Even "Better Bachelor" advises his fellow red-pillers, that if you want to raise a family,

either find a conservative young woman (unsullied by the bs) or go to the orient, or to the ukrain.  But he even said, "you'll have to live over there."  Oh wait, wasn't there just something in the news about some trouble in one of those foreign countries?  But if there isn't a war fixing to break out, still, in some of those nations, do NOT forget that you might need to fill a bucket before 8 or 9 pm, because in some places, at some times,  that's when the water gets shut off - and in your smallish apartment, if you need to use the facilities during the night...  Meanwhile, here in America, we only concern ourselves with filling a bucket when weather-planet is warning of a nasty storm - that is, those of us who do not have generators.

Anyway, BB was advising men to focus on making money, and making retirement at 40-something a goal - and so, not have to worry about getting a job in the county where you plan to live (guess young wifey can keep slogging off to her's...eh?).  What BB did not mention about living abroad was a certain problem faced by some ex-pats, who after many years, had no choice but to return home to america.  Health care.  

The main focus of Better Bachelor's video was, of course, his pro-forni socio-politics.  Basically, what he was saying was: make plenty of money, enjoy your hobbies, and have some "bedroom  fun" here and there.  I.e., it's okay for guys to be "lovers of their own selves" - after all, you love who you love...right?  For sure, because he about starts off the video thumbs upping the fact of not having to provide for anyone else, but your own sweet self.  Boy, doesn't that single statement describe red-pillism to a T!  

Oh wait, there's yet one other problem ahead for members of the the pro-fornication party - and it's a big one.   It's called the Lake of Fire.

"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."  Jude 1:7

"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy," 2 Timothe 3:2

In her early 80s, the woman still worked - for real - at her home-based business.

Beautiful place.  It's a local health and wellness venue.  She teaches things like nutrition.  One thing, among others, she said that she's had clients - recommended to her, by their doctors - who wanted no parts of chopping, slicing, or dicing veggies.  So much easier to call up grub-hub, i guess.  

Anyway, the amazing thing is, the woman supplements heating her beautiful home AND part of her business with firewood.  Yes, the 80-something woman loads the logs on a cart or dolly and brings them in.  She owns several acres, some of which is forest, and the wood - there's stacks and stacks of it - is stored outside, just everso.  

From what i gather, while she likely had someone come in and fell the trees, atleast some of the splitting, she had done herself, using a good and safe quality log splitter.  And then, over the years, stacked those 8 foot squares that are 4 feet high, neatly stacked that air flows around each log, and so, it won't turn nasty.

All that firewood, sounds like, number one: the Lord's Grace - to make possible the good planning on her part.  After all, she is in her 80s, and somehow, i doubt that she's been splitting cords of logs.  All that firewood.  Think some years back, she had been looking ahead, to a time when even a lifetime of healthy eating (and alot of Scripture) would only carry so far, in this natural, but fallen, world. 

Lovely place, and probably paid for, years ago.  Yep, that's just one of the blessings of living separate from the world that's ever  blowing it's money on stuff that never lasts, (cigarettes, lottery tickets, beer, fast food, cable tv,..) and peer-pressuring one another to keep running up the plastic, in pursuit of the same.  

Young people don't like us boomers? Oh, wonder why!

First off, we flipped the bird to our post -victorian elders, and not only that, we shook our skank right in their face (during Thankgiving dinner and other such times, when it really wasn't the time or place to discuss our weedism/marxism/gayism or whatever other weirdoism...ugh).  At the very least, can ya spell TMI (not the nuke plant in Pennsylvania)?   And not only that, we chided, if not totally made fun of, our parents for having  been born and raised post-victorian - like their birth year was something they could choose? 

Anyway, per a google news article, young people are upset with boomers' financial advice, because, frankly, it's not only outdated, but smug as all get out!  One young person's comment was so right-on - the individual had, in so many words, stated that cutting out the iced coffee, and whatever other little (AM) luxuries will save you what? like $500? -  yeah, that will go a long way.  Another young person made the comment that when boomers were young, gas was like .15 a gallon.  Okay, that might be an exaggeration,  but i remember the premium for .65.  Btw, what i drove probably took regular, but back then, didn't know any better, thought gas was like hamburg - only bought the good kind ... ya know, that ole post-victorian influence.

Anyway, why should some thirty-something, slogging it off each morning to a ... ugh, job - one that might not be there next month, or the month after, or the one after that - wait, on bated breath for the next unsolicited installment of boomer "wisdom!"  And ssso patly imparted by some old broad (with a butch-cut - of cccouurrse) who, Number One hasn't paid a mortgage for...some years, has plenty of moolah stashed in the bank, and Number Two doesn't have to (hmmph) work for a living - oh bells no!!!

The unasked for advice is, at worst, highly insulting - of course, it is; name of the game, baby!  Hear boomer tell, it's like mr. (or ms.) millennial hasn't bothered to tighten his belt.  Bull dinky!  And furthermore, the individual, driving in the early morning ice and slop, still needs to breathe.  That $3.95 refreshment in the pretty cup - with a non-slip lid - packaged with a straw, cream and a napkin...in a cutsie bag, a little oasis of certainty in uncertain times.

  

About 15 years ago, read a statement from C.S. Lewis, and yeah, his writings

aren't Scripture, but Lewis's writings sure lead me to the Bible.  At the time, i wanted no parts of thundering (southern) preachers who preached the whole council of the Lord (KJB).  Became interested in  C.S. Lewis, because he was an intellectual, a progressive sort of person - not like those crusty old Baptist preachers :)  Oh, but guess what!  Lewis also believed the Bible, as it is.  In one of his writings, he had quoted something that Paul the Apostle had said about, per the Lord's power - and not Paul's - being able to save "some of you."  (Had to google - it's in 1 Corinthians 9:22)  Anyway, it was THAT Scripture which paved the way to me listening, preferring the sermons written by crusty old KJB preachers.

Anyway, in starting this post, the statement that Lewis wrote, goes along something like this: if you're having a struggle fitting in with the world, it could be because you weren't meant to fit in with the world.  So, in other words, it's okay to not be just another borg.  

Godda get to work now ... uhm, doing a good  and thorough job IS Biblical.  Bye :)

"To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." I Corinthians 9:22

So, this thread started about three years ago, when at work, a woman, whose husband,

i guess ... oh, take a look around, decided that patriarchy was too much like responsibility.  So, the couple divorced.  She said, she felt like a widow.  Per the last post, i am very glad that the Lord chose to not label divorced women as such in His Word, but instead, women trying to raise their kids without a husband, were called widows.

Oh wait, in the New Testament, there was a divorced woman.  She lived near Jacob's well.  She probably was divorced by atleast one of her husbands - she'd been married five times, and when she met Jesus, she had presently been shacked up with a guy.  So, it stands to reason, that she had about "hit the wall."

Did Jesus make cat quips at her?  Nope.  

She had come to the well for water, but had left the pot sit, because she had come away with Real Water.

"The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come see a man, which told me all things that ever I did : is not this the Christ?" Mark 4:28-29.

Speaking of divorced women, surely there were divorced women in Bible days.

After all, did not several of the pharisees pop that question to Jesus?  "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" Matthew 19:3b.  Jesus, of course, who knows the rotten deceitfulness in the pharisees' - and mine and your - heart, shut their business down, starting with a "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife : and they twain shall be one flesh?"  Matthew 19:4-5

So evidently, back then, there were divorced women - but no county domestic relations offices, for these moms, left in a lurch, with no way to provide for their children - who were also dumped!  Yeah, yeah, i know, in patriarchal societies, the departing dad had automatic full custody of the kids.  But if his girlfriend didn't want them around...

Anyway, aside of Queen Vashti, cannot recall of any other divorced woman in the Bible.  So, the only thing i can gather is, the women and children left behind, were called "widows and orphans."  

Sounds like just one more, out of the many mercies the Lord bestows on women.  Seriously, even today, in our "enlightened" times, there is still reproach cast upon divorced woman - and certainly, more so in the past.  Cat-lady jibes and all - even if the only thing the wife did to "cause" the rift was having put on twenty pounds, after fifteen years, and three kids.   By the way, it's usually the wife who cooks the meals - even when she isn't hungry.   And we all know, the most effective way to get and keep control on weight is simply this : steer clear of the kitchen - period!

NO, this post is not about porking out, this is simply a fact of life - women usually put on a few pounds over the years.  Those 10 or 20 pounds, might be another form of the Lord's mercies.  As women age, our bones become weaker.  By the way, some padding around back can mean the difference between a sore can for two days (from slipping on the ice) and a cracked or broken tail bone.  

Hey, Ryan RedPill, Queen Vashti refused to appear at that party,

because, when her husband's order had come through, he and the guys had been drinking for several days.  Uh-uh!  Oh, and by the way, Queen Vashti - to the best of my knowledge - is the only woman, mentioned by name in the Bible, who had been "dumped" for a younger "virgin" honey.  

Yeah, isn't it also strange, these red pill dudes tend to be single, and yet, they outright make fun of single women.   Anyway, he commented over at chur[l]chain-bubbleland.com, a recommendation that his fellow (single) redpillers seek foreign virgins.  

Well, that can be a problem.  First off, the cultural/language differences.  She's over there, you're over here; it takes time - for two people in the same town - to get to know the other well enough to even begin to trust that person.  And what about family?  Big, big thing in some cultures ... dude, two years into the marriage, you might be forking out some serious money...because, well, Yuki's kid brother messed up again - yep, that's her little brother.