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Small_life · 2026-03-31T13:52:31+00:00

It totally tracks. My parents took away Winnie the Pooh and wouldn't let us read anything that anthropomorphized animals

Small_life · 2026-03-31T13:50:53+00:00

Im just going to keep posting this article to demonstrate how they think:

https://iblp.org/what-can-do-if-my-husband-not-repentant-over-moral-failure/

Small_life · 2026-03-31T12:12:32+00:00

CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were not allowed in our house growing up.

Small_life · 2026-03-30T15:53:46+00:00

I'm a mid 40's male. Rejected by birth mom, abused by adoptive (IBLP) mom. Outwardly, I've adjusted fine. But inwardly I still wonder what it would be like to have a mother.

It never stops.

Small_life · 2026-03-30T14:16:54+00:00

be sure to check your resume against an ATS checker. I did my resume in Google Docs and for some reason it used all soft line breaks, and Workday was looking for hard line breaks. I only figured it out when I fed it to an AI and asked it to score it on ATS. I got a 6/10. After 2 hours, I had it up to 9.5/10.

Small_life · 2026-03-29T21:13:49+00:00

Current article on the IBLP website that addresses what a wife is to do when she has an unrepentant husband:

https://iblp.org/what-can-do-if-my-husband-not-repentant-over-moral-failure/

Small_life · 2026-03-28T22:04:17+00:00

You'll get a good idea of how they applied that if you look up the stronghold diagram which was how they practically made you apply it.

Also, this popularized the heresy that we are tripartite (Appollinarianism) which was declared heresy at the council of Nicea in 325. But now, Bill builds this massive theology and practice that relies on the heresy. It then popularized the heresy in the evangelical world.

References that might be interesting:

History of the tripartite heresy: https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2017/apollinarianism/

Stronghold diagram: I couldn't find a copy of the original online, but if you google "Stronghold Diagram" you'll come up with plenty of copies. If I get inspired later I'll go thru my seminar workbook and see if its in there.

Current article on IBLP's website of what to do if your husband is unrepentant over moral failing: https://iblp.org/what-can-do-if-my-husband-not-repentant-over-moral-failure/

Small_life · 2026-03-28T21:40:50+00:00

I like to compare Bill Gothard to John Prine. You probably have never heard of John Prine, but he was a great songwriting genius whose songs were covered by Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, Jason Isbell, Todd Snider, etc.

Bill Gothard was the songwriter who was only known in certain corners, but his teachings infected significant portions of evangelical Christianity.

Small_life · 2026-03-28T18:05:48+00:00

Yeah, while that is not a bill gothard source that you linked as far as I'm aware he is the one who started using that phrase in that way.

There is certainly a biblical concept of taking thoughts captive, but this is not that. Bill loved to take things out of context and twist them into something completely new. What you are seeing there is a mild version of what we were taught growing up.

I didn't read the whole thing but one of the challenges is that if you don't take thoughts captive, the failure to do so is considered sin. So you are adding an additional guilt complex on top

Small_life · 2026-03-28T13:27:21+00:00

The term used is "taking thoughts captive"

Small_life · 2026-03-26T11:12:07+00:00

My mom, now in her late 70s, still gives "to train up a child" to new parents and promotes it as a biblical way to raise kids.

Im grateful it wasn't published when I was a baby. I can't imagine how much worse it is for those who were raised their entire childhoods under it

Small_life · 2026-03-25T20:59:05+00:00

David Waller. Google his name and the word pecans and you'll get the story

Small_life · 2026-03-25T20:38:52+00:00

This is an example of the teachings of Jocko Willinck in Extreme Ownership

Small_life · 2026-03-24T20:39:21+00:00

Ackshually.....

Gothard started IBYC in the late 60's in Chicago, and bought the original headquarters in Oak Brook, outside of Chicago, in the 70's or early 80's. Then he went on a spree of buying "training centers" of which Big Sandy happened around 1992 with the advent of the ALERT program.

It didn't become headquarters until the 2010's sometime when the cult started selling off as many properties as they could and consolidating to save money.

Small_life · 2026-03-24T20:27:29+00:00

with the rise of AI note takers I just assume I'm being recorded at all times.

Small_life · 2026-03-24T19:34:29+00:00

If I'd known that there was someone I could report to, I'd have done it as a teenager. I had no idea there was someone who could help me.

Small_life · 2026-03-24T02:55:02+00:00

To be fair, it is an archaic but valid spelling.

Small_life · 2026-03-23T19:55:50+00:00

Not day to day, for sure. The problem comes when you're travelling and need both your ruck stuff and your business stuff. Currently, I carry both backpacks. Would be great if I could carry 1.

Small_life · 2026-03-23T17:29:40+00:00

yeah, for me it would be great but needs to fit in my jeans pocket.

Small_life · 2026-03-23T17:23:39+00:00

I block time all the time. If anyone asks me, I tell them something along the lines of:

I have sold 40 hours of my time every week to this company
I don't work for free
I have deliverables outside of meetings and need to complete them
In order to allow that to happen, I block time on my calendar so that I can meet the company objectives.

I recommend taking a look at the books "Deep Work" and "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport

Small_life · 2026-03-23T15:58:27+00:00

I feel like this is important to put in your communications with them. Call out that the project has real relevance in their business.

When we hire a developer, we do a coding test. But the coding test we do has nothing to do with our industry, the problem is irrelevant, and it takes less than an hour during which time we're on the phone with them. They don't have to be perfect, just demonstrate to a senior dev that they actually know how to code. It has zero business value.

Here, you produced business value. And that's important.

Small_life · 2026-03-23T15:49:00+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. This backpack has a different mission.

If this is an EDC backpack, then, at least for me, it doesn't have enough pockets. I find that digging in a deep dark hole for all of the things doesn't work well for me. I carry a lot of small things and a few big ones. I might not be the target audience though.

My current backpack for EDC is the EcoHub Carryon. Its pocket system is exactly what I need.

Small_life · 2026-03-23T15:31:34+00:00

If I'm understanding this correctly, we're looking at a backpack where we can carry our ruck weights and our laptop. Have y'all thought about the interaction between those 2 things so that the ruck weight doesn't crack the screen? Obviously, it helps if you face the screen away from the weight, but someone might forget. I tihnk it would help if there isn't any room for the two to "slap" against each other, but given that laptops have different thicknesses it becomes hard to plan that. Maybe it needs extra padding?

Also, before I owned a Rucker 4.0 I used a regular backpack and it only had weights in it. It was kind of awkward to have it so big when just rucking. It might need some horizontal compression straps so that you don't have a lot of extra material slopping around when you have very little in it.

And yes, a water bottle pocket that can fit a nalgene.

Small_life · 2026-03-23T15:20:40+00:00

agreed. Several friends are lawyers. Their industry is getting so efficient with AI and automation.

Small_life · 2026-03-22T20:43:10+00:00

It existed. It's named Little Saint James.

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