strength and discipline

Downs syndrome kids have the effect of making other people kind. Ever noticed how a sibling to a downs kid is calibrated much more finely in his moral judgment than other ppl his age? It’s uncanny and if that’s you,you have to understand that you’re built different. In a good way

You cannot reason from their rules. Their rules are not for your benefit. If you benefit, they will change the rules. Patriots have to rip out their language and their reasoning, and install what is just by their own lights. You can’t put your new wine into their old wineskins

“Shall we not summon ourselves to patience when it promises so great a reward, the unmoved serenity of a tranquil mind?” - Seneca, ‘on anger’ 2.12.6

I’m really enjoying this guys posts. The sun that this kind of high quality woman eventually orbits around is, broadly, the consequences of fertility. “True love” “adventure, intelligence, beauty” Ok, fleshing this out. True love isn’t superficial. Shes open to a high degree of self-exposure and vulnerability because she trusts your desire for her. How this relates to fertility: artificial birth control limits exposure and vulnerability. Ppl can say preference this or planning that, but saying it isn’t proving that one is vulnerable; it’s excusing why a person is not vulnerable. So it’s true love and it’s adventurous. How this relates to fertility. “Why not? Why shouldn’t I throw caution to the wind and go on an adventure that will change who I am? Pour the wine, I’ll be right back.” This is an adventurous woman that true love can marvel at. Soon enough, baby on board. But what if she discovers a defect in herself? What if she miscarries? Frequently? What if she never conceives? What does this do to a vulnerable, exposed, adventurer? Her essential feminine quality - one that she essentially gave to you - doesn’t work? She’ll be grieved. Adventure will recede, and very understandably (to any man). True love will take a different shape - her personality might shift to a register of apology. She might exude a chastened boldness. And somehow, again, fertility (or infertility) bends the arc of the connection you have with her. Or suppose she has children. Gets sick a few times, has some birth stories to tell, invests months, years, into gestation, falls off the social calendars bc she’s covered in baby gear, doctor appointments, grocery runs, household chores, child training manuals instead of Schopenhauer. This is loyalty and self-giving, still. It’s very real and must be seen as real love and not as a deviation from it. Again, the shape of your adventure arcs because of fertility. The endpoint, whether it’s narcissus or goldmund, so to speak, is the same: the best woman will have her relationship altered and multiplied because of deep love. Her self-giving will always be deeply moved by fertility and the consequences of it. And the man will always, in a sense, lose the connection he started with. Her loyalties , because of her primary loyalty to the man, multiply and reshape into concerns that all stem from him. Jacob wrestled with the angel. As far as adventures go, it’s virtually unimaginable. And after that adventure, Jacob walked with a limp- a constant witness to the glory he enjoyed for a night. There is no such thing as a lifelong true love to an adventurous, beautiful and intelligent woman, unless you remember that the reality of fertility will overtake her vulnerability, self-exposure, and then, her attention and vigor. This is good because without it, you know the love was never really true.

Heat map stuff in Leo’s Encyclical. In a context of mass third world migration, the “throw away” ppl are the natives. When thousands of citizens are fired from jobs to make room for tens of thousands of foreigners, the natives are the ones being thrown away. Pope Francis apparently denounced this? The “preferential option” reminds us of the heat map and the ordo amoris. Do good unto all men, especially those of the faith. That’s the preferential option. And within that option, as St Paul reminds us, those who care not for “their own” are worse than infidels. Preferential option doesn’t have fixed orders but it does have regular orders which include a societal safeguarding of one’s own people even while not excluding everyone else entirely.

Garden post. I think the purple flower is maybe borage? It was supposed to cantaloupe lol Many green beans. This patch has given us about 100 quarts of canned green beans so far this year. Add flowers Add ducks. The wire panels on the sides are supposed to have a lot more morning glory flowers acting as border walls for the garden. The back “wall” is corn and sunflowers. Sunflowers are about to come out bigly. The hoop frame is for cucumbers. They’re still coming in.

Gospel of John is themed to Genesis. John’s “word” gave life to everything. It blessed the human and the created world. Interesting that a father can get far in giving life to his creation by telling his son all the genesis 1 things. “Youre like me. I want you to have a family and build something great. Be wise. Go max. Go and live” a dad who gets around to literally saying this is building a new man and ge will brag to anyone “behold the man”. The Word is creative and vital and a spiritual/physical reality that is a means that changes nothing into something

One necessary but initially unattractive feature of the life she describes is participating in programs that arent “your thing”. Take graduations. It’s graduation season. A private school had one graduate. They planned for the church h choir to perform. Suppose you are in the church choir. It’s Sunday afternoon. You already sang at church. You are relaxing now, or doing online activism, or catching up on laundry, or studying your niche. It’s 4:30 now. You’re supposed to drive back to the small school to sing in a choir performance which almost no one will attend, for a student you have never had a conversation with- all at the expense of your one day off this week. You show up. The 14 other adults in choir are also there. Theu also do not know the graduate beyond facial recognition. They also wanted to nap and read, but they also didn’t. Now you are at the event, you’re sharing in what should be an event you shouldn’t be at, you sing together. The little ceremony ends. You perfunctorily congratulate the graduate. You stand outside in the parking lot, Finishing up a conversation. Someone thought to bring extra zucchini from their prolific garden - a perfect way to get rid of excess homegrown produce. “Thanks, Marge.” You see fireflies. “Look! It’s summertime fireflies”. The small children are catching them. They’ll remember this for up years. You go home. You can almost remember the graduate’s name. You already forever misplaced the choir sheet music. You open X, start to rebut a claim that there’s no community in the modern world. But you think, nah. Got him to find it, He has to figure it out the long way.

Men should want a kingdom but they don’t even want a marriage or children.

WB Yeats and Seven Mary Three

All of these things - blockbuster; Pizza Hut, toys r us, six flags - would become the playground of undesirables. People use premium private services to avoid the undesirables.Costco membership, grocery delivery, Venmo, premium Spotify to avoid the ads, self checkout, farmers markets and premium groceries, premium Twitter to avoid the ads. One thing all these have in common is that they all allow ppl to distance themselves from low society.

> subsidize IVF conceptions to boost American population, even though it will barely change the birthrate and comes with unique congenital defects > subsidize data centers which cause more miscarriages than Ivf delivers = combined subsidizes yield net NEGATIVE growth effect

Dads, you should be living sacrificially for a glorious mission, and pass this mandate on to your daughters. They will understand that clothes, cars, and makeup are secondary to this. If you just make them thriftmax while you make no genuine sacrifices, you’re just losing nonstop

I overhear 16 yr dghtr talking to her cousin/bestie. “I might want 4. Or 5. But really, it should be an even number that’s more than 4, so probably 6.” How many children she wants.

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