If I had to choose, I’d prefer to be friends with Malcolm Reynolds. Dirty Harry chose to be a tax junkie, and an enforcer of “laws”. Not a good guy in my eyes, even if the thugs he went up against were worse.
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When You Do What Makes You Come Alive, Everyone Wins
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
Family is… Forever?
The greatness of family is that you have people who have significant investment in you and an ingrained community. This can offer wonderful support and resources in life. Unfortunately, people often use people’s sense of the indispensability of family as a means of leverage.
Something That Doesn’t Quite Fit Either Role
I am a leader for my family. I introduce my children to the world and show them the values I hold and believe in through my words and actions. I take the role as leader in order to inspire a good relationship between my child and myself, but also to help guide and assist them in discovering the world and their place within it.
Gratitude to Overcome Boredom, Difficulties, Complaining, & Feeling Overwhelmed
As many give thanks for what’s in their lives this week, we might look at how to go deeper with gratitude. “Gratitude” seems like a trite and even perhaps boring topic to many — we all know we should be grateful. And yet, there are ways that we aren’t cultivating gratitude … and our lives could be much easier, even richer, if we did use gratitude in these deeper ways. Let’s take a few examples.
Without Government Welfare
In a world without government welfare, every individual would be required to either provide for themselves, or rely on private charity. “But what if they can’t get private charity?” cries a bleeding-heart liberal.
Should We Be Our Children’s Friend?
You always hear so-called parenting “experts” say something to the effect that, “parents are not their children’s friend,” and “children need their parents to be a parent, not a friend.” Now that my commitment and focus is on raising my children peacefully and respectfully, I can say that this advice as absolutely bananas. Hear me out.
How Does Our Demeanor Affect Our Experiences?
We are often told by some women that women (in general) have a unique and crumby experience in the world. Men are constantly ogling them, making inappropriate remarks, sexualizing them, and just generally being creepy. We are told that this is the nature of being a women, or at least a somewhat attractive women. This is bullshit.
Like Clockwork, Striking Invisible Branches
Devin Kelley murdered 26 innocent people yesterday (November 5th) as they sat in church peacefully worshipping their god. Like clockwork, gun control advocates are out in full force. But gun culture in America is not an issue. What is the issue? Both the current mass murder and previous assaults were committed by a very broken person.
How Nerds Won the Culture
In the late 20th century, nerds were the first to adopt computers and video games. They loved fantasy and sci-fi first. They created subcultures based on interest and imagination, and they suffered for it through social mockery and social exclusion. Of course, the nerds were mostly right.