Church fathers taught reading literature is a way to train your soul to receive the truths of Scripture. In my latest I discuss how reading affects us and analyze the deep distinctions between tragedy and comedy, as well as realism and romanticism.

Western Exile The Monarchist Front People will love a bad king, and excuse his flaws by blaming the ministers. They will never love a bad dictator.

Where the human mind is not fed with any doctrine at all, it is simply at the mercy of the first mean sophistry or two-penny cynical generalization that it may hear from a fast schoolfellow or vulgar employer.

David V. Stewart The upside is that our era is a great spiritual training ground. It's increasingly difficult to find meaningful affirmation through career success or romantic success. Untold many shall be "rejected and despised by men". They shall live out the Gospel in their flesh.

A bit under 2 weeks since I was rejected. Moments ago I wept more than ever since childhood. Shook like a leaf, shirt sleeve soaked in tears. Yet amid every tear and gasp I was able to thank God. For all the beautiful moments. This was my first love. And perfect in its purity.

Ascend: The Great Books Podcast Liberal arts are the arts of the free man. Foregoing them means dedicating oneself to the servile arts, those of a slave.

Super cool Catholic mass today! Novus Ordo, but the liturgy and the songs were all in Latin. And there was tons of insence. Enough to make the weaker sort cough. 💪

eugyppius Barmed Bronze Age Pervert Willingly accepting the idea that other men have sexually enjoyed my wife would be a deep form of cuckoldry. I'd rather my wife were adulterous later on, than a non-virgin when I marry her. If she's a virgin bride I'll forever be her first, and her seducer can't take that away.

Placing will before intellect kills your freedom. Makes your choices illusory and turns reason into rationalization. That's also why God's intellect comes before His will. Primacy of intellect is the foundation of God's infinite freedom, not its limitation!

Art is religious by nature. When religion and art get separated, both suffer.

According to Vision of Saint Paul, girls who defiled their virginity suffer dire punishments in Hell.

msau Dave Greene Pray for a great miracle. Social and cultural reality are against you, God is not. Be faithful to Him, be faithful to the wait.

I've been fit and unfit, poor and wealthy, rented and owned, country and city, part time and full time.... No configuration has helped me find a wife in ~17 years. A sign that good wives are fully gifts from God. You can live your life checking boxes, finding no one.

A man's measure is how long and how far he can be alone without the understanding of others. Someone who could endure being alone a whole lifetime is the furthest from the infant, and from the socializer who represents the animal side of humanity. -Kierkegaard

Dante said adolescence lasts until 25, youth till 45, age till 70, followed by decrepitude till death claims you.

I dislike how Abraham gave his wife for the Pharaoh to enjoy as he wished. A willing cuckold he was.

John Slaughter, Esq. Getting a woman may be down to effort and confidence. Getting a good wife is a grand blessing and a great gift from God. Unachievable snd unearnable by any means of man on his own.

Just went through another hard rejection. There was no other reason than that she just doesn't feel attracted to me, feels no chemistry. Rough, as I felt immense attraction, chemistry and budding love towards her. Her No to your Yes... Makes you feel like a fool and a loser.

I feel love, she feels indifference. The true opposite of love. You so hope to find warmth, but instead find a void. Tears are more than warranted.

Modernity feels so perverse I can perceive no place for myself in wider society. So marriage becomes the key way of finding a sense of place in the world. But that would require a woman's deepest affirmation.