The nuclear family has lost favor with the Progressive Left for generations, but Bill Whittle and Alfonzo Rachel show how this modern miracle innovation is the feature most likely to elevate women, protect children and motivate men to excellence.
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18 replies on “The Modern Miracle Innovation Most Likely to Elevate Women, Protect Children, Motivate Men”
Love the discussion around husbands and wives serving each other. There are tasks that need to be done around a house to make it a home. Some call these tasks chores. Mrs. Ron and I are different enough that most tasks break down into things we each enjoy, and those that we do not. When there is no overlap it is easy.
I enjoy cooking and get genuine pleasure from making a nice meal for us, especially when she no longer orders that item out as mine is better. But I haven’t done laundry in years. I also enjoy turning long grass into short grass and those type of outdoor tasks. She likes to plant different flowers in different seasons so there is always something blooming. She plants, I tend.
There are some things neither of us like to do, we share those and get them done quickly when they need doing. Cleaning bathrooms is up on the list. Once a week for about 45 minutes, we knock out the three and make a game of it while listening to the tunes play.
Marriage is a partnership, if you treat it as such and realize that serving the other does bring joy.
marriage is dying. all across western civilization. there’s a reason for that. family and marriage connote personal responsibility, personal accountability and self-actualization (maslow). our currant new world order is the very antithesis of the institution of marriage. even the law of the land is oppositional.
abortion is a womens’ right to kill her unborn children. that doesn’t sound like a foundational part of family, commitment, accountability and/or responsibility to me yet there aren’t many women who would knowingly give up that ‘right’. even conservative women like to say “well, i wouldn’t do that but i support a womens’ right to choose”. oh really.
men have and will increasingly turn their backs on marriage because it’s a loaded gun with the trigger cocked and aimed directly at their head. every man with a modicum of common sense knows that but still some choose to dive into the shark tank and then are surprised a few years later when they are escorted off the gang plank.
amazing.
Family law is so rigged against men that I’d need an awfully compelling reason to even look seriously at entering into a marriage contract.
The western culture revolves around possession. And that includes marriage. You already start by desire to own the spouse — and the few with different idea are very soon got shamed into it.
And that obviously bound to explode sooner or later, or get into a dom-sub form that may be stable but hardly creates happiness.
As a child, I was very well behaved according to my parents (now deceased) and the discipline was done by my father. That, and him allowing me try and mess up, thus learning. He taught me a lot too. Only got spanked once I can remember. Not for what I did, but for lying about it. Trouble was, I was telling the truth and they did not believe me. I demonstrated what happened and my father apologized and said “I really should have believed you. But what i thought was a lie was what got me, because that was greater than the deed. Mistakes are one thing. Lying about them is another.” I miss him. Miss my mother too, but mom died first, and she was too protective. And admitting to mistakes, and people believing me when I tell the hard to believe truth be cause of my reputation, I owe to him.
As a child I was a serious problem according to my parents (now deceased) and the discipline was shared by both mom and dad, because my dad was gone a lot for work. So “wait ’till your father gets home” could mean quite a while and when it comes to well deserved punishment, the sooner the better.
The problem I presented was that things occurred to me that do not occur to “normal” kids, so I was a bit outside the envelope of common experience. Often my parents and adult relatives would shake their heads and say something to the effect of “How did you even think of something like that?”
(I.E. I decided I was going to kill all the rats in the barn. I was 10 or 11 years old and was certain I would be a “hero” for doing so. My motivations were good but my method was a little iffy. I made a grid of bare electrical wires, insulated where they crossed, cut one of the two wires on a power cord to a radio and ran the circuit across that grid. I put bait on the grid and piled cinderblocks in a square around it. So that the rat wouldn’t just jump or get thrown off the grid when it touched it. Then I plugged it in with the radio set to full volume, thinking that when the rat completed the circuit the radio would come on. I knew enough then about simple wiring but didn’t know that rats are resistors. The radio did come on, but not very loud and off playing in another area of the farm I didn’t hear it. Grandpa found the results before I had a chance to clean it up and “go back to the old drawing board”. Rats also burn if they are exposed to electricity for a substantial period it turns out. I could have burned down the barn, the only thing that prevented a catastrophic fire was I set up my device on concrete and the cinder blocks contained the flames. I didn’t consider that while rats are “the enemy” they are also living creatures and I hadn’t taken into account that electrocution isn’t a very humane way to dispatch them. I thought they would just touch the wire, die, complete the circuit and I’d unplug the radio and reset my trap. I wasn’t a mean kid. I didn’t intentionally torture animals and I felt bad about what I did to the rat and that I could have burned down the barn and ruined my family’s livelihood, but I got the switch for that one anyway. This is only one example of many, I could write a book about all of them.)
Looking back, I think I learned a lot from those experiences but I’m absolutely certain that every stroke I got with belt or willow switch was well earned and absolutely merited.
Fast forward to my kids … Thank God they were more “normal” and not like me. My oldest boy was headstrong and willful so it took two bouts with the belt to get through to him. One of those was for lying, like your example but he really did lie and we had a long talk about how I would always back him up unless I couldn’t be sure he was telling me the truth. The younger one, the one that’s now second in command at a U.S. military base, only needed one date with the belt to understand there were consequences for bad behavior.
Bill and Company often talk about the merits of gratitude, that my kids didn’t put me through what I did to my parents is something I’m very grateful for. I dodged The Mother’s Curse –
“I hope when you grow up, you have kids just like you!”
I hope you are writing a book, ACTS. I’d love to read it.
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Patrick F. McManus or not. He used to write the last page column titled “Last Laugh” for Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines — relating things like I said above from his own childhood.
I’ve considered following his example but I’m not so chairbound yet as to have that kind of time. I actually have the time, I just choose to spend it otherwise.
Well, just keep sharing your anecdotes here for your fellow member’s amusement and/or enlightenment.
“Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy;”
what is this a quote from? If you tell me the Bible, please tell me what translation as it is not one I am familiar with. Thanks much.
Not entirely sure, but looked it up and it relates to the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormon)
reorganized i think.
I don’t know where it’s from but it’s nothing more than obvious common sense clad in flowery words.
Of course you are not going to get upset with your spouse and stay mad at them, discipline your kids and afterwards not forgive them, disagree with a friend and hate them forever thereby. If you didn’t “get over it” everyone you ever reproved or who reproved you would become an enemy so …
It’s not a profound idea, it’s just mutton dressed up as lamb.
I don’t mean any offense to Lynn Dennett, unless of course that’s not a quote. If those are her words she can wear them but — There are more direct ways to come to the same destination without trying to sound profound or scriptural.
Something like that, that’s trying to sound Biblical and is not, should set off warning flares. Why do that if the overall intent is not deception?
It is from the Doctrine and Covenants, scripture to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (not the Church of Latter-day Saints, Jesus Christ is very central to the Gospel). The Reorganized church, whose name has changed, also uses these scriptures as far as I know.
For ACTS, I’m male BTW, and I thought I would put up a quote that might add to the discussion. No deception intended.
Sorry about mis-gendering you, I had a friend named Leslie way-back-when. He had the same sort of confusions at times so he went by “Les”. Don’t see how a guy named Lynn could do that. Lynn only abbreviates to Lyn. That said, your sex wasn’t really my point, it might have been the purple monogram that threw me off but I’m apologizing for that anyway.
Most Mormons I know, and I do know a few, are OK with “LDS” in reference to their church and religious beliefs. I don’t think I can remember one who took exception to that in informal speech. I’m sorry but I don’t know the intimate nuanced minutia of Mormonism, Reorganized church or otherwise.
I’m not at all interested in Mormon proselytization either so please don’t take that as an invitation to expound on Mormon theology.
I say that because many years ago, out of innocent blissful ignorance I once asked a really cute Mormon girl what it was that Mormons believed in. Being a Christian myself, and not knowing the particulars I was just interested, mildly, and not to a degree that exceeded small talk with a really cute girl. Boy was that a mistake.
She told me a little bit, then she flirtatiously — and I do mean clearly and obviously flirtatious, not “oh you just thought she was flirting” but she wasn’t — Offered to stop by my place for a Bible Study. Well, she was cute and obviously intelligent so I said “Sure”. Mistake #2.
She showed up for our Bible Study “date” with a stack of literature and a nice shiny new Book of Mormon “just for me”. I never let things get to the point where she got a chance to dig into that pile of pseudo-Biblical material and insisted we simply discuss and compare doctrines.
It didn’t take long before I was certain our doctrines were incompatible Not “incompatible” like Catholic vs. Lutheran vs. Methodist. Wholly and completely incompatible. The real “tell” was when I noticed that she and I were using some of the same words but to her they didn’t have the same, common meaning. I tested this in a couple of not particularly overt ways and yes … She was absolutely using words that she applied her own definition to. For instance “Saints”.
So I politely told her that we were through discussing religion. I was scrupulously and painfully nice about it. I had to phrase that a couple different ways, she didn’t seem to notice or understand what I was saying but the idea finally got across and as they say — The Bulb Lit Up — but with the opposite effect. My original query had been satisfied and then some so ….”Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question. Wanna go get a pizza?”
Turned out she did not want to go get a pizza. It was like a light switch being turned off. No more smiles and giggles. No more heart melting looks and musical voice. No more light touch on the hand or arm with a declaration of how nice, how bright, or what I gentleman I was. Just a dead fish in front of me. I had not misinterpreted the signals and being an honorable Christian man who at that time was wearing a uniform and had no designs on her knickers at all but thought she was a nice girl (and did I say she was cute?) in a moment clarity gelled and I understood perfectly. The only thing she wanted to do with me was to put a notch in her Mormon Recruitment Belt. She intentionally deceived me.
Ok, no big deal, she wasn’t the first girl to do that nor the last. The story would have ended there. Or at least it should have. But it didn’t.
She got my name into that damnable Mormon database in Salt Lake City. It was like having a case of spiritual clap. They couldn’t track me when I was operational overseas but when I would come back to the U.S. and use my real name within a few days there would be Elder Orchard and Elder Smith, or their jacket, white shirt and tie clad clones, at my doorstep. No matter where I was.
I told them I wasn’t interested. At first I was civil and polite. I got less civil and less polite as recurrences piled up.Finally I had to go to my operations officer and explain they were a security risk. That’s never a good thing, it goes into your file and whether it was or not looks like you screwed up. Though it turned out to be worth it because it got them a visit from the FBI and that was the end of it.
So yeah, I know a few Mormons. I’m on speaking terms with a few of them even to the present day. Mormons are decent and honorable people as a general rule but I always tell a Mormon that story to get across that we can be friends. We’ll just have to agree to disagree on theology and I’m not going to take it well if my wishes in that regard are not respected.
You may worship as you please, this is America and I respect your right to that because I believe strongly in the principles this nation was founded upon. They’re not First Principles but they are vitally important nonetheless. I expect you and everyone else to reciprocate that respect for my beliefs.
I’ll argue theology with a Christian because we’re both talking about the same thing. I won’t argue theology with a Mormon because I know that is not the case.
One last thing. I didn’t say you were the source of the deception, just that the deception should be obvious. I explained why that is so. That is my final word on this topic and I wish you well.
Don’t need to apologize. I thought about changing my name in my 20s but I only have an initial instead of a middle name, and also I’d have a hard time answering to a name I wasn’t used to.
I don’t mind LDS or Mormon personally, I just want the proper name of the church if someone is going to use the full thing.
I’m sorry if you’ve had bad experiences with proselyting. I’ve had the reverse when people found out I was Mormon, suddenly we can’t be friends anymore.
I come to this site because media in Japan parrot whatever mainstream media in the US says. I’m not here to proselytize. But I’m not going to hide my religion either.
If you studied and came to your own conclusions about the church, great. Most people just rely on someone else’s opinion about it.
A lot of people that may read this exchange won’t know what you’re talking about so I’ll leave a couple of verses from the Book of Mormon so people can see the incompatibilities for themselves:
2 Nephi 25:23, 2 Nephi 25:26
And this my last interaction.
Reminds me of Alan Jackson’s “Here in the real world” song. Great job fellas!