Yeah, those are your gods -- demons really.

That's what they look like.

On a good day.

Still not convinced, miserly dude?

You better read on.

You see, Socrates said that

Heaven and Earth and Gods and Men are held together by communion and friendship, by orderliness, temperance, and justice.

NOT by greed and self-advantage -- but by

"communion and friendship, by orderliness, temperance, and justice."

He said it because he was in a culture war with those who believed in greed and self-advantage --

and SO ARE WE.

Once again, the war is between those who believe that society should run on greed -- and those who believe it should run on community -- that's the war.

And you need to connect the dots between analism and greed and HIV.

Because the inexorable spread of HIV was the result of a consumerist view of sex and of human beings --

which completely discounted ideas about Fidelity and Masculinity and Virtue.

VIRTUE.

MASCULINITY.

MORAL MASCULINITY.

VIRTUOUS VIRILITY.

An ideology like analism kicks virtue and with it virtuous virility into the gutter.

It's every male - or really every asshole - for itself -- and the devil take the hindmost.

Which the devil does.

Every time.

Every time.

There's no fellow feeling -- and no huMANity -- in such a philosophy.

And what's more, dear reader, dear darling boy -- there are those who would turn Frot into the same thing.

They'd make it femmy frot and bunghole frot and God only knows what else.

We're the bulwark and the sole bulwark against those creeps.

And you're doing everything you can to weaken us.

WHAT IDIOTS!!!

WHAT TITANIC FOOLS!!!

HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING FROM ALL THE DISEASE AND DEATH THAT SURROUNDED YOU AND NIPPED AT YOUR HEELS FOR SO MANY HIDEOUS YEARS?

YOU THINK THAT CAN'T COME ROARING BACK IN A HEARTBEAT?

OHHHHHHHH, YOU HAVE SO MANY LESSONS TO LEARN AND NONE OF THEM, NOT A ONE, WILL BE PLEASANT.

Baal and Moloch and every other shitty spirit -- what the Greeks called kako [shit] - daimonia [spirit] -- kako-daimonia -- a shitty guardian spirit which is what you've earned for yourself -- those shit spirits watch you with great pleasure and even joy, knowing how utterly you'll be destroyed and how many you'll take with you.

FOOLS FOOLS FOOLS FOOLS FOOLS FOOLS FOOLS

You're stingy and mean and self-centered and above all STUPID.

And the Shit-Demons LOVE YOU.

Oh yes.

You're their favorite boy.

And they'll reward you by covering you in their toxins and leaving you to suffocate in their waste.

They'll dance around you as you gasp for breath in their filthy fetid fecal air.

But it'll be too late.

Your Life will be gone.

And in the next life, stripped of your gym-built body, your house, your cars, and all your other consumer garbage and crap -- [as well as any other privileges you may have held of looks, wealth, rank, and power] -- you'll stand naked before God -- THE WARRIOR GOD -- [your naked soul scarred by all the acts of injustice and cowardice and evasion which characterized and indeed dominated your life] -- and be condemned to the lowest circle in Hell.

[You'll stand naked before THE WARRIOR GOD -- and be condemned to the lowest circle in Hell.]

He'll point at you and your shriveled penis and shrunken balls and say --

DIDN'T YOU KNOW YOU WERE A MAN?

DIDN'T YOU KNOW IT WAS YOUR DESTINY TO BE A WARRIOR?

TO LIVE AND FIGHT ALONGSIDE YOUR WARRIOR BROTHERS?

And what will you say?

Oh no Lord, I thought, I thought, I thought I was to spend my life in "rational self-interest oriented to unlimited personal gain" --

Dr Greenspan told me so, and he was a great and wise man among us.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -- will roar the WARRIOR GOD

He was a fool -- he trusted in markets and greed, the province of the shit-demons --

But for MEN --

THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR IS THE WAY OF SALVATION.

And now, for rejecting your Masculinity, your Manhood, and your Warriorhood, you'll spend all eternity as lonely as you were in life.

At the lowest point in hell's bottomless pit.

Haplessly and hopelessly trying to climb your way out.

And NO MAN, NO WARRIOR will come to your aid.

Because, when you were alive, YOU REFUSED TO HELP YOUR FELLOW MEN.

And just before you're thrown into the pit, you'll have a glimpse of the entrance to the Isles of the Blest.

There you'll see Strong, Noble, Caring, and Decent MEN, radiant in their Brave Male Beauty and Sacred Masculine Pride, blessed and blessing all around them with Warriorhood and Brotherhood, walking joyously through a gate emblazoned with these words:

And through another portal, emblazoned with these words, you'll glimpse Warriors joyously testing their Manhood against each other:

You'll glimpse their strife and their joy, but you won't be permitted to partake of it.

For you, in death AS IT WAS IN LIFE, it will be too late.

Because YOU REFUSED TO HELP YOUR FELLOW MEN --

you'll be thrown into the pit, all hope of Manly Salvation and Warrior Love and Life -- lost.

FOREVER.

That's the meaning of the Christmas season -- FOOLS.

It's an exhortation -- and an admonishment.

Every year don't you watch A Christmas Carol and hear these lines?:

Scrooge: It's just that you were a good man of business.

Marley: Bus-i-ness? MANKIND was my business!

And he neglected it.

Just as MANKIND is YOUR business.

And you neglect it.

Yet the Christmas season is meant to have a Christian -- or, if you prefer, religious -- or if you prefer, spiritual -- meaning of caring for your fellow MAN.

It is not about increasing the gdp by buying gifts for yourselves --

but about selflessness and giving to others.

Warrior Brian Hulme understands that.

He wrote, a story, a Christmas Story, called The Gift, in which two FROT WARRIORS give selflessly to the Holy Family that they and the infant Jesus may escape Herod:

He was and is The Gift to us and The Warriors in return gave their gifts to Him to help Him on His way and keep His mission going.

The Warriors did what Warriors are supposed to do.

They recognized that it was their responsibility as Warriors -- what we call Warrior Altruism -- to help this family in need.

And they were confident that their Gift would be repaid them many times.

That's the message of Warrior Culture.

It's also the message of the World's great religions -- all of them.

But, as we discussed in About Tithing, and as John Cobb, professor of theology at Claremont School of Theology, explains in this article, economic growth and greed have, throughout the world, become their own religion and taken the place of God, while "popular participation in this religion is called 'consumerism'."

And for you that's what this holiday is about -- "consumerism."

It is for everybody -- the media are full of stories about how "good" -- or not -- the season has been for the -- RETAILERS!

Not for human beings, not for the Love of Man for Man, but for -- RETAILERS.

This

has replaced this

Man and his Gods are no longer at the center of your universe.

This is.

And where does that leave you?

Nowhere.

Because money can't buy you love.

Or, as Carol Channing said in Hello Dolly

And on those cold winter nights ...
You can snuggle up to your cash register.
It's cold but it rings!

And that's all it does.

It's a cold, cold piece of metal, and all it can do is ca-ching.

That's not what you need.

You're a HUMAN BEING.

You're a MAN.

You need other MEN.

You need other WARRIORS.

In your Life.

We call that The Longing for Masculinity.

I get letter after letter from males who are longing for MASCULINITY.

Yet they -- and YOU -- will never have it

YOU'll NEVER have it -- the way you're acting now.

You need to become MEN.

When will that happen?

WHEN?

You'll put it off forever -- won't you?

Yet it could happen -- today.

Bill Weintraub

December 22, 2009

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