Spartan Christianity

Draw Out The Enemy

Sometimes it is not wise to engage in outright war with your fellow man. While I mean this primarily in the social sense, it can also apply to physical violence. Many times it is better to peacefully draw out the enemy.

When we engage in total war, we can anger someone and make a lifelong enemy. While I have no problem with angering others, it is not a wise long term strategy. Especially if the goal is to acquire power, make connections, and secure trade.

An angered enemy has no interest in a trade embargo with you. And you must always consider the effects that your actions have on various business opportunities.

In this brief post, let’s look at a simple way you can allow an enemy to defeat themselves instead of having to attack them directly. Every frontal assault, while extremely satisfying, will have the opposite effect that you intend for it. When have you ever been insulted by someone else, demolished in a social debate, and then actually converted to their line of thinking?

Ego always prevails over truth.

To draw out the enemy is to allow them to spread themselves too thin. They come too far out of the “fortress” of their mind and are trapped. You draw them out by asking them questions. simple, innocent questions. Then you allow them to believe they are gaining the upper hand, as you express to them that you are impressed by their reasoning. this compliment causes them to lower their guard and they can be drawn out even further.

Eventually, you have drawn them out so far that the kinks and cracks in their argument begin to show. But you continue to draw them out with more questions, pretending to ignore the obvious holes in their argument. Continue to draw them out until they are spread so thin by their own words that their position collapses in on themselves.

Ideally, you would perform this technique in the presence of as many witnesses as possible. they will think you noble because you did not engage in a frontal assault. they will think your enemy foolish because they could not defend their own position is a simple, civil discussion. By doing this you have destroyed your opponent without violence. You have engaged in civil discourse and laid open the truth.

Read: Patience

You have drawn out the enemy, and they have been defeated.

Remember the second battle of Ai in Joshua 8. They drew out the enemy by pretending to retreat out of fear. This drew the enemy out of the city and allowed Israelite guerrillas to overtake the city and set it on fire underneath the very noses of the Canaanites. Do this to your foes, especially those who hide under the title of “Christian”.

Read: Tribalism

Dress with Self-Respect

You can tell in two seconds the amount of self-respect a person has based on what they are wearing. Now, this does not apply to what they wear around their house. what people wear in the comfort of the home does not matter. It is all about what they go outside the home looking like.

You must dress with self-respect.

Do not go out of the house looking like a bum. This is not that difficult. Have some self-respect and dress like it.

The modern world wants men to go around dressed as women. You see men wearing pink shorts, short shorts, and feminine sunglasses. Dressing with self-respect does not include dressing like a homosexual. It would be better to wear a bear pelt than to dress like the majority of men today.

This is not a long, detailed description of what you should wear, but you should have a few basic rules for how you dress.

If you are going outside the home, never wear less than jeans.
Graphic tees are for the gym, all other public places are off-limits.
Church is for your best dress. If you don’t bring your best someone may punch you in the jugular.
Slacks are ideal in most situations.
Boots are imperative and work with everything.
Shirts should be solid colors. Button downs are ideal.
Wear a belt, no one wants to see your wonder-woman underpants hanging out.
Put on deodorants so others don’t think you just walked out of the forest (not that there is anything wrong with that, but it is not good for the rest of society)

Dress as if you are already successful. I dare you to walk into Walmart in your best Sunday clothes on a day other than Sunday. You will be one in a million.

Dress with self-respect. I cannot say it enough.

Deuteronomy 22:5 – A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women‘s clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.

Stand for Something

I’ve begun to notice a certain genre of Christian in my local Church who avoid taking a stand for anything. Instead of clearly separating right and wrong, they are ambiguous. They allow certain behaviors to slide under the table. They ignore the stupidity of others to preserve relationships. they get their feelings hurt if they have to correct anyone.

These men care more about preserving relationships than about behaving morally. They would rather let a person wander off a cliff than correct him. Allowing someone to fall off a ledge because you do not want to correct them is not love, it is hate. It is easy to behave that way. It is easy to take the middle ground and do nothing for those around you. Any man can do that.

What is difficult is taking on the burden of correcting others. It is difficult to be the “bad guy” who rebukes the sinner in the presence of all (1 Timothy 5:20).

There is no nobility in indifference. There is nothing honorable about not choosing sides. Those who refuse to take sides are simply trying to avoid offending others. It would be better for you to offend others than be a weak, shell of a man who stands for nothing.

What you must do is decide to stand for what is right. Whether it is religious, political, or otherwise, you need to take sides. We as humans are built to go to war and fight. We are designed for “Us against them” interactions. Humans thrive in tribalism, though that word has been corrupted by modernity. Men need something to fight against, and you can start by fighting against stupid ideas. You can start with attacking those who decide to remain indifferent. Attack those who stand for nothing. This is the way of the warrior.

Men stand and fight. Those who stand idly by are worthless.

The Solution-Oriented Mind

One of the more recent things I have discovered as one of the differences between men and women is the following:

Women are relationship and problem-focused. They have people-oriented minds.
Men are progress and solution-focused. They have solution-oriented minds

I believe this single fact can explain why there are more male inventors than there are female inventors. It has nothing to do with a difference in intelligence and everything to do with the difference in the focus of the genders.

Women focus on problems and need to talk about them. This is why women get together and grow their interpersonal relationships by commiserating. They feel better by expressing their emotions and sharing in one another’s problems.

However, men focus on solutions to problems.

If men get together and actually talk to one another, the conversation typically revolves around solving problems. While the discussion could center around sports or some other pastime, generally men will be busy suggesting possible solutions for every problem in the world, from politics to home repairs.

Now this difference in men and women can actually be complementary if both sexes do not take their natures to the extreme. By that I mean if a woman takes her problem-oriented mind to the extreme, she will chronically complain and nag. And if a man hyper-focuses only on the solutions he generates, he becomes overconfident and oblivious to the holes in his own solutions. But if both sexes appropriately complement each other, they can generate powerful solutions to any problem.

This is accomplished by a man first creating the rough draft of a solution to any problem, followed by a rational critique of the solution by a problem-focused woman to which he responds by fixing the problems that she points out.

Unfortunately, this does not happen often. Women typically end up nagging and men end up as isolationists because neither had the self-awareness to correct their extreme natures.

The new issue, however, is the sad reality that men themselves have lost their solution-oriented mindset. Men have become like women and simply complain about problems instead of doing anything about them. This may come as a shock, but improvements cannot happen if all parties merely sit around and complain about the situation. Someone must have a solution-oriented mind. Someone has to take some action, and traditionally that has been the men. But in the 21st-century much of religion has become feminine centric, and every scrap of traditional masculinity is ridiculed or “educated” out of boys by the time they are old enough to be men.

At the root level, when men stop focusing on solutions and start focusing on problems, they become more effeminate. This is because it is the woman’s job to focus on the problems and it is the men’s job to focus on the solutions.

A man has the solution-oriented mind.

I have noticed this with modern Conservatives and Republicans in politics and with religious Conservatives as well. While political Liberals and Democrats and religious Liberals have always been problem-focused and effeminate in their positions, this is new territory for Conservatives. I believe this is why Conservative, Republican men are beginning to mirror the feminine traits common in Democrat or Liberal political parties. It is due to the simple fact that they complain about problems without providing solutions. The same happens with religious parties.

These are not value statements; I am not trying to argue a moral point regarding politics in this essay. These are simply facts and observations I have noticed and common occurrences that you have likely noticed as well. Everyone is more than welcome to their own opinion.

Back to the focal point. Men in the church have resigned themselves to complaining about problems instead of actually solving them.

You can pull up a video of any congressional speech made by a Republican and watch this very phenomenon play out (with the possible exception of Dan Crenshaw, one of the few masculine men left in congress). Or watch a video of any modernist sermon today and you will see men complaining about the state of the world without providing actionable steps for improvement.

Sure, these men may make a few comments about “trusting God” or “Grace” or something. But rarely if ever are men given actionable steps that they themselves can start taking to improve their minds and become solution-oriented.

We have plenty of people complaining about problems and the state of the world and we have very few men doing anything about those problems.

We have plenty of people in the church complaining about this issue or that situation and no one doing anything to provide solutions or change the situation. Even the more Conservative men in the church do nothing but complain and offer no solutions. This is because men have been specially bred to worship women instead of God. Feminism is built into their pedigree. Their entire focus has been reoriented from making God the focus of their lives to making women the focus of their lives and checking all the correct behavioral boxes so they can win women’s approval and intimacy. But that is an essay all by itself. Let’s move on to some applications.

Affirmation: I create solutions and never complain about problems.

Application: The Problem: Men have become effeminate by being problem-focused.

A Solution: Men must reorient their minds so that they generate solutions. They must become Solution-Oriented.

Men should be producing solutions faster than everyone else can generate problems. Men were not placed on earth to be masters of empathy, they are here to build and renovate homes, civilizations, and societies.

Key to Masculinity: Stop complaining and start solving. You need to allocate maximal mental resources to solutions and minimal mental resources to problems. It is fine to simply state a problem, but be sure you have some solutions to go along with those complaints. Every complaint you have must be followed by a solution if not four solutions to choose from. If you do not provide a solution to the problems you state, you are effeminate.

“90 % of mental resources should be focused on solutions and only 10% on problems” ~ Tony Robbins.

If you are around males who spend time complaining, question them about possible solutions to the problems they complain about. If they complain about politics, ask them what action they would have the politician take. They should have a ready answer since they obviously have so much knowledge about managing hundreds of millions of human beings in the world of political war. Or if they are complaining about church protocol, ask them for four possible solutions. If they cannot answer the question, press them on the fact that they have no solutions to problems and are nothing more than mere complainers. They will hopefully become embarrassed and consider their position more rationally before they vomit their partially digested criticisms onto whoever has the misfortune of being nearby.

Plant the seed in your mind that you are a man who finds, creates, and executes solutions to problems instead of just complaining about them.

Be able to discuss those solutions in a calm, rational, stoic manner. No one listens to the guy who yells at the leader, “You should do X, Y, and Z you moron”. State your position eloquently and with a rational mind, giving respect to those in the positions of authority who are able to execute those actions. By doing this you protect their ego.

You can also leverage their ego by expressing how wise it would make them look if they implemented your solution, and they do not even have to give you any credit. If they implemented it, you not only solved the problem but strengthened a trade embargo. This is life, and life is a manipulation.

Conduct Yourselves Like Men.

Attrition Warfare = Instant Gratification

What is the typical response to getting punched in the face? Generally, it is to hit back. The natural reaction or reflex is to strike back at a person who hits you. While this is useful in a physical fight, it may be less useful in psychological warfare.

While I enjoy attrition warfare when it is used to make a clear point or display force, it is less useful if your goal is the full-scale destruction of an opponent. Perhaps attrition warfare can still be a piece of your combat strategy, but your overall strategy must include more aspects of total war than just the fighting.

When I say “Attrition Warfare“, the image I want you to have in your mind is lines of soldiers crashing into one another, or firing rifles into each other’s ranks. These men continue to fire or fight until one side runs out of men.

Attrition warfare = instant gratification

As epic as that style of warfare can be, it is very costly, even to the victorious side. This is why it is much more profitable to use maneuver warfare if your goal is to totally annihilate your enemy.

I find that we commonly tend to use attrition warfare in many of our social interactions. If people start a verbal joust with us, we respond by hitting right back. But practically speaking, would it not be better to hamstring an opponent’s horse rather than actually engage in a jousting match with him? That would be an example of maneuver warfare. It requires more thinking and planning, but it can do infinitely more damage at almost no cost to you.

What we need to become aware of as men is the tendency we have to rise up and charge into battle. I often talk about the warlike nature of man and its importance. While that nature is undoubtedly important, it must be combined with rational thought and planning. You will be one-hundred times more efficient at warfare if you combine that warlike spirit with the pin-point precision of grand strategy.

It is incredibly satisfying to engage in this attrition warfare, to punch the enemy right back. This is why I generated the title of this post and hope you will remember it:

Attrition Warfare = Instant Gratification

Instead of delaying gratification by choosing the must more effective yet less satisfying maneuver warfare, we prefer to punch a person right back. After all, it feels great to punch back, especially in psychological warfare. But we must count the cost of that type of war. Others may see us act foolishly and we damage the possibility of trade opportunities. Relationships can be damaged. there is collateral damage to attrition warfare.

If you are engaged in psychological warfare and they punch you in the face, you should not be thinking about how to hit them back, but about how to burn down their house. Think about how you can draw them further into your field so you can crush them. Allow them to think that they are gaining the upper hand or that you are weak. This will encourage them to attack and they will begin to act too quickly.

Overly-ambitious action will lead to mistakes. Mistakes allow you to counterattack from the flank doing much more damage to them than they did to you. If you want to crush your enemy, maneuver around them, draw them into the open field, and then hit them from all sides. Incorporate this philosophy into your thinking.

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