Archive for the ‘Tribalism’ Category

Exodus 20:12:  “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
Family is important to YHWH, menstealers and other human traffickers notwithstanding.  In the Biblical model, children learn to obey YHWH by first learning to honor and obey their parents.  This puts an […]

This is a follow-up to my last article, Property Rights and Human Resources.
An issue that has grown in the United States during the last forty years is that of how to prevent and remedy the abuse of children by their parents. A quick web search that anyone can do reveals that the chosen approach, […]

One of the essential ingredients for economic development, in tribes and nations, is a fair and reliable set of property rights. If nobody feels secure in their possessions, nobody will produce anything or build any wealth. We must exercise control and ownership over the fruits of our labors. Otherwise, whatever we produce […]

Many young couples are told to wait to have children until they graduate from college and get good jobs and careers. Of course, this is the employment model of income, and assumes that children are liabilities which keep us from our work and earning money. In the tribal model of income, children […]

I don’t like to be entirely one-dimensional, so I decided to follow up my last post with some contrarian thoughts. I want to clarify that I am not a tax accountant nor a tax lawyer. I’ve found information on the Internet that you could find. I don’t rely on it, and you […]

Benjamin Franklin is credited with the saying, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” While this was certainly true in Ben’s day, it is a gross understatement today. Let’s do some calculations. Examples will be based on economic conditions in the United States. The numbers can be adjusted for the country you […]

Our shows went well this week. My own family business is called “Threads n’ Things” and can be seen here: www.threadsnthings.org. It is a tailoring and tuxedo rental business. Both of these are somewhat declining industries, and both of them had relatively low barriers to entry. We chose these two businesses […]

Economical Computing
My old fast lap-top’s fan died, so I got a new older laptop and have been configuring it. I took this opportunity to finally dive into the Linux operating system head-first. I have spent the last 5 days learning the operating system and loading my software and documents, and basically getting all […]

One initiative every family should pursue with vigor is education. Much of the evil in the world can trace its source to ignorance in one form or another. On a simple level, ignorance of YHWH’s laws leads people to do many things which are hurtful of themselves, others, or their environment. On […]

Introduction
Why do many large families in the United States require public assistance handouts as they barely survive in abject poverty? It is because they bought into the Standard American Income Model.
The median income for a family of four is around $40,000 per year. Not bad, until you realize that this assumes both mom […]

My last article, Sex and Death in the Law, looked at capital punishment as it relates to sexual relationships in the Bible. This could be thought of as “bad sex,” or at least sex with bad results in a Biblical society. In this article we’ll explore “good sex” in the Bible. We’ll […]

    At its best, a tribe is a small nation. It maintains itself in all the mundane aspects of life, takes care of its own welfare issues, polices and defends itself, and generally manages and governs itself. There are certain necessary functions that will enable the tribe to accomplish these goals.
Individual Initiatives
The first […]

It is impossible to understand the tribes of the Bible without having a basic understanding of the genealogical structure of the families in the Bible. When I first put up the website, I created a jpeg file of the genealogy from Adam to the sons of Jacob. That was a good start.
I have […]

The story of three major world religions– Judaism, Christianity, and Islam– begins with the Bible. The Old Testament introduces the Judaic tribes. Christianity depends on the essential four gospels of the New Testament. The Islamic tribes start their lineage with the patriarch Ishmael, the first son of Abraham.
Jews and Muslims recognize and […]