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		By: Kapios		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Europe is killing itself with all these new &#039;Green&#039; laws. I think it&#039;s destroying itself faster than the U.S. It just baffles me that the car industry, air planes (anything transport), the oil tycoons are not lobbying against it. Even Pharmaceuticals are using petrochemicals. 

So many gigantic corporations are just bending over for the idiots who make the environmental laws. Even Boris Johnson is cucking out on this.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Europe is killing itself with all these new &#39;Green&#39; laws. I think it&#39;s destroying itself faster than the U.S. It just baffles me that the car industry, air planes (anything transport), the oil tycoons are not lobbying against it. Even Pharmaceuticals are using petrochemicals. </p>
<p>So many gigantic corporations are just bending over for the idiots who make the environmental laws. Even Boris Johnson is cucking out on this.</p>
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		By: Didact		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/hot-air-and-unicorn-beams.html#comment-64&quot;&gt;Johnny&lt;/a&gt;.

Yep, I saw this, I just didn&#039;t get around to answering your comment yet.

The thing is that Roosh&#039;s swings to extremes are a direct result of his personality. He&#039;s that kind of guy to begin with.

He was not as successful with women as he wanted to be, so he became a PUA and went to the other extreme, sleeping with hundreds of them.

Then he found that he was not happy with his life as a PUA because it lacked meaning and depth, so he started a neomasculinity movement and swung to certain extremes during that time.

And then he lost his sister and got saved, and has swung to extremes in that part of his life too.

I do not blame him for this. The loss of his sister was absolutely devastating to him. He has a huge hole in his life that he needs to fill. But his personality dictates that he will swing hard against everything that he once advocated, because that&#039;s kind of who he is.

Roosh&#039;s recent weirdness also seems to conveniently forget everything he used to know, such as a) women are hypergamous, b) almost no attractive women are virgins, and c) divorce court is rigged against men, no matter how &#039;Christian&#039; you are.

I don&#039;t think he&#039;s necessarily forgotten it, exactly. He&#039;s simply stopped worrying quite so much about it. This is a subtle but important change that happens when you become a Christian. I&#039;ve seen the same thing in my own writing too. I stopped screaming about how badly rigged the world is against men who want to get married and have families myself.

The reason is simple. As Christians, we recognise that the world is set against us and we simply don&#039;t want to engage with something that messed up and broken. This means that, by definition, we reject the idea of marriage as a contract between man, woman, and State, and instead focus our attentions and efforts on a covenant between man and woman with God as officiator.

This doesn&#039;t mean that we ignore the reality of the world. We simply don&#039;t focus on it anymore because worldly women no longer interest us nearly as much. We are still tempted by them - all men are - but we are better able to resist the pitfalls and traps.

That is not to say that Christians always get marriage right. They don&#039;t. Divorce rates among Christian sects are in the 40% range. But that&#039;s significantly better than divorce rates in the secular set.

I also suspect that he was never actually good at Game beyond one-night-stands. For someone now extolling monogamous relationships with godly women, he doesn&#039;t seem to be able to secure one himself.

Oh that&#039;s a dead cert. I&#039;ve argued for years that PUA skills are virtually useless for securing actual healthy successful relationships.

Hence, becoming a priest or monk at some obscure Christian monastery is his strategy for room and board for the rest of his life.

Perhaps. But you&#039;re looking at his conversion from a sceptical secular perspective. Christians recognise that celibacy and renunciation of worldly interests is a gift, not a curse. That&#039;s why it only comes to a very small number of men.

Maybe he will become a monk and check out of society completely. That is between him and God. If that&#039;s how God wants to use a broken tool, who are we to question Him?

Already, Roosh has had a profoundly positive impact on a large number of faltering believers, and has opened the eyes of many of his followers to God and Christ. He gets some of the details badly wrong, but with time and effort, he&#039;ll learn from his mistakes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://didacticmind.com/2020/08/hot-air-and-unicorn-beams.html#comment-64">Johnny</a>.</p>
<p>Yep, I saw this, I just didn&#39;t get around to answering your comment yet.</p>
<p>The thing is that Roosh&#39;s swings to extremes are a direct result of his personality. He&#39;s that kind of guy to begin with.</p>
<p>He was not as successful with women as he wanted to be, so he became a PUA and went to the other extreme, sleeping with hundreds of them.</p>
<p>Then he found that he was not happy with his life as a PUA because it lacked meaning and depth, so he started a neomasculinity movement and swung to certain extremes during that time.</p>
<p>And then he lost his sister and got saved, and has swung to extremes in that part of his life too.</p>
<p>I do not blame him for this. The loss of his sister was absolutely devastating to him. He has a huge hole in his life that he needs to fill. But his personality dictates that he will swing hard against everything that he once advocated, because that&#39;s kind of who he is.</p>
<p>Roosh&#39;s recent weirdness also seems to conveniently forget everything he used to know, such as a) women are hypergamous, b) almost no attractive women are virgins, and c) divorce court is rigged against men, no matter how &#39;Christian&#39; you are.</p>
<p>I don&#39;t think he&#39;s necessarily forgotten it, exactly. He&#39;s simply stopped worrying quite so much about it. This is a subtle but important change that happens when you become a Christian. I&#39;ve seen the same thing in my own writing too. I stopped screaming about how badly rigged the world is against men who want to get married and have families myself.</p>
<p>The reason is simple. As Christians, we recognise that the world is set against us and we simply don&#39;t want to engage with something that messed up and broken. This means that, by definition, we reject the idea of marriage as a contract between man, woman, and State, and instead focus our attentions and efforts on a covenant between man and woman with God as officiator.</p>
<p>This doesn&#39;t mean that we ignore the reality of the world. We simply don&#39;t focus on it anymore because worldly women no longer interest us nearly as much. We are still tempted by them &#8211; all men are &#8211; but we are better able to resist the pitfalls and traps.</p>
<p>That is not to say that Christians always get marriage right. They don&#39;t. Divorce rates among Christian sects are in the 40% range. But that&#39;s significantly better than divorce rates in the secular set.</p>
<p>I also suspect that he was never actually good at Game beyond one-night-stands. For someone now extolling monogamous relationships with godly women, he doesn&#39;t seem to be able to secure one himself.</p>
<p>Oh that&#39;s a dead cert. I&#39;ve argued for years that PUA skills are virtually useless for securing actual healthy successful relationships.</p>
<p>Hence, becoming a priest or monk at some obscure Christian monastery is his strategy for room and board for the rest of his life.</p>
<p>Perhaps. But you&#39;re looking at his conversion from a sceptical secular perspective. Christians recognise that celibacy and renunciation of worldly interests is a gift, not a curse. That&#39;s why it only comes to a very small number of men.</p>
<p>Maybe he will become a monk and check out of society completely. That is between him and God. If that&#39;s how God wants to use a broken tool, who are we to question Him?</p>
<p>Already, Roosh has had a profoundly positive impact on a large number of faltering believers, and has opened the eyes of many of his followers to God and Christ. He gets some of the details badly wrong, but with time and effort, he&#39;ll learn from his mistakes.</p>
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		By: Johnny		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I missed the Roosh thread, so I will post here :

Roosh swinging to extremes make me suspicious of anything he says.

His utter renunciation of Game (which he defines narrowly) strikes me as haphazard. Anyone who does a 180-degree shift is likely to do so again in the future.

Plus, what is unfortunate is that Roosh&#039;s sudden discovery of Christianity was just as Dalrock shut shop. Dalrock, as a much more mature Christian who was also in favor of Game (i.e. the broader definition of Game) might have been a good source for Roosh. Dalrock was the best in terms of proving there is no incompatibility between the red pill and Christianity. His archives are still up (for now), fortunately.

Roosh&#039;s recent weirdness also seems to conveniently forget everything he used to know, such as a) women are hypergamous, b) almost no attractive women are virgins, and c) divorce court is rigged against men, no matter how &#039;Christian&#039; you are.

I also suspect that he was never actually good at Game beyond one-night-stands. For someone now extolling monogamous relationships with godly women, he doesn&#039;t seem to be able to secure one himself.

I am also skeptical of Roosh&#039;s motives for a couple of reasons :

i) Being over 40 now, and needlessly doing things that made him infamous (and not in the way that chicks dig), means he can&#039;t sustain the PUA life anymore, even in EE.
ii) He definitely can&#039;t earn a living in almost any mainstream method anymore. Fully deplatformed, and certainly not capable of returning to Molecular Biology, he is done. Working in construction or on an oil rig are his options, at this point.
iii) Hence, becoming a priest or monk at some obscure Christian monastery is his strategy for room and board for the rest of his life.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I missed the Roosh thread, so I will post here :</p>
<p>Roosh swinging to extremes make me suspicious of anything he says.</p>
<p>His utter renunciation of Game (which he defines narrowly) strikes me as haphazard. Anyone who does a 180-degree shift is likely to do so again in the future.</p>
<p>Plus, what is unfortunate is that Roosh&#39;s sudden discovery of Christianity was just as Dalrock shut shop. Dalrock, as a much more mature Christian who was also in favor of Game (i.e. the broader definition of Game) might have been a good source for Roosh. Dalrock was the best in terms of proving there is no incompatibility between the red pill and Christianity. His archives are still up (for now), fortunately.</p>
<p>Roosh&#39;s recent weirdness also seems to conveniently forget everything he used to know, such as a) women are hypergamous, b) almost no attractive women are virgins, and c) divorce court is rigged against men, no matter how &#39;Christian&#39; you are.</p>
<p>I also suspect that he was never actually good at Game beyond one-night-stands. For someone now extolling monogamous relationships with godly women, he doesn&#39;t seem to be able to secure one himself.</p>
<p>I am also skeptical of Roosh&#39;s motives for a couple of reasons :</p>
<p>i) Being over 40 now, and needlessly doing things that made him infamous (and not in the way that chicks dig), means he can&#39;t sustain the PUA life anymore, even in EE.<br />
ii) He definitely can&#39;t earn a living in almost any mainstream method anymore. Fully deplatformed, and certainly not capable of returning to Molecular Biology, he is done. Working in construction or on an oil rig are his options, at this point.<br />
iii) Hence, becoming a priest or monk at some obscure Christian monastery is his strategy for room and board for the rest of his life.</p>
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