Thoughts

Love, Kindness & Service

• Empty yourself of all but love. Be kind. Love all.

• Anyone can be kind when calm. Character is revealed in moments of frustration, anger, pressure, and conflict.

• Grace is not proven in comfort; it is proven in kindness when kindness seems undeserved, when your emotions have an excuse to misbehave, and anger genuinely has a case to present.

• In service to mankind, do not be found wanting.

• It is not a weakness to be vulnerable with the person you love. It is healthy. Love is not war, and neither is it an ego contest.

• The damaged soul weaponises vulnerability, attention, kindness, and love. They should get your sympathy at best, not your relationship.

• The greatest proof that you truly love someone is your inability to point to any particular thing they do as the reason you love them. The moment your love can be fully explained by their actions, what they provide, or how they make you feel, you may simply be attached to the benefits of having them in your life. There is almost nothing one person can do for you that another person could not potentially do as well, or even better. A list of reasons is meaningless as proof of love.

• Love begins where the list of reasons for love ends: you love a person simply because they are who they are, and for no other reason. It is also why you cannot replace someone you love. No person can replace another person; they can only offer similar actions, benefits, or experiences, but they can never be the person. That may not seem like an answer to the question, "Why do you love me?" but it is actually the only true answer. Ask a baby why they love their mother, or a mother why she loves her baby, and you will not get a list of actions offered as reasons. They simply love the person. The person is the reason for the love.

Purpose, Discipline & Action

• There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. Do it properly the first time if it has to be done at all.

• Happiness comes from within. You won't find it outside yourself.

• Understand that you can never find fulfilment in hobbies, work, or people, but only in the accomplishment of your purpose.

• Always arrive at the dining table on an empty stomach and leave it half full.

• One of the greatest absurdities is to allow time to dictate when you eat or sleep.

• Be like water. Assume any shape necessary to ensure flow.

• Do what needs to be done. Ensure that what must be done is done. No matter how you feel about it or how difficult it is to do it.

• Do not get lost in analysis paralysis. Just do it!

• Overindulgence is one of man's greatest enemies. The body and brain respond to excess in remarkably similar ways. Spike your insulin often enough, and every high is followed by a crash until, eventually, you develop insulin resistance. The same pattern applies to dopamine and other feel-good neurotransmitters: every high is followed by a low, and repeated overindulgence gradually reduces your sensitivity, forcing you to chase ever greater stimulation just to feel what once came naturally. What begins as pleasure ends in diminishing returns, dependence, and pain. More money, more food, more entertainment, more pleasure, or more of almost anything cannot indefinitely reproduce the same satisfaction they once did. Overindulgence always disguises itself as relief at the beginning, but if left unchecked, it ultimately rewards you with crashes, resistance, and a deeper hole than the one you were trying to escape.

Woke Culture & Socio-political Cancers

• Make no mistake about it: your wife is not your friend; she's your wife. Your husband is not your friend; he's your husband. Your father is not your friend; he's your father. Your mother is not your friend; she's your mother. Your daughter is not your friend; she's your daughter. Your son is not your friend; he's your son. Your ex is not your friend; they're your ex.

  Relationship terms exist for a reason. Confusing them is one of the surest ways to ruin the relationships they describe.

• "Toxic Masculinity": A nonsensical and totally meaningless idea contrived and promoted by man-hating dimwits and deluded gynocentrists whose stock-in-trade is coining expressions that attack one of the many beautiful manifestations of the human condition — masculinity.

• Masculinity, like femininity and humanity, is a beautiful natural expression of the human condition and can never be toxic. Masculinity is divine, steady, beautifully strong, refreshingly stabilising, and deeply peaceful. Only individuals can be toxic, not their sex characteristics, race, or any other natural endowment they didn't choose.

• People experience a deep sense of satisfaction and fulfilment when they settle into their natural essence. A man can become very good at being a man over time. A woman can become very good at being a woman over time. But if either tries to become the other, they only become completely off-putting to everyone (men, women, children, and even themselves) and end up sad, restless, depressed, and on pills. The fool who attempts to resist the natural order only finds themselves pulverised under the crushing weight of the divine.

• Men and women are not the same. Neither is superior nor inferior; they are simply incomparable. Women may sometimes outperform men at simulated problems, and they may even participate in mixed teams of men and women that build things. But when it comes to stepping up alone, or organising single-sex groups to successfully confront brutal, physical, real-world survival problems, not mere simulated problems we indulge in only after surviving and feeling safe; when it comes to securing human survival and developing the mechanisms that built, defended, and maintained civilisation, the human race owes that burden to men alone.

• Being woke is simply to sleepwalk.

Boundaries & Protecting Your Peace

• Protect your peace to bring peace to others. You cannot give what you do not have.

• Wisdom is accepting that your job is not to cure another person's addiction to emotional stimulation.

• You are neither a therapist nor a dopamine supply for people who have become desensitised to normal fulfilment and rewards. You cannot fix dopamine addicts.

• You cannot make a sad person happy. You cannot make a hater love. You cannot wake a person pretending to be asleep. You cannot satisfy someone determined to lack something. You cannot please a person determined to be offended. Never try.

• Understand that there may be people who are not looking for truth, peace, stability, loyalty, or anything grounded in facts. They may be chasing the next feeling, the next high, the next validation, the next drama, the next reason to be dissatisfied.

• Volunteering to be the emotional repairman for a dopamine addict, an adrenaline junkie, or someone committed to chaos is one of the clearest signs of self-disrespect.

• The unstable are easily identified by their addiction to contrast. They do not know how to be at peace with what they have for very long. Every experience excites them at first, but familiarity eventually turns excitement into boredom. They almost live in perpetual disappointment. Instead of deepening their appreciation for what they have, they begin craving its opposite. When life is chaotic, they long for stability. When life becomes stable, they long for chaos. When they are lonely, they crave companionship. When they have companionship, they crave independence. When they have a home to call their own, they dream of freedom in the wild. When they become free in the wild, they miss the security and grounding of a home. You can't help such a person. Do not try.

• Understand that some people will always be dissatisfied with life, perpetually disappointed. Whatever is absent appears valuable. Whatever is present slowly becomes burdensome and taken for granted. They spend their lives oscillating between extremes, mistaking novelty for growth and stimulation for fulfilment. These are the kind of people who "outgrow" a partner they once described as the best thing that ever happened to them, only to later want that same partner back after destroying what they had built in pursuit of a new high. They do not lose good things because those things stop being good. They lose them because gratitude is always eventually replaced by restlessness. The tragedy is that they often realise the value of what they lost only after they have lost it.

• No person, achievement, relationship, lifestyle, or experience can satisfy a person whose happiness depends on contrast and stimulation. The moment today's blessing becomes tomorrow's normal and "boring", their search for the next high begins again. And so the cycle continues. They are pursuing stimulation, and stimulation has no finish line.

Feelings & Reality

• You cannot build with someone whose definition of happiness changes according to how they feel in the moment.

• Surely, the immature are able to say "mood swings" in conversations; they simply lack the capacity to recognise that moods actually swing, that feelings are transient, that feelings and emotional states pass and can't be trusted as final reality or used to make big life decisions.

• You cannot reason with a person who worships at the altar of their feelings and treats their emotional impulses as the ultimate reality. Feelings shift, duty remains, and one's inability to see, understand, or appreciate this basic truth is not your burden.

• People who elevate their feelings over facts are broken; they are a waste of time and energy. They will drain you and make you aimlessly chase the shifting shadows of their whimsical, unstable impulses. You'd do well to not invite them into your life.

• Only the boring can be bored.

Projection & Human Condition

• It is easy to accept in others what one is capable of themselves

• What you accept from others reveals much about your own character.

• Only fools learn the same truth twice.

• No one is unpredictable; they're just predictably unreliable.

• Understand that a person's opinions about the fundamental nature of humans are a perfect reflection of themselves, not about the people they clearly know nothing about.

• People are simply projecting themselves and talking about themselves when they judge others without knowledge of the facts.

• Man is everlasting, his character eternal. The foolish who thinks he's different from the men who came before him will learn a bitter lesson in depression and sadness.

• You slowly but surely become very much like the people you associate with. You shape them, and they shape you. The force of influence is usually stronger against the minority.

Words, Silence & Information

• Stay quiet if you have nothing important to say or if what you'll say wouldn't improve the situation.

• Never ask a second time; they heard you the first time.

• Never reveal sacred secrets to dogs and goats; they have neither the capacity to comprehend nor the divine configuration to appreciate such matters.

• Do not burden anyone with information they're not designed to consume.

Faith, Meaning & Vanity

• Man made God in his own image.

• If it made sense and you know it's true for sure, you wouldn't need faith to believe or accept it. Approach all endeavours of faith, including religion, with this mindset.

• Everything is vanity, a myth, an arbitrarily decided myth—money, governments, gods, laws, all of it.

Money, Work & Consumption

• Create more than you consume.

• If you must buy, buy what pays you before buying what costs you.

• Never borrow for consumption.

• In a family, it is best if neither the husband nor the wife has to spend their life working for another household or institution merely to earn a living. If financial circumstances beyond their control make that unavoidable, it is better for only one spouse to bear that burden than for both to do so. Raise a family that understands and preserves its dignity, not one that exists merely to produce another generation of people who will spend their lives slaving for others in the job market.

• The concept of exchanging something for value, popularly known as "money", will remain with us, but the implementation of this concept, not the concept itself, is primarily responsible for what we know as "poverty".

• Multiple implementations of money have been seen, but we've yet to see one that compensates people for providing values we take for granted.