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it is not hard , the problem is people are lazy , to much effort needed to raise a family , one might have to make sacrifices . Less ME time oh my god . Another thing people need to do is tune out the end of the world "Climate preachers" , in 50 years people will look back and have a good laugh . These so called "scientists" are no better than the old time preachers going back hundreds of years , end of the world has always been a money maker

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Some of this podcast covered the over-convoluted dance between the sexes on the way to forming pair bonds. I am thankful for my distance from the wider secular world in that regard. Having crashed and burned in my first attempt at marriage, mostly through lustful adultery on my part, the pieces of my life was picked up and restored through a conversion to Christianity. (properly defined) Within this worldview, I was encouraged to choose a mate well. Pay attention to the candidates. Watch their lives and take note of their attitudes and behaviour. Once chosen, be careful not to defraud them. (defined as raising expectations that cannot be honourably fulfilled) Ultimately, be careful not to allow our bodies rule our emotions or our spiritual selves. The goal was to stand at the altar and get married without being sexually active until after the wedding. We just celebrated our 45th anniversary, so the pattern worked for us.

One of the reasons for our success is that delaying the sexual act until marriage forced us to learn how to communicate in other, more valuable ways. It has been said that men, specifically, will grow in their ability to communicate until sex is introduced into the relationship. That will be the level in which they share themselves. An interesting insight into the utter mess that dating has fallen to.

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