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The Masculine Desire for War

Weak men in the Church have a habit of denying reality. They deny the innate need of man to wage war against something – against anything – to raise his sword and utterly destroy an enemy that stands before him, even if that enemy is himself. The desire to kill is in the nature of man.

“a time for war and a time for peace.”
Ecclesiastes 3:8b

“You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms.”
Jeremiah 51:20

“Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me. Take up shield and armor; arise and come to my aid. Brandish spear and javelin against those who pursue me. Say to me, “I am your salvation.” May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame, may those who plot my ruin be turned back in dismay. May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away; may their path be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them. Since they hid their net for me without cause and without cause dug a pit for me, may ruin overtake them by surprise— may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin. Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and delight in his salvation.”
Psalm 35: 1-9

Weak men in the Church have a habit of denying reality.

They deny the innate need of man to wage war against something – against anything – to raise his sword and utterly destroy an enemy that stands before him, even if that enemy is himself. The desire to kill is in the nature of man.

The Church wants to repress the warlike nature of man in the same way they have repressed the sex drive of men for hundreds of years. They fear both because it takes away their power and control over the younger generations and over the “uncontrollable” drives of man. This is incompetence at its finest.

What happened when the Church repressed sex and refused to even mention its existence? Did it successfully suppress men’s sexual urges and increase overall sexual purity or did it cause men to push back even harder saying, “I am not listening to this blithering, the men in the Church are just as miserable as I am. I’m not waiting for sex”.

KEY: Every time the Church wants to suppress some alleged “evil”, that same evil grows even faster.

Not only does it grow, but it becomes dark and all consuming in the minds of those who suppress it until the Church loses the war against that evil. Waitingtillmarriage.org shared some data that suggested only 20% of the members of highly religious communities are successfully waiting for marriage. Does it look like sexual repression is working for the Church?

Repression does not work with sexual drives, and it will not work in subverting your warlike nature. If you are not a man who is going to engage in a real physical fight, the best you can hope for is to find a personal war into which you can channel your barbaric desire for bloodshed.

Fight your evil nature. Wage war in your work and destroy mediocrity. You must have something to fight, so make your war result in the construction of positive qualities of character.

Mantra

I Destroy whatever stands in opposition to me with strength.

Application

The internal anger you feel and the desire to go to war are incredibly powerful forces that you must channel into a constructive pursuit. If you do not channel them somewhere, they will destroy you from within. The easiest way to redirect your warlike nature is to channel it into something physical, such as training. Get your lazy, weak minded self into physical exercise. You cannot fully be a man if you do not possess some level of strength. There is no excuse for a man to be weak. It doesn’t even matter what kind of training you do, just do something. That physical training will then spill over into mental fortitude.

Wage war in the workplace. When you begin to tire and mentally accept mediocre work, call upon your aggression.

This emotion will override the desire to quit or to be lazy. When you are typing that essay for school and you want to stop, conjure your warlike nature and type as if the words you are writing are weapons. When you are exercising and approaching muscular failure, call upon your internal warlord. If you cannot channel aggression with something as simple and silly as typing an essay or training the body, you will not be able to channel it at all. Then that extreme energy will force an outlet in some unproductive endeavor like promiscuity or drugs.

Practice controlling and directing your internal energies on small tasks, and you can then easily apply it to large tasks.

References:

Mike. “4 Cool Statistics About Abstinence in the USA.” Waitingtillmarriage.org, 30 Nov. 2012.

Masculine Self-Interest

There is nothing wrong with self-interested action. Society improves by transactions of action, and those transactions are fueled by our interest in the self. Men get jobs, go to school, build careers because they want success. They want success because women are attracted to success and more women will want to have sex with them if they are a high performer. This is reality.

Is self interest positive, negative or both? Leave your comment below!

“The Lord has made all for Himself, Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom”.
Proverbs 16:4

Contrary to the popular Church dogma which informally adopts Rousseau’s idea that man is a “noble savage”, everyone is working an angle and there is no such thing as doing something “out of the goodness of your heart”. Even God made man for Himself, and we may never know the reasons why. To deny this is to deny reality.

The Bible clearly states God made man for Himself and therefore took action in His own self-interest.

If God took self-interested action by creating man, then by definition of the nature of God, self-interested action cannot be sinful (Habakkuk 1:13). This is not to say that the creation of man was exclusively in the interest of God, obviously God also takes action in the best interest of man. People have angles they are working, folks, and it’s not a bad thing.

Every bit of small talk you have engaged in has been directed towards advancing your angle. Contrariwise, every time someone engages you in conversation they are advancing their own angle as well. This could be as simple as building enough rapport with you to allow them to ask you for a favor. Or it could go much deeper, and their interest in you is motivated by money or power. Just because people in the Church are Christians does not mean they are above the petty power struggles innate in human beings.

Working angles is not always evil either. We need incentives for everything we do, or we would never do anything. In life we barter with time and money. Less known is the fact that we also barter with our actions. We are pushing agendas. We manipulate. Every action is a manipulation. Even the Latin root for manipulation means to “fill with the hand” – to use the hands to change the orientation of an object. Take some time and observe yourself in action, you will see that everything you do has some personal angle. Maybe it’s not immediately apparent, maybe you have to look a little deeper, but there are benefits to you.

Key: No man takes an action that does not have at least one benefit for himself.

There is nothing wrong with self-interested action (Here is a great article at gynocentrism.com. Society improves by transactions of action, and those transactions are fueled by our interest in the self. Men get jobs, go to school, build careers because they want success. They want success because women are attracted to success and more women will want to have sex with them if they are a high performer. This is reality.

Self-interest only becomes a problem when it inflicts suffering on others. Accept your non-sinful self interest and you will be freer and more successful.

Mantra

I accept that I have an angle. I bend the world to my will.

Application

Observe yourself and observe others today. Look deeply to understand the reason behind why they take the actions they do. Look long enough and you will find their angle. Once you find it, manipulate it to your angle. Most people are unskilled at hiding their personal agenda from others because they lack even the slightest hint of social intelligence. Pay attention to who talks to you and why. What subjects do they bring up?

If they come up and begin small talk and proceed to talk about themselves, you realize that that this individual wants attention. Do they talk about themselves in the past or present tense? Most men you encounter in the Church will talk about themselves in the past tense, especially before they had children. This is because their best days are behind them and they have to look in the mirror to see the “good ole days”. These men have had purpose sucked out of their lives and their ambition is gone. Realize that these men want attention, praise and for you to covertly tell them how “cool” they were and to make them feel special. This is how you begin to manipulate them. Slowly praise them in small ways, because you can guarantee they are not getting any praise from their wives. Ask about their past and direct them to continue talking about themselves. By the end of the conversation you have said very little and now they think you are a “great guy”. Continue employing this strategy of ego stroking and attention giving and you will have a loyal follower.

When women talk to you they will primarily bring up their kids, unless they are single and assessing your capacity for success, which is your sexual market value.

Women talk about kids because they have invested the prime years of their lives into creating new human beings, and they are very self-conscious about this. They know they are judged by their kids. Mothers, and sometimes even fathers, will determine their own self-worth by comparing how well their children are doing compared to other people’s children. This is an area of sensitivity and a good place to concentrate your manipulation. Dote on her kids. Compliment the aspects of the children that normally are not noticed or that you see the mother is working very hard to improve. Do not waste time saying her kids are “cute” or “smart” or “funny”, those are a waste of time because they are too commonly used. Attack the flank with your compliments, find ways to actually compliment the mother instead of the kid, or compliment both mother and kid in the same line. “You are doing so well raising your son, I see his behavior improving because of you every week”. Or, “You are working so hard, it is really paying off with his behavior”, and then try to cite specific examples you notice so your compliment doesn’t look like a mushy schmooze. Use your warlike tactics to dominate the social sphere.

Understand: this is not a wicked manipulation.

This is what all people do, simply not at a conscious level. These are just two examples of basic manipulations. Use the basic blueprints to build more manipulations depending on who you are dealing with. Every individual and situation is different so you will have to construct your strategy accordingly. Simply ask:

What does this person value?
What does this person want?

The answer to these two main questions will give you most of the information you need to maneuver through various social interactions. And concentrating on others outside yourself has the added benefit of reducing your anxiety, because you are no longer “living in your head”.

Make your agenda look like their agenda and your allies will be much more interested in helping you to achieve it. Rid yourself of the moralization of amoral characteristics that weak Church males force on you.

Common Church Quibble: “How dare you encourage young men to manipulate people?”

Simple: because everything is a manipulation. Take, for example the interviewer who has a celebrity guest and is asking him questions. He carefully selects questions designed to elicit particular responses. He knows that if he gets these responses he increases the chances that the video or article of the interview will go viral. If the interview becomes popular it drives more customers to his interview platform (website/video channel etc). More people on his website or reading his articles means more money for him or the company. This is a manipulation. It is not that people consciously think in these ways and purposefully go out of their way to design manipulations, but this is how we structure ourselves. Manipulations are part of everyday life, therefore, you might as well be conscious about them and use them properly.

Social Media and Men

What are you using these platforms for? Are you using them to become more of a man, or are you using them to distract yourself?

Social Media – Where the sheep come to drink from the pool of digital validation.

“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
Galatians 1:10

“For they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.”
John 12:43

“The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is on my side as my helper; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.”
Psalm 118:6-9

“But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:4

Instagram – Where the serf presents the illusion of complete happiness and of a perfect life.

Facebook – Where the monkey performs for the mirage of an interested audience.

Twitter – Where the peasantry labors under the delusion that their opinion is important.

YouTube – Where the sycophant lives vicariously through the fabricated lifestyles of others.

There are more social media platforms, obviously, but these are the big four, and they serve as examples of what we are to avoid as Men.

These platforms can be used for marketing or communication, but so few people actually use them for that.

What most peasants use them for is listed in the descriptions above. Instagram could be a site to promote product images, but most use it to deceive others about the state of their life, capturing a mere snapshot of a brief moment of “happiness” rather than the full image of a life, and then those same people draw validation from the number of “likes”.

Facebook could be a place to connect with individuals, plan, coordinate, but most use it as a soap box from which they rant about politics and believe they are right if they cross a certain threshold of “likes”. That is blind mob mentality and tacit approval.

Twitter could be a place for anything other than whatever garbage it is currently being used for.

Youtube can be used as an education platform, but the majority use it to live life through someone else, or distract themselves from their own meaningless existence.

What are you using these social media platforms for? Are you using them to become more of a man, or are you using them to distract yourself?

Is Instagram a tool, or is it somewhere you can see pictures of basically naked women with breasts hanging out everywhere? Are you using Facebook as a tool or a rant box for racial and political division? Is twitter a tool or an outlet for you to voice your current, irrelevant, unintelligent and uneducated opinion? Is YouTube a tool for amassing knowledge or a place where you waste the waste majority of your day?

Be a man. Cut social media. If you cannot cut it, make a determination to use it only as a tool, not for entertainment and porn.

Mantra

Use tools to build the life I want, not to escape the life I have.

Application

Every time you want to use social media, ask yourself if it is because you want to use a tool, or because you want to be entertained. If it is the latter, just don’t use it. Try to delete one of these social media accounts. Just one. See how you feel. Then systematically cut out the rest of the social media outlets. Make it happen.

Good Uses For Social Media Bad Uses for Social Media

Using YouTube to listen to lectures and sermons.	Mindlessly scrolling through other people’s lives (Makes $0 per hour).
Using youtube to learn how to build furniture, make knives or cook.	Comparing your life/body to others and getting depressed because you are a loser.
Use instagram to show the new book you wrote or piece of furniture you built.	Using instagram to check out naked chicks who aren’t your wife.
Use facebook to set up a family reunion	Use facebook to get into a giant fight with people on the opposite political aisle as you (I’m sure you’re changing tons of minds).
Using LinkedIn to find job opportunities, grow your connections and put yourself in a better business situation.	Use social media to stalk people you know so you can judge how they are living thier lives.

Conduct yourselves like Men.

Silence: A Tool of Men

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.”
Psalm 62:5

“But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him”
Habakkuk 2:20

Noise is around us constantly. It permeates every pore, it seeps into every crevice like a disease. Noise is medication for some. Those who cannot bear the weight of silence must fill every void with chatter or some kind. Silence is called “awkward” for this reason, people cannot handle quiet because it requires them to think. Men can handle silence. Men love and crave silence, even extroverted men. They know that tremendous power rests in silence, for in it every dark query of the mind can be answered.

Sound vibrations accomplish very little, unless you are one of the few whose livelihood depends on speech or music. Most of those individuals have not even properly mastered speech themselves, and the result is that they utter empty sounds that just take up space and the attention of men.

You, however, are a master of silence.

If you master silence then you will have a great power in your back pocket. The beta is uncomfortable in silence, because he knows that through it, others can sense his thoughts. They can smell his weakness and lack of masculinity. All of his insecurities come rushing into his mind the moment he can no longer distract himself from his insufficiency by using noise. You can know a great deal about a person based on how they deal with pure quietness.

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Mantra

None. Be silent.

Application

Sit in silence. Just for 120 seconds. Or take a walk outside and say nothing and do not look at your phone. Get comfortable being quiet, it is a great power. Through this quietness you are forced to deal with the darkness in your heart without distraction. You train yourself to be comfortable with it. This will benefit you when you need to negotiate or extract information from other people. If you ask someone a question and you can tell they only gave you a partial answer, just be silent for a moment. Most of the time, other people will crack from the lack of sound and tell you everything you want to know if you just give them a small moment of quiet. Silence is a weapon for better communication.

Conduct yourselves like Men.

Achieve as a Man by Making Everything into a Goal

It is hard for men to motivate themselves without the presence of some kind of desirable end-state goal. It is even harder for them to motivate themselves if they do not have some kind of painful punishment to avoid. For this reason you must make everything a goal, no matter how small.

Without a goal, man has nothing to aim for, and he will miss every time if he aims for nothing.

“A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul”.
Proverbs 13:19

If you are someone who likes statistics, this can be done by counting up all the tasks you have to do and converting to a percentage.

Easy, quick, and now you have visible, measurable progress on your goals. To do this, divide the number of tasks you have completed by the total amount of tasks you have to do. If you have 50 tasks and have completed 13 of them, then you are 26% finished with your tasks. 1350= 26%

The best way to make everything a goal is to try to improve at every task you are doing. Ask yourself, “How can I make this action more efficient?”, “How can I do this faster?”, “How can I get this done using less resources?”. Switch your brain from “hating your job” mode, into “problem solve” mode. Once that problem solving area of your brain is activated, you will spend less time thinking about how much you hate your job, and eventually you may become so efficient that you can switch to another job instead.

Accomplish goals. Weak boys set vague goals and don’t see them through to the end. If you make a goal, keep it, or don’t waste your time making that goal. Nothing satisfies the soul like the progress towards a goal, and then finally the achievement that goal. So make everything a goal and maximize the natural “high”.

Mantra

I will be more efficient. I will look for ways to be faster, more productive, smarter, and a more valuable person.

Application

Simple. Switch from job loathing mode to problem solving mode, as mentioned before. Constantly look for ways to improve the system, then actually follow through and improve it. Make sure your goals are as clear as glass. You will never achieve goals that are vague. Small goals count, but they must be clear. If your goal is to perfectly fold letters, that is fine, you have more clarity with that goal then most weak men have in their entire careers.

Break down every task into all of its component parts.

Start working on the most important piece first and then move on. Concentrate on completing each small part as perfectly as you possibly can. If you have to write a paper and you know it needs a paragraph of introduction, three paragraphs of body, a paragraph of conclusion and five sources of information, then write all these down in a list, or a table and check them off as you go.

	Paragraph of Introduction
	Three paragraphs of body
	One paragraph conclusion
	Five research references.

You can break these tasks down into even smaller tasks. Break each paragraph into 6-8 sentences. Break the research references down into their separate categories and then break the actual reference down into its component parts of the name of the source, title, author, date and publisher. Everything in life is achievable if you break it down into small, easily accomplished pieces.

Conduct yourselves like Men.

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