Greg Meboe

Can my parents possibly be saved? If you love and appreciate your parents deeply, how might they be saved? 1. Virtually 2. Actually #RayKurzweil #TheSingularity

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

Baby chicken day

@WhiteBabyFac Today Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana offer Covenant Marriage, which is a stricter form requiring counseling upfront and divorce only for fault. However the enhanced strictures are not fully respected in other states, so it's still not a guarantee.

Many conservatives want marriage to be the way it was before 1960 - No divorce allowed unless serious wrongdoing like infidelity or physical abuse is proven. Liberals typically prefer modern marriage because they can divorce whenever they feel like it. The obvious solution is to let couples choose the type of marriage they want - either classic marriage where no-fault divorce is prohibited, or modern marriage which allows for no-fault divorce. We should have the option to choose traditional marriage, but liberals will never allow this because they like being able to defraud their romantic partners with the false promise of lifelong commitment while maintaining the option to break up the family whenever they feel like it.

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.' In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents. James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's. In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure. Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat. Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first. The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

You soak your beans overnight to reduce phytic acid. You sprout your grains to neutralise the antinutrients. You boil your spinach to break down oxalates. You ferment your legumes to make them digestible. You roast your nuts to deactivate enzyme inhibitors. You pressure cook your lectins. You peel, you blanch, you discard the cooking water. Hours of preparation. Multiple appliances. A pantry full of techniques refined over millennia by humans desperately trying to make plants less hostile to the people eating them. All this effort. All this ceremony. To render the food slightly less determined to harm you. Or you could feed the plants to a cow. Let its four-chambered fermentation system handle the entire operation across 24 to 48 hours of specialised bacterial digestion. Then eat the cow. Zero phytic acid. Zero oxalates. Zero lectins. Zero antinutrients of any kind. Just complete bioavailable protein, every essential amino acid, B12, iron, zinc, creatine, and the fat-soluble vitamins, all packaged in a form your body recognises without a 12-step preparation manual. The cow already did the soaking, sprouting, boiling, and fermenting. It's called ruminant digestion. You're eating the finished product. Beef is the ultimate plant-based food. All the nutrition the plant pulled from the soil, none of the chemistry the plant deployed to stop you eating it. The carnivore isn't avoiding plants. He's outsourcing the detoxification to an animal evolved over 50 million years to handle it. And then he's sitting down to dinner like a civilised person, instead of standing over a stockpot at 11pm wondering why his kale still tastes like punishment.

Imagine being 80 years old and having the opportunity to spend one day as your 40 year told self: Your kids are young, all living at home and full of energy. Begging you to play and spend time with them. Your spouse is young and vibrant, full of energy. The house is alive with that familiar chaos of raising children and working. You feel so needed, and important. You get in the car and go somewhere as a family. The kids are making a mess and screaming, but you don’t mind for you’ve come to miss these moments. You feel the deep love between all of you. You call your parent, who is still alive, and talk for hours. You haven’t heard their voice in so long and now you get to tell them just how much you love them. At the end of the day, the kids do not want to go to bed and just wanted you to read to them. Not wanting the day to end, you sit there and read to them for hours. ☝️ If this is your life today… know that so many people wish to be back in what you consider a tiresome chaos. This may just be the golden era of your life. Love your kids. Call your parents. Enjoy this limited edition of your life ❤️

Most fathers raise their daughters like they’re "little princesses." They think they’re teaching them to find a man just like them, but this makes the father miss something important. Here’s why: Daughters grow up with different ideas about love and relationships than men. A husband’s love is romantic, and that can include sex. But a father’s love is about care, support, and giving without expecting anything in return. So, when a daughter grows up, she might think love is something she deserves without having to give anything back. Even if she pulls away her appreciation, respect and love, her dad will still love her. If I were giving advice to a husband, I’d say, “Walk away from any woman who thinks she can pull away love and still expect a man to give love, respect, and support.” My own dad didn’t call me a princess. He taught me that to receive love, I must also give to others. And because of that, I never took his love for granted, because I didn’t want to lose it. So, to all parents out there: stop treating your daughters like princesses. You might be setting them up for unhealthy relationships later in life.

They convinced an entire generation that living with family is failure. Family compounds used to be normal. Until the psyop began. We were told: • Move out at 18 • Be independent • Get your own place • Do everything alone Result: • 10 rents • 10 mortgages • 10 car payments • 10x more debt Strong families used to stay together—build together, support each other, and live interdependently. The opposite of the "be independent" narrative. Let's normalize family compounds again.

dad’s handmade toy captured on record some I'llthing they’ll always remember fondly

Homeschooled.

A good father refuses to let his children to start from 0

"The century of progressivism did not go well. The European system that Wilson and the progressives scolded Americans for not adopting—which he called nearly perfect—led to the governments that caused the most awful century that the world has ever seen. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Mao all were intertwined with the rise of progressivism, and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our Declaration is based. Many progressives expressed admiration for each of them shortly before their governments killed tens of millions of people. It was a terrible mistake to adopt progressivism’s rejection of the Declaration’s vision of universal, unalienable natural rights." -Justice Clarence Thomas, 2026

I am once again calling for the complete and total shutdown of big light

There’s a moment that happens to new parents, probably around four in the morning, when you’ve been up all night with a sick kid, and they’ve just thrown up again, and you’re so fucking tired and frustrated, but it’s outweighed by the sympathy you feel for this helpless dependent, and most of all you just want them to feel better, and then it hits you that this is what your mom did for you, and in that moment you understand your parents in a new way, fully comprehend what they did for you — like, you really get it, way down in your stomach, not just in the abstract way that anybody can understand what parents do for children — and you realize that from now on you’re always going to see things from the perspective of the parent, not as a child, and a lot of your complaints and hangups and neuroses will melt away, never to return, and from now on the stories you’ll tell about your childhood, stories you’ve told 1000 times before, will have a slightly different character, will be based on a fuller understanding of who you are and what actually happened to you, and you’ll think, “my God, in all those years of childlessness, I’ve cheated myself of this realization, of this opportunity to understand the world as it really is and move on.” And if you’re childless and reading this, then maybe you’re thinking, “sure, but obviously I can intellectually understand this without having children of my own” and it’s just, like, no, probably not. It just doesn’t really work like that.

Additionally, raising children lovingly builds all of you better, higher, richer, faster.

"À la naissance, on monte dans le train et on rencontre nos parents. Et on croit qu’ils voyageront toujours avec nous. Pourtant, à une station, nos parents descendront du train, nous laissant seuls continuer le voyage… Au fur et à mesure que le temps passe, d’autres personnes montent dans le train. Et elles seront importantes : notre fratrie, nos amis, nos enfants, même l’amour de notre vie. Beaucoup démissionneront (même éventuellement l’amour de notre vie), et laisseront un vide plus ou moins grand. D’autres seront si discrets qu’on ne réalisera pas qu’ils ont quitté leurs sièges. Ce voyage en train sera plein de joies, de peines, d’attentes, de bonjours, d’aurevoirs et d’adieux. Le succès est d’avoir de bonnes relations avec tous les passagers pourvu qu’on donne le meilleur de nous-mêmes. On ne sait pas à quelle station nous descendrons, donc vivons heureux, aimons et pardonnons. Il est important de le faire car lorsque nous descendrons du train, nous ne devrons laisser que de beaux souvenirs à ceux qui continueront leur voyage. Soyons heureux avec ce que nous avons et remercions le ciel de ce voyage fantastique. Aussi, merci d’être un des passagers de mon train. Et si je dois descendre à la prochaine station, je suis content d’avoir fait un bout de chemin avec vous." Jean d'Ormesson, L'enfant qui attendait un train

母がね、よく言ってたの。手で触るものは、すべて丁寧に扱いなさい。自分の顔と体を優しく洗いなさい。衣類は丁寧にたたみなさい。食材を大切に扱いなさい。道具を丁寧に使いなさい。ドアはそっと閉めなさい。家族に優しく触れなさい。自分と、自分が触れるものをすべて大切にしなさい。それだけで、波動は上がり、じわじわと良いことが起きるわよって。

@gerb_sam Great questions. How about an X space in which to discuss?

@gregmeboe A touching tribute. Strikes me as a relationship (like your own life) worth extending. But you raise a deeper question about preservation. When we talk about “saving” parents through memory uploads, backups, or technological extensions, maybe we’re really expressing a fear:

Can my parents possibly be saved? If you love and appreciate your parents deeply, how might they be saved? 1. Virtually 2. Actually #RayKurzweil #TheSingularity

This is Sam. Sam is 16. Yesterday morning at 3:30 AM he drove the truck he saved for, purchased, and does the work on himself, into the mountains where he had spent the weekend alone scouting out a hunting spot on public lands. By 8:30 AM he had called in and killed a black bear with his bow and arrow. He then skinned and field dressed it himself and was home in time for dinner. Sam says continuing on in high-school is a waste of time for him. And you know what? I think he's right. He's watched his 3 older brothers, ages 18-21, move out of state (2), learn a lucrative trade (1) or start successful business (2), get married (2) support stay-at-home wives (2), finance and excel in their outdoor hobbies (3) and serve in their local churches (3) all with minimal homeschooling and no college degrees. What am I supposed to tell him? Why should I insist he stay in high-school for 2 more years? Of what benefit is more classroom learning in a school full of 14 year old girls or at home with his mom going to be for a young man like him? He's capable, confident, ambitious, skilled, can fix anything (except the ancient rototiller still sitting in my garden), makes friends easily, wants to follow the Lord, and I'm really supposed to reign him in and say "Sorry, keep reading books and writing papers for 2 more years. Then you can get on with your life." At what point are we going to admit that our educational system, and the private and homeschools that follow the same model, has not only failed young men like him, but is actually hindering them at points and holding them back? We are trapping strong, capable, eager young men in classrooms full of adolescent girls or at home with their mom, during what could be the most productive years of their life. That's not giving them an advantage. That's setting them back for life. Christians should be leading the way in effectively educating our young men to be strong protectors, capable providers, and godly leaders, not just following the world's failed systems.