https://rumble.com/v4ng5sr-njf-on-marriage.html
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summary:
- you can't take risks
- you can't trade your comfort for resources toward a greater goal
- women have absolute legal power
- women have no obligations or duties in how they behave
- most of the masculinity exhibited by married men is performative and trivial
- every mechanism to control a wife's behavior is seen as "abuse"
Even knowing all of this, and generally agreeing with it, I still think the costs and sacrifices are worth it as long as you go in for the purposes of having children. Unless you are an incel genius like Isaac Newton or Nikolai Tesla then producing those children and doing your best to impart your values on to them, in spite of everything arrayed against you, is your "greater purpose".
No. For a Christian, the "greater purpose" is spreading the Good News of our Lord and King Jesus Christ to all people. This may involve having children, but everyone has their own calling. Your statement is steeped in materialism, where "scientific" advancement in a material sense, as exhibited by Newton or Tesla, or increasing the number of people in the world by having children, is the only "purpose" in life. This would have it that the saints throughout the ages who died or were martyred as virgins to spread Christianity to all the corners of the world were not achieving a "greater purpose", and were less important than Newton or Tesla.
In secular Western societies, for many individuals, their calling may be to re-evangelize to their brothers and sisters who are in apostasy or never truly exposed to the Word. This is a greater purpose, and all Christians are called to do so, even if they are single and do not feel the calling to have children.
I didn't expect this comment from from you. Yes, a lot of trads like to harangue men to do their part to propagate the White race. They act like there are only two choices in life: make babies to push Western culture forward, or live in abject hedonism. There are many ways a person can invoke the creative spirit and serve man and God.
That's a long-winded way of saying "Don't worry bruh, if this life doesn't work out, God's got your back in the next one as long as you BeLiEvE and spread the word"
To some or many, it's a great way of papering over the psychological issues stemming from lack of progeny, as children are the only observable markers of a long-lasting legacy that one can easily bring into the world, but doesn't help those of us who can't put faith in 2~4000 year old guesses that don't feel much different than any ancient pre-Abrahamic ones
That's because there is no help.
One of the things I used to ask often many years ago in atheist forums was "What's the point of living if you're poor and ugly and with no future? It would be better to just commit suicide"
They used to have a conniption at this suggestion, because in their mind that was absolutely unacceptable. But that's because they couldn't see beyond their own ego: in their mind, if people aren't completely living for the self and staying alive to please the self, it was abhorrent to think about taking your own life if things were rotten.
Well, the reality is that life is rotten for a vast majority of people and it never gets better... ever. I used to tell people "If you don't believe in God and your life is beyond repair, it's better to just commit suicide and spare yourself any agony. If you don't believe in an afterlife, you're not losing anything, you're just sparing yourself a lifetime of more agony."
And this is the irrefutable truth: if you don't believe in anything and you don't believe in an afterlife, and your life is pure bollocks, and it's not getting better, there is literally nothing lost via suicide. This is a hard and uncomfortable truth for a lot of people and they refuse to address the existential crisis of an irreparable or unrecoverable life for someone who is permanently disabled, permanently disfigured, permanently impoverished, etc.
That's why a lot of people put faith in religion, because for those who were born into conditions where they were dealt an unfavourable hand, it's the only thing they have to live for -- thinking that there is salvation in the afterlife for being obedient/saved. Otherwise, you don't lose anything by not being here if every aspect of your life is rotten.