You’ve probably heard it said that faith is blind.
You might think that faith is a non-intellectual matter of the heart, as in the modern English sense of ‘heart’…
…and not in the sense of ‘heart’ that was meant when the Bible was first translated into English:
Isn’t it curious how modern English has inverted the meaning of the word and thus inverted the meaning of scripture from its original intention? The same is true of faith.
Faith is a matter of trust. Indeed, in Greek the word for faith is the word for trust. In English, we have to use two different words, and our word for faith has taken on a non-biblical sense over time. But this is what the Bible says of faith:
Confidence is the opposite of blindness and uncertainty. It is being sure about what has not yet come to pass. There isn’t anything unsure or unclear about it. Faith is about knowing that what one believes is, and being completely justified—right; correct—in that belief.
Confidence is the opposite of blindness and uncertainty. It is being sure about what has not yet come to pass. There isn’t anything unsure or unclear about it. Faith is about knowing that what one believes is, and being completely justified—right; correct—in that belief.
YES like when pro-voting ”Patriarchial” ”redpiller” trad/t@rdcons(who preach every MAN should be marrieds yet they are still NOT married nor being fruitful & multiplying)happily overlook confidant saints like Deti & even this Kiwi fellow teaching young Men the very opposite of their Matt Walsh/Ben Shapiro/Jordan Peterson Faith.
Cill says:
23 September, 2024 at 3:30 pm
The bloke at 10:41 pm: “How do you avoid marrying crazy.”
There’s only one foolproof way: don’t marry. Modern marriage is the first stage of modern divorce.
Modern marriage is a feminist=t@rdcon construct. The stated objective of feminism has always been to destroy the family. History shows that the feminist way to destroy the family is to remove the man. The easiest way to remove the man is no-fault divorce. No-fault divorce renders the wedding vows worse than worthless. There is no marriage contract. It’s a racket.
Feminism calls the shots. Feminism is the Establishment of the Western World (i.e. the Feminist World or “Biotchdom”). Feminism took traditional marriage and constructed it into feminist marriage as part of a modern system to strip a man of his assets, his children, his dignity, his life, and in the immortal words & Spirit=Soul of GBFM, his very SOUL.
Don’t fuxxing marry.
“Be fruitful and multiply”
Faith is about knowing that what one believes is, and being completely justified—right; correct—in that belief.
YES I watched the Troy 2004 Brad Pitt-starring film of the retelling of the Illiad=Trojan War yesterday on ROKU streaming & today I remembered this from 12+ years ago.
Great Books For Men GreatBooksForMen GBFM (TM) GB4M (TM) GR8BOOKS4MEN (TM) lzozozozozlzo (TM) says:
July 28, 2012 at 12:27 pm
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in william bennet’s “book of man,” he leaves out the heart and soul of western civilization. a better name for bennet’s book would have been, “the book of fanboy manginas.”
bennet ignores the central, exalted message of genesis, and then ups the ante by debauching and debasing the iliad faster than a neocon can debase a dollar to fund the perpetual warfare/welfare state. to top it all off, bennet ignores the most-decorated war veteran of all time.
completely absent from bennet’s book is the awesome work of the jews in genesis:
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
in the classical, judeo-christian, chivalric context, a man would man up as he would be guaranteed, a non-asscocked, chaste woman who be shamed out of not acting on and serving every gina tingle and butt tingle. instead of serving her butt and gina tingles, a woman would be expected to serve god, man, and family. for this, she would be honored in a civilized context.
completely absent from bennet’s book is the divine RAGE of ACHILLES–the very center and circumference of homer’s iliad. achilles is robbed of his prize and property by his commander, and so, his anger ignited, achilles quits the greek army in the first showdown between man and state. zeus sides with achilles, exalting the Natural Law that John Locke and Thomas Jefferson would someday exalt in their respective poetry. achilles rages as he reasons, “if i’m the one fighting, doing all the work, why are you getting all the rewards?” indeed, so might a marine wonder these days, if he’s taking all the risks for a few hundred dollars a month, why does bill bennet get to sit back home in vegas, gambling millions away? so it is that bill bennet is working for the fiat bankers in all his blustering books, which serve far more to debauch and desecrate–to contort and confuse–than they do to exalt and enlighten. why isn’t bill bennet telling all the army-wives to “woman up” and stp with the buttcocking adultery, and serve their men with loyalty as Yahweh commands them to, and as Penelope does in Homer’s Odyssey? It’s because bennet is well-paid in fiat dollar to hate on home and the bible.
finally, bill bennet, who “never buckled on armor nor suited up for ballte” in the words of achilles, also ignores the most-decorated general of our own era:
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“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”
In another often cited quote from the book Butler says:
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
[/quote] –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket –War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit from warfare.
Compare warrior Smedley’s words to those of Achilles, who also questions teh utility of war:
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Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, I should give you formal notice plainly and in all fixity of purpose that there be no more of this cajoling, from whatsoever quarter it may come. Him do I hate even as the gates of hell who says one thing while he hides another in his heart; therefore I will say what I mean. I will be appeased neither by Agamemnon son of Atreus nor by any other of the Danaans, for I see that I have no thanks for all my fighting. He that fights fares no better than he that does not; coward and hero are held in equal honour, and death deals like measure to him who works and him who is idle. I have taken nothing by all my hardships- with my life ever in my hand; as a bird when she has found a morsel takes it to her nestlings, and herself fares hardly, even so man a long night have I been wakeful, and many a bloody battle have I waged by day against those who were fighting for their women. With my ships I have taken twelve cities, and eleven round about Troy have I stormed with my men by land; I took great store of wealth from every one of them, but I gave all up to Agamemnon son of Atreus. He stayed where he was by his ships, yet of what came to him he gave little, and kept much himself.
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And so you see why the gambling, warmongering, chicken-hawk, mysandric, soulless Bennett is calling upon men to man up while debauching and deconstructing their heritage–it is because, at the fiat baneker’s behest, he needs the men to take all the risk, while bennet and the fiat bankers get all the rewards, celebrating their conquest of other men’s wives with the famous buttocker and secretive taper of butthext tucker max rhymes with goldman sax, who the weekly standard casts as a six-foot tall hero, repeating the butthexer’s lies, while ignoring the true, selfless heroism of those Achilles and Smedley Butlers fighting and dying on foreign shores in foreign wars.
Boxer says:
July 28, 2012 at 2:18 pm
Begging your pardon GBFM, but this is the finest bit of input I’ve ever seen you write, and one of the best I’ve ever seen on this blog (and that’s saying quite a bit). sedit qui timuit ne non succederet* … Thanks, man.
*means: if you want to make your mark, you’d better get up off your ass.
Dain Bramage says:
July 28, 2012 at 2:55 pm
@GB4M “War Is A Racket” is on my list of books to read.
Having all the information is critical to self-managing your perspective, thought, and attitude. “Dr.” Phil represents an authority whose opinions are to have more weight ( no pun intended ) than those of his guest whose scientific method is more honest and more effective in trial. What feminists/so-cons are afraid of is that this information is spreading. My question is why was it hidden and to what purpose. GB4M in his inimitable way pulls back the cover. Get others to pay retail for what was given away for free, “when they were younger, hotter, tighter,….and 40 lbs lighter.”..lolzzzololzz
“Where you paying attention Neo or were you looking at the women in the red dress?”……”Look again.”
Great Books For Men GreatBooksForMen GBFM (TM) GB4M (TM) GR8BOOKS4MEN (TM) lzozozozozlzo (TM) says:
July 28, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Thanks Boxer!
you can find a more complete, updated version here:
http://greatbooksformen.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/in-bloated-william-bennets-book-of-man-he-leaves-out-the-heart-and-soul-of-western-civilization-a-better-name-for-bennets-book-would-have-been-the-book-13/
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And so you see why the gambling, warmongering, chicken-hawk, mysandric, soulless Bennett is calling upon men to man up while debauching and deconstructing their heritage–it is because, at the fiat baneker’s behest, he needs the men to take all the risk, while bennet and the fiat bankers get all the rewards, celebrating their conquest of other men’s wives with the famous buttocker and secretive taper of butthext tucker max rhymes with goldman sax, who the weekly standard casts as a six-foot tall hero, repeating the butthexer’s lies, while ignoring the true, selfless heroism of those Achilles and Smedley Butlers fighting and dying on foreign shores in foreign wars.
Have you ever seen or heard –
”Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ”~George Jean Nathan or Pope Pius XII quoters get people like Boxer & Dain Bramage wanting/MOTIVATED to revitalize the CHRIST(ian) SOUL in Marriage, Church & Civilization as that fellow did in 2012?
i think NOT!
Democrats literally tried to steal the election by getting Trump removed from the ballot of 5 different states. They tried to cheat. Then they have the gall to complain about Republicans trying to cheat to get the election result that they want. Blah, blah, hypocrisy.
But yeah, go ahead and vote. Despite all the attempts to cheat by both major parties, surely absolutely none of it was successful. Indeed, I’m sure that your vote matters. Uh huh.
I fasted for five days. Just had orange juice and water. Daily vitamins.
I do this to test myself for potential lean times, and just to drop a little weight. Last night I was so hungry, I decided that I would end it this monring. I did. Had a bagel, tasted so good! I actually enjoyed it.
I was in a very mild delerium last night……my mind racing as I got into bed…….
surreal and strange visions of my past popped in my mind. A few I actually asked myself “did that actually happen?”
I pushed myself further, decided to think back to days and times very long ago…..
It was like a flash of rapidly changing TV channels, snippets, images of my young years as a boy in the 1970’s. I think the hunger made it easier to bring this up. Interesting how the body work with the mind.
A rapid fire of all this flowing together quickly.
Intro to the 1970’s TV show “Zoom” (PBS), my mother playing the “candy land” board game with me, riding my tricycle before we moved north to the new house in the driveway in Saratoga Springs. Heavy rain on the windshield of station wagon, wipers going full blast; dad driving with ever present cigarette in the ashtray, walking in the Mohawk Mall with my mom and had my new saddle shoes on from “Stride Rite”
NBC mystery theater theme (1973? 1974?) coming on the TV, meaning it was time for bed. Falling off the tractor at my Aunt id’s farm and cutting my leg. Terrified of the blood more than the pain. In a barbers chair for a haircut. I noticed that all the barbers chairs and shop was empty (like seven of them) except for the one I was sitting in….early mid / 1970’s many barber shops folded. Men had longer hair back then. Crossing the Western Gateway Bridge into Schenectady over the Mohawk River when it still used to stink.
Waking from a nightmare involving a skeleton, and my mom comforting me in bed, I was crying. Visiting my older brother in the hospital and the waiting room was brown, and orange in garish 1970’s contrasting design colors.
Kool Aid Man smashing through the wall on Saturday morning TV……so many more to list but you get it.
The final one…….that buzzing sound cars used to make when you opened the door while it was running. My dad opened the door to the car, the buzzing……..
Awoke, and my alarm clock was buzzing telling me to wake up
Stuff I had not thought about or remembered in what seemed like forever
Indeed.
These past few days my own dreams have been quite vivid.