Islamization of our world has been the most expansive bloody colonialism project in history and it is still going on today!
Map only shows fraction of global Islamic conquest excluding many Asian countries that used to be Buddhist or Hindu and Iran that used to be Zoroastrian!
My biggest issue with PlayStation moving away from physical games isn’t just “I like discs.”
It’s competition.
Digital was sold as convenience: no store trip, no packaging, no waiting. Cool. But it was never cheaper. Physical has almost always been where the deals are because retailers compete, run loss leaders, clear stock, and there’s a second-hand market.
Remove physical and you remove all of that.
No borrowing a game from a mate. No resale. No trade-ins. No preowned copy for someone on a budget. No EB/JB/Amazon/Big W fighting over who has the cheapest launch price. No real alternative storefront.
Just PlayStation Store, PlayStation’s price, PlayStation’s rules, and PlayStation’s cut.
That’s not just “the future.” That’s anti-consumer and anti-competitive.
Convenience is great. A closed market where one company controls access, pricing, licensing, and availability is not.
I completely understand where you’re coming from, but for a lot of gamers physical discs are the only way they could afford to play games because they could get them secondhand. You can also give games to your younger siblings Which is a great way to introduce them to the games you were playing.
Most importantly though, as we saw from PlayStation this past week, if the media we buy is only digital, it can be taken away from us at a moment’s notice with no recourse. Imagine that, one day your entire library of games could be deleted overnight because technically you don’t own it.
My spouse saying to the four year old about his brother, "He is telling you about it because he's excited, not because he thinks you don't know." And that, my friends, is also a lesson I need to hear.
"I'll never force religion on my kids"
First of all you can never possibly be a Christian and say that, secondly Christianity is not a religion and finally you can never know Jesus Christ and you allow your kids "find their way" in today's society.
We are PRIVATE citizens, the government should know very little if anything about us at all.
They are PUBLIC officials, we should know damn near everything about what they are doing.
The cameras are pointed the wrong way.
Call me crazy, but I don't think life was meant to be commuting for 2 hours a day, working 40 hours a week, being told exactly when you can eat, when you can take a break, then getting 2 days to actually live before doing it all over again.
Not every repeated correction from your wife is nagging.
Sometimes it's charity.
A wife is not virtuous because she silently watches her husband become lazy, disorganised, intemperate, harsh, passive, prayerless, unreliable, or addicted to comfort.
She is not a better wife because she smiles while his word becomes worthless.
She is not more submissive because she refuses to oppose his vice.
A good wife wants her husband’s good.
And his good is not his comfort.
His good is virtue.
So if she says:
“You said you’d do this.”
“You keep putting this off.”
“You’re on your phone every night.”
“You’re getting harsh with the kids.”
“You haven’t prayed with us in weeks.”
“You keep avoiding this conversation.”
“You’re not following through.”
…your first move should not be, Why is she nagging me?
Your first move should be:
Is she opposing something in me that actually needs to die?
That question will make a weak man defensive.
But it will make a serious man examine himself.
Correction is not rebellion
A wife correcting her husband’s vice does not overthrow his headship.
She is not “usurping authority” because she names a real moral disorder.
She is acting as a wife.
A helpmeet is not a mute spectator. She helps him toward the good. And sometimes help sounds like warning, opposition, reminder, protest, even rebuke.
Of course, she can do this badly.
She can correct with contempt.
She can exaggerate.
She can repeat herself from anxiety rather than charity.
She can weaponise truth to wound rather than heal.
That must be addressed.
But don't hide behind her imperfect delivery to avoid the truth she is carrying.
Many men do exactly that.
They make the whole conversation about her tone because they don’t want to face their vice.
“She shouldn’t have said it like that.”
Fine.
But did she tell the truth?
Did you say you would do it and fail?
Did you drift again?
Did you make her carry what you promised to carry?
Did your sloth, avoidance, or disorder create the very correction you now resent?
Then receive the correction like a Christian man.
Not like a sulking boy.
When her correction becomes nagging
There is still a difference between charitable correction and nagging.
Charitable correction aims at your good.
Nagging aims at pressure, control, or emotional discharge.
Charitable correction is ordered by reason.
Nagging is often ruled by anxiety or resentment.
Charitable correction names the fault and calls you upward.
Nagging circles the fault endlessly and makes the home bitter.
But here is the trap:
Men often call it “nagging” before they have done the moral work of discerning whether she is right.
That is cowardice with a masculine accent.
A husband should be able to say:
“Your tone was sharp, and we can talk about that. But you’re right: I have been unreliable here.”
That sentence would save many marriages.
Because it separates two issues:
- her manner
- and your fault
A weak man collapses them.
A virtuous man distinguishes them.
Your wife should not have to become your conscience
There is also a deeper shame here.
Your wife should not have to drag you toward ordinary virtue.
She should not have to remind you to pray.
She should not have to beg you to finish basic duties.
She should not have to supervise your screen habits.
She should not have to keep calling you back from sloth.
She should not have to become the voice of responsibility in the home.
When she does, you may resent the sound of her voice.
But the deeper problem is that you have stopped listening to the voice of conscience.
So God uses the person closest to you.
And you call her annoying.
Be careful...
The correction you keep dismissing as nagging may be one of the mercies God is using to pull you back into order.
I would only tell a man's daughter one thing, that most men are profoundly lost, frightened creatures who do not understand themselves, let alone you. they arrive with their needs poorly disguised as affection and they are so sturdily convinced of their own sincerity that they will fool you for months, sometimes years. and this is not because they are evil, it is because they are unfinished. and unfinished men do terribly stupid things to the women that love them and then stand there baffled at the wreckage, as if some other man inside them did it all. that so the one thing i would tell her is this, you will not be able to tell the unfinished ones from the finished ones by their words. you can only tell by what they do when they are angry, or tired, or scared. that is where you see what you are actually working with
Good people have high levels of empathy, but once that empathy is exhausted, they switch to a state of objective observation. They see you for exactly who you are, without the filter of their love. This is why their anger feels so cold, it is the absence of the warmth you took for granted
Back in my day we had to keep our blazers on unless the teachers gave us permission to take them off. And if we were in a French lesson our teacher made us ask in French.
There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love:
“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”
I used to criticize people who were devoted to their Christian faith.
Those who never wanted anything to do with secular music, random relationships and so many "normal" things an average human does all the time.
I thought they weren't free, that they are living in set out rules that are complicating their lives.
Not until i fell into deep struggles and was looking out for hope. That is when i encountered Jesus Christ.
I was lost, empty and wandering down a terrible path society told me to follow. I thought i was living in freedom, but my life was heading to death.
I was deep in lust and addictions, it almost ruined my life, but Jesus pulled me out of that pit.
Now i understand why they had to live that way. This is a life of peace and not every human can boast of it. Knowing Jesus is like holding an answer sheet next to your question paper.
My life changed entirely, and now I'm living clean with peace and understanding. Now all i want to do is protect my peace by all means, by rejecting whatever society presents.
I'm afraid I've become what i once criticized 😩