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Chuck Jines
Traditional Bow Hunting Black Bear – Another Scout I walked into the forest about four miles past the natural spring that I found several weeks back, looking for another place to hunt black bear. I found a seep with about…
I have used both the Mora Bushcraft Black and the Mora Garberg for extended periods of time. If I could only have one knife when heading out into the forest or up into the mountains, I would bring the Mora…
The one-tool option myth – Dave Canterbury NOT using his own knives to skin animals The online knife community is a strange place, especially in the world…
I recently learned that Mike Beliveau passed away after announcing last month that he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. I was both impressed and inspired by Mike’s decision to face death directly and to prioritize quality of life over quantity…
Most of the “protection dog” training we see online is actually police and military attack dog training. This type of training can get you into serious legal trouble, as we are civilians who do not enjoy the immunity provided to…
The average American household throws away about 30 to 40% of the food they place in its refrigerator. My wife and I have lived without refrigeration for several years now. We have zero food waste here on our homestead. I…
I’m building a 12×14 cabin on a piece of property we own. Many people are purchasing pre-built portable sheds and living in them these days. People just can’t afford to pay rent or a mortgage, so living in a storage…
It takes more than love Anda and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary yesterday. We were thinking back to our sessions with Bill Sasso, who was the minister of the Unitarian Universalist church in Carbondale at the time. During our…
Successful trapping! I had a lady who called wanting me to trap some badgers that had killed all her birds. They killed over 200 pheasants over a month-long period. I used two foothold traps and captured two female badgers. Both…
I met a young man yesterday while on a job setting traps to capture a nuisance badger that is killing a lady’s poultry. He’s probably around 18. A good young man who has a job, gets up early in the…
Tired... tired of lies, tired of the political violence, tired of the rioting and looting, tired of the punching game, tired of black on white racism, tired of tribalism, tired of dishonest news reports from every side, tired of never-ending…
Charlie Kirk couldn't have been more wrong concerning the separation of church and state. I could have easily defeated him in a debate on this topic. (Kirk simply recites David Barton). I find his brand of Christian Nationalism to be…
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When I woke up this morning, I had the night sky above my head, countless stars and the infinity of space served as my blanket. An overwhelming tranquility overcame me as I became evermore aware of my nothingness. I own…
Freedom is a conviction of the mind. Integrity is how one acts when no one is looking. Meditation is the practice of inner calm while walking through the storms of this world.
All the siding is off, now I’m taking down the interior finish wood. After that, I’ll have all the framing timbers exposed and ready for removal. For eight years this trusty stove has kept our cabin warm. My it do…
We’re packing up our most important possessions and putting them in storage until we build the new cabin. We love our nature art, rocks, sticks, and bones.
Too much stuff! I’m enjoying sorting through all the “stuff” I’ve somehow managed to accumulate over the past eight years while living a “simple life.” Even when you try to keep physical possessions to a minimum you end up with…
There is an infinity of sound located within the silence of Sunrise. I can still hear the first breath of ancient man echoing across the golden horizon. On that first sacred Dawn, mankind awoke from his animal slumber, existence became…
Escape the news echo chamber! Take the time to listen to both sides of an issue. People today on ALL sides seem to be trapped in their various news echo chambers, each thinking it’s the other guy who watches fake…
Harris turned the polls in her favor across the board! The same polls Trump bragged about, but now MAGA says these same polls are now rigged! These guys are masters of playing flip a coin where the rules are “heads…
This is a test! Trump violated his oath of office by conspiring with others to overthrow the election through fraud. This is a test of your moral development and of your actual commitment to our Constitution. The MAGA crowd has…
Moral development is the ability and willingness to distinguish the difference between truth and falsehood. Most people have bypassed moral development and opted for “faith” in Jesus and their favorite sports team… Good morning 🌄
The grass is singing as I walk upon this ancient Earth. The mountain rises as the Sun seeks its rest behind the shade of an old oak. I love to breathe in the sky as the cooing dove comforts the…
Just a quick review: “What Trump is going to do is just declare victory. Right? He’s gonna declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s the winner. He’s gonna say he’s the winner…. Here’s the thing, after that Trump never has…
You don’t like Biden and his left-wing policies? So… you’re going to vote for the guy who attempted to overthrow our Republic and violated his oath to our Constitution???… And you are doing this because you think you are an…
It is hard for me to get my mind around the reality that while native Americans were producing this type of art, Michelangelo had already sculpted the David…
Every 100 years, the Earth gets a fresh crop of people. We all get our chance to briefly dance and sing while traveling across the pages of time. And then, entire generations slowly slip back into the blackness of nonexistence……
I was born in the summer of love during the heavy fog of war. We wanted to change the world, but we didn’t know what to do. Watergate gave way to the pressures of Reaganomics, and Hulk Hogan slammed the…
To create, to build, carve, etch, and mark my will into this day is what gives my life purpose and meaning. Not for others, not for the “common good” not an endless act of self-sacrifice for my neighbor, but pride…
Wives, children, family, friends, jobs will all come and go. But your passion will live forever if you don’t allow the others to choke her. Take good care of her; feed her, caress her, love her, for she is all…
My breath slowly fades as the new Dawn arises, few days remain, as death’s grip surprises… Good morning 🌄
Most of the people willing to commit violence on behalf of Trump are already in jail. I’m not worried about any “bloodbath.” Not in the auto industry, nor in our nation’s streets. Trump likes to say things that can be…
So far away, have I moved from the thoughts of everyday people. It’s as if I dwell in another world, separated from the mindless chatter that occupies their days. Today, I smiled at the Sun as it slowly rose from…
As our culture continues to erode, we will continue to experience the further collapse of law and order. The rise in shoplifting has exploded over the past few years forcing many major retailers to close shop in many cities. I…
Judge Tanya Chutkan has set a trial date of March 4, 2024 in the Donald Trump election interference criminal case. This, along with several other recent developments, further strengthen my hypothesis that Donald Trump will not secure the Republican nomination.
The issue of race has become front and center once again in our news cycle. From what we know so far, it looks like a white man with possible mental issues walked into a Jacksonville Dollar General and killed three…
Of the candidates in last night’s debate, Nikki Haley came off as the most reasonable. That, unfortunately, won’t fly with today’s Republican party… She could beat Joe Biden. That being said, Trump was the clear winner of last night’s debate.…
Tonight is the first Republican primary debate. Look for this debate to further eat away at Trump’s lead in the polls. Trump will not be there to defend himself against the attacks that will be made against him by both…
There is an infinity of sound located within the silence of Sunrise. I can still hear the first breath of ancient man echoing across the golden horizon. On that first sacred Dawn so long ago, mankind awoke from his animal…
The attack on the Twin Towers caused a major shift in how we viewed one another, and how we viewed ourselves. This tragedy surrounding Trump and his cult following reminds me of the shift in perception brought about during the…
New poll shows 7 in 10 Americans do NOT believe the Trump stolen election lie. 64% will NOT support Trump if he gets the nomination! Told you… In other news, Rudy Giuliani has put his house up for sale in…
The New York Times has obtained a memo laying out a strategy to overturn the 2020 election that Ken Chesebro acknowledged likely would not pass the Supreme Court. Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe describes how Ken Chesebro perpetrated a “fraud”…
This is audio from a leaked recording of Steve Bannon three days prior to the 2020 presidential election.
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire, Questions Sur les Miracles
That’s me in the lower left wearing the scout uniform. Who else can see themselves in this classic class photo from Memorial school, 1975!
We are drowning in one-sided monologs designed to make money and gain power while we desperately need to start fixing and solving problems. I am not sure how much more dishonesty we can handle as a nation.
It took less than forty-eight hours for Trump to violate his terms of release. If this had been you or I, we would have already been incarcerated. Trump agreed to these conditional terms of his release, and then straightaway knowingly…
Just in case you forgot, this is how REAL men honorably concede and peacefully transfer power here in America. This was after a highly contested election where the majority Republican appointed Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 in favor of…
We are drowning in one-sided monologs designed to make money and gain power while we desperately need to start fixing and solving problems… “When the acting AG told Trump that the Justice Department could not and would not change the…
Teaching the “Truth” About Slavery in Public Schools A new law in Florida restricting how schools can teach the history of race and slavery in America has sparked much controversy. Many people claim white people are afraid to deal with…
Does God Exist? This is probably the oldest philosophical question of all mankind. Many people have claimed not only to “know” with all certainty that their God does indeed exist, they also humbly lay claim to insights into the mind…
I find it fascinating that so many people believe in a God who intervenes in their day-to-day lives for the most mundane of things. To seriously believe that a good a just God somehow overlooks the tremendous suffering in the…
On Jun 30, 2023 the United States Supreme Court ruled that Colorado cannot require an evangelical Christian to provide website design services to same-sex couples. The court decision was 6-3 in favor of designer Lorie Smith, saying she was protected…
On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot by Capital Police Officer, Lieut. Michael Byrd. Babbitt was shot while participating in an attack on the United States Capitol. Babbitt attempted to crawl through a broken window and into the…
It’s extremely easy to get lost in the weeds when discussing the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The details and wrongs committed on both sides knows no end. There are several things that are clear: first, Israel is in violation of international…
Contrary to what many people apparently seem to think, the audio tape of Trump showing some sort of documents to people, did not happen in a vacuum… There were other people in the room! We can safely bet that one…
Real off-grid living isn’t for most folks these days. The idea of living off-grid sounds romantic, but in reality, very few people on bushcraft and survival channels actually live the lifestyle. Most of these YouTubers live in urban and suburban…
How Do You “Know” What You Know? Epistemology is one of the five branches of philosophy. This branch of philosophy deals with the issue of how we know what we know. Religious and mystical people claim to acquire their knowledge…
IQ and the SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling This podcast was originally recorded as a YouTube livestream. Due to the censorship policies at YouTube, this type of content isn’t safe to leave published at YouTube. Interestingly enough, I support YouTube in…
Human biodiversity is real. Human biodiversity is NOT a social construct. Human beings do indeed have many similarities and things that we all share in common. A smile is a smile just about everywhere on the planet regardless of race,…
You probably haven’t heard of Bob Avakian and his band of merry misfits, but his organization works very hard promoting black on white racism through groups such as Black Lives Matter. Avakian is the founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party.…
“One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. I was truly shocked to watch how fast and easy the vast majority of the American people…
For hundreds of millions of years the entire Earth was covered with tropical rainforest. There were no ice sheets anywhere on the planet. Then about 40 million years ago the Earth began to cool. First slowly, then extremely rapidly until…
Watching all these icons of music passing away is like watching time melting right in front of you. You feel it sucking you in, and their deaths somehow become haunting reminders of our own.
It was a blessing to have the grandmother I had. She showed me the true meaning of unconditional love. My parents paid lip service to the concept, but my grandmother lived it. I will love you always, grandma Marino.
Tucker’s “useful idiots.” Are you one of Tucker’s useful idiots? Who here on my friends list supports Tucker Carlson? What are your thoughts about him blatantly lying to you? What do you think about Tucker saying in emails that he…
Having coffee in the calm and quiet morning. I was just reflecting back to another time and place. I came from a family that was extremely concerned with the amount of stuff they had, and how they looked in the…
It was fresh, it was new, it was clear, clean and bright. Oh, my youth now turned to gray, faded from time’s endless motion, wrinkled from life’s tragic indifference, soiled from the stains of lost love. I can still see…
Two very spooky things about the COVID pandemic. One, I was shocked at how compliant our population was. Rolled over like pigs in a pen. Two, our government now knows this…
Remember how plastic bags were going to save the environment by no longer having to use trees for paper sacks? Now the entire planet is littered with plastic bags…they hang from ever fence, blow through every field, and droop from…
Am I beautiful to you? A man broken down immaculate? A soul tarnished and tattered, a heart broken and torn, a mind scattered with foggy dreams? Am I beautiful to you? A human being thirsty for love, hungry for meaning,…
Cultivating good taste is the process of enhancing one’s ability to discriminate critically between the beautiful and the ugly.
I have too much respect and reverence for true art to allow it to be dwindled down to “whatever makes you feel, man,” or a pile of dog shit on the sidewalk. A pile of dog shit can make us…
All the old ones are leaving us now, time ticks on as they slip through the back door. All the songs are silenced now, they won’t be sung like that anymore. All the old ones are leaving us now, and…
New Mexico moon drooping down to the ground, dark shadow and shining light. New Mexico moon through my cabin window, crisp morning air starts the morning right.
Today’s bad advice… This is part of slave morality. (The humble take such great pride in their humility). Some people are better than others, and it’s perfectly okay to acknowledge this. This rule was made by the average to insulate…
“I’ll pray for you” is actually extremely condescending (and quite often passive aggressive). I know people may think they mean well by this, but you’re actually claiming to have something special that I don’t have, when in reality, the opposite…
Living the good life: We lost all of our fur and covered our naked selves with woven cotton. We paved over our Green Forests with black asphalt, cashed in our freedom for a climate controlled job at the office. We…
The biggest attraction and selling point of Christianity, is the very wicked idea that your “salvation” comes via “faith” in the myth, not in one’s actions. All you have to do is believe and you win the prize! Paul was…
We are not all equal, we are not all the same, we are not one big happy family originally from Ohio… This is probably the most popular – yet grossly mistaken – philosophy that you will hear today. Good morning…
The flames slowly dance while laping and licking the sides of the metal, like late night enchanted Lovers floating across the tavern floor. Too intoxicated to care, too enthralled to notice…
The measure of a man’s character is determined by the amount of raw truth he can handle. The truth will set you free, but you first must be willing to burn. This is why most men choose Faith over truth.…
I don’t have “beliefs.” I have things I know, and I have things I don’t know. I try not to use that word, I stay away from that verbiage due to the baggage attached to it. It’s kind of like…
Heathen’s greetings! A celebration of reality. Tis the season to celebrate the winter solstice! Sunrise isn’t a belief. This is why I worship the Sun. Away with the manger, and in with the rebirth of the Sun! It isn’t the…
Cold weather is what helped to mold people of European ancestry into being the greatest explorers and inventors.
Sunday morning public service announcement…To state the problem one more time. If there is a god, he cannot be all knowing, all powerful, and all good. Not with evil in the world, and not with this insane concept of people…
. “They say judge not, but they send a hell everything that stands in their way!” – Frederick Nietzsche….If this Christian god knows everything, then he’s creating people that he fully knows will burn in hell! This means this god…
What did he say? Nigger spick Jew bastard??? I am an advocate of the use of all words. My point here is that things really haven’t changed, only the words you’re not allowed to use.
Christian “faith” has provided safe harbor for all sorts of moral mischief. The doctrine of eternal security – once saved, always saved – has served as a green light for untold amounts of unaccountable misconduct. – Chuck Jines
3:09 am. Dec 8, 2022… T-bone steaks are sizzling on the wood stove, the full moon is shining through my window, the dogs are gently snoring, the morning air is crisp and pure, the wind is calm, the mountains are…
Hopefully the Supreme Court makes a decision that acknowledges our right to discriminate. Discrimination is a fundamental right of individual citizens and businesses. If you don’t like people with curly mustaches, the government really doesn’t have any just authority to…
As white people of European ancestry we have much to be proud of. Almost all major inventions that have uplifted mankind have come from our culture. From the printing press to the internal combustion engine, from liberal democracy to the…
Christianity = Platonic metaphysics combined with Paulinian slave morality. Platonic metaphysics = reality is an illusion, a corrupted shadow of a perfect world beyond. Paulinian slave morality = do not question authority, and turn the other cheek when your master…
Shadows of God - Totalitarianism is the dream of paradise. Nihilistic philosophies, such as Platonism and Christianity, (Christianity is merely Platonism for the masses. Saint Paul took Christian ethics and laid them over Plato's metaphysics) slowly evolved into political socialism…
The lesson of Thanksgiving.... The reason the first settlers at Plymouth had such a hard time, is because they did not want to work, as William Bradford wrote in his journal. If you think these were the best and the…
For hundreds of millions of years the entire Earth was covered with tropical rainforest. There were no ice sheets anywhere on the planet. Then about 40 million years ago the Earth began to cool. First slowly, then extremely rapidly until…
Breathing deep the crisp morning mountain air. Venus and Saturn cruse the clear sky as the crescent Moon looks down to greet the day... Oh, how I love peeing outside in the morning!
Cutting all of this pallet wood that I gathered this summer. I try to do as much of this type of work using hand tools. It helps keep me in shape, it helps keep me in touch... Nothing like breathing…
It's quiet now. All the dogs are outside, all the radios are shut off, and we don't own a television. Nothing but the gentle sound of the metal radiating heat from its warm bosom. I cut enough wood to last…
Funny to watch how both the left and the right respond to the Paul Pelosi hammer incident. The folks on the left want to use it as an excuse to silence the speech of others, while the people on the…
For hundreds of millions of years the entire Earth was covered with tropical rainforest. There were no ice sheets anywhere on the planet. Then about 40 million years ago the Earth began to cool. First slowly, then extremely rapidly until…
Modern genetics has conclusively shown that, what we call “humanity,” is not composed from a single origin. “humanity” or “humankind” is actually composed of a diverse blend; a hybrid species that is genetically divided into several racial groups. These racial…
Monday, Monday. Words, words and more words. Need to write 500-1000 words every day this week. December 1st is the deadline for the book. This is one of 4 books I need to write. Books are more durable than stone,…
The story of Noah and the flood isn’t about a boat filled with animals, nor actual rising waters on the Earth. If you take the story literally it loses its meaning, it is stripped of its power! The story is…
Around 6,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall. That was until man-made climate change turned it into sand…
The fakeness of humanity broadcast large across the Earth through mobile devices that suck the soul from the mindless masses. Photographers with no images, bikers with no wrenches, survivalists who are as good as dead. The fakeness of humanity broadcast…
The story of the garden with Adam and Eve is the story of human beings becoming self-conscious. Which means becoming human. Self-consciousness is what separates us from the other animals. The story of the garden is one of the oldest…
Have you ever thought to yourself, I don’t have enough money? If you’ve ever thought that, I have a new book just for you. It’s titled, “God will make you wealthy if you just send me some money.”
This is an image from my upcoming issue of Gravis Magazine: New Orleans, My Feral City -“For Tomorrow We Die!” Gravis Magazine – Documenting the Human Experience -David Bowie’s second line celebration. http://gravismag.chuckjines.com/
If it had been 1970 when I woke up this morning, I would have had a totally different worldview. If it were 1970, I would have looked out my window at all of the opportunities. There would have been plenty…
“Endowed by THEIR creator.” Pay note that it does not say OUR creator, nor does it say THE Creator. It says THEIR creator intentionally to make it non-specific, in keeping with the enlightenment principle of freedom of conscience. The Declaration…
“Nature’s God” is the god of deism, NOT Christianity… The Declaration of Independence is a secular rather than a Christian document.
This is a capture I took the other night at about 1:00 in the morning with my cell phone.
If you think the FBI, the DOJ, the Department of Homeland Security, all of the state investigations, plus all the state audits are all in error, and that the election was stolen through massive voter fraud, then you have an…
Sunrise isn’t a belief. That’s why I worship the Dawn. My own mind is my church. Do unto others as you would have done unto you is my religion. Good morning 🌅
Message to self – You can’t pick up all the garbage along the side of the road. There’s just too much, and the plastic bags blow back in faster than you can gather them up… Just keep walking towards your…
As I always show, the supposed conservative saviors of the American republic, are just another flavor of postmodern multiculturalism.
I find it quite sad to see so many of these supposed prepper channels making good money while not knowing what the hell they are talking about.
Inflation is insane. Two months ago I purchased two tires for the Chevy s10. They were $79 each. I bought two more for the front yesterday, and they were $92. The burrito that I buy at the grocery store several…
Many postmodernists falsely believe that race is merely a social construct with no biological nor genetic underpinnings. In this podcast we compare what Bill Nye (NOT a scientist) claims with what actual biologists know.
Ben is correct. In America, black on white racism is the real issue. But, it’s interesting that Ben would say basing a nation on race is a bad idea. I bet he’s a big supporter of the state of Israel!…
Some people are born for the gutter, others for clean sidewalks and manicured suburban lawns…
I'm not surprised that it's right-wing Christians who are calling out for our military to get involved in Ukraine... It takes really gullible minds to fall for such silly propaganda... These are the people who are riding the intellectual short…
The Earth is infested with high-heeled bureaucrats pushing tiny little pens across big books of rules...
Switching camera setups. I bought this Pentax MX at a flea market about 6 months ago, and I've just fallen in love with this little camera. I bought another one on Amazon with a 40 mm lens. I love my…
The murder of life - There is no glory in killing little puppies. You shoot them in the head and their eyes pop out. It's just one of those things that must be done. God made the world in such…