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Which History to Trust: A Dad’s Dilemma

29 Monday Jul 2013

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One of our kids is beginning high school this year, and it is my charge to select or construct the curriculum for history in our home school. As well, it is for me to oversee this portion of her education in the coming years.

I do not take this responsibility lightly, which is the reason for this letter, posted both publicly, and privately to people whom I respect.

It is my hope that you might offer some guidance in this endeavor, that my child and I may avoid wasted investments of time, energies, and cash in history books and/or programs whose sole purpose is to manipulate history to dovetail with an anti-American agenda, which to me defines itself as anywhere to the left of our founders, counter to the principled Unanimous Declaration, and at odds with the original intent of our Constitution.

What I’d like to offer my daughter is a solid foundation in honest history, in its proper context; something that she can build upon throughout her life, and that will protect her from being taken in by the spinners and string pullers.

Which history to trust, that’s my dilemma… (getting her interest is a whole ‘nother problem :] )

If you could share your experience with trustworthy sources of American and World History, or your knowledge of any reliable curriculum or structured reading lists, or if you have any other advice to offer (other than sending our kid to public school), we would be grateful in hearing it.

Please comment on the post, or send a note to subconch@gmail.com ~Thanks

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This Somebody That’s Going to Figure Me All Out

28 Monday Jan 2013

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Just sitting here thinking how great it would be if somebody randomly reviewed the whole of my life, and then gave me the perfect idea as to what to do with the rest of my life.

Wouldn’t that be great?!

This somebody would see everything that I’ve ever done, every contribution I’ve made, every success small and great within my rucksack of jobs and hobbies and interests, every positive impression I’ve made at work or among family or friends, and see every great idea I ever had that I never wrote down.

This somebody would also see everything I’ve ever done wrong, every failure and error and blunder, every moment that I’d done someone wrong even when I didn’t realize it at the time, and see the dumbest ideas and thoughts that ever came to my mind or spewed from my mouth.

This is great!

Then, this somebody would randomly appear out of nowhere, absent any malice whatsoever, armed with every piece of data that is and ever was, of my heart and mind and hands, this somebody would extrapolate from my long life what exactly I am supposed to be when I grow up, after the fact, and tell me with prophetic hindsight that one thing that I was meant to do on earth that was mine alone to do.

Then I’d smack myself upside the head at the obviousness of what I’d struggled with since youth to figure out. I’d kick myself at the wasted (undisclosed) decades, which if you’ve ever seen someone try to kick themselves, I’d look ridiculous…

Time to get to work.

After this somebody schools me and takes their leave, I am left, aside from the elation at the new truth, I am left with the quick realization that this thing that I am to do, this thing that I’m made for and must make, will be an enormous undertaking. And that somebody didn’t provide the precise detail of my contribution, because then it wouldn’t be mine, of course.

So what did I need this somebody for, anyway? I mean, I’m going to do all the work, I’m the one that did all that I’ve done, I’m the one that built that database. Man, this somebody that I imagine randomly figuring it all out for me, can’t really be anybody but me, accompanied by maybe my God.

Yeah, that’ll be great when it happens, when me and maybe my God figure me all out, what I’m doing here, and I’m not waiting around for it. Best get to work, getting ready to really get to work.

This other somebody stuff… is a fairy tale. I thank God that such thoughts leave my mind as fast as they enter, leaving me much faster than I can think to write them down. And I pity those who cling to such fantasies, waiting on men, because there’s always another “this somebody” willing to take the advantage. Makes me wonder where those kind of ideas come from in the first place.

~tdv

.that what that they know.

13 Sunday Jan 2013

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that what that they know

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.that what that they know.
It is that what that they know, that animates them so,
to our evident erosions so illogically so.

It is this what that they know,
buried by the what that they want us to know,
and filtered by fear that makes thinks that we know.

They know, the more of them know than then,
the more of them know the more than then.

By the they, are the us that we trust,
are the actions, inactions, powers counter on us.

They know, and neither do we.
The sooner, the later, this that that they barter us, for err, we’ll see.

~tdv [subconch] 01.13.13

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To say that all…

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

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To say that all is relative, is not at all related, to what is real. Truth has no family, though truth can be the family.

~tdv @subconch 12.05.12

What Doesn’t Change

28 Wednesday Nov 2012

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What doesn’t change, except change itself, is the regular search for what doesn’t change.

That we are, that we live, doesn’t change until it does, which doesn’t change that we were, or that still they are.

That it has been done, that it has been written, that at that time it was, doesn’t change.

The truth of it doesn’t change, only its versions and inventions.

Unending movement… doesn’t change… so far that we know.

Freedom and liberty, whether synonymously construed, or distinguished as the latter being the former’s responsible articulation, or separated by whatever your metaphysical sensibilities and frames of reference, these do not change, in their primitive and natural perceptions, or in the perpetual motions in defense of, and offense to, their principled and infinite illustrations, by individual human beings.

Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

 ~Thomas Jefferson to J. Cartwright, 1824.


That there exists good and evil, doesn’t change.

 Finally, what doesn’t change, is the certainty that most people who happen across this article will never make it to this line.

~tdv

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Randoms: The Consequence of Bliss, A Sock, and Recycled Genius

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

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Can’t say what I’m REALLY thinking, except parchment, a sock, flies, sweat o’sloth, glass, laurel, a book, a son, and an empty box. @ 11.21.12

Paraphrasing Krauthammer on O’Reilly: It’s over, till it’s over, that’s when it can be fixed. @ 11.20.12

Chipping away at the problem is contingent on a measure of time, but a progressive century has unfortunately proven the method. @ 11.20.12

I’m not prepared to give up, but it’s best I prepare for the damage done by those who did. ~what a waste @ 11.20.12

I think obama’s re-coronation drills down to two things, ultimately: fear and fraud. Apply either, or both, to whatever. @ 11.19.12

Interesting, little states can buck the omnipotent fed. govt when it comes to smokin’ dope, but obamacare… that’s a done deal? #nullify @ 11.19.12

What better way to destroy “the genius of republican liberty”(fed.no.37) than to destroy the genius of the people whose liberty makes it up? @ 11.18.12

There is a difference between Barack Hussein Obama and the President of the United States. @ 11.18.12

I hate the word “activist”, as it conjures the radical & destructive stereotype. But this doesn’t mean I am prohibited from being “active”. @ 11.18.12

If the simple truth doesn’t work, then the simple truth cannot work, and the problem lies not with your powers of persuasion. #politics @ 11.17.12

WHO is it that Calculates whether vote fraud is WORTH prosecution? I mean, election outcome notwithstanding, Punish these bastards! #justice @ 11.17.12

If we’re going to need two Part-Time jobs to survive, due to obamacare, isn’t that gonna double commuter vehicle emissions? progressives? algore? @ 11.17.12

Rather than raise prices, biz’s to add an obamacare surcharge to the bill/receipt! Let people SEE the COST! Excellent! @ 11.17.12

“Government is only another word for POLITICAL POWER AND SUPREMACY” (emphasis Hamilton’s). Why would you CEDE more than agreed? ~No.33,p.07 @ 11.17.12
SUPREMACY only means ‘highest in authority’; there is no highest in humanity or virtue, and only One Supreme Judge. @ 11.17.12

Even IF the Left COULD create ‘paradise’ on earth, I’d rather not live in it. @ 11.17.12

The last thing I remember didn’t happen… yet? @ 11.16.12

Jase:”Ya want somethin done, ya do it yourself” Si:”That’s what started this company” Jase:”That’s what started this COUNTRY”#duckdynasty @ 11.16.12

I’ve not seen or heard or read ANY news today. Ignorance truly IS bliss… I don’t think I like bliss… gonna check on @seanhannity @ 11.15.12

Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

Some Things Never Change

02 Thursday Aug 2012

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Allow me to present one of those old things we read, and then instantly recognize the text as having absolute application to current times, as having a striking timelessness of truth, of reality, and even evoking eerie images and voices of individuals as they campaign for authority vested by the people. You are of course free to draw your own inferences.

Plainly, this 225 yr. old article sounds like today, in a way. You can figure out how, if you want. :]

Reference paragraph 17: Federalist No. 6: Concerning Dangers from War between the States by Alexander Hamilton 1787 (my emphasis)

From this summary of what has taken place in other countries, whose situations have borne the nearest resemblance to our own, what reason can we have to confide in those reveries, which would seduce us into the expectation of peace and cordiality between the members of the present confederacy, in a state of separation? Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, the weaknesses, and the evils incident to society in every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct, that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

max·im  noun  \ˈmak-səm\
1: a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct

practical maxim
1: The Constitution of the United States

Randoms: Reality of Rehabilitated Reason, Authority of Doubt

19 Saturday May 2012

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That which is beyond human reason is reason enough to… @

Doubt is the first impression of truth. @

Greatness rests in the aftermath of doing something at all. @

Reality finally teaches you that you are. @

The last thing I do is unlikely to be the thing I want to be the last thing I do. @

Reason, this was the victim, this action, a symptom. @

Time and again, we people delegate authority to our representatives, then must exercise our authority to protect ourselves from them. @

An oath, a contract, confirms honor’s will, or exposes honor’s want. @

We have so deliberated and rehabilitated the human design that it ceases its own consent to be. @

We are so drowned in policy and the politic that we cannot surface for a single breath of freedom. @

Note: The preceding random musings are mine. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

Randoms: Preservation, Prism of Liberty, Liberal Force, and People Aint Food

06 Friday Apr 2012

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“Let Liberty be the Prism.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Liberty is the American Entitlement.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“The Wisdom of Liberty is Expressed by its Reciprocity.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Conservatism preserves Americanism, liberalism reigns it in.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Conservatism is Americanism, for it finds the wisdom of liberty paramount, and the precursor to government.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Liberalism is socialism is government primacy.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“What remains when the power of government is removed from liberalism?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“America is the most charitable nation on earth, and we gladly and responsibly help our fellow man. So why do liberals insist on force?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Do liberals prefer force to sway because their ideas are unconvincing, or because they are naturally inclined to force their designs?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Ever notice how liberal causes always have, or seek to have, the force of government behind them?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Americanism will not be managed.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“The State, the state, assertive omnipotence, insistent omnipresence, assumed omniscience, little god…” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Willfully giving up your liberty to gov’t is like volunteering for prison.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“2700 pages in PPACA (obamacare). I can say “comply” in 6 characters, and I’m not even a tyrant. hmm” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Justice is relative, and a tyrant cannot function alone.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Can somebody please tell me the Truth, so I can ignore it and vote for hair? Wait… skin… yeah skin. No… teeth… I’m for teeth.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“A Civil Society is what separates us from food.” ~tdv (@subconch)

Truth Doesn’t Have a Problem, People Do.

01 Sunday Apr 2012

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Who said truth had a problem? Well,

Truth doesn’t have a problem, truth just is, that’s all. People have a problem with truth. Nothing against people, except you, but people lie, with malice, for increase, people are  wrong, out of ignorance, by stupidity, for vanity, or from deception, see: magic, and liar.

If you are a person, and you don’t want to have a problem with truth, then by experience know it, and if by people, doubt it, until by them truth is experience.

So here, truth being what it is, experienced, past, present, basis for future, which is not yet truth.

What of faith? Trust in truth by people, to be determined by experience, still then to be determined. Faith in God, truth you own.

Now, absent your experience by me, thereby having no reasonable faith in me, go figure it out for yourself.

Trust me, ~tdv