In other cultures, there is a ritual for a boy to become a man, but I've been curious as to why there isn't one in the West.
I realized that the manual for becoming a man and the path out of the self harm we are doing is in the Bible.
In this cast, I mentioned that a worldview fractured, and when this happens your psyche is split into two because the thing holding you together is gone. When this happens, you lose your grounding which makes you uncertain. At some point, the idea that it's easier to forgo life altogether appears, and one part of your psyche turns on you.
The internal struggle you experience during this is just manifest in the real world because in some people, one psyche is winning. That said, the way out of this isn't to defeat the so called devil, but rather to choose love because the only way out is to replace a false idol with a true idol. That's why the Bible says Jesus saved you because we would be caught in this loop otherwise. 2 replies
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The path out of the self harm is the same path to becoming a man. In other cultures, the ritual usually requires the boy to display some form of resilience, but it is subpar compared to choosing love because in choosing love, you are choosing to serve something higher than you. A person with resilience can bear pain, but a person with a why can bear any how, and life requires much more than pain.
It also occurred to me why Christians are so Capitalistic. The way of Christians is to choose love. In choosing love, you are choosing to be in service to something higher, which should be true. If it is true, then it should be good for all of us, and so you are in service to each of us. Capitalism as a system allows us to be in service to one another because it removes the middlemen and makes my liabilities your assets. That's how markets grow, that's how we all get richer, and that's how I can be of service to you. 0 reply
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