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27.01.202503:16
In the past 5 or so years I've seen more people in our circles go full black pill with everything over the smallest set backs. Having a cause that you truly live for is essential to be able to look past all defeat and appreciate the little victories hidden in it all.
In being Boldly Optimistic and moving forward with life, we ditch the setbacks, and advance against our enemies no matter what they throw at us.
“Our actions may be impeded… but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
-Marcus Aurelius-
In being Boldly Optimistic and moving forward with life, we ditch the setbacks, and advance against our enemies no matter what they throw at us.
“Our actions may be impeded… but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
-Marcus Aurelius-
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26.01.202500:29
It's easy to get distracted and veer off course when things aren't going right. Having children that are always watching and learning from you, -even when you don't think they're paying attention-, should always bring you back to what's important.
About 3 children ago I started reading the stoics. I'm convinced that to be a good Father, Husband, and leader, applying that way of thinking is required. We should be virtuous, indifferent to external forces, live according to nature, rational, exercise self control, contribute to the good of our family, neighbors, and friends, and be strong mentally and physically.
At the end of the day we're not just raising children, we're raising philosophers and conquerors that will one day blaze a path across the world.
“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends.”
– Seneca the Younger-
About 3 children ago I started reading the stoics. I'm convinced that to be a good Father, Husband, and leader, applying that way of thinking is required. We should be virtuous, indifferent to external forces, live according to nature, rational, exercise self control, contribute to the good of our family, neighbors, and friends, and be strong mentally and physically.
At the end of the day we're not just raising children, we're raising philosophers and conquerors that will one day blaze a path across the world.
“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends.”
– Seneca the Younger-
18.01.202516:32
It always blows me away how much my sons grow while I'm away working. Coming home last night after a week and seeing them all this morning; I swear they all shot up an inch or more.
Young fathers, treasure all of it. It will slip through your fingers every time you blink.
Young fathers, treasure all of it. It will slip through your fingers every time you blink.
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30.11.202414:34
In 1909 my Paternal male ancestor immigrated from Eastern Poland/Russia to St Louis Missouri. He worked in the steel mills until his son, my Great Grandfather started working at Packard Motors in Detroit. My Grandfather was an Architect, and my Father was a Tradesman in construction.
Every Tradesman in America that I encounter these days talks about how hard it is to find good, honest, and intelligent people to hire. Many companies are shutting their doors or selling out to investors because of it. Our infrastructure and production as a whole are in a freefall, and we have the last couple of generations to blame for it all. The trades are all but lost here and around the western world, but we can and must bring them back. If we don't we will slip into a terrible age of darkness devoid of all beauty and creation.
“It seems to me that nothing essential has ever been lost, because its matrix is ever-present within us and from this it can be and will be reproduced if needed. But only those can recover it who have learned the art of averting their eyes from the blinding light of current opinions, and close their ears to the noise of ephemeral slogans.”
-Carl Jung-
Every Tradesman in America that I encounter these days talks about how hard it is to find good, honest, and intelligent people to hire. Many companies are shutting their doors or selling out to investors because of it. Our infrastructure and production as a whole are in a freefall, and we have the last couple of generations to blame for it all. The trades are all but lost here and around the western world, but we can and must bring them back. If we don't we will slip into a terrible age of darkness devoid of all beauty and creation.
“It seems to me that nothing essential has ever been lost, because its matrix is ever-present within us and from this it can be and will be reproduced if needed. But only those can recover it who have learned the art of averting their eyes from the blinding light of current opinions, and close their ears to the noise of ephemeral slogans.”
-Carl Jung-
26.01.202500:29
The mental health of young people in America and around the world has been on a steep decline. Suicide rates and gender dysphoria among some of the most disturbing, with more children on antidepressants than ever. A lot of blame gets passed around for this but as usual, if we simplify things in our life, things get easier.
Homeschool aside, if we just let the kids be kids again and protect their childhood, the majority of these problems would disappear. You can use my sons as proof. If you let them play, explore, build, and conquer their own little worlds in childhood, they'll grow up into stable and self sufficient adults.
"What society does to its children, so will its children do to society."
– Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Homeschool aside, if we just let the kids be kids again and protect their childhood, the majority of these problems would disappear. You can use my sons as proof. If you let them play, explore, build, and conquer their own little worlds in childhood, they'll grow up into stable and self sufficient adults.
"What society does to its children, so will its children do to society."
– Marcus Tullius Cicero -
22.01.202502:07
16.01.202501:36
26.01.202500:29
This is my oldest sons most recent project. He built a scale wood model of the Russian PPSH to give to his best friend for Christmas.
After chores and homeschool he disappears into my shop for hours building different toys and models out of scrap wood I've saved. Almost all of his projects are gifts for his friends.
After chores and homeschool he disappears into my shop for hours building different toys and models out of scrap wood I've saved. Almost all of his projects are gifts for his friends.
21.01.202523:22
I look forward to bad weather. Our area shuts down a few times a year for hurricanes or winter storms. It's always an opportunity for me to stay home for a few days with my family, and focus on simple things like keeping the fireplace going and protecting our animals. These events test the model of the family I have forged and provide unique team building moments.
Modern degenerate culture has taught people reliance on someone else to solve their problems. This reliance turns into slavery in the end. Real freedom is doing things our own way and being the driving force in our own life.
"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself."
-Friedrich Nietzsche-
Modern degenerate culture has taught people reliance on someone else to solve their problems. This reliance turns into slavery in the end. Real freedom is doing things our own way and being the driving force in our own life.
"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself."
-Friedrich Nietzsche-
13.01.202512:56
We all come from a long, chain of ancestors who by modern standards survived conditions we can't imagine today.
It’s their genes and their blood that make up our bodies right now. We our designed for resilience. No matter what situations we face, we can overcome them if we tap into our natural abilities to excel and destroy all obstacles that come up during our lifetimes.
"Our ancestors have left this to us in trust, to preserve and to hand on to our descendants."
- Marcus Aurelius-
( Pictured, my Great Great Grandparents holding my Grandfather.)
It’s their genes and their blood that make up our bodies right now. We our designed for resilience. No matter what situations we face, we can overcome them if we tap into our natural abilities to excel and destroy all obstacles that come up during our lifetimes.
"Our ancestors have left this to us in trust, to preserve and to hand on to our descendants."
- Marcus Aurelius-
( Pictured, my Great Great Grandparents holding my Grandfather.)
26.01.202500:29
In modern times it's very easy to
go to the grocery store and have access to any food item year round. Most people would say this is a great thing and marvel at how far we've come. I however see this as a huge societal weakness.
In my industry I see the food transported by ships and trucks up close and it's gets pretty unclean. Produce also gets harvested early and sprayed with chemicals to survive the trip and quickly loses vitamin content. By the time it arrives in your pantry it can be weeks old and a fraction of it's fresher self.
Eating seasonal from local farms is the most effective way to get the best nutrient dense food and often at better prices. It connects you more to your food because you know where it came from, and helps support local family farms. I started our farm after learning that the eggs in the store are often already months old (in America). The more I learn, the more I want to be self sufficient and protect my family from the food industry that doesn't have our best interest in mind.
"Do not seek to have everything at once, but rather to be content with what you have."
- Epictetus-
go to the grocery store and have access to any food item year round. Most people would say this is a great thing and marvel at how far we've come. I however see this as a huge societal weakness.
In my industry I see the food transported by ships and trucks up close and it's gets pretty unclean. Produce also gets harvested early and sprayed with chemicals to survive the trip and quickly loses vitamin content. By the time it arrives in your pantry it can be weeks old and a fraction of it's fresher self.
Eating seasonal from local farms is the most effective way to get the best nutrient dense food and often at better prices. It connects you more to your food because you know where it came from, and helps support local family farms. I started our farm after learning that the eggs in the store are often already months old (in America). The more I learn, the more I want to be self sufficient and protect my family from the food industry that doesn't have our best interest in mind.
"Do not seek to have everything at once, but rather to be content with what you have."
- Epictetus-
10.01.202520:04
We’re constantly bombarded with messages to buy more, upgrade more, and to be in competition to have the newest thing to be cool. It sounds like a pretty stressful way to live, and those people are never satisfied.
We didn't have many material luxuries when I was growing up. We took care of and valued what we had. I was happier with a stick playing in the woods than my peers with a new video game. I've raised my own sons to do the same, and they've developed some awesome hobbies outside the brain rot.
I imagine each thing we complicate our lives with as a heavy chain we drag around as we go. With so many worries and vices that we keep dragging around, it gets hard to see the small things that make us happy.
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
–Epictetus-
We didn't have many material luxuries when I was growing up. We took care of and valued what we had. I was happier with a stick playing in the woods than my peers with a new video game. I've raised my own sons to do the same, and they've developed some awesome hobbies outside the brain rot.
I imagine each thing we complicate our lives with as a heavy chain we drag around as we go. With so many worries and vices that we keep dragging around, it gets hard to see the small things that make us happy.
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
–Epictetus-
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