1845. Sex Difference Redux—Part 88: Where Love Begins—04

Romantic love begins with his eyes and your ears. Enduring love begins with your knowledge of men generally, your man particularly, and yourself intrinsically. How those factors combine to fit together continues with another ten soundbytes.

31. Love and sex are fine to your man, but they are marital fillers rather than glue. It works as glue for women, but you mistakenly apply it to men. Your man’s integrity about his virtuous character and personal responsibility marinate him with more family substance than love and sex.

32. You want, plan, and seek intimate comfort and companionship for the future and needy times if they arise. Your man seeks and expects to find comfort daily after work and relaxation to prepare him for tomorrow’s battles in his competitive world. (Compatibility starts with how well you harmonize those often conflicting expectations into your nest and his castle.)

33. You crave to associate closely with at least one strong, highly masculine figure. Your man craves freedom that sometimes includes your temporary absence. It’s his hunter conqueror nature coming out. (Yes, the same hunter-conqueror nature that hopefully you and women earlier in his life tamed into faithfulness by devotion and vows to one woman.)

34. For you unmarried ladies, chastity empowers you to dominate your relationships. Your dates and boyfriends make great effort to hide or ignore your dominion. They accept it, however, but return to their dominant persona after your first sex together.

35. You can integrate your strengths with a man’s, compensate for the weaknesses of both, and build success as a couple. He can’t. He lacks both interest and expertise for it.

36. You can tolerate an angry, aggressive man. When you turn that way, your man withdraws mentally if not physically. (Angry and aggressive are the antithesis of what men seek in a woman, they battle it daily with men, and so their interest in her wanes if and when she turns that way.)

37. You continually crave signs of your man’s love. He takes your love for granted. (Because he acts so unlike women, you feel his love must be sustained by you earning it, but he feels he deserves your love by virtue of your dependence on him. You needn’t earn his love, just show your dependence.)

38. Your man was born hard-headed and hard-hearted. Good mothering hopefully softened his heart to prevent mistreatment of you. Good fathering hopefully tempered his hard-headedness to treat all women respectfully and you affectionately.

39. Females are born hard-headed and soft-hearted. Good mothering teaches them when to use head and heart. Good fathering builds and strengthens a daughter’s confidence for balancing head and heart in her interests.

40. You expect your man’s faithfulness, which depends on his character and your trust. He expects continual assurance of your faithfulness, which he deduces daily and much more from actions than your words.

Hundreds of sex differences determine the outcomes of your interactions with men and your man. This ends the first 40 differences, but many more follow at ten per post.

1832. Sex Difference Redux—Part 80: Conquering Men I

Three obstructions continuously challenge the female gender and threaten every woman that seeks happiness with a man. This is another tough subject to make clear, and I anticipate daily articles built on these themes.

I — How to use rather than slave under his major strength—male dominance!

II — How to minimize the effect when wife convinces herself that husband loves his job more than her!

III — How to neutralize a man’s natural urge to conquer sexually attractive females that he’s not yet conquered.

Male dominance in men parallels the importance of sexual assets in women. Self-protection is vital. Just as diligently as women protect their greatest asset against unwilling intrusion, men protect and preserve their greatest asset against women. Women can be directly persuaded to yield. The stubborn streak that permeates the male ego and will doesn’t weaken except under the charming and indirect pressures of a woman to whom a man has become devoted.

Women inherit the burden to convert their man’s resolute dominant attitude into a blessing for home and family. They have three options: fight it, accept it, or use it. Those who fight it encourage emotional firestorms that breed incompatibility. Women who accept a man’s dominance without counter pressures are soon ‘rooster-pecked’. Women who make productive use of it promote compatibility and harmony in the home.

Men conquer women when couples have sex the first time. It’s a significant event, a self-admiring accomplishment for men. On the other hand, women have two opportunities to conquer men. First, they get a man to the altar before yielding sex. Those that do have little need for the second; they have for the most part already learned to handle and live amicably with his dominance. Second, they learn to rule the rooster while deliberately claiming and apparently yielding to him the role of ruling the roost. Her conquest is a delicate process sustained such that it enables her to keep the rooster dedicated to brightening their future and fulfilling her hopes and dreams.

You ladies are endowed with relationship expertise that enables you to figure it out for yourselves. Experts can outsmart non-experts. If you get your man devoted to you and to the altar without yielding sex, you effectively contain his dominance within acceptable boundaries. Failing that, you are sufficiently endowed to outsmart him in negotiated settlements. You have abilities and incentives to match, negotiate, and satisfy mutual interests such that he sees no need to impose his will on you or others.

Perception is everything, so whatever appears to be, is. Success follows trying to make all issues favorable to him, us, or children—but not you. The more apparent to him that you want to get your way, the more likely you lose. The more apparent his interests are protected first, the easier for you to use his major strength. The toughest part is making his interests broaden to encompass your wifely and motherly interests.

When experts first learn to sell someone on an idea, they find within themselves underdeveloped resources worthy of being exploited. Women possess a natural and immense array of resources that tame male aggressiveness and dominance. Feminine mystique, female modesty, monogamous fidelity, marital charm, pleasant likeability, unexplainable patience, attitude of gratitude, smiles that signify admiration, and eagerness to appreciate, respect, and admire their man. God, Nature, and hormones more than adequately prepare them for whatever the task to deal successfully with men.

Love isn’t a major player on the field of dominance. Generally, the more respected and likeable she appears in his eyes, the less inclined he becomes to impose his will and perhaps offend. Thus, his view of her promise as good for him reduces his need to be dominant.

As one would expect, her pushiness and nagging produce effects opposite of those she intends. Both habits spur and energize a man’s natural urge to escape her permanently while he temporarily acquiesces to her pushiness and nagging.

Women have no rules to follow or guidebook to study. It’s too uniquely interpersonal, so she has to figure it out and do it herself. She has only her instinctive beliefs plus what she can learn about men. Many listings in the CONTENTS page are relevant and useful.

In the grand scheme of life, few things are more vital to a woman’s happiness than gratefully taming male dominance to fulfill her hopes and dreams

Next: Theme II follows at post 1833 and III at 1834.

1828. Sex Difference Redux—Part 76: Created to Do Good — I

This is a tough mission assignment for me and I hope the design holds. I anticipate three daily articles with these themes.

I — Although we each are born with the capability to do good as both mate and parent, our upbringing and self-underdevelopment overwhelm our natural talent.

II — As mate and parent, we often slip, slide, grope, and sometimes fail. Both prevention and recovery are possible.

III — The female sex can use a unique genetic predisposition for exemplary leadership.

Love and other affirming emotions—the ‘positives’—are insufficient to hold mates together. Criticism and other demeaning emotions—the ‘negatives’—are far too powerful. Consequently, marriage thrives to the extent that belittling emotions are absent.  

Both sexes emerge the womb with an inheritance of two major capabilities. God designs, Nature endows, and hormones energize each individual to live compatibly as a couple with a member of the opposite sex. The same genetic inheritance makes every couple capable of harmonizing* their home on behalf of the next generation (so that the species continues).

A compatible couple is bonded by affirmations of their connectedness and rewards of togetherness. Positive concepts enable it. We each inherited the capability of delivering goodness through the use of these positives. They include romantic love, mother love, familial love, pledges, promises, vows, responsibility, pleasant associations, mutual trust, mutual respect, forgiveness and forgetfulness, mature leadership, beneficial social pressures, personal likeability, sex as physical reward for men, sex as intimate opportunity for women, family closeness, religious beliefs, common values, extended family support, and many other blessings and expectations. Each positive is a concept that has a range from great to poor and every relationship has some mixture. Benefit of the positives depends on the acceptance of beneficiaries and belief in the deliverer.

People generally know and expect that continued family success depends on the stability and mutually attractive influence of those positives. They also believe that marital compatibility and family harmonizing come from building up and continually strengthening those factors. It’s easy to believe that and it’s necessary, to be sure.

It’s necessary because the negatives are far more powerful. They easily outweigh the positives in effects that linger. Each negative works like an on-off switch. It’s an act that’s present or absent. The degrees of intensity vary with specific incidents that are repeated. The effect on a ‘victim’ is profound. To judge the deliverer of a negative, the victim need not have belief, faith, or trust in him or her.  The positives satisfy beneficiaries but the negatives motivate victims to take negative action. 

Positives are concepts. Negatives happen as incidents and these are ‘ungood’. Criticism weakens acceptance of the criticizer. Lack of trust weakens respect and vice versa. Faultfinding weakens mutual respect and likeability. Contradiction of mom weakens motherly authority. Reproach of father weakens his usefulness. Censure of husband weakens his value. Censure of wife weakens her harmonizing leadership. Complaining weakens the leadership ability of the complainer. Blaming others for one’s mistakes sparks hatred. False accusers lose credibility. Disapproval of a girl’s choices devalues her importance. Scorn of masculine behavior turns boys toward rejection of parental values. Contempt for a child’s immature values causes loss of self-respect. Condemnation of children’s friends solidifies child’s opinions. Immature, disrespectful, and untrusting treatment wires children to duplicate it later with their own. Parental scorn of adults and authority figures causes children to disrespect them. Continual scorn of father and men in general inspires boys to be something else and girls to do without men. Impatience spreads unwanted pressure to others. Sour attitude causes loss of respect and full appreciation of others and generates the same from them. Manipulation destroys manipulator’s credibility. Wife denying sex insults husband. Husband denying sex convinces wife she’s unimportant. Not respecting teen as an adult and toddler as a person stimulates rebellious thoughts. Verbalizing parents’ disagreement before children empowers kids to play parents against each other. A negative spirit makes positive affirmations virtually worthless. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Some negative factors have greater impact than others. When the effects demean the importance of females or suppress admiration of males, they are both egregious and unforgiving. The ‘victims’ react with their own form of negatives. For example, adults may find physical diversions outside the home. Children may use mental diversions to disturb family harmony.

Even though we enter life well prepared to shine as both mate and parent, we fall prey to real life growing up. Home, parental, social, and experiential pressures steer us astray. The result is poorer mating and parenting. We can both survive and recover with a simple change in our strategic aim in life but a rather large change in our habits of thought. I describe them next at #1829.

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*Take ‘harmonize’ to mean emotional attachment, mutual acceptance, and interpersonal agreement on family matters.

1776. Sex Difference Redux — Part 30: Compete or Cooperate?

The relationship expert (aka woman) functions as the power figure and major decision maker to build compatibility. Her effectiveness depends on her ability and success at integrating the primal urges described in posts 1747 through 1749 as their respective drives, needs, wants, fears, and time focuses. Knowing how and when to compete and cooperate can determine both progress and success.

Those simple functions enable or destroy compatibility. Both sexes are capable of competing and cooperating with the opposite sex. Women do it easily anytime, anyplace, anyhow. Men don’t, can’t, or won’t compete with a woman after she yields to their first sex together. Their disparate natures boil down to this. A couple competes for transfer of ‘ownership’ of her sexual assets; after conquest she shifts from competition to cooperation if she seeks to move toward marital compatibility.

However, once she surrenders ownership to him, their life together is never the same. Only cooperation sustains their marriage too.

• A man naturally and willingly competes with a woman to conquer her; he expects it and generally honors a well-respected woman’s wishes. As the normal course of Nature, he expects that her competitive energy to slow or stop his conquest will subsequently be replaced with her cooperation.
• His nature frees him to search for another conquest. He no longer expects nor tolerates her pressures to compete. If he wants competition, he’ll seek another sex target. Either mentally or physically he finds a way to relieve whatever pressures or competitive conditions she may impose after conquest.
• While competition comes naturally to both, men must be taught to cooperate as a good marriage partner. It’s usually and best conditioned in childhood by good fatherly examples.
• If she pressures him to compete with her after conquest, it threatens his sense of significance, which reduces her importance to him, which threatens her with fear of abandonment. For example, if she refuses sex when he expects it or refuses to recognize his male dominance, it tends to make him look for an escape hatch.
• A man needs a place to flop, eat, throw his things, and prepare for tomorrow’s battles. A woman is driven to nest. If she prioritizes her nesting (e.g., perfect house always in perfect order by perfectionist overseer) over that of providing a warm and comfortable abode for him, she initiates competition.
• A man is driven to compete against Nature, other men, and shape human events. A woman needs a brighter future. If she pushes him to overextend himself on her behalf (e.g., buy new home beyond their means) instead of primarily supporting him and his work, she initiates competition.
• He wants freedom, and she wants a man. Competition with her pushes him toward freedom without her. Cooperation pulls him toward freedom with her. Lots of smiles, pleasantness, and her likeability compound the pleasure of freedom with her. (Note: Affection and sex were intentionally omitted, as they’re only a small part of his wanting to spend time with her over and above his masculine drive toward other things such as his job.)
• He focuses on the present and she focuses on the future. Plenty of room exists for cooperation that breeds compatibility. To generate win-win compatibility, she as the relationship expert helps and supports him in present day affairs, while she shapes their future together without competing with him.

More effective relationship experts compete strongly to resist a man’s conquering spirit. After conquest, the women withdraw from competition and use their cooperative spirit to build compatibility.

Overall, when a woman favors a man over herself in those dilemmas described above, she wins, if her purpose is to find, select, marry, and keep a husband. If she can’t forgo the more dominant position on these issues, she’s headed for trouble winning and keeping a man for life.

1774. Sex Difference Redux — Part 28: Love XI (w/ Kathy Petersen)

I conclude sex differences about love with a summary of the more important points and principles. The subseries runs from post 1764 and ends with this one. Hotlinks are provided. Paragraph numbers are just for easy reference.

1. Women never hear about the male side of ‘man loves woman’. They witness outcomes but don’t grasp what truly happens. As Kathy Petersen points out, they frequently make mistakes, treat men as they do women, and “end up confused, bitter, or angry when their actions do not yield the expected result. It’s often the opposite result of that intended.” [1764]
2. We all do what makes us feel good about ourselves, and it motivates men and women to love one another. Women because they need it. Men because they like it. [1765]
3. We can’t pass on to others, even our children, what we don’t possess. For example, self-respect and love of others. [1765]
4. Self-respect is the foundation of love by men. Respect for others is the structure. Mutual respect more than mutual love is the key to successful human relationships. [1765]
5. If we don’t believe in someone, they won’t respect us. If we don’t respect someone, they won’t trust us. [1765]
6. The root of husbandly excellence lies in boyhood and is essential to the process of womanhood ‘growing’ good husbands. [1765]
7. The need for self-admiration motivates a man to finish what he starts. He daily earns satisfaction for his effort. He expects to rest and recover because a satisfied need no longer motivates. [1766]
8. The need for self-importance motivates women to do all that they do. The brighter with the help of others a woman makes her future, the more important she is to herself. [1766]
9. Females are born with the ability to love someone else and the expectation that they will be loved in return. When they expect the intensity and excitement of their love to be matched by husband’s, they find disappointment. Men love differently. [1766]
10. Males are not born with the ability to love someone else; they gain the ability by learning to love themselves. This happens by accomplishing goals and achieving what they set out to do. Boys who don’t convert their endeavors into habits of success don’t learn to love themselves or others. [1766]
11. The foundation of a man’s love is respect for the love object—whether woman, hobby, job, ideology, religion, or whatever—and the belief that he’s a better person to himself for associating with it. [1766]
12. To female eyes, women are loveable because they are pretty and deliver love, and men are loveable because they both enable and help make a woman feel important. [1766]
13. To male eyes, men are loveable because they are hardy, handy, and sexually proficient. Women are loveable because they are attractive, likeable, respectful, grateful, pleasant, modest, mysterious, respectable, and important for a man’s daily rest and recovery. They’re extra loveable too by being chaste for one man, sexually on call for him only, and highly admiring of his sexual performance. [1766]
14. Women love, believe in, and respect a man in that order. Men reverse the order. A man respects a woman for being different and unique in many ways, believes in the promise she holds for him, and loves the attractiveness, likeability, and comfort that comes when he associates with her. [1766]
15. A woman loves a man because she has to love someone. She makes her mate the best available by convincing herself he’s the best as she grooms his persona from Mr. GoodEnough into Mr. Right. [1766]
16. A man’s love is fueled by the intensity of his character, personality, and ambition. A woman’s love is fueled by the intensity of her dependency on her man. [1766]
17. Boys sense they don’t deserve to be loved. Respected yes, but not loved. [1766]
18. Neither boys nor men appreciate unearned gifts. It’s why boys are so easily spoiled by trying to buy their good behavior with rewards. [1766]
19. Projecting affection is almost alien to the male nature; men must be taught for it to become habitual. If not taught in childhood, women have only one good opportunity to teach their man and overcome his natural reluctance for showing affection—a long courtship before they first have sex together. [1766]
20. A man’s unwillingness to show affection often triggers the need for ‘relationship maintenance’. His not showing enough affection is the most popular complaint of women. They try to encourage more affection but after romantic love fades after a year or two, men have little interest in strengthening emotional bonds. It has all been accomplished in the masculine view. [1767]
21. Affection is for females what respect is for males. Each sex craves more from the other without having to give more. [1768]
22. Girls are born with self-love and the ability to love others. Boys are not born similarly blessed. However, in the course of growing up, boys develop an abundance of self-love by accomplishing goals and proving their handiness and hardiness to themselves. The growth of self-love proves self-worth, refines self-respect, and earns self-admiration. [1768]
23. Self-love enables a boy’s ability to love someone else, but it takes childhood experience guided by women to teach him the subliminal whats, whys, and hows. [1768]
24. This goes contrary to what women think, and what most mothers believe: Boys don’t learn to love by being loved; they learn by showing respect, attention, and affection to others and the more intense and earlier in life the better. [1768]
25. For men to dedicate and devote themselves to someone or something, two things are necessary: 1) They must respect the love object, and 2) they must believe in the promise that the love object holds for making them feel good about themselves. In order to believe, men must see that something or someone shows promise to brighten their lives, and holds promise to match or fit their self-interest. [1769]
26. Boyhood development is stunted by two parental sins. (1) Absence of father as role model and symbol of disciplinary intimidation and (2) mom’s excessive nurturing a.k.a. micromanaging son’s life. [1770]
27. This dominates the learning behavior of boys: What a boy is taught that makes him feel more mature than he expects, he heeds as adult-like, enjoyable, and memorable as part of life. What he’s purposely taught that makes him feel immature he absorbs as distrust and resents it in the present, disdains it for his future, suspects the motive, and disrespects the teacher. [1771]
28. The male nature is made this way. ‘If you don’t trust me, I don’t respect you’. Consequently, micromanaging a boy’s life earns disrespect for mom. [1771]
29. A micromanaged and overly supervised boy can’t develop well and extreme behaviors build up. Such boys are teased, mocked, and shamed by peers; they withdraw into themselves. They also tend to harbor great anger and even urges to violence. [1771]
30. The male nature is highly sensitive against being told HOW to do something. When told WHAT to do with respect added, males typically do it with far more alacrity than when told HOW. [1771]
31. Just being a loving mother doesn’t make her loveable. Excessive nurturing and micromanagement offend the nature of her son. [1772]
32. This process ideally performed ‘grows’ boys into well-developed men and husbands. Mother indoctrinates, teen girls tame boys for domestic life, single women train men, and wives refine husbands into Mr. Right. [1773]

How the nature of the sexes differs on the subject of love has taken this 11-part series. It’s a critical difference, and I hope I’ve explained it adequately and clearly.

Happy Thanksgiving

Ladies,

I pray that your day be filled with gratitude for who you are, for whom y0u associate with, and for whomever you engage.

Guy

1720. Respect: Lost and Restorable Only by Women

Her Highness Denise asked a question that I didn’t answer. I hope to recover now. At post 1612 she asked why people are not as they were ‘way back then’ when unconditional respect existed between the sexes. Referring to the present, she asks, “What exactly led to people disrespecting themselves and one another?”

It began a century ago but intensified over the last half-century. Americans have been purposely fractionated by friends of Big Government and enemies of private property, family as primary social unit, religion, Judeo-Christian values, capitalism, energy independence, economic prosperity, peacefulness in society, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and every other value that unified us as uniquely American. Revolutionaries, radicals, feminists and leftist followers developed and spread a multitude of political movements designed to dis-unify Americans so that governments could grow with little or no effective supervision by We the People. One such movement, Feminism, aimed to split men and women, and it worked.

Advocates and followers picked up the feminist torch, ignited their imaginations, and found innumerable ways that men are no darned good. Treat anyone as no darned good and you produce two effects. You lose respect for them, and they lose respect for you.

Joining up with other radicals, feminists spread their opinions universally, and men responded with diminished respect of women generally and less respect for individuals that advocate the feminist spirit. When men lack respect for the female gender, male dominance instinctively magnifies its intensity and enhances patriarchy, which further weakens unconditional respect of one sex for the other.

The consequence of Feminism now stirs families in many wrong ways. Because of shortcomings in wifely respect, husbands react by dominating the home. From lack of husbandly respect, wives suffer loss of the natural order of mating up. They lose the privilege/power/ability of ruling the rooster. Wives fight back with in-his-face directness that exhibits even less respect. They seek to restore their natural role of dominating the home, but mutual respect sinks further, separation or divorce follows, and mutual respect of the genders weakens still further.

The consequence of Feminism also makes single women suffer under the unpredictability/undependability/irresponsibility of men scorned so long by the feminist fever.

Once on the downhill slide, respect between the sexes worsens because of this natural phenomenon. Individuals question their own self-respect when they receive less respect from the other sex than they think they deserve. As self-respect declines, the ability to show respect for others follows. Peering at one step beyond individuals, inter-gender respect also declines and in reaction further erodes unconditional respect between individuals.

We’ve been conditioned this way. There’s no end to how we unwittingly or voluntarily fractionalize ourselves and divide society into antagonistic groups. All done in the name of democracy, compassion, or whatever, we learn that other Americans are too different to be respected unconditionally. We learn to find some reason to dislike or not respect others in some way or another.

Another natural phenomenon exacerbates the process: We respect those in our group more than those outside it. When the American motto of e pluribus unum prevailed—out of many, one—the importance of interest groupings were minimized. We were all Americans and unconditional respect of others flooded society.

Now, revolutionaries, radicals, and political activists have killed e pluribus unum, aka the Melting Pot, and we identify ourselves not as Americans but as belonging to various groups in competition with others. Such as, Black vs. White vs. Hispanic vs. Native Americans vs. Asians, taxed vs. untaxed, environmentalists vs. wealth creators,  poor vs. rich, citizens vs. non-citizens, hunters vs. anti-gunners, farmers vs. environmentalists, children vs. adults, blue collar vs. white collar, Protestant denominations vs. each other, Catholics vs. Protestants, Other Christians vs. Mormons, globalists vs. nationalists, union spending vs. dues-payer interests, anarchist gangs vs. civilized order, lawyers vs. tort reformers, ethnic groups vs. each other, politicians vs. free speech, teachers vs. parents, judicial activism vs. We the People who know better, commuters vs. rapid transit advocates, conscience-bound vs. those who aren’t, religious vs. secularists, Congress vs. the public, bureaucrats vs. threats to government power, professors vs. students that disagree, husbands vs. wives that expect better masculine responsibility, administrators vs. teachers, girls that put out vs. those that won’t, wives vs. women luring husbands for sex. The list never ends, because the political class finds usefulness in pitting one group against another.

Many of those competitions rise naturally, but unfortunately for America’s future, all are exploited by the power-seeking political class plus others they can stir to rely on emotions rather than logic, reason, truth, and common sense.

This summarizes the big picture. The American Trinity*—Liberty, In God We Trust, and e pluribus unum—are purposely being made to fade away by anti-American movements such as Feminism, multiculturalism, and many other -isms. We lack unconditional respect for one another, because e pluribus unum has been effectively destroyed. We’re losing In God We Trust that helps reassure us that other Americans are good people. We’re losing our liberty that’s so vital for unifying We the People and making government work for us. Thus, unconditional respect for fellow Americans has been vaporized by purposeful radicals, opportunistic mavericks, and follow-the-crowd activists that seek to change the fundamental structure of the American political system.

The political malignancy induced by Feminism and radical leftism is deeper and now spreads faster than we suspect. UnAmerican values metastasize and eat away unconditional respect, which keeps Americans divided. It will continue until we elect new representatives who then hire new administrators that also seek to restore America as we knew it growing up, that seek to fill the gaps of diminished self-respect and respect for others, that seek to restore unconditional female respect of men who will respond by restoring unconditional male respect of women.

It will all continue until Womanhood rises against it.

As women go, so goes society. Only women have the interest, energy to fight, and common sense to defeat the multitude of political movements that seek to destroy America as we once knew it. Men don’t naturally need morality, and so they aren’t as likely to strenuously defend it as women can and do. Only women need and, therefore, only they can restore the female-defending, character-building, and respect-earning morality of earlier America. The kind of morality they wish for men so that husbands and children interface with a respected wife and mother.

That’s how people came to disrespecting themselves and one another, and that’s why women can and should lead the way to fixing it.

*Dennis Prager coined the term. American Trinity stands for Liberty, In God We Trust, and e pluribus unum, all of which appear on the penny.

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P.S. To paraphrase Blaise Pascal in 1657, I did not have enough time to shorten it.

Guy

1700. BULLETIN! Nothing Stays the Same

I regret that the press of life now interferes with my ability to post a new article every day.

After today I will post whenever ideas, thoughts, and material meet time to form opportunity. I imagine that will happen several times a week. I will, however, continue to answer reader questions at least on a next-day basis.

I’m looking for help to publish my second book, working title “Where Did All the Good Women Go.” Mostly I need help to reduce the grade level of my writing and with book design for better marketing. If you have the skills and perseverance for working with a cantankerous old man, we might cut a deal off-blog at Planohelm@verizon.net.