have. Then make sure you're living by them every single day. That's really it.
I’ve been saying this for 7 years.
It you do not have kids you’ve never been tired a day in your life. You may think you have been, but I assure you, you were in fact, well rested.
I once heard that some Native tribes had a different sense of location. When lost, they wouldn't say "I'm lost.
They'd say "the camp is lost." In other words, no matter where they were, themselves weren't lost, only what they were looking for was.
That's how you feel when you are connected to God. You may not always know what direction to take, but you aren't lost, ever; because you always know where you stand spiritually.
Even if you don't believe in God, try to reorder your soul in light with religious principles, even if you don't accept a religion. The attacks will be immediate. As they say, "The devil will never interrupt you when you're sinning." Stay from sin and then it gets real.
Chris Powers solved the AI debate issue long ago. His factories grant equity to factory workers. Nobody is working themselves out of a job because they get higher pay and stock. If every Big Tech company did this, problems disappear overnight. You have to do this.
the greatest gift my parents ever gave me was 4 siblings. like wdym as an adult i'm in a group chat with 9 family members that is basically a never ending hype club, support group, comedic relief, and i'm an aunt to 5 sweet kiddos who i get pictures and videos of all the time.
Separate your experience from your identity.
Maybe you have been "the guy trying to recover" for years now, so that identity - get rid of it.
What has happened is a fact. It is just history.
But the meaning that you assign to it is completely under your control.
Always try to say: my soul wanted me to go through this. What can I learn from it? Let's move forward.
That is the only angle that makes sense for your life.
There is a japanese legend that says:
If you miss the bus, maybe you avoided the accident. If you got rejected, maybe you were saved from the wrong place. If they left, maybe they made room for who is coming.
The universe protects you in ways that look like bad luck at first. Trust the detour.
Us who knew about Fauci and Covid from the get go, now watching people realize they were made to believe in a whole scam and circus…
Before Elon bought Twitter, we were getting our information from alternative, so-called “conspiracy theory” platforms.
Loved ones died alone in hospitals. Funerals were banned. High school coming of age moments like football and prom were stolen. Careers ruined over the vaccine. Small businesses destroyed. Military members discharged. Fauci and Big Tech and your Democrat neighbors did this.