That is my exact sentiment about my wife and God.
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Iād go for equal. Both are appalling human rights abuses.
Oh boy do I have contempt for the CCP. The way they have fucked the world over so many times in so many ways and that doesnāt even begin to touch their human rights abuses at home.
There is a genius to their quiet, surreptitious method of slow, incremental oppression. I guess there must be ancient, Chinese secret on how you cannot destroy a house at one time without someone noticing, but you can take a little peace at a time until its gone. The people who own the house may not notice, but by the end they may thank you for it.
I do not know if itās actually true in Asian culture, but there seems to be a patience in their aggressiveness. They wonāt drop a bomb on you, they will just sort of fuck you up little by little so you donāt even notice. And by the time they are done, they have plausible deniabilityā¦ Donāt the Japanese have a saying that means loosely, āto kill with silent contemptā?
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Well, itās dead now after the church stopped doing it. I donāt particularly have much use for latin. For me, it would just be kinda interesting to see how it looked pre-Vatican 2. Whether or not I have much use for latin, however, itās damn handy to know especially for us lifting types who want to geek out about muscle fibers and muscle group names.
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To the extent I give a shit, which isnāt very much, the same-sex stuff is considered immoral in almost all Christian churches. Thereās just no way around it, its condemned in the scriptures cover to cover. No amount of jerry-rigging the text of the Bible is going to change that. Itās not a condemnation of the people, its a āhate the sin, not the sinnerā circumstance. Itās also not exclusively immoral no matter how much some folks want to make it seem that way. Many things fall into the same ācategoryā. But I am not God, I aināt here to judge folks. Thatās between them and God. I have my own shit to deal with.
No one outside of the middle east I hopeā¦
Douglas Murray put it best, talking about LGBT, etc. communities. He said, āitās not about being equal, itās about being moreā¦ā Thatās about the best way I have heard it put. Because, by all measures, there is equality now. So to justify these organizationsā existence and raise money they have to keep going on something. So it will never be āequalā enough, which I suppose, is why they are barring down so hard on the āTā part of the equation now. I have heard even a lot of gay people despise that part of the alphabetā¦ hehe, I bet they want to change it to the ābetebetā 'cause patriarchy.
Which, as once again, Douglas Murray said was āobvious to everybody up until yesterdayā. The man is a word-smith.
Itās working wonders right now! Who doesnāt want to get their ass beaten by a dude with a chain, who dresses like a fat chick with green ābutchā hair claiming to be non-gender binary. Itās a personal dream of mine!
I donāt want to do it, but more power to those who do. I just donāt care.
You donāt think they learned anything from Lenin, Marx, and Engels?
Absolutely, they learned communism. But they applied it patiently. Get the youth to rise up, riot burn shit down, kill people and wave the little red book, in the case of Mao. Like BLM minus the red book. The other commies were active, Mao was more passive and let everybody else do the work and then he took the rewardsā¦ The methodology was an Asian patience thingā¦ I think. I am not sure, just a hypothesis.
Chinese water torture. Enough said lol.
Mao was a celebrated bum and drunken frat party boy when left to his own devices right before the Cultural Revolution. Some even claim it was his wife pulling the strings all the while.
Maybe itās how a tyrannical system dominated by the matriarchy(obviously Iām not saying a matriarchy would inevitably result in tyranny. Fuck Iām really starting to be really careful about what I write online) would look like. I donāt know either.
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Oh man. A multitude of factors.
Borderline evil step brother 4 years older than me. The kinda guy who if my friends were over would come around and slap me around until he had me in tears and then disappear once that had been accomplished.
Not have a mother around. I had a step mother but Moroccan women are not that welcoming to step children.
One of the greatest things that ever happened to me was when my stepbrothers father was murdered and he went back home ended up joining the military for four years.
He wasnāt around for my four years in a high school.
After he got out and came back home. I was taking my younger brother to wrestling. No sport builds character like wrestling. Anyways I was like 24 working a full time job and trying to lift and grapple still too.
I was taking him to 3 practices a week and tournaments on Saturday and Sunday. It was a fucking commitment. Why did I do it? Because thats an older brothers job. I never had that and If I had I would have come into my own so much sooner.
Anyways wrestling sucks and my younger brother got an invite to do something fun with his friends. So naturally my step mother said oh heās not going today cause of this etc etc.
My step brother who was with us retorted in the cuntiest way possible. āOh looks like you have plenty of time to go to the gym nowā
I was about 10 feet away from. Calmly I said to him.
āWhen have you ever done anything for him? What have you ever done for himā
Speaking of my younger brother of course.
He says nothing. But he pulls that classic move. Stare directly into my eyes first man that looks away is the bitch.
Well I donāt divert my gaze. I would die first. So now after an uncomfortable 30 seconds of staring directly into each others eyes he says
āwhat you want to fight or something?ā
Oh he has no idea how long Iāve wanted to hear that.
But I am not gonna be overly aggressive.
So I said āWhat do you want to do about it?ā
Which is a win win. He can admit to being scared to fight me or he can engage and get the ass beating that has been coming his way for 10 years"
Of course he doesnāt say either.
He tells me I should just go downstairs and shoot steroids into my ass. Haha.
Which is a punk out if I ever saw one.
But yeah. Long story short having that asshole around didnāt do my self esteem any good. That isnāt even getting to the really fucked up stuff he did.
Yeah, I like to think it made me a more resilient person.
Thats beautiful man. I suffer a lot too and when I am with my girlfriend its so much more tolerable even at its worst.
I am very ashamed to admit what I am about to share.
I watched 30 minute of a fucking Logan Paul podcast.
Apparently he made a tweet āGoing gay for a monthā or something to that effect and the community went after him.
So to appease the gay mafia he brought on this former Captain in military Josh Seefried whose gay and apparently was heavily involved with the Donāt Ask Donāt Tell repeal act of 2010.
According to this guy saying āGoing gay for a monthā is not an acceptable joke. I could only watch like 25 % of the podcast but it was ridiculous. This policing of speech.
The best was wen Logan Paul tried to use Joe Rogan as an example for saying the same thing and not getting any backlash and this dude was like āShame on you for trying to deflect for the horrible thing you did.ā
You canāt compromise with these people. You give them an inch they take a mile.
Gonna have to check this Douglas Murray fellow out. I know he recently was on the JRE but Iāve yet to watch it. To be honest. His face. It kinda looked funny in the thumbnail on youtube.
@pat @chris_ottawa
I grew up with many East Asians And one of my closest friends of 32 years is Korean American who I speak to near daily. They are patient, sacrificial, focused, disciplined, and intelligent. They arenāt easily distracted and donāt engage in the navel gazing and pointless activities and mental and intellectual mumbo jumbo that the average Western yokel does. All this makes an effective formula. (Am I allowed to compliment people in this day and age?)
@pat you are onto the correct observation that liberalism/progressivism is a religion or like a religion. Because man evolved to be religious, if religion is attacked or destroyed he is most likely to replace it with something else for a new guiding doctrine. Thatās why the notion āI donāt judgeā is irrelevant because liberalism involves a whole lot of Criticism and judgement.
I donāt know, sounds kind of racist
Indeed. I remember I even had mild push back for ADMIRATION.
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If youāre talking about the Asian thing, you are probably just oversensitive.
All I was saying was that people of any race or culture who have the balls, drive and foresight to uproot themselves and their families to seek out a better life overseas are naturally the kind of people who will be successful and responsible, which would lead to nurturing good offspring. It has nothing to do with being Asian or any other race.
And there are good and terrible things about every culture.
I further told you that ALL Caucasian expatriates I know in my country are earning way above average income and have kids studying at expensive international schools. Should I, then, assume that Western culture is far better than Asian culture?
I grew up around degenerates, drug addicts and whores and street gangs and half of my friends I left behind when I left ended up doing drugs and jail time. All were Chinese living in a traditional Chinese society.
Not necessarily. I can think of a few examples, such as Mara Salvatrucha/MS-13.
White people who move overseas usually have money and can make money, I never heard of any poor white Canadians moving to another country.
In modern Chinese society they might end up in a reeeducation camp or have their organs harvested, so maybe the traditional way is better.
The saddest statement on-line. āām really starting to be really careful about what I write onlineā ā Yup, but you have to. I feel a little safer here than most places, but still. I hope that I am not over estimating my safety here, but I feel like T-nation wonāt sell me out. Basically, my personal rule is to treat this as if it were face to face. I feel confident most things I say, I would say directly to someone. But I am sure Iāve fucked up plenty, so take it with a grain of salt.
He was all that, but more importantly, he was successful. I donāt know to what degree his wife was involved, but he loved his job. No doubt about that. He got off on people suffering.
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I can contest this by my observation of them versus other groups. There are studies but living in NYC, particularly Northeastern Queens, I didnāt need studies and I lived in the most diverse borough in all of the US.
Iām well aware of Asian immigrants with social problems and gang membership. Perhaps you are familliar with the Tongs and associated gangs. We had those in NYC too. And not every Asian I grew up with was headed to MIT or cooped up in AP classes in the late afternoon.
I wonāt comment on race, nor will I refer to people who explicitly do. Perhaps Jordan Peterson can be safely referred to because heās socially acceptable and people who can read between the lines know what he likely thinks. He slipped once by commenting on the peculiar characteristics of us Jews that makes us a tiny yet relatively influential and high-earning minority and over represented in some places.
Youāre receiving the cream of the crop from the West. We receive the cream of the crop and all the rest. However if you were to think the West is superior then I would just consider thatās your conviction.
This isnāt the conclusion I have come to. I think he is popular because he is controversial. I like some of his ideas, but others not so much. I watched a debate or two where he was a participant. I had a hard time understanding his positions (although I think he was a bit better at articulating his points before his detox with experimental drugs in Russia).
Heās popular because heās right and he knows how to articulate his thoughts in such a way as to express what many already know, but cannot express. And he has the data and credentials to back it up.
Watch his debate with Matt Dillahunty. IMO, he did not express himself well. Many of the comments (in the YouTube comments section) are to the effect of what the hell was Jordan talking about. It is almost impossible to understand what his position is.
You donāt necessarily have to think Peterson lost the debate to acknowledge he was really hard to understand. I found myself having to rewind a bunch just to figure out what he was saying.
IIRC, this debate was shortly after his detox in Russia, so that could have had something to do with it. Many said the controversial treatments he received did negatively impact his cognition. I am not convinced of that just because he seemed to get harder to understand after. Only a possibility.
On some things. Others he may be right, but I have caught him supporting ideas using faulty reasoning, so I canāt determine if he is correct by his arguments.
No, only a racist would do thatā¦
The atheists got their wish. They removed God, but what they didnāt count on is that itās didnāt get replaced with āreasonā, or their idea of what reason is. It got replace with unhinged crazy non-sense. I am sayin āunhingedā a lot, I need more adjectives to describe the loony-left. Reason left the building with Godā¦
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Btw, RCIA is great. Next week we take tour of church with my wife and kids.
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