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NEET: Not in Education, Employment or Training. It's too late to fix this, but...
The lament of a Christian young man between a Millennial and a GenZ:
"I can't use my degree in a helping profession, which supposedly needed more men, because it went woke. Now, I'm on my fourth career. I have been passed over for multiple positions because I was a man instead of a woman. The people who passed me over admitted to it. I finally gave up and started a business, but artificial intelligence and inflation undercut me. Some of those who helped me to establish my business even told me they were hoping to mentor a woman instead. In addition, even some of my customers wanted to work with a female-owned business....
"I'm now a skilled tradesman. I live on my own, with no debt and money in the bank... but I have a non-zero chance of dying at work, and overwhelming overtime, which I can't get out of. For the privilege, I had to be turned away at the door by multiple other trades, because they refused to work with some college boy."
Monday Morning Prayer: Dr. Stan Zygmunt - YouTube
A friend from Campus Crusade at MIT, now a long-time physics professor at Valparaiso University, speaks at a college chapel service on why we don't ask for help and why we should anyway.
dear washington DC - by el gato malo - bad cattitude
"i know A LOT of these people. this is what most of my friends are like. they learn for a living. they pull systems apart, see them as functional wholes, and work 16 hour days reading arcane 1000 page descriptions until they understand. then they pull the underwear of whoever thought they understood this material up over their heads in an atomic wedgie and take over a space. it's just what you do if you're a person like that. it's compulsion. it's like breathing.
"these are 3 and 4 and 5 standard deviation people who have focus and talent in quantities they do not even have maps of in washington....
"moving into a novel systems or spaces and becoming better at it than the people currently there is what these people do. it's ALL they do. it's who and what they are....
"DC was able to deal with people like this in the past because there were only a couple. you could isolate them and use the systems against them. this is a mob. and that's a very different thing."
Michelle Malkin: The inspiring story of Maglite inventor Tony Maglica
From Michelle Malkin in 2015: "In our home, we try to instill a life lesson for our kids best summed up in Latin: Nihil boni sine labore. It means, 'Nothing good achieved without hard work.'
"Few people I've met in my lifetime embody this motto better and more brilliantly than Tony Maglica, inventor of the iconic Maglite flashlight.
"The spry 84-year-old founder and CEO of Mag Instrument still traverses his 450,000-square-foot factory floor dozens of times over the course of his 12-hour workday, six days a week, beginning at the crack of dawn and ending after most of his 800 employees have clocked out."
One Good Thing Every Day | Blood-Cancer.com
Some great self-care advice for anyone, but particularly those dealing with long-term health challenges, by Connie Connely, who was one of my mom's colleagues at Catoosa Elementary and her dear friend: Write down one good thing that happened every day. Set small goals and plan for activities to look forward to. Reach out to a friend. List things that are bothering you. Be alert to decision fatigue. Drink water and eat healthy meals. Get enough sleep.
You're Morally Obligated to Do Remarkable Things - Dr Jordan B Peterson | Facebook
"You're Morally Obligated to Do Remarkable Things. Why?
"Well, partly because life is so difficult and challenging that unless you give it everything you have, the chances are very high that it will embitter you. And then you'll be a force for darkness. That's not good. Also, the fact that life is short and can be brutal can terrify you into hiding. But you can flip that on its head and understand that since you're all in, you might as well take the adventurous risks. That's a very good thing to understand.
"What is also useful to understand is that there isn't anything more adventurous than the truth. This is something that took me a long time to figure out. You can craft your words to get what you want.
"If you're attempting to say what you believe to be true and attempting to act in the manner that you think is most appropriate, that's genuinely you. If you're trying to live in the truth, you have the force of reality behind you, and that seems like a good deal. You have the reality and the adventure.
"So, why is that a moral obligation? Well, if you hide and you don't let what's inside of you out--and you don't bring into the world what you could bring--you become cynical and bitter. Not only will you not add to the world what you could add, but you'll start being jealous of people who are competent and doing well and work to destroy them.
"That's the pathway to hell."
There Is No Indispensable Man | The Art of Manliness
"...when Ike returned to Normandy for the 20th anniversary of D-Day and was asked to give a speech at a dinner commemorating the invasion, rather than use the occasion to wax poetic about his role in executing one of the most monumental military operations in history, this man of singular eminence instead used the opportunity to read -- 'The Indispensable Man.'...
"As Eisenhower replied to a reporter who asked whether the prevailing 'view that you are indispensable to a party victory' would influence Ike's decision to run for a second term as president: 'Did you ever think of what a fate civilization would suffer if there were such a thing as an indispensable man? When he went the way of all the flesh, what would happen? It would be a calamity, wouldn't it? I don't think we need to fear that.'"
Principles, Linear Existence, and Deep Space Nine
Some deep thoughts from Juliette Ochieng (aka Baldilocks) on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pilot: "And it demonstrates something essential about the relationship between inner-core beliefs/principles and the fallen nature of humanity: temporarily falling away from the former doesn't make them any less true or correct ... and doesn't make them any less yours. And the great part about principles which are solid and true is that returning to them will help you dig yourself out of the ditch into which life has deposited you."
Punishment in Search of a Crime - The European Conservative
Theodore Dalrymple: "One of the perplexing characteristics of modern intellectual life--or so, at least, it seems to me--is the inordinate amount of time and energy one must expend on arguing against the most obvious rubbish. One is continually faced by a dilemma: either to waste time and energy on argument, or to let the rubbish spread its baleful influence. Worse still, the doubt persists that, however conclusive one's arguments, they will have no practical effect and the ship of state will continue on its course towards the rocks. It is tempting to retreat into a private world and cultivate one's garden."
Jordan Peterson returns » MercatorNet
"Helping people bridge the gap between what they profoundly intuit but cannot articulate seems to be a reasonable and valuable function for a public intellectual." -- Jordan B. Peterson. (This was the genius of Rush Limbaugh and the heart of his success.)
