Sometimes people say, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” and they say that when you leave kids home alone with nothing to do and they get into trouble, for example.
Put that aside for a moment.
Next, I’ve heard some of the smartest and most capable academic minds of the world bash western culture for the limitations placed on people through Christianity or the requirement to go to work. They talk about those things like if people were free to do what they want that they would finally be able to flourish. The smartest professors at the most established educational institutes talk about how so much more could be achieved if it weren’t for western capitalists forcing everyone to do work, buy stuff, and fear God.
Grrr evil capitalism strikes again! Never mind almost every metric of life getting better by free market enterprise. It is the rules of society that’s hurting everyone! That is the elite philosophers' sentiment, at least.
Alright this is going to turn into a bit of a rant, so strap in:
Yeah? What would happen if Christianity and career development wouldn’t exist? How is that possible? Well, how about the Great COVID Hysteria (GCH) that swept the world?
Haven’t you noticed that since everyone had unlimited free time during GCH, with little to no financial concern, that music on the radio is better, every painting that’s been completed is better than the Mona Lisa, flying cars are everywhere, and that pesky sense of duty and work no longer burdens us because we were finally able to achieve the societal utopia where nobody had to worry about doing any work? Haven’t you noticed that all the best of people emerged when nobody had anything to do so they could finally do whatever they wanted?…. right?
Oh wait, none of that happened. You know what did happen? Record use of alcohol and marijuana. That’s what happened. The devils lettuce. The sauce. Those things happened. Not an uninhibited flourishing of culture, art, and well-being.
It was all crap because nobody had anything to do. A plane with no wings doesn’t fly, just like people who don’t have anything to do don’t go anywhere. They sit and complain.
“Oh but you cant use the GCH because there weRe OTheR ThiNGs GoiNG on!”
That is nonsense.
Every day of your Goddamn life there has been other things going on and the only frickin reason you ever did anything is because the impetus was already there, due to work and or God.
With no push to do things, most people are just turds who do nothing.
You don’t ever have to worry about survival or food. You literally can do nothing, and that is exactly what most people did, so where is all the glory that was supposed to emerge in this ideal scenario where people had nothing but free time?
Well I will tell you, nothing happened, because the potential that exists in all of us is only realized when you hold something up to compare it against.
Comparing yourself against nothing makes you worthless.
Comparing yourself to something makes you a measure of that thing, so why not compare yourself against the absolute highest thing that anyone has ever imagined? Why not compare yourself to God and strive to be Godlike? Even if you gave it a shot and fail, at least you were working towards the absolute best.
That’s Christianity.
Grow a spine, you pathetic loser of nothing.
Facts don’t care about you.
Logic doesn’t give a heck about your hopes and dreams.
God does though. God sees everything you do, so why not show him that you give a heck and do the absolute best you can to bring good to this world?
Hold up the challenge of work and family and God.
Champion the greatest aspirations the world has ever seen and give it your best shot.
Live the most beautiful rewarding life possible by working to build your own kingdom of heaven, because if you aspire to nothing then you are nothing, but if you aspire to heaven then you will ultimately end up in heaven.
Stop making lame excuses about things that are holding you back, and do everything all day long like it is so important that God is watching you, because he is.
Governments create invalid hysterias, they lie to you about what they are doing, and they think you are stupid if you disagree with them.
Meanwhile, God loves you, and He wants you to tap that infinite sense of potential that you know, and he knows, exists within you.
Be the best Dad possible.
Be the best CoWorker possible.
Be the best Friend possible.
Be the best customer of the day.
Be the best driver on your way to work.
Logic doesn’t say that doing those things make you feel good, but knowing that God is smiling at the effort you’ve made to make the world a better place by appreciating it for everything it’s worth makes you feel good.
One of the following statements is true and the other is a joke. Can you guess which is which?
Voluntarily carrying the burden of God’s expectations creates a rewarding existence for you and everyone you encounter.
Involuntarily paying the bill of government taxes creates a rewarding existence for you and everyone you encounter.
God is good, government is not.
Buy crypto.
Vote Libertarian.
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