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Masculine initiation, a 3 stage model for all men:
1. Son who is given form and planted by the father. He must learn obedience. Also, humility, alacrity, receptivity to the external world and appropriate authority.
2. Initiation, the crucial stage: An encounter with...
@Sachinettiyil
Interesting that the Carthusians, one of the great ascetic religious orders, originated in France, and there motto is:
Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.
The Cross is steady while the world turns.
@Culture_Crit
Through technological advancement, we became more and more separated from the work itself, and there became less and less a need for real craftsmanship. When a man is at his work, he will want to do it well because it is a reflection of him and his beliefs. When a machine does
@0xAlaric
Sexual morality secures the sanctity of marriage and thus family.
It's one thing to have flings, which has always gone throughout history. It's a whole other thing for the cultural mainstream to celebrate sexual immorality.
@Culture_Crit
We think form ought to fit function, which may end up placing efficiency over beauty.
But then again, there is NY's Grand Central Station:
@Inversionism
There's no acceptable amount of innocent death. This is why modern warfare is so problematic. There's no honor when the fighters cannot be separated from the innocent.
@TheFP
@Olivia_Reingold
The cover photo speaks volumes about the message. We’ve idealized romance on the side of the man and the women AND we have utterly devalued romance and the man/woman. The result is the counterintuitive idealistic reduction of women to their bodies as in the photo and the
@WallStreetSilv
Not to assume too much, but one reason women remain single and unmarried is they are having sex with men. They've bought the lie that short-term attention is worth it, but then they are not encouraging men to commit.
@Culture_Crit
The Bible, but apart from the Bible, Plato’s Republic for the following ideas:
the existence of the soul, the ideal of awakening to truth (cave analogy), the idea of the ordered polity, the hope of knowing truth, beauty, and goodness.
@LifeNewsToo
Self-obsession is a poison for many in our culture, blocking them from true happiness. Those suffering from it often discover too late and never know the joy of giving one's life away for another, which is our true purpose.
@JamesLucasIT
I love this. We need so much more of this in our tech-infested world. This is real human work, work of the mind, heart, and hands. A gift.
@Alicia_Bittle_
Right. A man's call to love is expressed in fatherhood (pictured) most powerfully. He masters himself so that he can protect, provided for, and establish others in a full life.
Friends, I've been out for weeks now. My wife is pregnant with our fourth. She gets very ill with pregnancy. What a sacrifice women make!
Her illness during this pregnancy has been worse this time around, despite all signs being positive of the health of the baby. Many know
@Sachinettiyil
A little later from the same passage: “Oh! how shall I find rest in Thee? Who will send Thee into my heart to inebriate it, s that I may forget my woes, and embrace Thee my only good?”
@Culture_Crit
We have forgotten the differences between men and women, and in particular for my work, how to initiate boys into men.
We have forgotten what it means to be both a father and mother, and how these are the highest purposes of man and woman.
@Culture_Crit
Certainly a strange way of pushing back against communism. The freedom of expression exemplified by abstract art is so extreme. The rigidity in communist art is so extreme.
Undercontrolled vs. Overcontrolled
Maybe they stem from the same root: loss of the transcendent dimension
@PrayTheRosary12
Oh man! That's the white-washed version!
There's a better version that's more direct and powerful:
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee, and I detest all of my sins because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because I have
@trad_west_
The idea of male privilege comes out of envy. Some become obsessed with what men are capable of, resent it, and lose sight of what even they can bring to the table.
@ChivalryGuild
This is a good post to think through and highlights it’s not an either/or. I’m convinced the Church is the model wherein the individual can be respected while being taken up into communion with God and others.
@Culture_Crit
Such a moving experience when I walked through St. Peter’s. The church creates an experience like none other. Highly recommend visiting and taking it in silence.
@ZubyMusic
@freyaindiaa
Not to mention that many sensible men wouldn’t even consider a radically left woman as a viable option in the dating pool. They just aren’t going to be able to function in a healthy relationship.
@goinggodward
Yes. Thinking about this maybe another phrase for “spiritual homosexual” is narcissist? The man who can only love himself and not another different from him.
@creation247
@Culture_Crit
Yes, let’s apply crude reductionistic standards of measurement to everything, including the most beautiful things we have: women and cathedrals. ; )
@Culture_Crit
Didn't realize this would blow up the way it did, so I feel compelled to add:
More centrally, I believe we stopped because we have fundamentally lost faith in God. We are no longer reaching towards Him and reflecting His beauty with our lives and our work and our structures.
@Culture_Crit
If you know how bad it can get, there's no motivation to revel in darkness, like death metal, but you are grateful for the good in your life, even if to others, it looks like very little.
@0xAlaric
This sounds strikingly similar to Marx’s error - confusing all human hierarchies with ones based on force and violence.
The reality is that a few may be that way, but they are the worst ones. Human hierarchies are built on competence. You rise by being competent not violent.
@alifarhat79
Get married to a woman with conservative values, build a family, educate your kids in the ancient truths, prepare them with courage for the intellectual battles of our age, grow old with your wife and loving your kids and grandkids. Rinse and repeat.
@Culture_Crit
Hard to imagine pulling this off when the most I've done with stone is slight modifications with a masonry chisel to adjust retaining wall block.
The conscientiousness and time this must have taken is mind-blowing.
@AncestorAligned
Certainly agree. Mother’s work is highly difficult, but her value is so much deeper than that. She is the contemplative heart of the home whose fruitfulness is in pondering and passing on her contemplation to her children and others. There is no home without her.
@ChivalryGuild
I was recently reading a biography of Tillman by Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory. Impressive man. What struck me especially about him is he seemed immune to negative thinking. He was supremely confident without arrogance and assumed he would be successful in whatever he did
@bethecreed
Many probably know this, but hide the right side of Christ's face in this painting and you get "mercy." Hide the left, and you get "justice." He is the King of both.
@sometherapist
I think the center of the gender fluidity problem is vulnerable minds at a vulnerable time exposed to an abusive ideology, an ideology that literally possesses their minds.