How to live in the World

What follows is my opinion. Do not take it as gospel truth.

1. Whatever you say stand by it don’t be a coward.

Me and my brother have a saying. “Acta non verba” which is latin for “Actions not words”. What I say here is shown also in what the Lord Jesus Christ said

“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” (Matthew 5:32)

Stand by your word. If you say you believe in [position] then you believe in [position] and then you must be willing to stand by [position]. If you face pushback for [position] then you will suffer the pushback and you must stand by it. If you are only willing to say something like support for [position] then you are not actually willing to stand by and do not really believe in [position] and instead want whatever social benefit comes from holding [position].

2. A revolution will not save you it will create more chaos.

Blessed Fr. Seraphim Rose is quoted as saying;

“Christ is the only exit from this world. All other exits – sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence – are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of many who have tried them.”

I see it throughout history that revolutions often fail. Liberal revolutions, of which most revolutions fall into always bring more violence until eventually someone goes a little too far for the culture that the revolution has taken place in and now nobody wants to outdo them. Communist revolutions are the most “successful” historically but they always bring starvation of the people and the mass murder of dissidents. Rightwing revolutions are rarely seen. Fascist revolutions have always failed, and most “successful” fascist governments (Italy and the Third Reich), obtained power through legal means. The revolutions attempted by fascists always and are put down. The only exceptions I can think of are odd and don’t really count as fascist. A libertarian revolution is something you don’t really see. Mostly because a revolution based around creating a limited government fails during the part of filling a power vacuum which favors strength and often leads to military dictatorships.

In the end revolutions means chaos. The best way of fixing a system is to create a backbone that allows for the next generations to go in and fix the system. This is not easy and will take a while. Ultimately the current generations of people having kids (millennials) are aging and are not having as much kids as they should to continue their legacy, and pass on their values. More on that later…

3. The jq is true but don’t obsess over it as continuous feeding of that causes insanity.

Lets assume that the “Jewish Question” is true and I do think it is true. What does that mean? What can you or I do as normal citizens? We do not carry the power to change it as we are likely not apart of the ruling class. What the JQ being true means is that there are systems in place which are attempting to enslave you to them and in order for us to resist them you have to not participate and or only participate as much as is not contradictory to Christianity and as necessary. I will admit that that piece of advice tracks for more things than the JQ being true but I think its true so I it in put here.

Why shouldn’t you obsess over it? Just to make it clear? The more you start to feed the paranoia with pieces of information that are true but are scary to think about the less responsibility you place on yourself to do something and the more powerless you feel. Don’t take too many red pills as when you do that you’re vulnerable to being tricked into following something that is actually awful or buy into actually braindead ideas.

4. Don’t take out debt you can’t get out of.

I’d actually argue that depending on the circumstances student debt isn’t a bad thing. If you’re going to college for something useful that once you get out of school you’ll be able to pay off the loan then you have nothing to lose. If you’re going to college for a degree that is useless and only lands you a job making only slighty or exactly the minimum wage then you’ve just sold yourself into slavery.

If you can’t afford something don’t buy it. That sounds like common sense. Be frugal. Money is something to be saved and spent when necessary. Car loans, extensive mortgages, buy now pay later, and other such stuff are awful things to involve yourself in and condition you to treat money as something to spent and that you can have it all now. Now now now!

5. Don’t vote for the lesser of two evils.

One of the key things I will be doing in 2028 will depend on how J.D. presents his platform. If he presents his platform as Trump 2 I will not be voting for him. If he presents it as trump fully realized then I will be. That does not mean I will be voting for the democratic candidate as anyone they would put there would be awful. If the Libertarians nominate another democrat who likes guns I will not be voting for them either. I will write in “None of the above” in. If enough people do it then they’ll have to change their positions eventually to match what people actually want.

6. Get married and have kids.

Apart of point 2 is that we likely will not be the people to fix the system. A hasty fix (see point 3) will result in awful results. As such we have to get married and have kids and we have to raise them well. Make compromises in luxury to do so.

You may say that the woman of today are horrible and I will agree that a lot of them are not even material you would want to be friends with let alone be wed to. However a counterpoint I can add is that I have met and been friends with good woman. I have seen them I have met them. They can be hard to find. I don’t think woman are as liberal as many claim they are. I started to think that way back when I had to attend college every day and the women around me were indeed very liberal. However when my classes moved to being online only or if they were in person they were male dominated classes the women I started interacting with were a lot more of the better sort of women. The kind you might want to be wed to or be friends with, if that’s possible. I think a lot of women just express views that they think people around them will like. So a lot of it is finding a women who is not completely subjected to or is not subjected to that line thought.

7. Trust in God above all else.

The parish I attend had a guest priest came and give a talk about a lot of different things. I do not entirely remember if he had said this during the talk or during the homily at liturgy the next day and neither do I remember if he was referencing someone else or not. However all things are from God. Give thanks to God for that. Its all for the Glory of God at the end of the day. When the times get rough simply pray Lord Have Mercy and trust that God will work things out. When more is required of you, say you’re in a bit a rough patch financially but you know that you’ll be out of it in a week or two then trust in God that he will help get you through. Don’t lose sight of that and get caught up in the weeds of- everything.

In the foul mists of the world and its lies. This is not it. There is something more. What God has intended is his will and may his will be done.

8. Work a good job and respect yourself in the work.

Far too many people try and justify themselves and will say that they work a meaningless B.S. job that does nothing. Often these people work in the service industry. Other times they’re government contractors. There are some cases where a job is “meaningless” or “B.S.” but you’re still getting paid at the end of the day so who really cares. With that being put out there first I will now say with the most amount of conviction I can: whenever I have approached my “meaningless” job with the attitude of doing the bare minimum, punching in and punching out, ensuring that we’ve reached what equates to a C-, I have never felt more unmotivated to live. Its that case with my schooling and working on various assignments and projects there. If your goal is a C- you might reach it but then again if you know you are capable of reaching an A you have to at least try. I have shot for an A and I have gotten a C. Yet I felt proud that I tried. Not in prideful way just accomplished which is a better way to say this. When I show up I know what is required. Get this amount of this thing requested for this customer here and I could do just that. If I did what you they end up with is a big mess that looks like crap. Alternatively I could make it presentable. And I feel accomplished in that what I am doing as it has value to the customer and isn’t just their meal for a time. Do that. Take that kind of pride in your work. Whatever it may be.

9. We are of one race, the Christian race, but of many ethnicities and nationalities.

The word race here is based on several prayers I have heard and read that use either race or people interchangeably but it means the same thing as before. I am a Christian, an Orthodox Christian but if you wanna focus on genes or ethnicity I am a mess of mostly Ashkenazi and something from the British Isles.

my dad is 100% Ashkenazi (no “good” rabbi would consider me a Jew because my mom isn’t) and my mom is mostly from all over the British Isles (mostly Scottish and Irish) with some other European genes thrown in there for good measure.

Regardless I am more related to someone in Nigeria who has partaken of the same Eucharist I have than I am to an someone of my same racial background who denies Christ. With that being said I am still not a Nigerian. I’d rather say I am an American than anything else but today it is hard to do that. Still I consider myself an American, I was born here and I have not been to the old world. We are one race the Christian race, that Nigerian is my brother in Christ but we not countrymen. Still though that fact of shared religion supersedes wherever nationality and ethnicity may differ.

10. Preserve your family and your family history.

So many times have I seen the baby boomer generation and their children the millennials not care about their families history or about their family. The family to a lot of them is only a thing to be done for a time. The boomers had kids to appease their parents and they taught their kids that children are a burden. They forgot their family homes and moved across the nation splitting up the family. As a result children were and are being raised in a way that has not been seen in healthy societies.

You should live as close to your parents as possible and take care of them in their old age. You shouldn’t sale your property to someone (assuming you can get property in this day and age) to anyone outside of your family. Have a home and a whole family as best you can, and do what you can to preserve it. Do not forget about your families history. If you have it, preserve it. Remember it. The wrongs are wrongs in the past and of course forgive whoever wronged your family but where they came from, such as the origin of your family’s name and why you’re called by that, ought to be collected and taught to your children.