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In this important and wide-ranging conversation, James Corbett and Ernest Hancock discuss parenting. From corporal punishment to home schooling to protecting children from indoctrination, this edition of #SolutionsWatch explores the question of how to raise free, sovereign, independent human beings.
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Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock – James is a guest on this radio program every other week
OpenSourceEducation.online – Key Corbett Report material presented as educational material classified by subject
Beyond Peaceful Parenting – Patrick Smith presents 3 parenting techniques that solve problems, reduce conflict, and adhere to the principles of voluntaryism.
The Philosophy of Liberty – A simple, animated explanation of the core tenets of libertarian philosophy
Whiplash (2014) – An exploration of the abusive relationship between a teacher and a student
It Takes A Village Idiot To Say Kids Belong To State – MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry argues that the state owns your children
People have been taught mobs lynching people were some kind of evil, when in fact they demonstrated that a community was able to act in concert to take specific actions- something that the modern state (and the soft people who operate them) hates. Power hates rival power.
The case of Leo Frank is bonkers…. He murdered a young girl then was convicted by a jury (of whites and Jews) who disregarded his ploy to blame a black guy. Frank had so much money behind him that the state Governor comuted his sentence and needed the national guard to save HIM (the governor) from getting lynched by voters…..imagine how much more responsive government must have been back then when people could act as a power bloc themselves.
The push to demonize lynching and mob justice probably is also related to the post war conception of anyone who is normal being “a fascist” ….. one trait of fascists was iirc “thinking people who sex offend against kids should be punished beyond the law” which is oddly specific.
I’ve posted an episode in response to a ‘voluntaryist’ on parenting, who called my method the ‘elephant in the womb’. As a mother of three adult daughters, I think that parents need a system in which children learn to take responsibility. Love is unconditional but stuff is not.
Here it is: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/is-parenting-an-abuse-of-power?
My home economy, which is the etymology of the word economics, became the basis for my anarchist economic system, aka community self-governance, aka small scale sovereignty, aka federalism. The purpose of a federal gov’t is to protect the sovereignty of communities, and the purpose of a community gov’t is to protect the sovereignty of the family. All people are born with bodily sovereignty and the intentional infliction of pain is both morally wrong and ineffective, at any age.
Here are two linking the economic system to parenting: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/caretology and https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-caret-system.
“…Love is unconditional but stuff is not.…”
I think property and how people derive their means of sustenance probably are socially the big determinant of cultures chicks are.
I recall reading that hunter gatherers don’t beat kids much, since they have no property the brats can destroy…. They also were noted to let very small kids engage in dangerous behavior like play with machetes or snakes (I guess thinking a few more will pop along soon enough? lol)
I think that your right about the need to teach responsibilities to kids, and give them a useful place….the post industrial world most of us live in really doesn’t need their labor anymore which I think deprived them of their sense of utility that’s so vital to happiness
Excellent thought-provoking conversation. This is partly a discussion of the metaphysics of truth, justice and human nature. Life isn’t perfect but we try to do our best.
James, Volume is quite low on my iMac. Have to push it to the max??
Oh well, guess it doesn’t matter cuz it is EJ :-/
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The sissification of children wasn’t around when I was a kid in Antioch, CA, then a sweet river town of about 10K, now #10 in murder in Northern California (could it be the illegals and Negroes not there before??)
* Walked a mile to school in the rain.
* Played outside till 8-9 o’clock.
* Played hide in seek in the thick fog at night.
* Went for walks/bike rides miles out into the hills.
* Had grass clog (grass with its dirt made into a ball and grass the throwing tail) fights.
* Swimming in the San Joaquin River.
* Made swamp rafts.
* Had wrestling matches under the Lopez’ house.
* Had rubber band gun fights.
* Rode a bike or walked everywhere.
* Stealing tomatoes off of the trucks lined up at the Cannery.
* Stealing fruit from the 1st gen folks trees and running away with Rudy Gonsales who was blind.
* Hanging with guys with names like Jacopolis, Lopez, Torres, Tonzo, Green, etc.
* Using band aids and iodine and then going back out to play.
* Clinging to the train trestle as a train went by a few feet away, and flattening out pennies on the tracks.
* Playing in the huge sand dunes…running to edge and jumping down the hill, climbing back up to repeat it.
* Hanging out down at the rocks (from the SF Earthquake) at the river just talking and throwing stones.
* Fishing off the pier.
Gee, weren’t we ever indoors?? Where was our supervision?
I MISS THE OLD DAYS (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/o2Z7IlZLjadH/
My childhood in rural England was pretty much the same with obvious variations as I lived on the edge of a small market town. We were hardly ever indoors, even in the winter months. We cycled several miles away to play by a brook that wasn’t deep but, hey, you can drown in a few inches! We played out until it went dark and even stayed out in the dark in the back alley behind out house. We climbed trees, made tree camps, built underground camps and played in the woods. I look at my grandsons huddled over various machines indoors and it saddens me. We were so lucky to be born when we were. I, too, miss the old days
@cryptoc
>>My childhood in rural England was pretty much the same>>
Which just goes to show kids are kids everywhere hey?
The “fun” stuff was actually kinda dangerous, but that seems to be the draw. I recall putting towels on as “capes” and jumping off a friend’s garage pretending to fly :-O
From my decades investigating as a political/social activist it appears, with lots of evidence, that this take down of the natural evolutionary progress of humans is world wide and quite intentional.
Indeed, chubby kids staring at screens has become a very sad cliche’ these days. If you can, take the kids out for a walk with no phones, prolly do you and them good 🙂
Thanks for the comment.
There are huge differences between a child’s brain and an adult’s brain, physically and psychologically. IMO a parent’s role is to make decisions that protect the child especially their life.
Case in point. I treated a pediatric patient in the ER. I think he was 6 or 7 who was very sick with a fever of 105 who was not amendable to taking antipyretics (such as Tylenol). He wouldn’t let us touch him and his parents were useless. They sat passively in the corner trying to negotiate. He needed his fever down ASAP, non negotiable to protect his health and possibly his brain. So we got consent to restrain, sedate and medicate. It was the right call in that case. We got the fever down, he felt better and we found out he had appendicitis and needed emergent surgery.
My point is that I don’t think a child has full autonomy because their brain is different than an adult and they need supervision and sometimes things are non-negotiable. A parent who allows their child to make decisions that destroy their health or mind or both (the weird trans stuff) are bad parents. Just as bad as the child beaters.
“….the weird trans stuff) are bad parents. Just as bad as the child beater….”
I think chemically sterilizing your kid and mutilating them is probably worse than being a child beater….pretty much every kid brought up before 1900 was beaten to what we would call
An abusive level today and most were just fine……I recall reading Ben Franklins auto biography and realized his big brother probably had good reasons for beating him so much as an apprentice. Destroying someone’s body permanently is massively more evil.
Yes, probably true. The hormone blockers and lobbing off body parts is horrendous and IMO a parent has a duty to protect their child. Non negotiable. The parent should know better.
Things like brushing ones teeth, eating healthy food, media etc. are not choices to be negotiated IMO. A child has a brain not capable of understanding consequences.
A parent can from an early age explain why they are setting limits and many children will start to understand and trust their parents to guide them. But bodily autonomy in children is nuanced. A child cannot decide to hurt themselves, that’s not allowed. If a parent allows it, the parent isn’t very good.
I don’t like restraining children to poke and prod them, but if it is a necessary procedure, I don’t feel guilty for doing it. I used to hate the dentist as a kid and would kick and scream. I got “laughing gas” which helped me a lot as a kid.
A spanking like a swat on the butt though not ideal probably has little lasting effect in a normal child. It demonstrates a bit of failure on the part of the parent IMO, that other methods were ineffective or establishing boundaries earlier on was not done. But, no parent is perfect.
I’ll try to look up a study but off the top of my head, I think child neglect had worse outcomes than physical abuse. I’ve known a person that had severe mental health problems from neglect.
I’m not condoning either one. But I think there’s a huge difference between a swat and being hit with a belt. I’ve only had a couple swats. It was jarring rather than painful.
Not that I am in favor of using the cat’o’nine tails or anything but like I said pretty much actually whipping people was just normal discipline up until pretty recently….i think they stopped using the cat, or maybe just the birch, judicially in the 1960s or so in the UK.
Again, not that I’m for corporal punishment, but I know someone who works in schools and there is a massive issue with kids acting estentually like wild animals and there being no legal way to restrain or discipline them….i think probably MOST aid those kids could have been trained better, but in real life they are headed for educational failure or jail with no way to divert them.
I hate to say it but some people really would benefit from a good whipping and would probably have better life outcomes.
Some of those kids are mentally ill or of subnormal IQ , and you could argue they don’t even belong in normal schools, but they are there and they drag everything down with them.
If you want a real lol at how school has changed go find “farmer boy” by Laura ingals and read the chapter about the school teacher who had trouble keeping discipline in the school….. I was doing paid tutoring with a kid who was ESL and also a bit behind and LOLOLO the worry in his voice at the start of the story to the excitement at the end was a treat. 🙂
So glad I home educated my kids- public schools are trash
cu.h.j says:
“I don’t think a child has full autonomy because their brain is different than an adult and they need supervision and sometimes things are non-negotiable.“
I agree.
There is nothing wrong with good control of the family household.
Management.
On the topic of corporal punishment (or other impingements.)
In talking to my younger brothers, some had different feelings about the spankings than I.
I am fine on them. They don’t haunt me in the least. And I probably had the most. They helped to keep me in check. I look back at them and chuckle.
One thing about “perceived injustices to oneself”…some folks tend to cling to them, tend to give a “perceived injustice” power… …and thus the “perceived injustice” becomes responsible for current feelings or behavior.
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A brother and I shared a room growing up all those years until college.
When we were preschool, we had all sorts of odd ideas.
He had a whale underneath his bed, so he wouldn’t stand on the floor at night.
I told him that it was dumb to think that a whale was under his bed.
But I had an alligator under my bed. I ain’t stepping on that floor.
When we were scared at night, one of us would jump across the floor to the other’s bed so we could sleep together.
DELUSIONS
I wrote,
A brother and I shared a room growing up all those years until college.
When we were preschool, we had all sorts of odd ideas.
He had a whale underneath his bed, so he wouldn’t stand on the floor at night.
I told him that it was dumb to think that a whale was under his bed.
But I had an alligator under my bed. I ain’t stepping on that floor.
In recent weeks, I have been recalling the odd ideas I had as a kid.
I was prompted to do this, because I had been thinking about all the odd ideas that “woke” entails.
The 5 minute video in this article exemplifies the odd mental delusions of “woke”.
City Council in Worcester Massachusetts voted in favour of becoming a “sanctuary city for the transgender community.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mental-health-crisis-uk-city-council-votes-become-transgender-sanctuary-city
So glad you guys brought up the rights of passage and initiation variable.
The more I learn about my indigenous ancestors (and a few intact indigenous cultures from here on Turtle Island) the more I see common threads that weave between how they stimulated their young ones to become healthy, independent and capable adults.
One of the things that is almost non-existent in many demographics in modern western (statism dominated) civilization are any process of initiation and rights of passage that encourage children to both connect to, learn to rely on and intimately perceive the natural world and also to be recognized by and begin an active reciprocal relationship with both the local ecosystem and the human community.
There are some vestiges in certain religions, but in modern western civilization, these are mostly anthropocentric initiation ceremonies that coddle and do not involve the type of stimulation that one might analogously describe in the vernacular of seed saving as “stratification”.
Through the ages of indigenous lineages (yes my friends we all have them, no matter what skin color you have) there has always existed cherished, initiation rituals and sacred codes for spiritual opening that are transmitted from generation to generation.
In the language and priorities of my Gaelic ancestors these rights of passage and initiations for the youth were intended to keep alive an experience of homecoming for the human to Mother Earth (Danú), Father Sky (Daghda) and to the source of all creation and energy from whom our physical universe emanates, the Great Creator (An Dúileamh).
Common themes involve going into the wilderness for at least one full day, gathering water from sacred sources to carry back and share with the community, planting sacred plants/trees, hunting specific animals and sharing the meat with the community and creating specific recipes and sharing the results with the entire community.
Here in the Eastern Woodlands of Turtle Island my friend tells me that the initiation for a boy into a man in traditional Wendat culture was at one point to use a bow and arrow to hunt a deer, to then do a ceremony of reciprocity to thank the deer for his life, and to give all the meat to the community and not have any yourself.
I have read that south of us in Dine culture, a similar symbolism was involved in the initiation of a girl into a woman, when her menstrual cycle begins, she embarks open a multi-day task of harvesting corn, engaging in ceremonies of thanks to the Earth, grinding them down by hand, making a corn cake and then gifting it all to the community members (not enjoying any of it herself).
These practices instilled in the child a deep sense of generosity, appreciation for the value of hard work, gratitude for what it took to feed them and it symbolizes their increasingly active reciprocal relationship with both the Earth and human community.
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I did not experience any such initiation in my life, though when I saw my friends beginning to spend more time in front of screens watching tv and playing video games than going into nature I made a conscious intuitive decision to diverge from that trend and go into the wild any and every chance I got.
I learned to make a fire with a knife, birch bark, old mans beard (lichen) and flint by age 10.
I started going and sleeping overnight in the mountains and forest at age 12 (sometimes alone, sometimes with the few friends able and willing to go).
I learned to forage for berries and access clean water off grid.
These experiences instilled a confidence and deep appreciation for basic necessities in my life and though it was not part of a community guided initiation, it seems to have served a similar purpose.
I do not know what an optimal initiation / right of passage should look like for a boy or a girl in modern western civilization today. Surely it does not necessitate killing an animal for being able to serve as an activity that instills the intended awareness and surely it should be something infused with the cultural threads of the given family and community.
What ever form the cultural trappings take, I feel like it should be something that is not easy, involves connecting with the local ecology (developing plant identification, developing physical dexterity and confidence in remaining focused in potentially dangerous situations) and also involves some expression of giving back to their family and larger community.
These (to me) feel like characteristics that could be applied to any initiation / rights of passage tradition regardless of culture if one endeavored to create/revive such a thing.
Those are my thoughts on this.
Thanks for the discussion.
on the topic of initiations and rights of passage:
“The First Generation of Initiated Elders in 500+ Years?”
https://youtu.be/XW0o4PsSSPI?si=rNJ1ZgOoVU4i7sv8&t=134
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In the video above a guy (born in Australia, but with similar genetic lineage to myself) has journeyed back to his ancestral homelands of Albion (aka the British Isles) and he is choosing to embark upon a self-guided initiation process to walk along the full length of Albion.
He explores the concept of eldership/elderhood and the implications of this time in which many of our elders have not gone through the same rights of passage and forms of initiation that their ancestors did.
He also speaks about the historical initiations of indigenous peoples from Albion and elsewhere and the influence those processes have on the developing human.
In my experience the ritual initiation into Albion-ion culture was ritual combat by Chav…. The Chav itself was initiated via this Megalithic era inspired ritual (see video)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3tNnw0mPsY&pp=ygUMQ2hhdiB2cyB3YWxs
Sadly Chav’s have become rarer since they have been hunted almost to extinction by an invasive species of Somali
🙂
@Duck
Albion has been invaded, occupied, assimilated and carved up into various shapes by so many hegemonic entities that it would be impossible to describe any one thing as “Albion” culture. There are myriad cultures that were birthed in that land, and many that were birthed elsewhere that have now set down roots to varying degrees over the centuries.
It very well could be that this thing you describe is one expression of the great many cultures that exist there today. However, the ancient ways of the pre-colonial Welsh, Gaels and Picts of that land are an entirely different matter all together.
The guy in the video above, seems to be more interested in cultural revival springing from / drawing inspiration from those three in particular, so I dunno if your “Chav” thing would fit into what he is talking about. I`ll ask him what he thinks next time I connect with him.
Cool- make sure he checks out the video 😉
@Duck
Well he is trekking across the entire length of the British Isles on foot, sleeping under a tarp (with no waterproof floor) and tryna charge things like cameras up with a solar panel (with sometimes cloudy weather) so he can record bits of the journey, so I dunno how high watching videos is gonna be on his priority list until he makes it to Scotland, but i`ll pass the terminology and video along.
For more on the topic of initiations, “education” of the youth and rights of passage from the Feminine perspective:
“A Diné Perspective on Education: What Would Changing Woman Do?” ( with Lyla June)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3VLiV7vank
Cellphone or ship?
About 30 years ago during a “family meeting,” I was moved to say to my daughter and son that they can see the ways their mother and father behave in the world. So my wish for them is that they should go in for what they like or appreciate what they see, and do better with regard to what does not meet their standards.
Now, both in their early 40’s, I see that they took me up on my wish. I like the people they are.
I think the more appropriate term is generation last…They have big plans for Zion Don, two weeks in and he is already doing Israel’s bidding.
Everything Zion Don had done is merely window dressing, they locked up those poor Jan 6th fools, just so as to have Chump pardon them when he came in (Trump could have pardoned them 4 years ago, but didn’t). They used those people, stuck them in jail for 4 years, that is America today, only freedoms we have are those allowed us.
I would be surprised if there is an America left in 4 years, and I have not being hyperbolic in my prognostication.
Rex Leo num
“….I would be surprised if there is an America left in 4 years, and I have not being hyperbolic in my prognostication….”
That is a pretty gloomy outlook, even from my pov, lol, and I am gloomy.
What way will the US go away do you think?
Civil war? Collapse of gov? Plague? Devistatioon via global atomics?
What plans have of action have you made , if I may ask , for these?
What actions do you suggest for the rest of us to take?
Knowing is only useful if it helps you avoid the trap so help a brother out here
In this case, the truth is simply there to establish reality not to make anyone feel better.
Information forms knowledge, which forms understanding, which forms one’s reality. Americans seem to have an inverse relationship with how they form reality. In America, it is our own identity which informs our reality, which determines how we process information.
“Liberal, Conservative, Right-wing, DEI, Global Homo, Christian, Black, Feminist…” all nonsense created terms used to control how we think. They gave us what those terms mean, then forced us into those identities. You don’t get to say what a Democrat is, THEY DO. People mold their thinking to fit the characteristics of those identities. Certainly an “environmentalist” today, is nothing like what they were in the 1970s. The Zionists did not want people that dealt with real environmental issues, so they created the template of the current iteration of an “environmentalist, whose only real concern is “global warming”. They use their TOTAL control of the system to insure leaders of each identity stickily conform to their definition. Endlessly reinforced by movies, politicians and MSM. While what these groups differ on is often intractable and divisive, what they agree on is more informative as to the rulers agenda: Pro-war, pro-banking, anti-European, pro-surveillance, and above all else pro-Israel.
9/11 was both an Israeli operation and an inside job perpetrated by Zionist Communist assets within the US Government. There is not one aspect of that terrorist act which does not have a Israeli connection to it. Yet, a plurality of Americans would call you an “anti-semite” for even suggesting Israel had anything to do with 9/11, even though they are the only ones who actually benefitted enormously from it. Here we see information which is readily available and overwhelming in its incrimination of Israel, nevertheless is ignored, while lies about Osama bin Laden embraced.
I could make a similar example with the Trump phenomenon. Trumpanzees ties themselves in knots justifying their continued support for that vial traitor. The Zios always have their influencers whispering the lies and half truths the Trump supporters who desperately cling to maintain the Trump delusion.
Israel IS a terrorist state, maybe the only true terrorist state. They have murdered, tortured abused (using trucks to spray raw sewage on Palestinian’s homes), funded revolutions around the world, then used organizations like HIAS to move the refugees from those conflicts to the West. Yet, it is America which has singlehandedly allowed Israel to continue unaccountable for its actions.
Throughout Israel’s existence, America has paid with blood, treasure and MORALS for this vial nation to progress unabated, and you think this will end well?
Action have consequences: Ask an Iraqi, German, Nipponese, Libyan, or Palestinian, how well it has worked out for them. You think we deserve better, what comes around goes around.
“That is a pretty gloomy outlook, even from my pov, lol, and I am gloomy.” Ask a Palestinians how gloomy their outlook is. I suppose it is better, at least for the time being, to have the luxury of a gloomy outlook, versus their nightmarish reality. As Zion Don does EXACTLY as I said he would, AND will do the SAME to US.
“What way will the US go away do you think?
Civil war? Collapse of gov? Plague? Devastation via global atomics?” Your question exemplifies our predicament, they have the power to do all the above and more (you left out their favorite: mass starvation) AND they will blame whatever they do on someone/something else and most will buy right into it. Just like with Covid: Those LA Fires were the because of DEI incompetence, don’t you know, not Zionist Globalist psychopaths who are genociding Americans, just slowly.
I did not create the predicament we are in, I did what I could to undermine it. During the Covid BS, when forced to wear a mask, I wrote “Covid is a lie” on it, I took every opportunity to inform those around me it was a scam, from DAY ONE. But I quickly realized I was always alone in this fight, and from that realization, I understood the absolute futility of our situation.
As for what I do and those in my close circle, we focus on what we do have control over, ourselves and our immediate surrounding. I have an iron grip over my/our health. I am over 60, yet I am in significantly better shape than most American men half my age. My best friend is a doctor who specializes in how toxins in the environment undermines our health. He marvels at my testosterone levels (890 ng/dl a high number for even a young man) which he tries to understand, as he deals with numerous men who have lost much of their T with age. The water filtration system I build for our house is the envy of our neighborhood. We have state of the art solar panel array, with accompanying storage capabilities, a pool that is ready to be converted to a fish farm at a moment’s notice, precious metal reserves, innumerable fruit bearing plants…and a neighborhood that prides itself on its home defense capabilities. We were living in Washington DC, where none of this would have been an option, in fact any preparedness is frowned upon by our communist indoctrinated self-hating “liberal” neighbors.
My three “hopes” are as follows:
A-The system they are building is so complex it will collapse upon it’s own weight.
B-Infighting, when dealing with Kabbalistic psychopaths, you are dealing with people who are all about destruction: there is no honor amongst thieves/best laid plans. They may turn on their own.
C-The “Noah’s Ark” scenario, where those who are prepared may survive.
Covid 19 was not a disease of the body, but of the mind. That psyop proved how weak our mental state truly is. It is unlikely they will hit us that precise way again, but rest assured, whatever the operation most WILL fall for it.
Rex Leo num
“…Information forms knowledge, which forms understanding, which forms one’s reality…”
That’s a silly way to put it
Reality is what exists outside of me whether I think it or not.
I don’t form reality, you don’t form reality, no one does except God I guess….it just IS
But that aside KNOWING aid only useful as an aid to DOING….thank you for talkie out what you are DOING. Your focus appears to be
Personal health
Water preparation
Food storage and production
Storage of precious metals
That is all useful advice.
I would suggest that any one starting from scratch start storing dried beans and rice (bulk cheep) and have a barrel or two of water around and buy a cheap camping water filter for short emergencies.
I don’t get why your so worried about the people who did not listen to you though- are you cross they ignored you or what? If I tell people not to do stupid stuff and they do that’s on THEM, not me. Just think how much more room you and your kids will have if Al those people remove themselves from the world via stupidity….. personally I am actually looking Forward to the world having fewer people in it…. My descendants will be much more valuable just like it was after the Black Death in Europe. Cheeper houses, more land, fewer hipsters and fewer urban scum….all to the good 🙂
You have a bad habit of speaking dogmatically. If you do not share my perspective, drop the inane criticism and state your opinion. You are not an authority on the subject, don’t act as such. If you are a so called “Christian”, you are certainly the last person to give advice on the origins of reality.
“Reality is what exists outside of me whether I think it or not”
Talk about a “silly” comment, that is like boiling down the characteristic of an ocean to simply, “it is wet”. The idea of reality is vastly more complex and nuanced than how you characterize it. Furthermore, my comment was NOT referring to “common” reality, but individual reality, how we each interpret reality. How our realities are created and how they govern our actions.
I wish you would debate, instead of lecture, especially when you often miss the point entirely.
“…,The idea of reality is vastly more complex and nuanced than how you characterize it. Furthermore, my comment was NOT referring to “common” reality, but individual reality, how we each interpret reality. How our realities are created and how they govern our actions.…”
Ok then explain to me WHAT KIND of “realities” a person “creates” and what that actually means then.
Because you APPEAR to be talking about PERCEPTION rather then REALITY…. I can hypnotize you to PERCEIVE that you are eating a cake, but you are not IN REALITY eating a cake…. Or would you say “in my reality I am eating a cake” ?????
I don’t really think my statement of “Reality is what exists, regardless of what I think or know “ is missing anything as a description- please tell me what is missing or wrong about it
You just can’t help yourself…you are always a waste of time.
Cont
I think the crux of if a thing is REAL or not in the case of you feeling you are eating a cake is if it has real world effects….. as in will you starve to death even though you are 100% PERCEIVING that the cake is in your mouth?
Sorry but if you treat “Perceived realities” as Capital R Reality you are wrong unless you actually think me in dress becomes a lovely young woman “with a penis” hahahaha
THAT is the point- in Reality “woman” is a category of thing in reality that DOES NOT agave a penis….. not am I blessed with being “lovely” and even if I give you a micky finn and you THINK that I am a lovely young lady I am not IN REALITY one and you will be horrified at what you did last night….. lololl
Your turn now… show me where I am wrong
Leo num
You WISHED for debate
I crafted a clear position of MY POV , complete with thought experiment, for you to attack.
You don’t even address a single starting point I laid out
Actually I think YOU just proved adisappointing waste of time…… you make big statements about who runs the world or who does what but when asked to actually back your point you run off and never provide reason or evidence for anything
Hmn , for someone who prides themselves on their health you sure act fragile- I’ve spent three days awake, stoned on fireball and in a lot of pain and I still did that for you….. and you don’t attack a single prior I laid out- did you never actually DO a debate?
debating requires mutual respect, you don’t debate, you preach, not for a position of knowledge, but from arrogance.
You said my definition of reality as it pertains to the individual is “silly”. Then offer up your “definition”, which was less insightful than what you get in a fortune cookie.
No, reality is NOT perspective, look it up genius, there is common reality and individual reality. You don’t get to tell me what I mean. You want to talk perspective, go for it, I am talking about individual reality. Like I said, you don’t debate, you preach. You are an idiot.
Stop talking at me, I am not interested.
lol dude…. After a good sleep I feel much better so why do you actually TELL aid what you mean my “individual reality” because when I word search the term I get definitions that = PERCEPTION by the person.
You see, my friend, that’s why you start at first order issues like what the damn word means. Everththat I read you say about Americans and their “personal realities” is synonymous with PERCEPTION….. American personal realities do not actually SHAPE the world do they? Just behavior, and MALADAPTIVELY at that, feelings and belief don’t change the outcome of Vietnam nor the loss of Iraq.
Sorry if I lecture, trust me u have very few original thoughts of my own so they don’t reflect MY greatness.
On the other hand telling us that zio don is under the control of the monolith Jew conspiracy, or that Christians follow a Jew made religion are the kind of retarded thinking that made Adam Green (burg????) look like as cringe as a 2000s atheist vs Cory Mahler on their great “debate”.
Whatever dude, enjoy life
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=letRqwrYqwk&pp=ygUrY29yZXkgbWFobGVyIGlzIGNocmlzdGlhbml0eSBhIGpld2lzaCBwc3lvcA%3D%3D
Debate if Christianity is a Jewish psyop…. Adam green (berg???) vs Cory J Mahler of stone Choir podcast, talking on the I hypocrite YT channel….. almost as cringe as Sam Harris
Sorry, say as you will, this is life and death, but I’ll not to try and take it so seriously.
I am sure your thoughts are sincere
Best Regards.
Great video from Professor Anthony Sutton, does a remarkable job at demonstrating the hidden hand that so many, even here, don’t want to accept. I don’t need things spelled out for me, but for those who do, Professor Sutton does and amazing job.
https://odysee.com/@319:b/An-Interview-with-Professor-Anthony-C-Sutton-489b5b3b2b7e8ad5bbb99c9c0a594896e5e95ff8:9
The topics here should have been interesting, but this guest was incoherent, the conversation so disjointed, I got nothing. It was just pointless noise. I gave up and turned this video off about 2/3 of the way through.
I agree to some level to your comment, Tttah. While the topic is interesting and promising, the way it was carried out is based on improvisation, there is no outline or organization. It seems to be an informal conversation between two people, an online video format that I cannot stand. I feel like a voyeur of a conversation of other people in their own train of thought. This format is so different to report journalism.
I think less is more in this and many cases, and some may argue, the same principle applies to parenting to certain extend.
“…..It seems to be an informal conversation between two people,….”
NOT addressing THIS interview with this but I agree that content of podcasts and videos in general in the net have changed a lot….. some round table type talks are almost like a substitute for sitting in a bar with friends as the hosts talk and talk and shoot the s41t and meander around subjects….. I think creators of work are being driven into ultra short form by shorts and tik tok and long meanderings to get super chats.
Personally my favorite has always been video or audio essays that say what they are saying and get to the point but I think the minds of consumers of online content are probably getting warped towards one or other of the extremes I mentioned, super short or and evening wiyh your para social pals.
On THIS interview I always think it’s odd that some people just seem to take against Mr Hancock- Mr Corbett certainly must enjoy his company to see him as often as he has. I mean, no one stops our wages if we just skip the epp, lol, but if you go back over his Epps here there is always some comment about him being incoherent or ranty (he is ranty , but I find him mostly coherent) He’s not normally my cup of tea, and tbh, but this was actually a good showing for him imo
Mr. Corbett,
Just so ya know…
The Odysee icon links to another episode.
Correct Odysee link
Raising Generation Next – #SolutionsWatch
https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/solutionswatch-gennext:7
Thanks for the tip. Corrected. (You do this so often you can be the official Odysee link checker if you like!)
😉
Very interesting discussion and comments. As the mother of four, (a son, then two years latter, twin girls, and two years after that, another daughter), I’ve always been so impressed by the fact that they were their own people from day one. About corporal punishment: I did find it necessary to spank my son once. Not to hurt him, but to provide an emphasis for my words. He could be bull-headed and oblivious about the effect of his actions on others, and was starting to tend to tune me out. Since I had never done that before, it was quite effective. He started paying closer attention to my tone of voice after that, and I never felt the need for that again. The three girls never required even a raised voice. Though they had very different personalities, they were all naturally attuned to other people’s needs and feelings. My general conclusion is that kids aren’t blank slates. They need all the love and security we can provide, as James said, but they also need our respect. It is very important, I think, to sense the adult in them that is trying to be born, and to demonstrate through our own actions and responses that it’s our intention to support that process. Above all, we should always strive to communicate confidence that this future adult will indeed be successfully born. None of our 4 children went through an adolescent rebellion phase, and I credit that to one thing we did right – which was to always show that we never thought it was our job to form them into the people we thought they should be. When we put limits on them or decisions were made on their behalf, it was always for developmental reasons, not authoritarian ones. Kids instinctively know the difference, and respond accordingly! We always showed that we liked, respected, and wanted to support the people they were struggling to become.
The Ernest and James Show. Fire and Ice? What a strange couple!
MUST SEE PHOTO
Children playing on iron pole playground equipment at Trinity Play Park
Dallas circa early 1900’s
https://dallaslibrary2.org/dallashistory/photogallery/images/parks/pa87-1-19-59-210-10.jpg
A brother who is a school teacher and often follows The Corbett Report first made me aware of this photo.
He was reading a book/article with the photo.
MORE INFO…
Is This a Photograph of a Playground from 1900?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1900s-playground-photo/
Corporal punishment in the U.S. public school system, takes the form of mass drugging of children. In his book “Resisting Illegitimate Authority” Bruce Levine, former guest of James, delves into the horrifying reality of the state using their drugs against disobedient children. The sinister and covert aim being to crush future dissenters. Shudder.
I doubt it’s about anything as organized as crushing future dissent…. More like a bunch of female teachers can’t deal with regular boy behavior and pathologize it.
A female dominated environment in inherently unhealthy for young boys to be stuck in, especially with the other things going on with diet, hormones and excercise
Is Ernest Hancock related to John Hancock, (President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence)?
As we all know politicians and politics go, the conformation of RK jr. to head CDC,FDA is quite controversial to many freedom , librarians and Volunteer Anarchist patriots . I can know a come to Jesus moment and how you must dig deep into our own self for finding faith in an individual . Especially one as confaluded as RFKjr. A lawyer . Able to speak out of both sides of his mouth as some schizophrenic psychopath. Time will tell. I’m going to give him the benefit of doubt ,I hope he does the people a service and not betray the public trust. On Dell Bigtrees’ own reference. What ever that’s worth.
https://www.brighteon.com/c2d414e1-e255-417f-89c1-7ae172726d01
Raising children is quite something, I believe.
Many many aspects. Love. Guidance. Leave their spirits intact. Battles. Conversations. Explaining. And so on. And also apologize when you’re wrong. Because, as a parent, we are not perfect and don’t have to pretend we are.
Main thing: building love, trust, (self) confidence and think for yourself.
It’s important to know yourself, and are happy with yourself, be free of certain fears so that you don’t pass them over.
Family life can be great, but: then comes school…
I have 2 daughters, age 24 and 21, live in the Netherlands.
Primary school (age 4-12) was tough for them: Adaptation, do I have friends, do I fit in?
Struggles on that part. I was lucky for not having to work, so I was there for them. I always said: stay true to yourself, then you’ll connect with the right people for you.
That didn’t work for them, but the seed was planted. At that age, they still consume everything from their parents.
Then secondary school (age 12-16/18):
they still experienced the same struggles in their first 3 years, iphones made it even more difficult (being left out, nasty conversations etc) and, very important, they openly shared a lot of their grief so we talked about it.
The main thing is that they stay true to themselves. And talk about it with their parents. As a mom, they mainly talked with me bc I was home when they got home. It was not always easy, to see your kid struggling with social issues. And besides that, having to follow the crazy school drilling system in the Netherlands, with overloads of tests, exams. Our system here is so fucked up that, if you’re a 100% beta and 0% alpha, you fail. And vica versa. But that’s another topic..
Now, they realize that primary school was tough but it build their backbone.
They do have their weak spots from that era, but they’re at least aware and where it comes from. Because we talk.
Of course, they are taking distance to a certain extent, calling me a boomer🙄
They develop their own beliefs.
For me, I was just so happy to be able to keep them from taking the jab and testing. They were the ONLY ones in their circle of friends..
So I’m pretty proud of them.
I never forget what my youngest daughter said at the time that “the news” was: “either tested or vaxxed for entrance to restaurants and all:
“Mom, all you said about salami tactics was true!”
That period, yes, I was like a Tiger mom. I prefer to call myself a Dragon mom.
Thats’s my Chinese sign.
And yes, I’ve been in touch with school boards about their ridiculous stress test programs. Because that’s what secondary school here is all about, especially A level: tests, tests, tests. Drilling. Like being pushed through a funnel. Many burnouts here at young age.
I’ve also taught them:
Give them the answers they want to hear.
Play the game.
Get your degree so you’re free to choose.
I’ve encouraged them to have their own profession.
But not lawyer (as being a former whistleblower).
They have😊