ProgrammingMadness

Listen to enough sermons and you'd think only men ever sin. Either women don't, or the church just won't look.

I feel like I have been saying this for a year now... Your average man hates the left. The issue is, your average person (including men) created the left. Because that is ALWAYS the end result of the liberal mantra of "personal responsibility." If you spend all of your time asking to be left alone to do whatever you want to do, you preserve nothing. You preserve no institutions, no morals no values, and no tradition. You cannot walk away from tradition, morals, and institutions and expect it all to be there waiting for you when you return. That is the massive crash out we are seeing today. Feminism did not cause this. Feminism was allowed to happen because of the liberalism that the majority of people embraced as it promised the lie that we could have benefits (sex, drugs, porn, gambling, etc.) without consequences. We all see the inherent value of a society run by conservatives, but no one actually wants to live by conservative values. Well guess what? You cannot have one without the other. Your choices will never include a "moderate centrist society that tolerates your personal choices." Centrism and liberalism will always evolve into progressivism. Tolerance is like air that feeds the fire of progressives. They will take advantage of "you do you and I will do me" and they have to a massive degree. So what do those on the right need to do about it? Do you actually want to win? Then actually be conservative. Go to church. Get people married. Get people to have kids. Stop abandoning the institutions. Stop making excuses for vices, yours and the people around you. You are going to have to be a little selfless. You don't get what those who came before you had. So go and raise your kids with the values you want to see in the world 10 years from now, even if you didn't live them yourself. It's either that, or watch everything crumble around you as it already is.

Because the Bible is a testimony, not a systematic instruction manual, and while women rarely make great discoverers of new knowledge, they are excellent teachers and scholars.

Chads are hot guys. If a guy was hot and popular in high school, he's usually a nice guy, especially if he has a nice and loyal dad. The forever Chads get their slutty phase, if they ever had one, mostly over with by college. And if they do decide to slut around after that, they do so ethically, though mostly they become relationship guys. If a guy got hot and successful in his 30s after being an awkward loser or fat his whole life before that, he's going to be a manwhore who lies or deceives to get sex and validation from large quantities of women, especially if he had a bad or absent father. Sad and depressing, but this is what I've learned. So I try to find out how guys grew up, their backgrounds, their dads, etc. And I look for old photos.

Not funny since you already know from the beginning that its gonna shit on christians and make jews look smart

Jewish women were very literate. And as far as I know there's no Jewish law that said women could not be near a Torah scroll. Now, likely, they wouldn't be near the synagogue's Torah scroll because men and women were/are seperate. But that wasn't the only place to find a scroll

It is more than a little revealing that, generally speaking, the only women who dependably take the radfem precepts regarding sexuality under patriarchy ('rape culture,' and the like) literally as the goddess's capital-T Truth are low-libido lesbians with very poor theory of mind for heterosexuals of either sex. For everyone else advocating such perspectives, it's just political strategy all the way down: a means for bougie women to ensure bougie men behave in the gentlemanly way they are expected to, and that means controlled, conventional, and circumscribed sexuality that happens on the woman's terms. It's re-inventing chivalry (small-c) as the favored mitigator of sexual conflict... Trouble is, women are a very big and diverse group, as you'd expect, so what exactly qualifies as 'the woman's terms' is a subject of much debate and conflict within women's advocacy movements.

1881年，71岁的左宗棠娶了17岁的章怡为妾。 洞房花烛夜，章怡解开衣扣，脱下衣服，准备侍候左宗棠。 谁料，左宗棠躲开道：“你还是给我当孙女吧！” 左宗棠的一生，从来不缺故事。 早年科举失意，中年投身军务，镇压太平天国、平定陕甘、收复新疆，一步步打到帝国西北的尽头。 到十九世纪七十年代，左宗棠已经不只是名将，而是朝廷的“定海神针”。 新疆收复成功后，清廷声望回升，左宗棠的地位也随之被抬到顶点。封疆大吏、军政重臣，荣誉与责任一并压在他身上。 可与此同时，身体却在明显衰败。 常年行军、操劳过度，到了七十岁后，左宗棠的健康已经大不如前。晚年的他，更多是在“被需要”，而不是“还能冲”。 正是在这种背景下，那场婚事被安排了下来。 1881年，清廷将一名年轻女子章怡赏赐给左宗棠为妾。 章怡年仅十七岁，出身并不显赫，却因在宫中服侍得体，被选中送出。 在清代政治语境中，“赐妾”从来不是单纯的私生活安排。 对朝廷而言，这是恩典； 对重臣而言，这是一种绑定。 尤其是像左宗棠这样功高震主、声望极盛的人物，朝廷既需要他，也要“看住他”。 赏赐女性，是最柔软、也最有效的方式之一。 对章怡来说，这一纸安排几乎没有选择空间。 她并非主动嫁入左府，而是被时代推到了这个位置。 身份骤然改变，命运随之翻转。 婚礼照常举行，礼数齐备。 外人看来，这是老将军晚年得宠，是少女一步登天。 可真正的关键，藏在洞房里。 洞房花烛夜，灯火通明。 章怡依照礼制行事，准备履行作为妾室的本分。 左宗棠却在这一刻退开了。 不是犹豫，而是明确拒绝。 “你还是给我当孙女吧。” 这句话之所以流传下来，正是因为它违背了当时的常规。 在清代社会，老少成婚并不罕见，更何况是妾室。 左宗棠若顺势而为，没有任何人会指责。 可他偏偏没有这样做。 原因并不复杂。 七十多岁的身体，早已无法承担正常的夫妻生活； 更重要的，是他对这段关系本质的清醒认知。 章怡不是他选择的人，而是时代与权力推来的。 继续走下去，只会让一个少女彻底失去退路。 这一步退让，看似是怜惜，实则是一个老政治人物对“边界”的最后坚守。 此后，章怡在左府的身份发生了变化。 名分仍在，却不再承担妾室的实际角色，更像是被安置、被保护的晚辈。 几年后，左宗棠病逝。 章怡的人生，也因此迎来新的转向。 后世记载中，她并未被当作遗孀禁锢终生，而是得以重新安置，走向相对平稳的生活。 从历史结果看，这段婚姻并没有制造权力纠葛，也没有留下丑闻。 它更像是一段被强行启动、又被人为刹停的命运支线。 左宗棠这一生，打过太多仗，见过太多生死。 到晚年，他或许比任何人都清楚，什么是必须承担的，什么是可以拒绝的。 在一个礼法与权力几乎碾压个人意志的时代， 这一夜的退让，显得格外突兀，也格外真实。 它不是英雄事迹，却让人记住了这个老人的另一面： 当所有人都默认事情该发生时，他选择了不发生。 以上来源：野史

I posted this response to someone asking where God was in their life because they had curse after curse happening to them. I wanted to share because it’s the truth. My life isn’t perfect. I faced a lot of bad but I’ve also had a lot of blessings from the Lord. It may not seem like he’s paying attention to you because you’re facing struggles, but that’s simply not the truth. He’s allowing you to go through these things to shape you into who he wants you to be. That is worth far more than you realize… “I have no money. I’ve lost more than I have. I fight depression. I am easily angered by my life’s frustrations. I lost my dog. My parents are old, sick and dying. My brother and I take care of them and our own stuff. My grandfathers fought in WWII for a country that has disowned them. I am constantly in an upward spiral with no easy way out. Yet my Redeemer lives. He has proven this to me for 38 years. I am alive now because He told me when I wanted nothing more than to die at 15 that my life was worth living. That I was called by my name to Him. Since He saved me I will go through every hardship necessary in this life to make me who the King wants me to be because my treasure is not on this earth. That is very abundant to me. My treasure is in heaven and was given to me freely by Him.” DON’T GIVE UP!

just saw a comment section of people calling a 30 year old man a pedophile for dating a 24 year old woman. the infantilization of grown adult women needs to stop.

Men hate hypergamy because it forces them to confront something brutal about reality; women have options. Unlike men, who constantly have to compete against other men just to see which woman will give them attention, women are the ones choosing. This has been true since the beginning of biology. The egg doesn’t chase sperm; sperm race to reach the egg, and only the best one wins. Hypergamy is simply that biological reality expressed in human dating; women choose the best option available. The part that bothers some men is realizing the best option might not be them.

I don’t mind him giving it to those that are jerks, but you don’t need to be mean for the sake of it.

She humiliated you and exposed your abject stupidity. But in your pride ridden stupidity, you are incapable of seeing it. Being blocked by biblical Christians isn't a flex. In fact, they're following scripture. Ruminate on: Matthew 7:1-6 Ephesians 5:6-14 Titus 3:1-11 BTW. Those are in the bible.