Paul McGregor

Let's talk about good food, alt theology, lost history, top books & movies, romance, and fitness. Not sure what's next in life, but probably an adventure 🧭

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

When a man truly loves a woman, his deepest desire is to relieve her of all the fears and burdens that prevent her from being the sweet girl she longs to be, and when a woman truly loves a man, she wishes to collapse into him so she is free to be that girl. This is their purity.

[Melody Lyons @melodymlyons]

When you get engaged, you think you’re about to spend the rest of your life with your best friend. It’s partially true. More likely, you will be spending most of your days apart and reconvening as two very tired souls in the evening. And much of your efforts in marriage will be spent trying to steal time from your obligations to spend it with your beloved.

Wrongly considered, it can be a persistent grief. Rightly considered, it can become a grand romantic adventure. Either way, I find that I often miss my husband. And my hope for his eventual retirement has nothing at all to do with a life of ease but with a deep and simple desire for his presence.

[DNG Comics @dngcomics]

The most important piece of advice Andrew Tate has given to the youth

[Mingu @lowgradef]

In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

@iamcrystalmar When you called her weird 😂☠️

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Rare women require rare men, and rare men require rare women.

Outliers do not belong with non-outliers.

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

@Heavenly_Race_ This concept is more of a struggle in romantic relationships, rather than with acquaintances or even friends. We need our beloved to be in alignment more than our friends, which is where the communication breakdown occurs in expressing complexity.

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

@julieann4244 @jakozloski What do you need help with, Julie? Finding romance?

[Enjoyable Trash @Trash4Fun]

@Babygravy9 The followup?

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Always choose clean pain over dirty pain.

Clean pain is the pain of telling the truth. The pain of leaving. The pain of disappointing someone. The pain of starting. The pain of being bad at something new. The pain of saving money instead of buying the thing. The pain of going to bed while the party continues. The pain of facing the blank page.

Dirty pain is the pain of avoiding clean pain. The pain of staying too long. The pain of lying. The pain of living above your means. The pain of being known inaccurately. The pain of watching your life shrink around a fear you refuse to face. The pain of managing the consequences of cowardice.

Clean pain is often sharp and brief, dirty pain is dull and chronic.

Self-respect is paying the clean cost early.

[Trevor Lee @VoteTrevorLee]

One of the most beautiful scenes in cinema teaches one of life’s greatest lessons and on Mother’s Day, it hits especially deep.

In The Return of the King, Arwen, once immortal, is given a vision of her future son. Tears fill her eyes, not just from loss, but from the overwhelming clarity of what she will gain: the chance to hold that child in her arms, to love him, to raise him, to pour her entire being into his fleeting, precious life.

Her father warns her: “There is nothing for you here, only death.” Yet in that little boy’s eyes, she sees something brighter than eternity the vibrant, mortal miracle of motherhood. So she makes the choice. She lays down her elven immortality, embraces the Gift of Men, and accepts aging, goodbye, and eventual loss… all so she can become a mother.

Arwen didn’t just choose Aragorn. She chose motherhood. She traded endless twilight for the brightness of one mortal lifetime filled with love, laughter, scraped knees, bedtime stories, and the wild, irreplaceable joy of watching her child grow. In a world fading for the Elves, she reached for the warmth of human family instead.

This Mother’s Day, may we remember the quiet courage of every mother who has done something similar who has surrendered pieces of herself sleep, freedom, dreams, even parts of her own identity so that new life could bloom. True love, especially a mother’s love, often means choosing the finite so that something eternal can be born through it.
Thank you to every mother who said yes to the beautiful burden of raising the next generation. Your sacrifice is never unseen. Your legacy lives in the eyes of your children.
Happy Mother’s Day. 💐

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

@Rosiodonnal @CinemaTweets1 He was real good in Wheelman!

[𝔼𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣-𝕎𝕒𝕧𝕖 @etherXwave]

Civilization is crumbling. Time to speak up. 🗣️

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

@GMErectheus @swamthetiber25 Yeah, I knew I'd read this story before... Also, show me an organization that doesn't stop newcomers and try to get them to join up! The premise of this story's conclusion is shaky ground. Which is obvious to all non-catholics.

[✒️ @Literariium]

“Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or grant me the strength to bear the knowledge.”

—— Elif Shafak

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

Had this talk with the woman before she moved away...

True love is precious and rare.
Always worth fighting for.
The one you choose over everyone else on this earth. No outside influence should shake it...
Sadly, it absolutely did.
Be aware of a woman's friends.

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

This film gave one of the best advices in relationship......

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

@Mambonumfive @shedrinkswater Good insight Mick. Independent to be mature... Thanks for sharing that

[smoothie @shedrinkswater]

Most men do not understand how their ignorance regarding their woman’s friends can cost them enormously.

Women are often directly influenced by their friends; those friends can gradually poison a relationship, and neither person may even fully register it while it is happening.

Extremely intelligent women are aware of this dynamic, and they know when to cut people off and how to establish firm boundaries when it comes to female friendships. The darker dimensions of female psychology require discernment; a man must know what can threaten the sanctity of his relationship, but in many cases, if a woman is truly intelligent and inwardly integrated, she will already know this herself.

This is so consistently overlooked. People fail to see how quietly it can corrode an entire life.

These women can deprive you of the future you could have had with your man, and of the children you might have had with him, simply because she developed an irrational aversion to him and happens to be a pseudo-feminist.

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

@SovereignIM Dude, you must have also lived through this to percieve it so well... This is a huge part of my discernment of women now, after I've been with a woman who chose cowardice.

[Paul McGregor @realPaulytics]

@gioblaze0069 @PeytonElroy This is the correct response. Everything else is simply a reaction to choosing an unloving and unhealed man. Ladies, don't push back on this. Try to recieve this understanding. There is deep truth here...