People have a problem with taking action. They can talk all day long about what they are going to do, or how cool they were “back in the day”, but no one cares. The only thing that matters is action.
No one cares what you say. No one cares how you feel. No one cares what you did in the past.
What are you doing today, in this present moment that is making a difference in your life or in the lives of others?
Are you working on yourself, or are you merely talking about working on yourself? Are you finally starting that diet, or do you just never shut up about your plans to start?
Get. Started.
The Church is filled with pathetic men who have stopped taking action years ago. All they can do is look behind them into their past to see their best days as they rot away in the present moment.
That is depressing. Do not be that man who has lost his masculinity. The Church is not for the weak, yet in recent years it has become infested with the feeble of heart and mind. Do not allow yourself to contribute to that mass of pathetic individuals.
You must be the one strong man in a sea of androgenous beta males.
The mistake most people make is in assuming that the action must be massive and difficult or else it will not matter or produce any results. KEY: any action taken towards your goals is massive compared to the no-action lifestyle you have lived for 20 years. Just get up and get started, don’t worry about the details, all things become clear when you finally start. Stop talking, start doing, it is a simple formula for success.
Boys talk. Men take action. Be a man.
Mantra
I take action today. I do not talk, I only do.
Application
Take action towards your goals. Even if you only do it today, that’s more than you did yesterday. Commit to one day of action and see how you feel.
Write down your goals and then write down the smallest possible step you could take in the direction of that action and then take it. Any progress is better than no progress.
Eat one clean healthy meal instead of the garbage you have been stuffing into your face. Eat chicken and broccoli and some rice for just one meal.
Write just two sentences in that book you have been talking about writing. They do not even have to be good, just write them.
Do one set of push-ups today. Just one set of two push-ups is more than most people are doing. Take action.
The physical nature of man is pure evil. The Church doesn’t like to hear this. “Man is good”, they say – Wrong. “How can man be bad with a divine soul in his body?”, is the classic question they ask. The answer is because the moral soul is still bound up in the biological, physical body.
“…among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others”.
Ephesians 2:3
“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually”.
Genesis 6:5
The physical nature of man is evil. The Church doesn’t like to hear this. “Man is good”, they say – Wrong.
“How can man be bad with a divine soul in his body?”, is the classic question they ask. The answer is because the moral soul is still bound up in the biological, physical body.
Man exists is in a constant state of conflict between the evil desire of his flesh and his moral soul. Polygamy is biologically natural to man, while monogamy is unnatural, and only accomplished with great effort. The physical nature of man is to do what is wrong, this is a fundamental axiom of the world, because our physical bodies crave many things that the Lord has placed restrictions on.
To reject the evil nature of man is to reject reality itself. To pretend that the thoughts of a man’s heart are not evil continually is to deny an observable scientific fact. To test this, simply think back on all the times you wanted to take a certain action simply because you were told not to. Rebellion is in our earthly nature and we have to wage war against it.
From an earthly perspective, man must do whatever he must to survive, this naturally pulls him towards evil. Why? Because it’s easier to steal your neighbors food than to find your own, therefore the Lord says “thou shalt not steal” (Ex. 20:15). It is simpler to envy your neighbors property, wife or career than it is to be content with your own, therefore the Lord commands “Thou shalt not covet”(Ex 20:17). The commands of the Lord oppose our earthly nature, and mentally we must oppose our fleshly nature as well.
We must resist, escape and redirect our tremendously evil nature in the pursuit of a greater good. Man loves progress and achievement, therefore the Lord has placed within us a very nature that itself must be conquered; and it’s conquering will serve as one of our greatest achievements, for it represents mastery over the Self.
Begin the demolition of your evil nature today.
Mantra
My evil must be contained. My evil must be controlled. My nature is controlled by the power of my thoughts. With my thoughts I shape the reality of who I am.
Application
Today, simply observe yourself. Observe your natural inclinations and see what it is that you wish to do. Take inventory of every desire you have for one day and then try to convince yourself that you aren’t pulled towards evil and that you are naturally good. How many women do you see each day that you want to have sex with? You don’t even know them. The nature of your genitalia and internal chemistry causes natural desire that is evil, especially if acted on.
How many times have you been tempted to murder someone in your life? Why would you desire to do such a thing unless your physical body pulls you towards evil?
Take inventory of yourself, come to grips with the reality of your evil nature, then get to work on fixing it.
You have to work every day. You must put effort into your craft. You must pound the stone every day. Visible progress towards a desirable end-state goal must be visible every single day, otherwise you have wasted the day.
“For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.”
2 Thessalonians 3:10
“Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.” – 24 “Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God”.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
Man must work. Any male who does not work is not a man. Also, do not deceive yourself, just because you clock in to a 9-5 every day does not mean you work. Just because you punch the clock and sit in a pew every Sunday (and even every Wednesday if you are “Super Righteous”) does not make you a Christian. You aren’t doing the work. You are merely radiating heat from your buttocks into the pew you inhabit, and heaven help the person who takes your assigned seat.
You have to work every day. You must put effort into your craft. You must pound the stone every day. Visible progress towards a desirable end-state goal must be visible every single day, otherwise you have wasted the day. To be a sloth is to disgrace your ancestors and to spit in the face of masculinity.
You don’t have to like what you do, you just have to do it. And if it is true that you hate your work, take a good look in the mirror at who is responsible for creating the life you are living. Who you are is the sum total of all the actions you have taken up until this moment. Your job is the result of your career preparation, if you do not like it then fix it.
Most men hate their job because they were lazy in preparing themselves for a good job.
If you don’t like your work, then DO something about it. The problem of hating your work can be overcome with additional work directed towards a new career. Hammer the nail. Do the work. Satisfy your soul.
Mantra
Hammer the Nail
Application
Make progress with at least one task of your day. If you are accustomed to being a sloth for the entire day, scrolling through social media when you should be working, then take a good look at your life, because the odds that it is improving are low. If this is you, stop complaining about how the “little guy can’t get ahead”. If the “little guy” would stop stealing from his employer by spending his hours playing on his phone then the little guy would get ahead. Make one task effective. Do one task better than you have ever done anything in your life and see how you feel. Develop marketable skills. Act in a way that allows you to add value to who you are, because at the end of the day all you have is your name. What is your name worth?
In times past, young boys spent a great deal of time around their fathers and other men. They learned skills and behaviors associated with the same traditional masculinity that built the world. Boys learned to riff and wrestle. They learned to work and play. They learned to strike their enemies with a mighty slaughter and protect their family with ferocity. This type of man is a far cry from what presently exists in the Church and world. What went wrong with society that it would produce the feeble, testicle-deficient males we have today?
It started with the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Prior to the advent of modern machinery that would eventually bring great ease to American life, boys spent their days working with their fathers on farms, hunting, fishing and doing masculine tasks. Most fathers worked from home (not in the pusillanimous ways that are done today by dad bod wielding men hunched over a keyboard for eight hours) and their sons worked with them. This hard labor would prepare the sons to take over the farm, or the smithy or whatever was the family business. Once machines began to expand in the marketplace, hundreds of jobs became available in the city.
Many fathers went to work in the factories and were out of the house for twelve or more hours a day. This meant that now the sons had to spend all their time around mommy.
Now there is nothing wrong with mommy, but children conform to whomever they spend the most time with.
If boys spend all their time around mom, they are going to be soft and effeminate like mom unless mom knows how to raise the son correctly by avoiding helicopter parenting and babying tactics.
Most moms don’t think to put their sons to work. They protect them from every conceivable harm, they prevent them from fighting and adventuring and block them from facing even the slightest level of adversity. Compound this helicopter parenting over 18 years and you have created a full-fledged pantywaist.
The boy had the perfect biological environment to grow up to be an absolute disgrace to masculinity.
These weak sons then grew up and gave birth to sons even weaker than themselves. Once married, these men removed their testicles and placed them in a box in the attic, never to be seen again. They let their wives wear the pants in the relationship and stopped them from enforcing any discipline on the new sons. No adversity was faced; therefore, no growth was experienced.
Boys continued to be weak boys for years, even generations.
It is almost a shame that the world is so safe that even the weakest men are able to pass on their genetics to another generation.
The weak, effeminate men who are fathers today are the same men who would have been eaten by lions thousands of years ago.
This cycle repeats itself today, which is why there are so many weak men in the world and especially in the Church. The Church is the breeding ground for weak men because women can try to override their natural tendency to seek out the most masculine genetics possible in favor of the best provider possible (and the best provider does not necessarily mean the most masculine provider).
Female spirituality and conviction can replace women’s natural desire to find the most “alpha” male and causes her to seek a good “spiritual leader”.
This is all fine and good, but good spiritual leaders are rarely masculine, primarily because men mistake their emotions for spirituality in the same ways that they mistake their lust for love.
How many masculine men do you have in your church? I find that about 5% of Church going men are masculine. It is our responsibility to undo this feminization of men.
The best thing we can do right now is to be more masculine in our own day to day lives.
We cannot pretend like this feminization of men has not affected us personally in some way. We are not as hardened as Spartans. We are not the men of the World Wars who withstood constant mortar fire for months. We have become soft and set in our ways, so we must move towards Masculinity. We have to train the body through exercise. We have to train the mind through learning and reason. We have to train the emotions through self control. We must take small steps towards becoming more masculine every day so that we can become more masculine in a society where the feminine man is the ideal man.
Conduct yourself like a Man.
~Excerpt from the book: Spartan Christianity (Coming soon)
In Spartan culture, the strength of the males was tested from birth. When a new male was born, men of the town would inspect the child looking for areas of weakness or insufficiency. If a defect was found, the child would be tossed off a mountain, abandoned on the mountain or kept to act as a slave of the Spartans, known as a “helot”. Babies who passed inspection were bathed in wine rather than water in order to test and improve their strength.
By age seven, the boys were moved to the military school called the “Agoge” where they would learn basic subjects (math, reading etc.) but would primarily focus on training them for warfare. This training was sponsored by the state and was mandatory; The dormitory was a barracks.
At age twelve, the young men were stripped of all clothes except a red cloak. They were to make their own beds from reeds and the cloak in order to make them comfortable with discomfort and to prepare them to be highly mobile in times of war. They were given only small portions of food, usually black broth and a small amount of bread. They would then be encouraged to steal food from the town in order to develop speed and stealth, but the young men would be flogged and beaten if they were detected.
Every year Sparta would hold a “Contest of Endurance” before one of their pagan temples. The Spartan men would tie two young Spartans-in-training to a post with their arms above their head and flog them until one passed out. This was known as the “Diamastigosis” Sometimes the young men being flogged would die from pain or blood loss while trying to outlast each other.
At age 20 or 21 the Spartan males were given the chance to graduate into the full army. These young men were expected to be lifelong soldiers. To reach retirement age (60) for a Spartan man would be embarrassing, as death in battle was expected. No other occupation for a Spartan male was allowed. Any tradesman, craftsman or farmer who lived in Sparta was not considered a Free Citizen. The only Spartan citizens who were allowed gravestones were the men who died in battle or the women who died in childbirth.
After graduation, the new Spartan soldiers would still be given insufficient food and would have to continue to steal what they needed. The provided diet was tasteless, but this would build character and the ability to eat on the road without the need for pleasurable flavored foods.
Physical fitness was highly prized in Spartan culture. Any man who was physically unfit would be openly ridiculed by Spartan men and women and even risked being banished from Sparta because of their fatness.
Very small amounts of wine were consumed in Spartan culture, but excess drinking was highly discouraged as it was a sign of great weakness and a gateway to stupidity. The Spartans would sometimes force their helot slaves to drink wine to the point of drunkenness in order to teach their children how stupid it was to drink wine to excess and lose control of themselves.
Men would not be allowed to marry until they were thirty years old, and the women until they were twenty. If an exception was made and a man and woman were married earlier, they would not be allowed to live together until they came of age.
Some historians think that Spartan couples were never allowed to live together, and that the men would have to sneak out of the barracks to meet their wives for sex.
Even in marriage, emotional “love” was discouraged, as attachments might create weakness in the hearts of the Spartan men. If there were couples who truly loved each other, they kept this a secret.
Surrender in battle was completely unacceptable, an absolute disgrace. The Spartans who surrendered often killed themselves later out of shame. Nothing mattered outside of combat, and Death in Battle was the highest honor a Spartan man could attain.
And now the Spartans are legendary, and their way of life is attractive to people, especially young men, who crave to be part of something masculine, hyper-aggressive and exclusive.
We should be the same way about our faith. Rigorous training from a young age resulting in a Christian who knows that nothing in life matters outside of the exclusive Church of God. We do not have that culture in the modern age. We have castrated men teaching their castrated sons how to be acceptable in a feminine-centric society and in an overly feminized religion.
It is frustrating to be a young man in the modern Church because there are no masculine role models to look up to. No one wants to be a part of the Church because it seems to be a social club for eunuchs.
Reject this weakness and take on the title of “Spartan Christian”: a man who compromises nothing regarding his faith and who will defend it with a barbaric, warlike ferocity as the Spartans once did.
Be a man who knows that death is honorable and surrender is unacceptable. Be a man who despises spiritual unfitness and generates positive peer pressure on his associates in order to improve them.
The Church needs men who will banish other men who remain spiritually unfit (i.e. live sinful lives).
Men should have no intention of retiring from the faith. Men should shun fleshly attachments that would make them weak or compromise their faith.
The Spartan Christian is a man who has testicles still attached, and that alone makes him a rare individual in the modern Church.
Be the Man. Gird up the loins of your Mind and go to War.
