``` 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. ``` [Proverbs 3:5-6](https://blb.sc/00EyKy), KJV GM

...man, I love deadlifts. #FeelsGood bro

This is a #MustRead Denson, _The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories_ free pdf: https://mises.org/library/book/costs-war-americas-pyrrhic-victories

...and again, I say unto you ``` don't imnanentize the eschaton ``` View quoted note →

"Christendom" is in our hearts, not our 'high places,' pilgrim. > Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God--" ..._not_ by the sword of the 'magistrate'. We walk by faith, not by sight. #2K #NaturalLaw #Already #NotYet

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ok so the final tally from my true love is actually quite generous ...but do I need to now provide room & board for the 40 maids-a-milking, 36 ladies dancing, 30 lords a-leaping, 22 pipers piping, and 12 drummers drumming?? ...who are these people? ...have they been vetted?

Unapologetic noninterventionist.

Rust's 'ownership rules': - each value has an _owner_ - there can only be one owner at a time ... woke crustaceans in disbelief 😂

> Between 1898 and 1919, a certain idea of America was let go and another put in its place. The older idea was of a nation dedicated to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the people who comprise it. Crucial to this image of America was our traditional foreign policy: its aim and limit was to keep America strong enough to prevent attacks from abroad, or, if they occurred, to fend them off, so that the people could return to their peaceful pursuits. It was a foreign policy custom-made for the **American Republic**. > The new idea of America, nurtured by McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, and brought to fruition by Woodrow Wilson, was of a nation made immensely powerful by its free institutions and dedicated to projecting its might in order to achieve freedom throughout the world. In this conception, we would be perpetually entangled everywhere on earth where we could do good. The American people would not be allowed to return to the peaceful enjoyment of their own rights until the whole world was at last free. This was — and is — the foreign policy of **America as Empire, the negation of Republic**. At the end of the twentieth century, it is not clear that the American people still have the power to choose between the two. -- the great Ralph Raico https://mises.org/articles-interest/american-foreign-policy-turning-point-1898-1919

> Of all enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. -- James Madison

The Future of Freedom Foundation

American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919, Part 1 – The Future of Freedom Foundation

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 With the end of the twentieth century rapidly approaching, this is a time to look back and...

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TIL VanDrunen published a new book in 2025: _[Faith in Exile: Psalm 119 and the Christian Life](https://a.co/d/hZ91zcN)_ #InstaBuy GM

It's a NEW DAWN It's a NEW DAY It's a NEW LIFE for me And I'm [Feeling Good]( **GM**

Time is a sine wave with an overture and a finale. View quoted note →

Annual 1/1 #PolarBearPlunge today in a local river I did it alone...ruggedly 10/10 way better than 'the warmth of collectivism'

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Happy New Year!

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