If you browse the internet, you’ll find plenty of tips on how to make life easier.
You can set a schedule, find some accountability buddies and practice visualisation.
And if that worked, you’d be set right now.
Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Sometimes these tips and tricks help in specific ways. If that happens, you consider yourself lucky. It’s not the typical outcome.
Abject failure is much more likely.
It’s almost as if lifehacks don’t work.
Maybe they don’t – and maybe that’s because they all point in the wrong direction.
If you want to succeed, you shouldn’t try to make things easier for yourself. On one level, you already know this. You already know you can dig deeper and shine brighter at times – and that’s not when things are easier for you.
You can learn to access this side of yourself more often.
I talk about how in the May issue of Reignite the West, available here:
On the one hand, listen to someone who’s never sinned before. Anyone else is a hypocrite.
That leaves God and Jesus – and you’d do well to listen to them.
On the other hand…
Sinners know what it’s like to win and to lose in the struggle against sin. That gives us insights.
We try some strategies and they fall flat.
We try some others and they work well.
There’s a strategy I came across – one I compare to the Ottoman Empire’s siege of Constantinople – that works better than anything else this side of the Kingdom of Heaven.
It’s not the best defence against sin out there. Those come from the Word.
But this, at least, is different.
And different might be exactly what you need. Sometimes a new approach is what it takes for everything to make sense.
I go into this in the May issue of Reignite the West.
In one corner, you have the woke. You know my opinion on them – their entire worldview is based on a series of assumptions, all of which are obviously false. They say they’re about fairness and kindness while spouting the most hateful and ridiculous things out there.
Then there are conservatives – who, like the woke, lie about what they do. Conservatives don’t conserve much – they just adopt progressive policies a decade or so later.
There are libertarians who look smart by virtue of how stupid the government is.
Then there are the Christian nationalists. Far from being the evil fanatics the mainstream says they are, they’re quickly looking like the only sane voices in the room. Every move away from Christianity and nationalism has only made the West poorer, less free and more miserable.
These factions all conflict with each other.
And yet…
… there’s something they all agree on.
No, it’s not something pointlessly vague like we want what’s best for everyone.
It’s a real and specific policy point.
One that every politician with traction refuses to engage with.
If a political party actually listened to the people on this, everyone would get behind it, no matter their politics.
Everyone except the mainstream media, academics and the elites, that is.
But, hey, it’s not as though we live in a democracy.
You might wonder what this magic policy position is.
I talk about it in the May issue of Reignite the West. You can read it on your computer, an ereader or in your inbox at your convenience.
Hate isn’t the opposite of love. You’ve heard this one before – both are intense emotional reactions to something, blah blah blah.
Folks who say this tend to go on with how indifference is the opposite of love.
Maybe it is.
But opposites suggests two things that can’t coexist without trying to eat each other. Hot and cold are opposites because the heat warms up the coldness.
I’m not sure if indifference and love work like that.
No, there’s something else that can’t coexist with love.
Something a lot more common, unfortunately.
And when you know what that is, you’ll realise just how deluded and hypocritical the typical environmentalist is.
I’m all for protecting nature, but not by their insane methods.
It all comes together in the May issue of Reignite the West. In it, you’ll learn how certain flavours of the eco movement are damaging more than the environment – they’re working against humanity itself.
If you haven’t been following the “men or bears” saga, then you’re smart enough to avoid social media.
In short:
Women have asked each other – and sometimes their dumbest male friends – who they’d rather encounter alone in the woods: a man or a bear.
Sometimes they add another question about whether they’d rather encounter a woman or a bear.
The “correct” answers are what you’d expect. They’d rather encounter a bear than a man; they’d rather encounter a woman than a bear.
It’s the nicest thing feminists have said about men in a while. They’re saying men are more dangerous than one of the mightiest land predators around – and that the vast majority of men keep their power in check. By saying women aren’t dangerous, they’re saying women are weak.
I disagree – and I’ve already explained why.
Besides, they’re wrong. If a woman encountered a man in the woods, she’d probably be wary of him. But if a bear came across the two of them a moment later, she’d cling to him so tightly you’d think she was drowning.
And it makes you wonder why these same feminists are so quick to let men into their spaces. Maybe if the man in the woods identifies as a bear then the feminists will trust him.
Anyway, the timing of all this is interesting. Because I recently wrote about how a different formidable land predator – in this case, the wolf – also debunks a common feminist lie.
Where the bear discussion focuses on safety, this story about wolves focuses on dating.
If you’ve heard a woman talking about dating, in person or on social media, then you’ve heard this delusional mistruth before.
Probably many times.
The wolf story heartily disproves it.
And you can read the wolf story (it’s a good one) in the May issue of Reignite the West.
Women throughout history have lied to men, to each other and to themselves. Given how much social, political and economy power Western women now have, it’s starting to become a threat.
Not just to men, but to everyone.
If women want to preserve the rights and power they have, each one should get every man they know to read Reignite the West – available as a PDF, eBook or daily email here:
Your ancestors worked hard and brilliantly to give you the greatest of legacies. Freedom, prosperity, safety, art, tradition, faith, power – it all rests in you.
And yet so many Westerners seek to destroy this gift.
You can’t reverse the damage of thousands of deranged, misguided fools.
But you can keep the West alive for a bit longer.
You can preserve Western virtue in your own life. Be stronger. Then be a beacon to others.
In time, we can Reignite the West.
And you can do that at your convenience.
This guide for improving your mind and soul comes in a few formats.
If you like PDFs, you can read a chapter or two each day by buying it direct from me.
If you use an eReader, it’s available on Amazon.
Or you could take all the thinking out of it and get a chapter or two in your email each day.
That’s it.
Read it, reflect on it and apply it – you’ll be a wiser person over time.
I went through a phase where I was intrigued by phi – the Golden Ratio. It’s not as common as some folks would claim, but that strange, beautiful number shows up in some strange places.
Designers like it, which is why it pops up in soda cans and picture frames.
And in pentagrams. Draw a perfect pentagram and the ratio of where the lines cross to the length of the sides is in the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio also shows up in biology.
That makes the pentagram a symbol of life.
I thought Christians opposed the pentagram because of a historical accident – pagans worshipped it as a symbol of life, Christians opposed the pagans, so they slandered the pentagram as a symbol of evil.
Fast forward to the holy present:
Christians honour, respect and even adore life.
But we don’t worship it.
Some of the Enemy’s tactics are brute force assaults on your soul and sanity.
And some of the Enemy’s traps are insidious. Worshipping life sounds wholesome, pure and good. Life is beautiful and a product of the divine.
But it’s not divine itself.
Idolatry isn’t always a call to worship Ba’al or Moloch. Sometimes it’s a call to worship something good but that isn’t God. That’s what makes the pentagram evil – not because life is evil (it very much isn’t), not because it’s wrong to admire it, but it’s wrong to worship it.
The pentagram is an unholy symbol. It might be beautiful, it might refer to something great, but to treat it as divine is – at best – a distraction.
Remember – the Enemy’s goal is for you to worship anything but God. That’s a victory. If you revere life, love, freedom, yourself, the Pope or even the Bible ahead of God, then you’ve fallen from the way.
God has to come first. Anything else is folly.
And part of revering God is learning to serve Him better.
That means growing stronger and wiser but staying humble.
This, right here, is a real work for your mind – a fundamental change to how you see the world.
When you realise what you’ve been missing, you can’t help but stay humble. After all, you’ve overlooked something this simple for so long:
Apparently this is my 300th day of writing for Antipater.
I haven’t missed a day – and a few of those, I sent out multiple emails.
Surely a nice round number like that deserves a special message. Maybe some useful advice I normally keep in my back pocket. Maybe something gushing and sentimental.
I guess not. Because while trying to think of something like that, I drew a blank.
So this is my 300th day of posting – a dull, self-obsessed message bereft of content.
Two morals:
The first, arbitrary milestones are arbitrary. Celebrate achievements more than the turning of numbers.
The second, to get anywhere you need to show up. You won’t always be dazzling, inspiring and transcendent. You still need to show up.
Consistency beats the occasional flash of brilliance.
So here I am, being consistent.
And it wouldn’t be consistent of me if I didn’t share this link with you.
On the other side is something more useful and valuable than this email.
Which, if you can read between the lines, really says a lot:
If you questioned the severity of the recent virus – or if you challenged the insanity of masks and lockdowns – they said you believe the virus doesn’t exist.
They mocked folks for wondering how a bridge could fall down after a ship collided with a support column. But no one I heard wondered this. Everyone asked how the ship lost control in the first place.
If you’re even two years behind the Approved Political Thought, then they say you’re an ignorant, hate-filled lunatic.
If you hate what’s happened to series like Star Wars and Doctor Who, then they say you’re just intolerant. Never mind that these series have has strong and prominent female characters in every incarnation of the media.
They lie because they hate what’s True.
They also hate what’s Beautiful – that’s why they’re so quick to defend what shows like Star Wars and Doctor Who have become.
And they hate what’s Good. Hard work, marriage, discipline, confidence, tradition, dedication, mental health, community – these are all objectively Good things, yet the woke rally against all of them.
So let them lie about you.
Let them be so oblivious about the world, including you, that they fail to anticipate your next move.
Because they’ll never see it coming:
Jesus taught you to love even the liars, the sinners and the insane. He died for them, too.
Love them, pray for them, then keep living a wholesome, strong and virtuous life.
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