Quote: (05-24-2019 12:26 AM)Trumpian Wrote:
It's kind of rich to see some of you older, already settled down guys cheering this on. You already had your pussy carousel phase, and now that your lifestyle is actually somewhat in tune with your religious dogma - you're mandating the young guys who haven't had much experience yet skip that whole phase.
Hypocrisy of the highest order.
It was similar hypocrisies which made me abandon the faith. I don't regret my decision.
TLDR; Unless you married your highschool sweetheart with your virginity still intact, shut the fuck up. You didn't walk the talk. You're living it now because your age (and probably low-T) has made the player lifestyle undesirable for you now. There was no sacrifice made or discipline involved. You're a last minute monk. If there is a God that holds these (impossible) standards for mankind, he isn't fooled.
Between what Roosh has been through from both the media and various governments over the last few years, and reading this thread today, I wouldn't blame him for deleting everything and wiping his hands of all of you. He doesn't 'owe' you anything, and, as you're proving, your love is entirely-conditional: he has to conform to your expectations or you'll throw a tantrum and reveal your ugly face of entitlement to him. It's really no different to the Leftists whining over the ending of their stupid dragon show not conforming to their personal headcanon.
Incidentally, this is why Abba is guiding Roosh through the Purgative Way and forcing his hand to make these kind of hard decisions. All these old attachments need to be stripped away, often brutally, particularly when it comes to reducing the cognitive dissonance gap between one claiming to love God versus one's actual displayed behaviour: for in that gap lies the dead-eyed madness of the Leftists, or the screaming hyper-judgmental hypocrisy of the Christian Zionists. It usually plays out by learning to choose what is uncomfortable, difficult but True (usually sensed by Infused Reason) over the comfortable lie of easy pleasure that most people numb themselves with.
This stripping away is how The Father encourages you love Him as He deserves to be loved, and not purely for His positive gifts. As such, Roosh can't lose your loyalty, for he never had it to begin with, but by bearing that loss with a continued commitment to faith, he will be rewarded with deeper Knowledge of the Father.
If you think what you can offer can possibly compete with
that, then, well...
keep on pushing it.
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Roosh, trust in Him and keep going. If you're loyal to Him, you'll be eventually-rewarded with the inability to pray or meditate, which will initially seem like you've been abandoned by him, but you're being called forward into the Prayer of Simplicity. When that happens,
but not before it happens, read this book. The way forward has been mapped out by hundreds of years of Contemplative Saints and Religious, but Abba has to lead you into it. It's a fantastic work, because it points out how to tell genuine mystical experience from illusion. If he leads you from there into Supernatural Prayer - which is what your experience with the mushrooms touches on but is entirely-possible to reach without chemical enhancement - it's the work you'll need to understand what is happening.
The Graces of Interior Prayer
That's a PDF of the third edition, whereas I have a hardcover of the 2nd Edition from 1912, but it seems much the same.
Incidentally, the books I mentioned in the Orthodox Thread were exactly the right books to put me at ease when I could no longer pray, and somehow I was guided to them by instinct (in early January) before I knew exactly why I would need them, (towards the end of February).
Trust and let Him work.