#nostrbiblestudy in eight hours! Hope you’ll join us to study Luke 7!
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The problem is not enjoying that a woman is beautiful.
The problems are:
1. The idea that you are entitled to fantasize about a beautiful woman
2. The idea that women exist for the enjoyment of men
Wow
1. I said nothing about crime. I’m talking about morality. Yes, thoughts matter.
2. “You exist for my enjoyment” is far closer to hate than to love.
God does. That’s what I’m talking about.
Also. If you think you can fantasize about those things and people will never be able to tell, you’re wrong. It will bear fruit in your life.
There are so many different kinds of beauty, it’s true! What I’m saying is actually more radical than “it’s okay to tell when someone is beautiful,” conventionally and physically or otherwise. I think it’s good to ENJOY that they are beautiful.
Many people don’t see that enjoying beauty is not the same as fetishizing beauty. This is what I’m trying to call attention to.
Personally, I don’t see emotional stability as feminine or emotional fragility as masculine. At least not inherently.
Like so many other things given these labels, they are every human’s choice, and both men and women display strength and weakness.
The standards are worse than just low, they’re intentionally not high. They specifically avoid hiring high-IQ applicants.
They want people who follow orders, not people with a conscience and a spine.
The system isn’t broken, it’s functioning as intended.
Democracy is the bad philosophy.
I’m not hopeless at all, unless we’re talking only my lifetime here. I am working to make things better. Tomorrow it may pay off a little bit. Generations from now, it may pay off much more.
Ultimately, Christ will reign and the former things will no longer even come to mind. And that’s my ultimate hope even if all my other hopes don’t pay off at all.
Homeschoolers of Nostr, what are some of your favorite tips to save money on schooling?
What would your advice be to someone daunted by the expense of homeschooling?
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My perspective:
Don’t buy a home to get into the housing market; buy a home to have a home if you don’t want to deal with a landlord (I.e., telling you how you can’t paint or garden, etc.)
If the school is government-run, I hope you can be persuaded to consider other options. They are awful in so many ways.
FYI one does not have to be a parent to teach homeschoolers. My Spanish tutor was employed by our co-op and had no kids.
Also FYI I’ve done most of these things, at home and abroad. Working for an after school tutoring program was what I did in China.
Yeah they are a great thing! Be sure to look for them in your area. And if one doesn’t already exist, you can start one with other homeschoolers and advertise in parenting magazines, local message boards, etc.
If the thing you want for your family is a house, it’s a great idea to buy a house. If you plan to treat a house as just an investment, I think it’s a gamble. That we see real estate as an investment is because of fiat games with our money making anything else more valuable, like in Weimar Germany. I’d buy Bitcoin instead.
I have seen both sides; I went to government school until part of the way through sixth grade, then was homeschooled until college. I can’t tell you strongly enough how much better homeschooling was in every fathomable way.
Especially in the internet age, homeschooling can be done cheaply. Ask around; join some forums and groups. If your baby isn’t even here yet, you definitely have some time to research.
Private schools may also have scholarships that can ease your financial burden. I have no direct experience with those, though.
I mean… I don’t think wearing clothes at all, and thereby covering beauty, is a sin (though you could argue that the way we do it, for propriety rather than pure adornment, celebration, and comfort, it is a consequence of sin)
I DO think “covering” personhood is a sin, and I can’t help but see the progressive swallowing up of women in more garments, so concurrent with their being swallowed up in oppression, as symbolic of that.
But I believe the sins here are exerting control over other human beings. Tyranny, gaslighting, and spiritual abuse.
Saying “dress this way or we are entitled to attack you” and “dress this way or you are sinning” and causing women to reduce themselves in order to survive is the evil here, not simply clothes.
First thought: probably Gary Oldman as something… 🤔
Current thought: Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus
(the classic, not the travesty sequel which should not exist)
I don’t actually remember when I muted them or if I even muted them vs. muted a thread they were in. But they ended up on my mutelist nonetheless.
I unmuted them Oct 13 and refollowed them Oct 15 or 16
Had at least a few good days in there where I saw their posts.
Didn’t realize they were muted and unfollowed again until today.
This is one of the prime examples of “just because it’s in the Bible doesn’t mean God approved; to the contrary.”
It doesn’t always say “and this angered the Lord” because we are supposed to understand that without being told.
Having a concubine, let alone abandoning her to be abused, is so far removed from “she is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh” and the Love that God Is that it is supposed to stand out as starkly as it does to us.
I don’t think modern people are removed from this behavior at all. Even in nations that are “at peace” internally, you have cruel criminals and crueler politicians perpetuating horrific evils every day.
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