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Torn Apart

What do you do when you’ve been insulted by a loved one?

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I want to forgive and make an effort to not take it personally, but I also don’t want to make myself vulnerable to future attacks. I have done well to adhere to Don Miguel Ruiz’s Agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally. I find it most difficult when the insult is worded in a deeply personal way.

I can intellectualize why this person has an internal conflict that he is projecting on me. I’m especially good at explaining this when I’m not the one being insulted.

I struggle with letting him close again. I want to model a healthy environment for my sons and curating the souls I choose to be around is an important factor. Since becoming a widower, one of my most important intentions was to invest myself in those who invest in me.

That’s not to the exclusion of strangers and community. Many of our blessings come from these sources and I continue to pour out the energy and resources we possess. It is those who would reject and insult our gifts that I do not want in my life.

Is that it? Is an insult delivered out of a lack of self love harmless and forgettable? Is it still deserving of a new boundary? I don’t see myself or my sons as too fragile to be compassionate to our loved ones. I do see life as precious enough not to share energies with those who would not accept them.

I often tell my sons, “You must ask before helping someone. You cannot help one who does not want help.” Can all communication be defined as “help?” Whether attempting to understand someone or yourself, solve a problem, or share joys and confusions, aren’t we always helping ourselves and others when we are communicating properly?

For now, that is how I will frame it. I will establish healthy boundaries and keep my heart open to forgiveness.

Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements:

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Because I’m Too Tired To Write About Our Amazing Day At Legoland, Florida

Twitter has been banning and shadow banning people for years without clear communication, although with clear ideological bias. This has been a growing problem, but Trump was unwilling to stand up to them, until he was the target. It was predictable.

You can oppose the ban and the man, although the ban is a much bigger threat. He was voted out, for goodness sake, now they’re trying to turn him into a martyr. Bad move on Twitter’s part.

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Is Taxation Theft?

What happens if you don’t pay them? They come with guns and lock you up.

Credit agencies don’t do that and seem to get their job done (repo is for property, not freedom). Truth is that government has no moral right to your money, they must use force to take it. There’s no moral wrong in not paying taxes, we do it because we are afraid of losing our freedom.

Americans are rightfully terrified and spend millions in protection money to tax preparers.

Many say it’s not theft, but they sure act like it is.

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Grateful for My Own Platform

Facebook is forcing “fact check” information along with posts about this talk from Tom Woods.

Edit: Youtube pulled the video, you can view it here: https://tomwoods.com/the-covid-cult/

I believe people can watch the video on their own and determine its validity.

I am grateful for having a place to share without censorship.

For more info:

Some COVID Resources

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Maybe You Shouldn’t Vote

How many millions of dark-skinned men and women have been put in cages because of Biden and Harris?

How many millions of dark-skinned men and women have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, and elsewhere due to interventions backed by Biden?

Your vote won’t change my opinion of you, you’ve got your reasons.

Just don’t slap a flag sticker on your profile tomorrow and claim you voted against racism.

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No Labels, Please

I shake off labels whenever I can. Downcased “libertarian” is preferable over party affiliation, but there are plenty of sub categories. Personally, agorism, anarcho-capitalism, and the non-aggression principle are my favorite strains of thought.

Ultimately, the only label I’ll accept for myself and others is “individual.” That’s really the only way we can hear each other and work together (or leave each other the F alone, your choice).

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A Popular Bloom

The magnolia has gone full hydra. Every time I snip a bloom or two (three as party favors last week), more seem to replace them. Its fragrance is more pleasant than in the five years we’ve been here.


After I snipped this one, I noticed a beetle drunk on pollen. I thought he was dead and a small bee rounded the center of the flower, ignoring the beetle.


While trying to capture a picture of this special scene, the beetle crawled back to life and no fewer than three bees and a one small fly visited.


The beetle seemed to pull pistols (?) down, do some more pollen bathing, and hide away out of the sun.


I couldn’t bring myself to have this popular flower inside, so it’ll participate in the circle of life a bit longer today.

God bless and thank you for reading, I appreciate you,

Jason

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On Christianity

If you look at Christianity from its beginning, it didn’t have that name. Not even Jesus’s students named it that while he was alive. The “Way” was one of the names.

Let me pause. I want to go simple here. I’m usually digging and learning. But when I’m lost and looking for direction, I go to the New Testament. I look to the Way of Jesus. He talked to and healed all types of people regardless of deep cultural divides. He loved and preached love. He lifted up women over and over. In one of his last commands he put his mother’s care in his best friend’s hands. There’s no simpler, clearer way for me to see life.

We’re not a Nation. We’re an Empire made up of many Nations. There is no National conversation to be had, it’s the lie of the last 100 years.

That truth is not enough. We have to break up the Nations, talk to each other as individuals, not political abstractions. That’s what Jesus has taught me.

God bless and thank you for reading,

Jason

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Digging for Courage: C.S. Lewis

A dear friend shared part of this C.S. Lewis essay with me this morning. I just listened to the whole thing. It’s worth 15 minutes of your time. It takes revelations I found as a youth through Joseph Campbell, our oldest myths, and Albert Camus and boils them down to the way I have lead my life for a long time.

It explains much of my response to the latest hysteria. If you have had trouble understanding my actions, if you have insulted my parenting, intelligence, privilege, or concern for humanity, do me a favor and listen to this. If you want to have honest discussion afterward, please comment. If you stand behind your insults, please leave me be.

God bless and thank you for reading,

Jason