I’m taking a vacation. Been on a good streak for awhile and got a lot accomplished already this year. Check out my newspaper at www.thecornerstonepress.com if you haven’t already and I’ll be back in a couple weeks. The show should still be out on Saturdays.
Sent as Sheep WAR ep 84
5 March 2026
The kids are getting sick, there’s not much sleeping, so there won’t be much writing. Everything is coming along well, it’s a luxury to struggle and still survive. In time, everyone will be healthy again, today is about getting through. My push up videos continue, I’ve got 6 out of 22 complete. If I continue doing 3 videos a week, I’ll be done with time to spare. That gives me the expectation of slowing down at some point. A new printer I ordered for the newspaper should be arriving today along with other equipment for that purpose. Life is good.
4 March 2026
The difficulty of having new ideas is to everyone else they’re wrong ideas, at least that’s how people justify never having thought them. They don’t want to consider there’s a path they didn’t explore that came to a new conclusion. The leader has to motivate people with an idea they’ve never heard before and then lead them through new challenges. All the while the followers will be complaining and struggling against their own leader. The Israelites said to Moses, “It would be better we were still slaves in Egypt where we had food, then to starve in the desert.” I want everyone to be a star, but the reality is most people are below average. What I’ve come to accept as a leader or a social media influencer is followers have to be below the leader, if not the roles should be reversed. A struggle is created where the leader is hated for instructing people against their intuition and the followers are hated for needing to be told what to do; yet they need each other. I can’t tell you where we’re headed, only that we need to escape to the desert. The thing that doesn’t exist yet, we’re going to build it. When asked how I know it’ll work, I don’t know, but am saved through faith. After 40 years of wandering, Moses lead his people to the promise land, but never entered it.
3 March 2026
Yesterday, I mentioned it’s hard to get people to think which got me thinking on thought. I always said I started thinking when I was 17 and my first decision was to drop out of school. One thing I knew was I didn’t like it there. Then I had to figure out how to feed myself and the Army looked cool. Once in the military I began taking my studies seriously because sleeping in a hole in the desert makes one reconsider life choices. Once at University I met Socrates and loved him and philosophy. Most people hate everything about it, but there is a blood sport to discourse. Socrates made people think, made me think in new ways I never did before and it was painful. Learning something new is hard, whether that is attempting to memorize or walking through a new destination. The brain can be overloaded with information, that’s where I see the brain as a muscle that needed to be exercised. Age 25 is when I started to take reading serious, before then I would literally travel the world to avoid reading a book. I started with high school reading I should have done 10 years prior, graduated college, and came to know Nietzsche. Intellectuals should cower at the name. From there I learned a lot, Nietzsche’s idea of the Ubermenche, or Overman, motivated me to be better in every aspect; taught myself to paint and play piano. Currently, I’ve started studying for the LSAT. There was a practice question on what is “proven” in a writing. When studying and learning a new perspective to see life, I felt the same pain trying to understand Socrates’ way of thinking. If anything, I’m speeding up and intensifying.
2 March 2026
After the events of this weekend, I started the presses on my newspaper. https://www.thecornerstonepress.com/ The picture is of a tiny library and bench I built to house the paper. The bench, or as I’ve been calling it the newsstand, is placed by the road for passers by to take one. I’ve been preparing the newspaper for awhile now and was waiting for what event would warrant a start. During the initial pandemic lock down, the “two weeks”, I was walking my dog in a park and the entire outdoor park was shut down. There was yellow caution tape wrapped around the equipment and buildings. I remember walking through that scene knowing something big was happening and that I had to prepare fast. I’ve had the same feeling in recent weeks, like then as now, I was prepared and could jump into action right away. Aside from telling my discord war has been coming, this add trust in my judgement that the day after I had everything ready to start a physical paper including housing and a website. It’ll be a monthly issue, so check it out now and come back then. The other side of the paper is the cafe, where people can read and talk about the paper. With everything I also provide myself to talk. I write first for myself, next to educate others. My hope is my writing is of a level to challenge people, if that’s the case, then they are left with questions and I must be there to bridge their gap in understanding. It’s hard getting people to think.
Content
The act of feeling content is a virtue. Whether an individual is on their way down or climbing up, a person must be content in their present moment or they always be chasing a problem. At no time will they be happy. Being content means realizing things can always get worse. Even when anything in life would be better, to be thankful for the position to desire more. We’re still here, make peace with that. If the storm is not calmed within, we will carry it everywhere, effecting everything. Being content means gratitude for all we have, even if all we have is suffering.
Faith Hath Made Thee Whole WAR ep 84
27 February 2026
After each writing, I paste it into a LLM to get tags for SEO. For yesterday’s writing the AI prompted me to reach out to a crisis hotline and my queen checked in to see I was OK. Yesterday was not a reflection of how I felt in the moment, but those were dark thoughts in the past to give people a glimpse into world they might not know. Most of society lives in the middle, by definition, it’s where men and women play nicely. While I may be able to create success in the comforts of society, it’s not where I’m comfortable. The call to adventure is to explore what’s beyond the horizon and that draws me to the extreme edges of society. There’s no laws or decorum, people are killing each other over a mound of dirt; where might makes right. The purpose of a hero is to out and bring back treasures like the known world has never seen. The oil in our cars or any of our many resources comes from taming the wild. Eric Slover was awarded the Medal of Honor this week for his service flying a helicopter in the Maduro abduction where he was shot multiple times in the legs. The cheap oil at the pump is paid for in blood by men like him, yet the reality of his actions would scare and disgust a majority of the people benefiting from it. We want the hamburger, but don’t want to know how it’s made. I get it, it’s rational. When John Henry beat the railroad spike driving machine, he went home that night and heart exploded. I always wanted to be John Henry, or Achilles. How can a rational person understand that? The inevitable result of going on one too many adventures.
26 February 2026
Still pretty tired, so I thought I’d give the reader a look into the tired and depressed mind. There’s no point to go on. The harder I try, the harder it gets. There’s never a finish line or even a goal that feels like winning. Someone new will come around to cause problems. It might be better to give up at this point and stay in bed. Someone else will have to feed the kids breakfast and get them to school. It’s better for them to move on from me now, I’m already gone. I’ll need food, but I’m done eating. No reason to get out of bed anymore, I’ll just soil myself. Done moving, done thinking, now to wait for the end. Pain can be ignored and after a day in bed I’ll probably enter some hallucination. Any goodbyes? I’m sorry I wasn’t strong enough to make it. It’s better to give in than fight. Or is it? Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. That’s Hamlet’s to be or not to be. The attitude of giving up doesn’t help anyone and turning a useful human into dead weight is a problem for anyone invested in this world. When tired, the best advice came from the military. Take a knee, face out, and drink water. You’ll be alright.
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