Advice For Dudes

 

There is clearly a crisis of masculinity in our culture, our communities, our churches, our families, and ourselves. The art of manliness and the practice of fatherhood is severely lacking in this current time and place, but what has been lost can still be reclaimed.

Great men make good times, those good times make weak men, those weak men make hard times, and those hard times make great men..

It is clear to all with eyes to see that we are living in the good times making weak men stage of this historical cycle, and in order to make these incoming hard times brief, uneventful, unconsequential, and bearable we need to make sure that we are skilled sailors able to navigate through the storms ahead.

The time for complaining and pointing out our problems must end now, starting with ourselves, leading with action and by example, we must restore manhood and reclaim the families that our enemy seeks to destroy. 

Whatever has happened in our past, however your yesterday played out, today is the day that we must become addicted to improving ourselves and bettering our lives each day; taking the necessary steps in becoming the righteously masculine men that the other people in our lives want of us and need from us.

Here is my simple list of recommendations to help improve your life.. Strict yet simple steps that you should strongly consider taking, either daily or just very regularly over time to rise up out of a broken, weak, lost, destructive state and reclaim the manhood you may have lost or not yet found.  These are steps that I have taken personally that have drastically helped me become the man that God created me to be. I'm still working hard daily to make these regular habits, and I do still slip up at times, but remaining focused on building these habits and disciplines has made me a much better, stronger, wiser, skilled, and valuable man.

1.  Daily physical exercise is a must. Workout, lift weights, or just go for walks. Do something active and physical every single day, make sure you are sweating a little bit at some point.

2. Sunshine and being in nature is a must, daily. We are made to be outside in nature, receiving energy from our glorious sun.. Make sure to spend at least an hour or two outside, and be sure to get a good amount of time in the sun every week.

3. Seek to constantly build loyalty + develop character. Be honest, truthful, fulfil your contracts and oaths, and pay off your debts. Work on it all, step by step, every day.

4. Be working + building stuff daily. Improve on your physical surroundings, invest in your business or career and grow your own food or support those in your community doing so. Refocus your time + energy on your career and the careers of those in your direct community.. Seek out every way to shop local and support farmers markets + local suppliers. 

5. Learning, reading, conversing about interesting and meaningful topics is a must. I recommend reading your Bible, at least 1-5 chapters each morning or night, but at least read something that has valuable, tangible, practical, purposeful knowledge or wisdom. Every day or night, be learning something useful.

6. Surround yourself with moral, righteous people. Having hardworking and skilled folks in your life is a must, be around greatness to become great yourself.

7. Restrain yourself. Limit yourself. Self-disciplining is a must. If you are "addicted" to substances or drugs, dependent on them to get through your day, limit your consumption or cut it out entirely.. You grandparents and their grandparents didn't have all this junk food, soda, pot-smoking, porn, sexual appetites, drunkenness, computer games, entertainment or screen distractions.. And you don't need them to survive and thrive either..

Learn to restrain your urges, regain control over your flesh urges, and fight off the pains caused by all these unnatural, unrighteous things and false idols we have grown comfortable to or attached to.

As Christians, this is why fasting is so important.. First and foremost with food appetite curbing, but also bleeding out into other forms of flesh urges we tend to become dependent on in our lives.. We must remove our idols, and return to our natural state of being, and live with what is needed and not what is wanted or craved for.

8. Get enough sleep every night, and do not sleep in. Do not let the snooze button even be an option in your life. Plan accordingly, get to bed on time or early, and do not sleep in. Unless you have some sort of weird work schedule, wake up early and work on something. I highly recommend early morning workouts and prayer. I wake up at 5 every morning now, and I try to go to the gym for at least some sort of weight lifting or treadmill walking, and I get on the rowing machine.. If I do not make it out to the gym before work, I make sure to read the Bible or read other interesting books. It has made me so much more disciplined, better prepared for the day, and eager + excited to get to work every day.

Last year during the covid lockdown season I worked the 2nd shift, and my schedule was all out of wack.. I went to the gym after my work shift at 10pm, and it caused me to stay up late and get into a habit of staying up late.. I would stay up until like 2am, even if I wanted to get to bed earlier, and would sleep in to 10 or 11 am every day.. 

Switching jobs, and adjusting my sleep schedule to be more stable and regular in my daily happenings has definitely provided me with more energy, more happiness and appreciation each day, and I definitely get more accomplished throughout the day. 

Seek to plan out each day, organize your schedule and build discipline into your life. Make sure to learn from better or more experienced men, find a purpose to fight for.. Genuinely seek to become a better man each day, control your physical urges, and seek God + all His right ways.. 

Become addicted to improving yourself and bettering your life.

Your comfort zone will kill you.

Being stagnant is death.

Safety is death. 

Ease is death.

Be born again, be one who seeks a life of hard work.. Accomplish great things, work towards tomorrow instead of looking back at yesterday..

Push into your challenges, embrace your struggles, and give thanks for the hardships.. They will make you better, stronger, wiser, and lead you away from staying the same or regressing back into weakness and brokenness, back into defeat and loss..

Use your losses, your defeats, your struggle and hardships to make you better, to overcome the next challenges that arise, to learn and grow and build and conquer now and always going forward..

Leave your defeats behind you, and go forward into victory now.

But even victory will defeat and destroy you in time..

Be sure to never become comfortable in your accomplishments and in your past works. 

Always seek to progress, to improve, to learn, and to grow.

Continue down the road, keep running the race, and always improve yourself.. Be addicted to improvement.

Travel down the path of most resistance, and avoid at all costs the path of least resistance.. 

Just to repeat and restate this all simply :

Get your sleep schedule in order, wake up early and get to work on something, even before work. Restrain yourself, and discipline yourself. Get your addictions and urges in check. Surround yourself with legends and great people, to help you become one yourself. Learn something meaningul every day, read or listen to wise and useful books or podcasts. Work on something, build and grow stuff. Be honest, truthful, genuine, fulfill your oaths + contracts, pay off your debts. Get out into nature, make sure to get sunlight regularly.. and be sure to get daily exercise, go lift weights a few times a week, and get outside for walks or runs a few times a week.

Get on with improving your life. Get on with overcoming your emotions and moods. Get on with getting physically healthy, strong, in shape. Get on with providing for and protecting yourself and your loved ones. Get on with learning useful skills and knowledge. Get on with becoming the man you were always created to be, and leave the little boy and the gamma male behind you. 

Those in your life need you to become one of the chads that will help rebuild this mess made by simps that we are heading into. The time to reclaim your lost manhood and masculinity is now. 

A destiny of righteous manhood awaits you, walk confidently into it with strength, courage, honor, truth, perseverance, discipline, faith, loyalty, and hope. 

Dividing America

The United States of America is a once prosperous empire, arguably the greatest ever, that is beginning to rescind and implode upon itself..

Economic, political, social, and religious differences are pushing and pulling the peoples of these lands into chaos and uncertainty, and it might be time to start thinking about peaceful and moral solutions to the inevitable balkanization or secession of states.. 

If we don't form contracts and agreements to split territories and populations we will be encountering violence and bloodshed, as has always occurred in declining empires so far in recorded human history, and our new maps will be drawn by whoever is the strongest.. Which could end up being nefarious domestic strongmen or even foreign powers. 

Politics is downstream from culture.

And the culture today within our 50 states is rapidly changing in some areas, and desperately clinging to traditional values in others.. These divides can be seen clearly in the present county-by-county voting map, highlighting the differences of the day politically, and thus culturally.. And these divides can be seen changing when comparing state election results and their various changes over the last 70 years. 

So if one wants to change politics, then they must change culture.. Which is why the "culture wars" have been taking place over the last 8+ years as our nation has grown increasingly desperate in using political solutions to solve the growing problems we face.. 

Instead of the inevitable violence that results from seeking to impose one's will over another with force, I propose we find another solution to our growing cultural differences and moral divides. 

I would like to propose for the couple hundred of people who view my blog these potentially successful solutions to the growing divisions in this place..  The first being one that splits the United States of America into a new Union consisting of 27 states, generally rearranged by political, economic, and geographic similarities : 

 I envision that these states would instantly revert back to the original founding constitutional document signed by the founding fathers, and then each state could then vote to add the necessary amendments they see fit. I see this proposal focusing on states individual rights to govern themselves, while continuing to participate together in some sort of broader union that would have a united military, banking system, and general legal code based on the original constitution. While also holding the right to govern themselves more locally on social issues, and appease their own populations interests and well-beings, instead of just being dominated by the will of bought and paid for politicians and bureacrats in Washington D.C. 

The second proposal I have seems to have much more long-term potential success for all parties involved, and it would essentially be a complete breakup of the United States into various seperate nations, based on cultural and theological differences :

I think that the west coast and southwestern regions might as well just break off and govern themselves or be given to China and Mexico outright.. These areas are becoming increasingly populated by foreigners and foreign economic interests.. It just seems fit that they either join those nations or become puppet states to the nations where their ancestral allegiances remain. These areas are just too ideologically different from the middle and eastern regions, they think more globabally and economically, they are more materialist and godless in general, making them more rebellious in nature. 

The areas already essentially controlled and governed by Mormons would just become theirs outright in Zion, to make their own nation with their own leaders as they see fit. They will also gobble up some of the neighboring lands that are fairly unpopulated and already living peacefully next to or even amongst mormon populations thriving now. 

The New Orleans area will just become its own city-state, it is far too different culturally and theologically from the neighboring Christian populations.. It would likely be a very economically successful city-state, controlling the Mississippi river outlet port, and still have a lot of tourism money coming in.. But the mix of various Christian denominations, voodo nonsense, and other foreign religions is just too far away from the values of their neighboring peoples.

The Union States of America can just continue on as things are now. They would essentially be the remains of this current government system and could be left alone by those leaving to govern themselves as things are, or continue to "progress" further along into their leftist utopia dreams. 

Amishland is self-explanatory.. The amish deserve their own nation, as they have survived for two centuries just doing what they do, and should be given the space where they most dominate already to just continue on keeping on.. 

Columbia would become the Catholic nation, and essentially become a Vatican puppet state on the North American continent.. Catholics all over the nation, as well as the world at large would be invited to come and build the nation they have always wanted to turn the U.S. into.. They could establish a kingdom or constitutional monarchy, and just generally establish the government that the Pope and the Vatican see fit. 

Babylon should be self-explanatory.. All of the atheists, non-believers, pagans, satanists, and generally degenerate folks can be left alone to establish their own modern day sodom and gamorrah, taking with them all those who will not be comfortable living in or even unwelcomed entirely into the newly established neighboring nations.. All of those currently in rebellion towards God, who seek to have all the material rewards and physical pleasures of this world in this life alone, shall be given an area to go do that in.. They can build idols to worship, they can do as thou wilt, and maybe even build a single large tower in their new capital that will reach into heaven.. I won't be holding my breath for any sort of long-term success from these people in this place, but the degenerate heathens deserve spaces to live in their own filth, and the general New York/D.C. areas seem the most fitting as of now..

Finally, the Christian State of America would be established by believers to govern themselves and enforce biblical laws in the regions that either are already, or want to live as righteously as possible in this fallen state. 

I think that this new nation would function best like a constiutional-monarchy.. There would be a righteous king established and appointed by righteous men, if not God outright, and the various states would have their own regional laws and religious denominations that would be bound together by a biblically sound constitution.. I could see this government taking many different forms though, as it could be established like ancient Israel with righteous judges and various autonomous tribes, or it could be formed how King David's kingdom was, or it could function like a Hellenistic democracy, or be ruled over by a believing caesar or tsar like ruling family.. 

The details aren't necessarily important, as long as biblical laws would be the genuine focus by a population of believers in a glorious and resource-rich land mass.. 

I think God would move in special ways to help true believers form a government that would bring Him glory in the end.. 

Which brings me to my final point here, which is that even though my proposals and plans are never going to take place, obviously, the plan that God has for us all will.. He is using the chaos, the destruction, the death, and all the evils of this world to bring about something glorious in the end. We are limited to our own lives, and our own understandings, and we want things to work well for us and be good right here and right now for our own benefit, due to our sinful natures.. But God's plan is much larger, much more complex, and much more glorious than anything we can experience or know for ourselves..

The solution we need is not political, or economic, or philosophical, or even physical at all.. Because of our inherited sin and our fallen state, we will always want to have nice things, live comfortably, be safe and secure in our material bodies, and win our own victories.. But we must realize at some point, individually and independently, that this life is not all there is, and that our souls will enter into eternity to be judged. We must spiritually seek to know and experience God's Kingdom..

Our eyes must be fixated on eternity, our minds centered on knowing our creator, our hearts focused on righteous living, and our souls given over to the Lord alone, and not to the ruler of this world, the great deceiver. 

 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones. Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest His correction; For whome the Lord loves He corrects, just as a father the son in whom he delights."

Proverbs 3:5-12

"Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, till He comes and rains righteousness on you. You have plowed wickedness; You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men."

Hosea 10:12-13

"I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles."

Psalm 34:4-6

"The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them. The Lord preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy."

Psalm 145:18-20

Our real, genuine, trustworthy, unfailing solution to the increasing problems our nation is and will continue to face, is to trust in the Lord and live righteously.. We must accept and endure the persecutions, the trials, the challenges, the hardships, the chaos, the destruction, the violence, and the bloodshed that is incoming, and just continue to walk towards God's Kingdom with faith, loyalty, and hope at all times. 

Do not ever forget that God wins in the end, and we will be with Him when the time comes if we so choose. 

Our home is not America, or however we wish it to be for our own selfish benefit; our home is the Kingdom of Heaven. We must focus our souls on helping to build that eternal kingdom and not one of our own here and now. 

My Testimony