Since I “took the red pill” a few years ago one of the unfortunate side effects has been a more distinct dislike of people. Not just women, but people in general. I think its due to the fact that the red pill makes you more aware of peoples BS and how crappy humanity can actually be. Not that it was a big secret before, but as you start to see the stuff women get away with and the white knights/cowardly men who allow them to get away with it, combined with the way the current system is stacked against normal, masculine men, it makes you more jaded and frustrated.
Red pill sites will tell you that anger is one of the “phases” of the red pill men go through when they final swallow it and start accepting reality. Some guys get stuck there, I guess, and are mad at the world for the rest of their lives. For a Christian it can be especially difficult because we are commanded to love one another and even to love our enemies. How can you do that when you have such disdain and anger towards the people around you. When you hear people saying idiotic things that grate on your nerves, or see them acting like fools so much so that you just want to go punch them in the mouth?
As a Christian I have to remind myself sometimes that Jesus, the master whom I am trying to model myself after, knew everything about the people he spoke to. Every awful thought, every awful thing, stuff that I would never and could never know by just seeing a person or even talking to them. Every dark secret, ever addiction, every horrible thought in the human mind is known to him – Yet he loved us. So much so that, despite knowing all the ugliness we possess he died in our place for our sins.
If he loved us so much, knowing so much about us, then I should be able to show some of that same love towards others, even though it may be difficult, shouldn’t I?
As Christians I think we all know and understand that everyone has sinned and nobody is perfect, yet it can be difficult to remember this fact when you have stupidity, hatefulness and ignorance directly in your face.
Maybe part of spiritual maturity is being able to hold it together and love people knowing they can sometimes be turds. I know I can be one sometimes, but that doesn’t keep Christ from loving me.
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If he loved us so much, knowing so much about us, then I should be able to show some of that same love towards others, even though it may be difficult, shouldn’t I?
As Christians I think we all know and understand that everyone has sinned and nobody is perfect, yet it can be difficult to remember this fact when you have stupidity, hatefulness and ignorance directly in your face.
Maybe part of spiritual maturity is being able to hold it together and love people knowing they can sometimes be turds. I know I can be one sometimes, but that doesn’t keep Christ from loving me.
yes.
as Believers we are held to a different standard, a higher standard, a purer standard. it’s good to remind ourselves of these truths sometimes; i know i sure need it! 🙂
It can be really hard to love people, and for some reason, especially other Christians. I remember always hearing growing up that “The Saved are still Depraved!” And I’ve heard from preachers even, that the worst kind of people can be Christians. 😦 They can be extremely divisive over issues that don’t really matter, whereas non-Christians don’t typically have that kind of arrogance about personal choices/convictions.
Maybe it’s the tendency toward hypocrisy or being a Pharisee (when in leadership) that makes seeing a Christian misbehaving even worse than a non-believer. I think a lot of times a person will stubbornly decide to always stay at the baby-Christian stage of development – which is also hard for the people who have to deal with them day in and day out, to still choose to deal with them in love even though that person is refusing to grow in the Spirit.
Plus, if someone’s really offended us, it makes it even that much harder to not sin against them sometime in the future because we’ll be more tempted to, and it feels like they got away with sin (even though everyone has to give an account of all their words and decisions before God – no one gets away).
Sin seems to beget more sin until someone chooses to stop participating. The Bible tells us to treat other believers with gentleness, love and affection, avoiding criticizing and judging each other over minor issues of personal convictions etc. all in order to promote that ever elusive unity.
When having to deal with legal people with my divorce and the other times he sued me, as soon as they heard he was a PK, they ALL said, ” Oh, *that* explains it.”
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Sad 😦