The less specific the name of a Christian church is, the more evil it is. If your church is called something like Immaculate Southern Methodist Congregants of Christ you're probably normal but if it's called C R O S S R O A D S, you are in danger.
"To a person who is suffering, do not say: "Be patient." These are not the words that his soul needs at this moment.
To a person who confesses his bitterness to you, do not say: "Enough of your grumbling."Sometimes with one thoughtless sentence we cause more pain than comfort.
To a person who is exhausted, do not say: "I understand you." Unless you have truly walked in his shoes, unless you have gone through the same trials.
"What can I say then?" you will ask. Say: "I love you." Say: "I am here." Be silent when necessary and pray for him. And add quietly, with kindness: "And may the Mother of God be with you." Only this... "May the Most Holy Theotokos be with you." That is what you say."
St. Eumenios Saridakis
Bro's against slavery in a country where slavery's illegal and slaves are impossible to purchase. Wow. What a moral guy. Let's put him in an environment where slavery is central to the economy and slaves are cheap to buy for ten years.
For discerning women who possess any degree of erotic intelligence, the evidence that his desire have not desecrated his inner axis becomes very attractive.
The naive interpretation is that women are drawn to men who do not like them, as though female attraction is animated by neglect, emotional starvation, or some childish appetite for absence. But what is actually being perceived is that, a man whose wanting has not collapsed into psychic servitude.
A woman can feel when a man’s desire has displaced his sovereignty. She can sense when his values become negotiable, when his boundaries turn ornamental, when his presence begins to orbit her approval, mood, reply, validation, as though her recognition has become the temporary throne upon which his self-worth depends. Even though, this looks like devotion, it is still not.
A man may desire a woman intensely and still remain intact. He may pursue her, admire her, feel altered by her beauty, and still remain loyal to his purpose.
What women often call attraction to “the man who does not like them” is attraction to the man who has not abandoned himself in the act of liking her. He is not performing detachment as a strategy. He simply belongs to himself so completely that even his desire carries structure.
And that is what becomes erotic.
"hey man, how are you? I noticed you weren't at Roblox church this week..."
"yeah I've actually been going to the Catholic Roblox church. Tradition is very important to me."