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Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker 👀 … applicable:

Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker 👀 … applicable:

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Rescue old dogs. They’re seldom rescued (age, ailments, etc). You can be the love they’ve never had in life when it will matter the most. It can be very tough, often very sad, but their life *will* be much better because of it. And all dogs go to heaven, I’ll see these guys again

Rescue old dogs. They’re seldom rescued (age, ailments, etc). You can be the love they’ve never had in life when it will matter the most. It can be very tough, often very sad, but their life will be much better because of it. And all dogs go to heaven, I’ll see these guys again

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The basics: —Lift, train at some kind of martial sport, and eat healthy: it imposes discipline. —Read books, especially the great books that canonically established us as a people. —Be known for your integrity, honor, honesty, and hatred of cowards, liars and male gossipers.

The basics: —Lift, train at some kind of martial sport, and eat healthy: it imposes discipline. —Read books, especially the great books that canonically established us as a people. —Be known for your integrity, honor, honesty, and hatred of cowards, liars and male gossipers.

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… best answer in over 2.5 millennia

… best answer in over 2.5 millennia

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186,706 views • 1 month ago

Academics reading the classics and commenting on all autodidacts and anons:

Academics reading the classics and commenting on all autodidacts and anons:

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112,308 views • 4 months ago

Mansfield on BAP having the insight on his own into locating the greatest place in human history to find the *truest*—but least spoken of—*necessity* for politics as such: It’s very precondition in the violence of all foundings Ended by saying BAP is “interesting and smart”

Mansfield on BAP having the insight on his own into locating the greatest place in human history to find the truest—but least spoken of—necessity for politics as such: It’s very precondition in the violence of all foundings Ended by saying BAP is “interesting and smart”

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49,135 views • 2 months ago

Don’t bench like Tate Goal: controlled form throughout — whether for power, strength, or simply aesthetics Deliberative, controlled, purposive — in everything As Nietzsche says: “ — No victor believes in chance” (FW 258) Here’s 225 for reps with purpose:

Don’t bench like Tate Goal: controlled form throughout — whether for power, strength, or simply aesthetics Deliberative, controlled, purposive — in everything As Nietzsche says: “ — No victor believes in chance” (FW 258) Here’s 225 for reps with purpose:

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161,695 views • 1 year ago

The problem with always being “a good guy” on principle is, as Machiavelli says, ours is a world of too many bad guys Horrific injustices occur and you hear monstrous nonsense like: —“Don’t stoop to their level” —“If you do that then you’re no better than them” My response:

The problem with always being “a good guy” on principle is, as Machiavelli says, ours is a world of too many bad guys Horrific injustices occur and you hear monstrous nonsense like: —“Don’t stoop to their level” —“If you do that then you’re no better than them” My response:

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49,226 views • 1 year ago

I think about this a lot. People can talk all day everyday about philosophy, Christianity, civility in politics amid literally any slanders, same for social media — but there’s more wisdom in this 2min, 34s clip than all of that combined. “…b/c people let ‘em get away with it”

I think about this a lot. People can talk all day everyday about philosophy, Christianity, civility in politics amid literally any slanders, same for social media — but there’s more wisdom in this 2min, 34s clip than all of that combined. “…b/c people let ‘em get away with it”

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43,729 views • 1 year ago

I became seriously interested in the great books through fitness Few things can better equip us for the enormous demands required to understand the thought of our best predecessors than fitness Mind and body a natural unity: —Homer’s moly plant —Plato’s gymnastics and poetry

I became seriously interested in the great books through fitness Few things can better equip us for the enormous demands required to understand the thought of our best predecessors than fitness Mind and body a natural unity: —Homer’s moly plant —Plato’s gymnastics and poetry

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15,311 views • 6 months ago

Media Saboteur Lastly: Truly funny: Fat slanderer I never knew but who stalks me for literally years, endlessly tweeting about me, endlessly hosting spaces entirely about me and now crying he’s a victim These gossiping frauds are spiritually women who bring nothing to X Amazing ending below

Media Saboteur Lastly: Truly funny: Fat slanderer I never knew but who stalks me for literally years, endlessly tweeting about me, endlessly hosting spaces entirely about me and now crying he’s a victim These gossiping frauds are spiritually women who bring nothing to X Amazing ending below

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22,491 views • 1 year ago

I’ve found these to easily be at the top of the list — they’re also great as a warmup before lifting

I’ve found these to easily be at the top of the list — they’re also great as a warmup before lifting

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16,181 views • 10 months ago

It’s crucial to know that Neil (and Lindsay, Wokal, et al) understanding of Christianity is only thinly Biblical The core of their “Christianity” is modern liberalism b/c they lack an understanding of the revolution in Modernity Here’s my summary (Space I did on it in comment)

It’s crucial to know that Neil (and Lindsay, Wokal, et al) understanding of Christianity is only thinly Biblical The core of their “Christianity” is modern liberalism b/c they lack an understanding of the revolution in Modernity Here’s my summary (Space I did on it in comment)

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15,501 views • 1 year ago

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