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Scott Hambrick

11 months

HOME COLLEGE. Colleges and universities no longer represent a “good economic value.” Even if you believe higher education is providing an excellent product, everyone agrees they cost too darned much. 1/

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7 months

@freemonotheist A map of all the battles between peoples with written history.

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2 months

@PaulSkallas The black vote is irrelevant for Trump. BUT, black Twitter is telling me black men will not vote for a "black" woman like her.

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@datarade I can't wait till they go help their country.

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@JulianWaller Putin is not "butthurt" by "rejection" by the west. He is outraged by the lying and mendacity he has experienced. There is a sense of honor in some parts of the world. Those with honor are stunned and incensed when faced with people who have none.

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@WojteksGrandson @bronzeagemantis Fire all of them. They'd fire you.

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@franciscome If America is an idea they can think it IN THEIR HOMELAND.

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1 year

@bcgaming213 @Cernovich The customer did not win. The young man left with his dignity intact. Home Depot jobs aren't worth it.

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@luinalaska @luinalaska We do praiseworthy things because it's proper to do those things. So, praise for doing our duty as husband and father is near meaningless, because we do it because it is right. The doing is praise enough. Being kept around for stud service, however, is mighty

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@ScottAdamsSays Perception is subjective. Reality is immutable.

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4 months

I gained a son-in-law yesterday.

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@tgeducation @aIIegoricaI Not true boomer.

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@educak @dieworkwear These are fucking terrible.

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@ClownWorld_ Immigration is horrific for the environment.

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1 year

Reading requires relaxed, focused attention. This readers mindset is harder and harder to achieve in the modern world. Don't practice meditation. Read. Practice keeping your attention on the text.

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1 year

My system for becoming well-read is simple. 1. Read the good stuff. Reading all the Patricia Cornwell or 50 Shades books won't make you well read. You must read books that are timeless and universal.

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4 months

@annakhachiyan goes full Socrates in the Red Scare with @Steve_Sailer . "Can noticing be taught?"

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1 year

One of my best friends died Tuesday. He was an ex-con, and a genius. He spent several years in the federal pen. He dropped out of high school, made bad decisions and ended up in the prison. While there he had little to do but read and work out. At first, he couldn't read

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2 months

@generousfarm It'll take two years. You'll get a plant the first year, bulb the second.

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4 months

The responses to @MorlockP telling the truth about succession, ticks, etc. is astounding. Stop mowing your yard for a few years in my region and you will find brambles, a few more years, saplings, 20 years early succession forest. In other regions it'll head towards desert.

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4 months

A tornado went directly over my house last night. All's well. We were in the cellar. It's been a crazy night y'all.

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Scott Hambrick

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2 months

No ZOGslop here on the hill. Our beef, veg, and drink.

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Scott Hambrick

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3 months

My son-in-law turning a bushing to fix his car. Using his wife's great grandad's lathe. Ancestral machine tools.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

1/10 The second book in your family library should be Mortimer J. Adler's book How To Read a Book."

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Scott Hambrick

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2 months

Tell your normie friends that the political situation isn't confusing. It's right in front of you. They tried to kill Trump. Biden is missing. Kamala is running. No one voted for her. Voting doesn't count. You'll get the president the game shakes out. Trust your eyes.

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Scott Hambrick

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5 months

I'm only 9,222 followers away from 10k, please give a follow. Here's a picture of Ava the cow

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Wife made a quilt for daughters birthday. Happy birthday to daughter.

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2 months

@monsterhunter45 It's libertarians doing this.

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2 months

To all the olds who thought it wasn't gonna all go to hell before you were gone.........looks like you'll be here for the big show.

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Scott Hambrick

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11 months

When I was a schoolboy I read in history textbooks that WWI was caused because someone shot Archduke Ferdinand and because of German nationalism and "entangling alliances" everyone started killing everyone. I was today years old when, while reading a 97 year old book on the

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

New business cards are in. This is the newest version of a personal card I've carried since 1999.

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Should I continue the reading and commenting Aristotle's Politics?

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10 months

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

1. Family library essentials. You MUST have a good dictionary. I recommend the Compact micrographic Oxford English Dictionary. It's the definitive English dictionary. Here's one of mine.

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Scott Hambrick

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10 months

Again, an old(ish) book from 1935 has forgotten lessons in it. On Pg 265 of vol 1 of Durant's Story of Civilization. Durant writes of civilizations lost to barbarism more than 3,000 years ago. "Sumeria was to Babylonia, and Babylonia to Assyria, what Crete was to Greece, and

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Scott Hambrick

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9 months

I'm still working on the 13,000 pages of the will and Ariel Durant "Story of Civilization." Durant continues to point out similarities in the holy books of the Zoroastrians, Amenhotep worshipers, Hindoos, Christians, etc. He thinks they all borrowed from each other. He never

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Scott Hambrick

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3 months

@newvangelicals Make no mistake, it's disgust we have for you.

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Scott Hambrick

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5 months

I'm still reading Cooper's "The Deerslayer." This book is set in the wilderness of upstate New York in the early 1700's. There is almost no technology to get in the way of story. There is no supernatural bullshit or even societal noise to influence the characters. This book is

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

I'm starting to get the new library together. At last.

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4 months

@stone_toss C O W P I C S I N B I O

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2 months

@bryanbehar I hope this is all true.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 month

The pajeets just keep coming at me. Since they know nothing about me, they attack their idea of me. Their opinions about Americans are all coming out in their tweets. 1. They think you're poor. 2. They think you don't have a birthright to your country. 3. They think you don't

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Scott Hambrick

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4 months

Your family library needs some technical stuff too. Framing guides, machinists handbooks, and the like. A few books in this category that I love are the Gingery metal working books, the Encyclopedia of knots, Feeds and Feeding, and How to Run a Lathe. What else do we need?

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5 months

C O W P I C S I N B I O

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Scott Hambrick

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5 months

"Stole". You mean picked up out of the dirt. None of these items were revered or cared for by the country it came from any more than an average rock. Europeans knew the importance of the Rosetta Stone and taught EGYPTIANS to read their OWN ancient language, which they never

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5 months

The British Royal Museum after they are forced to give back everything they stole

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2 months

"Quick, to the Subaru!"

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2 months

Caption this

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4 months

I have lost followers after posting this photo.

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4 months

I gained a son-in-law yesterday.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

@roddysteves I'm here for this! I love reading other folks marginalia.

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4 months

New bull calf. Several more to go.

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@SuperPACman_ @datarade I have food, family, and land. What I don't need is third worlders here.

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@FistedFoucault Early life?

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Scott Hambrick

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Only extroverts can win office in Representative government. The public spectacle of campaign requires this. Unfortunately extroverts can never have the same degree of conviction as introverts as they require a higher degree of acceptance from others.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

6. So. -Read good stuff -Buy, own and keep the books -read 30 minutes a day. -be consistent. Read like it was medicine. -cut out wasteful entertainments Do this for a few years and you'll be MONSTER!

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Scott Hambrick

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Everyone will get on board with deportations after the first million are gone. The lower prices. Cheaper houses. Easier traffic. Cleaner roadways. All will be big selling points.

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Scott Hambrick

@HambrickScott

11 months

Older books are more fun. From the Story of Civilization, vol. 1. By Will and Ariel Durant. "..... onomatopoeia still remains a refuge in linguistic emergencies. The Englishman eating his first meal in China, and wishing to know the character of the meat he was eating,

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Scott Hambrick

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11 months

I made a BIG score on the history front. I found a set of The Oxford History of England on the cheap. This one is sure to be cancelled, you know, colonialism and whatnot.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

Getting the "studio" ready for some new stuff. An entirely new podcast with @baldridgecpa dropping on Labor Day, a new Great Books Discussion series, more @onlinegreatbook Podcasts, and some short form stuff for insta.

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Scott Hambrick

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7 months

My Great books group meets on this night. This is one of the most important things I do each month. We are reading Aquinas' Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics. Reading comprehension soars as a result of group discussion. The close reading is done here.

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Scott Hambrick

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4 months

The "Machinery's Handbook" is one of the most amazing books I've ever seen. I paid $15 for mine.

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3 months

Old Louis L'Amour definitely knew Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle says we become virtuous through practice. ""You are a brave man, Morrell." "A man does what he has to do. A brave man? What men call a hero, Shafter, is merely a man who is seen doing what a brave man

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Scott Hambrick

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6 months

Imagine the future you as someone you care about very much and have total responsibility for caretaking. What would you provide for that person? -perfect nutrition -exercise -clean wholesome surroundings -wholesome entertainments -beneficial relationships -sufficient economic

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Scott Hambrick

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7 months

"Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is one of the finest English language books of the 20th century. 1. The content is very important. We all eat. Eat well. Learning French cooking technique is one of the finest things you can do for yourself. Studying a foreign language?

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Scott Hambrick

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27 days

My reach is throttled way back right now. My posts are getting less than 200 views in an account of 900.

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2 months

Immigrants laugh and cheer as they burn England.

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Scott Hambrick

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7 months

This is great advice. Do not micromanage kids. MACRO manage them. Who gives a fuck what they learned in school today WHEN THE TROUBLE IS THAT THEY ARE IN THE WRONG ENVIRONMENT. Managing the small stuff is a waste. Focus INTENSELY On the big stuff. The big stuff 1. Where do

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When your home revolves around your kids, their whims, and their behaviors you put far too much pressure on them and make them neurotic and anxious. Put them at the kids table both literally and metaphorically. It’s a gift to their future mental health. Stop micromanaging them.

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2 months

The American fascination with the gun isn't freudian, as it's opponents seem to think. It's political. It has lineage back to the English yeoman with his 140lb pull long bow. I suspect there is no Magna Carta with no long bow. No Declaration without the musket.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

Keep building that family library of books written before 1850 and printed before 1999. 1. Written Pre-hysteria. 2. Printed Pre-hysteria. Now Pre-hysteria books are being edited before printing. Get the good, old, original stuff and keep it for your posterity.

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Scott Hambrick

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3 months

@HeathMayo I do not care about the GDP. I care about crime, culture, graffiti, litter, quality of life. They don't help any of those things.

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Scott Hambrick

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11 months

DIVERSITY OF OPINION is not categorically good. Truth is what matters. All humans need to learn to seek and test for the truth. No one who is truly a critical thinker believes this is in public schools. No one who is truly a critical thinker believes that the artificial

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Scott Hambrick

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3 months

This is my William F. Buckley moment. The right must reject and ostracize libertarians. Any effort to gain or use political power will be stymied by libertarians, who, as a matter of principle, reject using political power. 1. They are opposed to political success, fearing

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Scott Hambrick

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The right should make sure Kyle Rittenhouse a sinecure to keep him on sides. He should have a no show job with the NRA and heritage foundation. Kyle Rittenhouse has ENOURMOUS rhetorical power. Someone should shoot an indie movie with him in the lead. I'll coach him to a 500#

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16 days ago someone tried to kill Trump.

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5 months

@rebelEducator "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler.

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@catturd2 No one is humiliated. They don't care about what you think. All they know is they rule you.

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Will is being wrong again. The average person is SO bad at budgeting that any change in prices means they bounce every check. They know inflation is bad because they have negative money.

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The average person does not have an intuitive sense of price inflation among a narrow subset of goods over a period of years! People in real life aren't super rational about their own spending like that. Consumer information is spotty at best, there's a ton of research into this.

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Scott Hambrick

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7 months

All of my onions (1500) and MOST of my brassicas are up. I'll be starting more collards, lettuces, and a few others in three more batches over the next weeks, allowing for staged harvests.

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Scott Hambrick

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5 months

There has been 59 presidential elections so far. This 60th election will fix it.

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3 months

You can't be a machinist and not be Aristotelian. @Starrett_Tools knows. "We are what we do repeatedly. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." Aristotle.

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4 months

In the last month I've read The Deerslayer, the first half of Aquinas' Commentary on the Metaphysics, and several books on basic metal lathe operation. I've started turning a few parts I need to replace on the countershaft of the lathe.

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Scott Hambrick

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6 months

Castalia house publishing is doing great work with goat skin bound, gold leaf, deluxe treatment of classic texts. Here's the Cambridge Medieval History as it came packaged.

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If you want to win, settle down near family, stay there, live historically.

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@bonner_jr1979 You don't know what unrealized capital gains are.

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4 months

This taught a lesson, that his father isn't to be trusted, and he's alone in the world. Remember. How you do one thing is how you do everything. This child knows his dad, when needed, will make the wrong decision. I'm Winston Wolf for my kin, not some dumb shit stumbling

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My kid packed his project last night and forgot to bring it to school this morning. I saw it as we left the house and it pains me not to remind him. That bitterness as he walked to his classroom was horrible for me to watch, but necessary for him to grow up.

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1 year

Books ARE not decorations. Don't underestimate the reference value of a family library. I have books I haven't "read" but have referred to. Also, families will need this cultural archive sooner than later. Get the best books and you'll not regret it .

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Large home libraries are pretty lame if you spend more than a few seconds thinking about it. They haven't been a status symbol for like 200 years. Do something better with that space. Just donate your book after reading it instead of trying to make wallpaper out of it.

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Debt interferes with your ability to make long term decisions solely on your own interest.

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I've completed reading one book each week for the last 6 months or so. While I'm doing that I'm also reading some huge histories, Aquinas' Commentary on the Metaphysics, and an interesting modern scholastic. I should read at least 56 books this year.

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Scott Hambrick

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11 months

As far as my reading goes, i've had a somewhat non productive last couple of weeks. I'm back on it. I'm finishing a history and will be re-reading the Plato's Meno for the YouTube live I'll be doing on October 18th at 7pm central. Game on.

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As promised......more cow pics.

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A friend of mine works for a major aerospace company that you can guess. This horrible stuff was just emailed from the chief engineer to everyone. "We have the exhilarating yet daunting privilege of technically sculpting tomorrow’s dreams into today’s realities. That profound

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@RabehBoudiaAI @datarade They should earn all that money at home.

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If there's such a thing as eff U money, money is buying independence. It's impossible to have eff U money IF YOU ARE IN DEBT. DEBT IS SLAVERY. Opt out of debt whenever you can and let your enemies get student loans and automobile notes.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

Here's a show I did with Brett McKay on @artofmanliness we talk about the importance of the Great Books.

Art of Manliness

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1 year

Podcast #430 : Why You Need to Join the Great Conversation About the Great Books

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5 months

New calf is here. We've been waiting for this little bull for quite a while. Number 124

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

If you don't like to read, I bet its because your teachers sucked at picking books. Junior high and high school teachers forcing young people to read The Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, and other garbage extinguished most enthusiasm for reading in this country.

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Scott Hambrick

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1 year

I read more than most people. It's easy for me. BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A TELEVISION. Our new house has no place for one. We designed the house to facilitate conversation and living, not watching TV. Having no TV reorders your life. Get rid of it.

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Red dexters on green fescue. A study.

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4 months

New Dexter heifer calf. Not more than 3 hours old.

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11 months

Reading Plato's Meno for the discussion between Dr. Karl Schudt, Dr. John Pascarella and redneck me on YouTube live on the online great books channel 7pm central on Wednesday Oct 18.

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@DougMackeyCase This is a looming danger. Finding non-hostile doctors will be impossible. I'll probably be better off going to my large animal vet.

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