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The Growing Resilience show next week. “Ode to a 5-gallon bucket”
Your homework for the day. Look up “emotional incest.”

We’ll talk about this in light of the crisis of Fathers and society today at 3pm central.
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For our women here.

Imagine a square.

Now, in your mind, flip the square edge over edge, defining a cube.
Now make one side green. One side red. Now rotate it in your mind.
Why does anyone give this prick money?
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What is worse, a man that acts in a feminine manner, or a woman that acts in a masculine manner? Discuss.
Who would be interested in a livestream of a moon game/
Do not answer your door for anyone who knocks. In current year everyone has a cellphone. People who know you can call when they arrive.

Anyone who knocks is not welcome.

Circumstance has changed and so must custom.

Anyone who knocks is a stranger. It’s almost the test for such.

Disable your doorbell. Leave it there, but unhook it. They can push the thing until they prolapse.

As far as letting people know the house is occupied, that’s easy. Occupy the house.

Crackheads will try their luck anyway sometimes. When we are at home we have lights on. We always are playing music, etc. They’ll not make the mistake that the home is unoccupied.

DO NOT ANSWER THE DOOR YA’LL THIS IS NOT MAYBERRY.
Arguments for not putting off marriage:

1. Experience. I see now quality improvement among marriages started later than sooner.

The old books. Plato, Aristotle, and most of the old Greeks write about how we know things by their telos, their purpose. The primary telos of man is to live the good life, maybe the beatific vision. This necessarily HAS to include procreation.

The good life must include life. If there is no procreation, there is no life. Procreation is the human precondition for all human action. No procreation, no humans.

Procreation must be inside marriage to protect hte child. It insures the father will provide since mother and child cannot. It insures the mother will not bring the children of another man into the home.

The marriage ultimately exists for the good of the children, which in turn is good for us.

Once the human is capable of having and raising children they are prepared to live out their telos.


Additionally, we must pursue virute to best approach our telos. This is how we practice being proper people. Not proper in terms of prim and proper, but proper in terms of effective, good, well turned, etc.

Those virtues are hardest to practice as a young adult who is not in marriage. Living outside of marriage will increase likelihood of falling short, sin.

Two young adults who are “establish” at 24 years old, THEN get married can arguably never be married to the same extent two young people who get married first THEN become married are.

Also, two younger people who were NEVER single in the same way the two older people were. This is significant.

Who is more married? ONe who was never single as an adult or one who was?
Also, what’s better and 80 year old married 40 years or an 80 year old married 62 years?
If marriage is categorically good, and it is, being married longer is categorically better.

Further, two 40 year olds who have been married 5 years do not have the same quality of marriage two 30 year olds who have been married 12 years have.

The maturity of the marriage only increases with the age of the marriage, not the married. Newlyweds are newlyweds, regardless of their age.

If one is to “wait” until 29, let’s say, to get married. What I exactly, is the virtuous work or action to be done between the dawn of adulthood and that magic age? How are those years to be put to use?

There is opportunity cost. People aren’t fungible. If you find a suitable fit early on and move on to “date” others (Bone strangers.) there is almost a guarantee that the first suitable fit will be gone. If that person is not gone, you’re having boned all the strangers, worked you cruddy job , racked up debt, etc., will have likely altered or destroyed that fit.

That suitable fit has a shelf life.