A lot of perfectly normal, pretty women are chronically single because they’re looking for great men, when there are actually no great men to choose from.
Great men are never found, they are forged. Without a woman, the best a man can be is good. And good men are only made great through loving devotion from their woman.
Stop looking for great men, pick a good man and make him great.
I believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father;
through Him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
He came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit
was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
He suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and His kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the Giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism
for the forgiveness of sins,
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come.
Amen. 🙏🏼
Marcus Aurelius was right when he said the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Think trash and your life becomes trash. Think like a king and watch what happens.
The most quoted "there's no spoon" scene from Matrix is the most misunderstood scene.
The boy tells Neo the spoon doesn't exist.
Most people think this means "nothing is real, everything is simulation."
Wrong interpretation.
Completely backward.
The spoon exists. The child exists. The conversation exists.
What doesn't exist is the boundary between the spoon and Neo.
The separation is the illusion.
When you try to bend a spoon with your mind, you're operating from the assumption that "you" are separate from "spoon." Subject acts on object. Mind controls matter. That duality creates the impossibility.
The child figured out something neuroscientists are just confirming:
Your brain doesn't distinguish between self and environment the way you think it does. The neural networks that represent "your body" extend seamlessly into the networks that represent "the space around your body." The boundary exists in language, not in neural reality.
For example, a tennis racket becomes an extension of your arm, a race car becomes an extension of your body. The instrument stops being separate and starts being you.
The spoon bends because Neo stops treating it as external. The separation dissolves.
There's no spoon to manipulate because there's no separate self doing the manipulating.
This is grounded in science. Embodied cognition research shows your brain can map the tools and objects you focus on as real extensions of your body schema. Pianists’ brains often represent piano keys within their finger map. Surgeons’ brains can represent their instruments as extended limbs.
The Matrix scene was accidentally teaching applied neuroscience disguised as sci fi philosophy.
The real takeaway:
Stop trying to change things outside yourself. Recognize that the "outside" is a cognitive construction.
The spoon bends when you realize you are the spoon.
A divine man will always be wildly misunderstood because he does not take orders from the world, he follows only the instructions whispered into his ear by God.
The soul is not upgraded by books or by thinking or by wanting to be better, the soul is upgraded by pressure that kills everything fake in you. the way fire does. gold is not purified by being admired, it is thrown into heat until everything that is not gold burns away. and what is left is not beautiful because someone made it beautiful, it is beautiful because there is nothing left to lie. war produces poets, peace produces advertisers. collapse produces saints, comfort produces consumers. this is not an opinion, this is history. read it, and the pattern is so blatant it is stupid how anyone misses it. the best human beings you have ever met were made in the worst times, and the emptiest human beings you have ever met were made in the times that should have been the best
Niche post but I have been having sleep paralysis/ demonic sleep wake projections for a couple of years now and I used to just let them harass me and wait for it to pass, but recently I’ve been calling upon God and praying praying praying myself to sleep and nothing has worked so well. I usually can’t move or yell but I can pray through a strained voice. With God I have been able to cast them out and get up and move my body. I was so confident they were gone last night that I opened my closet to really make sure— I would NEVER do that because they usually come from over there.
Knowing in your soul that light always overpowers the darkness and having no fear because of that makes the demons flee like little children. Sleeping with the weight of a bible on my bed or my hand literally on the bible has helped. They appear big and scary but are so easily dismantled, they hate any mention of Jesus Christ.
These experiences have increased in severity and frequency when I made the choice to side with God because they’re attempting to entice me and squeeze every last drop out of me. I only fully embraced God about 7 months ago and this is the main reason why, what more “proof” could I need. His hand has always been there.