Second go at writing this one. Because it is not about me. Or you. The measures that this world has: the papers we write, the income we make, the toys we have, count not.
For you cannot take them with you.
What matters is who we have influenced and how we can change those around us. It matters that we, as men, raise families and are husbands. Roosh learned this the hard way. As he says in this post, he has gone down basically every wrong path.
And he testifies that you do not gain happiness out of the number of women you have seduced, your income or your fame. Not that there is not pleasure there.
Pursuing external experiences, objects, or sex with beautiful women made me joyous but only for a short period of time, and then I returned back to the same emotional level. Was it all a waste? Was it all for vanity? Whatever the answer, I surely can’t advise my young cousins to pursue hedonism, of banging hoes around the world for no other reason than to bang hoes, if it will fail to give them a lasting form of contentment. Instead, I could advise them to search for deeper meaning in life.
- Dedicate yourself to God
- Find a woman and have a big family with her
- Give back to your community and make people’s lives better
These are better options, perhaps, but the times we live in will make them difficult to pursue. A God-fearing man would have to build high walls against the never-ending barrage of degenerate messages and sinful temptation that surround him. Raising a big family would provide a man with meaning as long as his wife didn’t take advantage of laws that encourage her to destroy the family and make the man financially destitute, and as long as the state doesn’t interfere in the raising of his children. Giving to others brings joy, as I can personally vouch for, but who exactly do you give to when your neighbor is from Somalia or Guatemala, and who may not even speak English, or when you’re actively being displaced and marginalized by your own government?
However, raising a family is hard. It is necessary, but hard. Many would rather escape. It is far easier to be a geek, a code monkey, than a father. It is easier to go with the flow, and be a consumer of our mass culture, than to manage it or change it.
Since February, the only way we can access broadcast TV at Casa Pukeko is to stream it from a laptop. We don’t have access to the nightly news. We don’s see the pictures designed to evoke disgust or pity. And I find myself not understanding what the current outrage is about.
Even though I read the newspapers and news websites online.
Because I am isolated from the spin of the elite.
But that is not what we need to be about. What matters is souls, and souls are people: our resurrection will be bodily. What we need to do is preach that, using words if needed.
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
(2 Corinthians 2:14-3:6 ESV)
The context is implied in the text. People were disqualifying Paul. They were saying that he did not have credentials: he was not approved, and that the needed evidence. They were trying to no platform an apostle. This error remains; a number of people who think Christ was never harsh and that all the holiness and hell texts were written by that Pharisee Saul remain. Despite Peter recommending his letters.
Because of rebellion? Because of hardness of hearts? Perhaps. Better, still, the world hates the gospel, and would rather that we concentrated on the distraction of this moment. while we shuffle quietly to perdition.
Some say we should fight to get our culture back (which is not the position of the Rabid Puppies: they want the awards process to go away, for they care not a whit for the approval of those they despise). I think it is better to say that we need to build our families,
From ruins, if needs be. Roosh is correct. In this time, regardless of how righteous you are, regardless of how carefully and thoughtfully and passionately you have loved and cared for the mother of your children, she can blow up your marriage and your family by claiming your care is abuse.
This is deliberate. It means that most men are disqualified from leadership, and the church is gelded, weakened, and gaps are made in the walls of protection so the vulnerable can be scandalized. This world hates Christ, and thus the church, It will give the Church no platform.
Let such fall into their holiness spirals, let them make more and more ridiculous and foolish accusations. We have the gospel to preach: and if the casualties of this current foolishness, where the left has become so pure that they can help not a thing, turn to the pursuit of God then we can praise God for his mercy.
But do not expect such from the elite. They would disqualify Paul. They will no-platform us.
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