My eldest heads to college to study computer science in under a month, but I just figured out that I only have 4 days of time at home with him left. He is spending this week and the next at a quantum computing camp on campus. We get a weekend with him before going out of town for a bit over a week and then we get 2.5 days at home before my husband and him drive to college in an extended road trip. I sure am going to miss the guy, but I know he is ready to be on his own. His leaving is bitter sweet. I am so proud and yet I'm not sure how I am going to function without his help. You've never met a kinder, more helpful teen in your life. #grownostr #proudmomma

Well, yesterday we butchered our first rabbit we bred and grew out. It was much harder (emotionally) than killing and cleaning a deer or butchering a chicken. It took way too long, but now that we know what we are doing, the next one should take less than half of the time. I regret buying such a cute and friendly breed of bunny. I have creamy italian rabbit stew in the crockpot ready for dinner (I just have to add the cream and parmesan when I get home and cook an extra 5-10 minutes). I'm really looking forward to eating our own home grown meat. We lovingly call it Stuart Stew because we named every single baby Stuart to remind us that they will all become stew, but to make it easy to refer to them. It is a bit confusing because all of our babies were female and Stuart makes me want to call them "he/him". #grownostr #rabbits #livestock #foodstr

This article has an excerpt out of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography on how he categorized and sought after virtues. He also talks about how hard it was to live up to these virtues. I think there is a lot to learn from his words, but, as a Christian, I do think his one mistake was not relying more on God and trying to be good solely by his own power. By his attempts, successes, and failures, we can learn a lot about human nature and virtue. #grownostr #virtue

The Epoch Times

When Benjamin Franklin’s Friend Informs Him of His Proud, Overbearing Nature

Helping people with overwhelming student loan debt sounds nice until you look at where the money comes from. In order to help people who foolishly took out massive student loans to get useless degrees, the government is stealing money from those who paid off their student loans, worked hard so they had no student loans, or didn't go to college and are working hard at blue collar jobs. This is theft! This is slavery! This is wrong! Instead of stealing from those who made wise decisions to help those who made foolish decisions, maybe we should start teaching kids to make better decisions regarding college. Not everyone is better off going to college. People should look at tuition costs and go to cheaper colleges if they go to college. People need to look at whether a major will actually help them to succeed in life (HINT: victomology degrees make you less likely to get a job because no employer, in their right mind, will hire someone who has learned to be a victim because it insures getting sued). People also need to look at tradeoffs. Maybe a person will get a higher wage if they go to college, but a person who choses to not go to college starts earning a living 4+ years earlier. They don't have the cost of college and they definitely don't have the interest on college loans. If you take what they earn over a lifetime and compare it to what a college grad makes over a lifetime minus the cost of college and college loans, the person, who skipped college, will frequently do better. Obviously it varies. A doctor/lawyer/engineer who picked a state college and worked to get scholarships is definitely going to be better off than a person who didn't go to college and never gets any skills and works at fast food and retail establishments. On the other hand, a person who gets on the job training as a plumber/electrician/welder is going to be much better off than a person who gets a victomology degree (women's studies, black studies, gender studies) and goes to an expensive private college and takes out large student loans. We need to teach wise choices, not one size fits all solutions. #grownostr

The Epoch Times

Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Program

How will you face your fear of the future? #grownostr #fear

Pride is one of the 7 deadly sins. Proverbs 6:16-19 "16There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: 17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, 19a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community." The rainbow was God's #to not destroy the world by flood again. Luke 17:1-2 says "And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. Pride month is satanic and an affront to God. #grownostr #christianity #god #bible

This "study" uses a flow model to model blood flow through the carotid artery. Their conclusion is that people, with partially blocked arteries, could have a stroke caused by elevated heart rate during exercise. There is zero evidence that this really happens, but this study could encourage people to not exercise, despite the evidence that exercise is healthy and increases lifespan. This looks like another example of unhealthy lifestyles being encourages rather than healthy lifestyles. #grownostr #health #exercise

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Most people inherently understand that there are two sexes that are who we are and can't be changed. People who think they are in the wrong body have a mental condition, not a physical condition just like an anorexic who thinks they are fat or people who think they shouldn't have an appendage and want it cut off. This article articulates these ideas better than about any I have read or heard. #grownostr https://afn.net/opinion/guest-commentary/2023/06/26/five-fatal-flaws-in-transgender-ideology/