@EmilySm43 lol - I'm the villain regardless of what I do, these days not showing emotion gets you attacked the same as showing it, after a while, you stop caring.
God made sex. Man made porn.
God made marriage. Man made divorce.
God made steak. Man made Beyond Beef.
God made immunity. Man made vaccines.
God made water. Man made soda.
God made prayer. Man made antidepressants.
God's version is perfect. Always.
The most dangerous lie they told men was that being “nice” would be enough.
Nice gets you tolerated.
It does not get you respected.
In 1946, millions of men came home from war.
They had stormed beaches.
Survived artillery.
Made life-and-death decisions under fire.
The consumer economy looked at these men and saw a problem.
Dangerous men don’t make good customers.
A man who trusts his own instincts doesn’t need to be told what to buy, who to be, or how to live.
So the postwar machine went to work.
The advertising industry, the corporate structure, the suburban blueprint.
All of it was designed to convert warriors into consumers.
Trade the battlefield for the cubicle.
Trade instinct for instruction.
Trade danger for comfort.
By the 1950s, the ideal American man wasn’t the one who could survive in the wild.
It was the one who mowed his lawn on Saturday, bought what the television told him to buy, and never raised his voice at the dinner table.
They didn’t remove his teeth in one day.
They did it across a generation.
And then they called the result “mature.”
Here is what they buried.
There is a difference between a man who is kind and a man who is harmless.
A kind man has teeth and chooses not to bite.
A harmless man had his teeth removed and calls it evolution.
Women do not feel safe with harmless men.
Safety does not come from the absence of danger.
It comes from the presence of controlled danger.
A woman needs to know that the man beside her is capable of something fierce and is choosing gentleness.
That choice is what creates trust.
A man with no edge has nothing to choose from.
He is not gentle.
He is just tame.
And the system needs him tame.
Because a tame man is a predictable consumer.
A predictable employee.
A predictable voter.
His compliance isn’t a virtue.
It is a product.
The edge they told you to bury wasn’t a flaw.
It was the part of you that couldn’t be controlled.
And that is exactly why they wanted it gone.
Reclaim it.
Not to harm anyone.
But because the man who buried his edge didn’t just lose his danger.
He lost the thing that made him alive.
~ Andre Gonsalves
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@FaithfulDude10 Declaring God's blessing and protection on you right now in the Name of Jesus, Dustin. May He give you complete clarity in all you're facing brother.
@CopperCation@TheGriftReport Thanks for this. I'm with you on this one. I submitted my request for it to be reviewed and received confirmation that it was submitted. I ask in Jesus' name that He take the reigns of this case and pass His righteous judgment on it. Amen.