Assume you are playing a game, whether a computer or pen and paper one any you get to choose if you play a villager or a Spartan. The villager has a low chance of instant death but his existence is composed of basically grinding his job until he hits the grave. The highlights would be getting married, avoiding divorce or plague-death, having children and getting a bigger home/more land or more success at the chosen grind path.
The Spartan can be killed instantly by a bunch of things, enemy soldiers, his own traitorous wife/best friend/political opponent, he owns little in the way of material wealth except a functional home and a little land and the latest in weapon technology. He has duties he can’t avoid that might also get him killed and his rewards are: not dying, surviving assassination attempts, being glorified from afar by the masses (or vilified, regardless of heroic or vile deeds) and not answering to anyone you don’t want to, though you will be put on wanted posters for defying the local baron.
Now… in a game…who do you pick?
Most people go for the heroic Spartan.
In real life?
Almost no one.
Why, oh meek-hearted friend?
The real-life timid Times are those so terrified of divorce and their own ineptitude with women that they self-label as “I’m really choosing to be sexless by choice, see, so I am not a loser” aka MGTOW aka incels.
I have nothing but respect for those who work the grind, support their families and do well by them, they are truly heroic people. But while it is an admirable trait in practical endeavours of all kinds, it is an absolute lamentable thing in metaphysical matters.
Regardless of your religion, if any, where is your sense of Justice? Of ethics? Of truth? Honour? Courage? Virtue?
Where, of timid man?
What thing or person or concept are you willing to die defending?
And if none, then what kind of man are you?
Choose sir. Choose what kind of man you are.
I have been a proper Catholic (sedevacantist) since I was baptised in 2017, and I researched it obsessively for 4 years before that, but even when I was a Zen-Agnostic, and lived more by samurai-type principles, I never turned away from a potentially deadly situation even when I was working for people whose lives were corrupt to the core. It was not about them. It was about me. And as helpful to those who hired me that mentality was for them and less so to myself, it still had a value, it still had an honour and a courage and a point. Misguided though it may have been.
That zealotry may have not been pointed in the exact best direction then, but it was not evil or wrong per se. I was more like an efficient tool that if used correctly would be a force for good and if used wrongly might help more the less good (but not for long, because my sense of justice too was not impaired, mostly).
Ultimately, the point is that regardless of anything else, I have always placed an extreme value on truth. And I really believe the world is composed of people who merely pretend to be that way, and they are the very vast majority, and a few who really are that way.
Those few are the ones who make a difference.
I might fail or not at creating a community of hardcore Catholics in Italy, but you can bet everything you own I am not doing it for any reason other than truth as best as I can see it and live it.
So.
Which character are you? And what are you doing with you game-life?
Choose your character, player one.
Assume you are playing a game, whether a computer or pen and paper one any you get to choose if you play a villager or a Spartan. The villager has a low chance of instant death but his existence is composed of basically grinding his job until he hits the grave. The highlights would be getting married, avoiding divorce or plague-death, having children and getting a bigger home/more land or more success at the chosen grind path.
The Spartan can be killed instantly by a bunch of things, enemy soldiers, his own traitorous wife/best friend/political opponent, he owns little in the way of material wealth except a functional home and a little land and the latest in weapon technology. He has duties he can’t avoid that might also get him killed and his rewards are: not dying, surviving assassination attempts, being glorified from afar by the masses (or vilified, regardless of heroic or vile deeds) and not answering to anyone you don’t want to, though you will be put on wanted posters for defying the local baron.
Now… in a game…who do you pick?
Most people go for the heroic Spartan.
In real life?
Almost no one.
Why, oh meek-hearted friend?
The real-life timid Times are those so terrified of divorce and their own ineptitude with women that they self-label as “I’m really choosing to be sexless by choice, see, so I am not a loser” aka MGTOW aka incels.
I have nothing but respect for those who work the grind, support their families and do well by them, they are truly heroic people. But while it is an admirable trait in practical endeavours of all kinds, it is an absolute lamentable thing in metaphysical matters.
Regardless of your religion, if any, where is your sense of Justice? Of ethics? Of truth? Honour? Courage? Virtue?
Where, of timid man?
What thing or person or concept are you willing to die defending?
And if none, then what kind of man are you?
Choose sir. Choose what kind of man you are.
I have been a proper Catholic (sedevacantist) since I was baptised in 2017, and I researched it obsessively for 4 years before that, but even when I was a Zen-Agnostic, and lived more by samurai-type principles, I never turned away from a potentially deadly situation even when I was working for people whose lives were corrupt to the core. It was not about them. It was about me. And as helpful to those who hired me that mentality was for them and less so to myself, it still had a value, it still had an honour and a courage and a point. Misguided though it may have been.
That zealotry may have not been pointed in the exact best direction then, but it was not evil or wrong per se. I was more like an efficient tool that if used correctly would be a force for good and if used wrongly might help more the less good (but not for long, because my sense of justice too was not impaired, mostly).
Ultimately, the point is that regardless of anything else, I have always placed an extreme value on truth. And I really believe the world is composed of people who merely pretend to be that way, and they are the very vast majority, and a few who really are that way.
Those few are the ones who make a difference.
I might fail or not at creating a community of hardcore Catholics in Italy, but you can bet everything you own I am not doing it for any reason other than truth as best as I can see it and live it.
So.
Which character are you? And what are you doing with you game-life?
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