Well, that didn't work out so good. "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." – George Washington​

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." - Tacitus

Q. 36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. Rom. 5:1-2, 5; Rom. 14:17; Prov. 4:18; 1 John 5:13; 1 Pet. 1:5.

"He begins to die, that quits his desires." - George Herbert

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." – George S. Patton

Q. 35. What is sanctification? A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness. 2 Thess. 2:13; Eph. 4:23-24; Rom. 6:4, 6; Rom. 8:1.

I take back all the times as a child when I didn't want to take a nap.

Q. 34. What is adoption? A. Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God. 1 John 3:1; John 1:12; Rom. 8:17.

"Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure." - Bill Bright

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it." - Pericles

Okay, so I'm a day or two late on the Steak & Shake fun. I'll just pretend I'm eating pizza.😂

Q. 33. What is justification? A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. Rom. 3:24-25; Rom. 4:6-8; 2 Cor. 5:19, 21; Rom. 5:17-19; Gal. 2:16; Phil. 3:9.

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson

I don'tunderstand why anyone still voluntarily uses Windoze, tbh.

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"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today." – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

Q. 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, sanctification, and the several benefits which, in this life, do either accompany or flow from them. Rom. 8:30; Eph. 1:5; 1 Cor. 1:26, 30.

Back to Primal on Android, for now.

"The Ungoverned," by Vernor Vinge, is a sci-fi novella that started me down the anarcho-capitalist path many years ago. Many of VInge's works explore anarcho-capitalism, agorism, and "The Singularity". The full text of "The Ungoverned" is available for free here. It's worth the hour or so to read it.

- Chapter 4