Re: Hristo's FI Journal
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:53 pm
What about him ?
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What about him ?
Sorry I thought you were @Hristo responding to me, please ignore.Mister Imperceptible wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 7:21 pmI did a short review of his background and material and found nothing like a Disney-esque arrangement.
Sports thus far: club soccer and golf; football likely next. And DW is arranging to get him signed up for some social/learning activities focused on homeschool kids. And then youth group at church.mooretrees wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 10:00 amHow are y’all doing just regular hang out time with other kids? Sports?
If you're looking for a podcast recommendation (likely not), the Growing Resilience podcast is a lot of fun and speaks to all the mistakes people make, all the work that is involved with "homesteading," how expensive and painful and stupid it all is, and also why it's worth at least giving it a shot. It's kind of rambling--episodes are sometimes 2 hours long; but the SME, Todd Dwyer, is fantastic; and the color man, Scott Hambrick, is my favorite podcast color man out there.MBBboy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 9:56 amReally curious to hear how the permaculture / homsteading consultant works out, that might be something I should emulate. We took the opposite ordering of events from you and bought the rural land + cabin first. We have a loose plan for developing it but definitely no expertise or experience. Maybe finding some in-person help to avoid doing something boneheaded makes sense. Especially because we bought a lot of acreage and are a little intimidated
Got DW a very nice long gun for Christmas--a Benelli M2 20gauge--and I needed a place to keep it as I keep my long guns at my dad's house, and his gun cabinet is full. She and the kids have been wanting a shotgun, and I had lots of recommendations that the m2 20 gauge is a great skeet shooting/dove hunting gun, especially for women (and kids/teens). She's going to love it; I just hope she doesn't peek into the safe before Christmas morning.
Have you read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? I enjoyed that one about as much as ST. Both were very valuable reads for me.Hristo Botev wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 9:24 amBut someone finally called me out and asked "Hristo, what's your take?" To which I responded that I was in the middle of reading a book that has me questioning whether or not we shouldn't seriously consider limiting the franchise in some way; that we might should chalk up universal suffrage to being a complete failure. It got real quiet for a bit after that.
Funny, went looking for where/when @Jacob had recommended The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (viewtopic.php?p=220078#p220078), and saw that he also recommended Against Democracy. Having just finished The Republic, this passage from the Amazon write-up of the book struck me as funny.
I mean, surely we all recognize that, if we're talking about a "sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable," Plato's Republic predates Jason Brennan's book by more than 2,000 years.A challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable, Against Democracy is essential reading for scholars and students of politics across the disciplines.
Also, we got a dog:The age of the books does create some interesting and unintended consequences for modern day children. Nature and everyday life in an agrarian society are common topics throughout the books, but especially in "Observation," "Conversation," and "Information" lessons. While farm children might readily answer many of the questions, children raised in the suburbs or in a city will likely have to research answers to questions like: "Name four parts of a harness" or "How does a rabbit sometimes injure trees" or "Tell how butter is made." Most families could create entire science lessons from some of the language activities!
I'm doing https://onlinegreatbooks.com/ --which is VERY non-ERE of me (maybe it's ERE2 though?, no idea--can't keep up with that stuff).mooretrees wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:23 pmOut of curiosity, are you following a "great books" list for your Greek based reading? How do you decide what to read and what keeps you going when/if you don't like what you're reading?
I'm not there yet, but apparently that (they being lecture notes) is a bit of a contested issue; lots of folks are pretty adamant that they are not lecture notes. But I have no idea. Plato is readable because he writes in dialogues, which is something I kept having to remind myself of when reading The Republic when Socrates says that in his ideal city there there would be no imitative/make believe play acting allowed.bostonimproper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:29 pmIt’s been a while, but I vaguely remember from my college classical philosophy class that Aristotle’s writings that we have today are all kind of broad lecture notes. So, kind of a big step down in readability when you’re following up Plato (as most do, for obvious reasons).
We are doing a Charlotte Mason-inspired homeschooling curriculum for our daughters. LOTS of really old books to be found at the library or goodwill style stores. And they're still good, most of them. The thing about novel-writing is that we figured it out like 250 years ago in English, so there is a vast canon of excellent literature (unlike film--but that's a controversial opinion ).Hristo Botev wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:33 amPuts a smile on my face that my son's homeschooling textbook is so old there isn't even a copyright notice on the edition we bought: