Do You Have Enemies?

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Victor Hugo

For Sure

It is better to listen to wise people who reprimand you than to fools who sing your praises.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

Culture Fails To Teach For Marriage

And though some people deliberately reject marriage and children, many men and women would like to get married and have kids but are struggling to pair off. Our culture does not teach men and women how to find, let alone how to be, good husbands and wives. Rather, it sometimes seems that, as Lutheran pastor Hans Fiene put it, “[O]ur culture teaches young men to be losers and young women to be narcissists.” Harsh, but perhaps fair. 

Nathannael Blake, Demons Must Be Delighted At How Badly Americans Have Butchered Marriage

Choose: Opportunity or Victimhood

Unlike most civilizations, Western civilization, in general, and America, in particular, offers everyone the opportunity to succeed and improve their lot. However, creating a victim narrative/grift is far easier than recognizing that reality and doing the hard work necessary to overcome challenges and succeed.

Vince Coyner, “As Christianity Dies In The West, The West Dies, Too”

LEFTISTs -- Green and Victimhood

Today’s environmentalists have the luxury of pushing for “green” energy only because actual, functional sources of energy exist to allow the grift to continue. They can pretend their preferred energy sources are “green” only because leftist governments and media ignore reality. Like leaders of other cults, they command their followers to ignore what’s right in front of them. Whether it be child slaves in the Congo, trillions of wasted dollars, “green” equipment that can’t be recycled, or infrastructure that doesn’t provide the promised energy, nothing can move them from their green mantras.

At the same time, the victim mindset that has taken hold because leftists have no more understanding of human nature than communist philosophers do. Life is unfair. There always was and always will be inequality. It doesn’t matter if it was the Roman Empire, the Han Dynasty, the Soviet Union, or America today; inequality has always existed, and different groups were/are disproportionately represented in the various classes.

Vince Coyner, “As Christianity Dies In The West, The West Dies, Too”

So Very True, Unfortunately

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain 

Where Evil Will Come From

 The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

C.S. Lewis.