CowboyEpicurus Archive

Upvotes	Title	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
6	Sex and Sin	CowboyEpicurus	/r/RPChristians	04/11/19 03:06 AM
6	Looking for a Definition of “Consent”	CowboyEpicurus	/r/RPChristians	04/12/19 07:24 PM
1	Vacation question	CowboyEpicurus	/r/askTRP	29/05/18 05:00 PM

Upvotes	Comment on	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
1	OYS - Where Progress is Made (12/11/19) I agree that a philosophical argument will never answer the question, but the matter I am concerned with is a theological question that comes from scripture. There is divine wisdom in the scripture that gives us clarity about free will and predetermination, and this wisdom is a subject of theology. The matter still must be investigated closely for any theological truth to be understood as it was by its authors. Sometimes part of gaining this wisdom, I think, involves looking for deeper meaning b…	/r/RPChristians	13/12/19 06:05 AM
2	OYS - Where Progress is Made (12/11/19) Since last week was my first OYS I had to unload a lot for the sake of introduction. But now I can do week-by-week as intended. This week, I am still the same height. A staggering 5’10. Weight is about the same, 170lbs. Still 23 years old as well. Physical: Decent week in the gym, but I pulled something in my back a few days ago so I realize I need to do more in the way of stretching. What good is all this strength and dense muscle if I can’t move? Outside the gym I have been getting a lot of sl…	/r/RPChristians	12/12/19 07:31 AM
3	OYS - Where Progress is Made (12/04/19) Thank you. I think you are right about overworking. I should mention that my school is only a few hundred people, so it’s not necessarily the case that I am surrounded by thousands of young college girls. They are mostly hardcore academics, and very few of them are what I would deem personally as marriageable.	/r/RPChristians	07/12/19 10:22 PM
3	OYS - Where Progress is Made (12/04/19) Chuck, Thank you. I read the link about Gospel. One thing that I will definitely meditate on is allowing the Holy Spirit to do its work through me, as opposed to forcing changes through a simple act of the will. Sometimes I think I get impatiant and begin to think that I should be more advanced spiritually than I presently am. In turn, I try to do Christian things by my own accord instead of letting the miracles do their work.	/r/RPChristians	07/12/19 10:19 PM
3	Does AWALT hold for Christian women? Aren’t all people full of desire, vanity, and hypocrisy? Is there anything one can do to truly overcome these things? Personally, I don’t think so. I think they are immutable parts of the human condition, which exist to remind us of our fallen nature. They give us a material reason to repent. Your question about AWALT and Christian women is logical from the standpoint of categorical or syllogistic, Aristotelian arguments; but I assert that its basis is rooted in an ambiguity of language. In othe…	/r/RPChristians	06/12/19 06:17 AM
3	OYS - Where Progress is Made (12/04/19) Stats: 5’10 and 170 lbs, ~12-15% bf 23 years old Physical: To be honest I have been unhappy with my performance in the gym lately. I feel like I made great progress this summer, but when I went back to school I took a whole month off and that created a pretty big setback. Recently it feels like I have been working out to recover a fitness level that I was at previously, as opposed to entering into uncharted territory. Additionally, I also drank and smoked this semester. Not as much as I have in …	/r/RPChristians	05/12/19 03:18 AM
1	Boundaries are easy to defend against the egregious. How do you defend them against subtility? rocknrollchuck, Sorry for the delay in my response. It has been a busy time for me between Thanksgiving and schoolwork, and I haven't found time to respond until now. If you celebrate Thanksgiving I hope it was enjoyable for you. So do you believe that if a husband trusts in Christ, repents of his sins and becomes a born again follower of Jesus but the wife does not, that the wife will still go to heaven based on the husband's salvation? The question you raise is a good one, and as /u/lololasaur…	/r/RPChristians	29/11/19 07:33 PM
1	Boundaries are easy to defend against the egregious. How do you defend them against subtility? Rocknrollchuck, With all due respect, I have cited passages to build my argument. If I was unclear, here are the premises of the argument with their associated passages. Matthew 19:6 The husband and wife are one flesh through marriage. Matthew 5:28 Someone has committed adultery already if they have committed it in the heart. Therefore, in as much as a husband and a wife are one flesh, they share in the sins of the flesh, even if they were only committed in the heart. This does not imply that th…	/r/RPChristians	27/11/19 12:34 AM
0	Boundaries are easy to defend against the egregious. How do you defend them against subtility? Marriage is a joining of two flesh into one by God. Matthew 19: 4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” However, later in the same chapter is the passage about divorce in the case of sexual immorality: “..…	/r/RPChristians	26/11/19 07:12 AM
1	Boundaries are easy to defend against the egregious. How do you defend them against subtility? Since you are asking these kinds of questions, I am led to think that you are prioritizing the material benefits of marriage over your faith. These questions smell of fornication in the heart. You and your wife are one, and you have put fornication onto her already in your heart. Therefore you have put it onto yourself. I urge you to pray to our Father for guidance, and seek His judgment if sexual immorality has already entered your marriage. Or moreover, if it has existed therein from the begin…	/r/RPChristians	26/11/19 06:28 AM
5	How do I detox from red pill as a woman? The stage of life you’re currently in is the best time to develop your faculties and set a good trajectory for the kind of adult you seek to be. There are many paths you can take, but there is only one that you will take. As such, you have to make your decisions carefully. Everything revolves around effective time management. Do you really think soaking up TRP is a fruitful expenditure of time? Stay off Reddit and the internet in general. Read books instead. Read the great stuff like philosophy …	/r/ExRedPill	25/11/19 04:35 PM
1	Disillusionment with relationships. While TRP is bullshit, there is a lot to be said about the reality of disillusionment. Love being wretched is nothing new. Humanity has been simultaneously pleasured and tortured by love for thousands of years. It feels great, it feels horrible. Love is a contradiction in that way; hence anyone who claims it is simply one or the other has not experienced love in its fullness. Human, temporal love is imperfect because people are imperfect. We are transient and selfish, and as such, love is meant …	/r/ExRedPill	25/11/19 06:43 AM
1	Sex and Sin I come from a normal American household and was raised in a secular, stable and reasonable atmosphere. I’ve read the scripture and study it ofte as well as and much of the canonical works. When it comes to Christianity, my interpretation of the scripture is mostly influenced by Saint Augustine, Saint Athanasius, Cornelius Jansen, Martin Luther, and Blaise Pascal. In short; the miracles are historically true, grace is efficacious and given to the elect by God, the Old Testament is a cipher and it…	/r/RPChristians	06/11/19 05:56 AM
1	Sex and Sin Red Curious, Thanks for your response. It is very thoughtful and helps. I have started reading the RPC sidebar material. It was a mistake on my part to assume that the sidebar material was the same as what’s on the general TRP sub. While reading your post from 2-years ago about the meaning of RPC, I found you wrote the following: This choice between sex and some other higher priority doesn't compute for most hard-core individuals. They don't have a higher priority than sex. The result is that th…	/r/RPChristians	06/11/19 05:21 AM
2	Intertemporal Cuckoldry: The Rational Choice of Post-College Social Life You have a fine recognition of human nature but you consistently fail to demonstrate why the alternatives to your political views are conteadictory. If your views are correct, then their contraries violate non-contradiction, right? Otherwise I am led to think that what you typically say is based in emotion. Namely. i presume, the passion of self-interest. Therefore I am led to question your motives, because of your general failure to demonstrate that views contrary to your own contain contradict…	/r/TheRedPill	12/10/19 10:05 AM
1	On Alpha and Beta Secual joy is the product of manifestation. Logos if fetishized nowadays by shameful neckbeards. The only thing that keeps me going is that these neckbeards are ar least here instead of MGTOW which is worse rhan feminismz Keep the word “Father” put of yojr rhetoric unless it refers to the Yrue Father our Creator. Your premise that man is self-sufficient is contrary to amore powerful that humanity has believed for millennia, and no reasoning on the internet will change that. If you want to compla…	/r/TheRedPill	12/10/19 09:55 AM
3	Remember, men create, women consume. So on the one hand,I agree from a social ontology standpoint that women are more passive; but on the other hand I think this puts a certain amount of responsibility on the man. I know that trp tries to separate itself from morality, but I dont think that people canlegitimately divorce themselves from the good. So the question I raise in reaponse to this postis this: if men are the creators so to speak, then whay sort of parameters should they use to governtheir dominance of women? And moreover, …	/r/TheRedPill	12/10/19 08:00 AM
4	Thots are getting audited for tax evasion Isn’t this essentially the same thing as prostitution? By regulation and cronyism, the internet has in some sense been allowed to become a public utility. By implication, it is not a natural resource. Hence, those who wish to monetize the internet must pay the government. Now, Snapchat is a platform used to traffick sex at a predetermined rate that depends on the seller. Typically, the pimp is the one who determines the rate and a good one will actually negotiate with the trick himself. What we …	/r/TheRedPill	25/11/18 07:03 PM
6	Take Control Of Your Birth When my ex and I first started having sex, she said that she was “Too young and career oriented to have a child.” I think at that moment she was speaking in good faith. That is, she believed in what she was saying and had a legitimate vision of her immediate future that did not involve having children. As the relationship grew we became closer and then she started revealing to me her ideas of wanting to become pregnant. This did not appeal me or even come as a surprise because I have seen it bef…	/r/TheRedPill	25/11/18 06:36 PM
2	META-RELIGION So here’s what I had in mind. Take for example the idea of language policing. For a sound argument to follow this idea it needs to be qualified as something significant. So an argument about it could be something like, “Language policing represents a threat to freedom. If people lack freedom then society is unjust, and since justice is the ultimate political good you should...” But then, who cares? Is it a universal violation of freedom? If one person is being subject to language policing then a…	/r/TheRedPill	09/11/18 04:24 PM
3	META-RELIGION If you’re going to make an argument then it needs to have inferences. I’m not condescending you but I see this all the time and it makes for shitty posts. Step 1: Postulates, Common Notions, and Axioms These are your “givens” aka things you ask the reader to accept at first blush because they can’t really be proven but seem self evident enough to claim anyways. Either that or the terms are regularly usernames among the audience with mutual understanding so its definition needn’t belaboring. Step…	/r/TheRedPill	08/11/18 04:27 PM
1	The Metamorphoses Is not all love conditional? What would absolute love look like? Another good read from the classical-antiquity era is Plato’s Symposium. Fun fact: the expression, “platonic love” was derived from...guess who? In today’s jargon, it usually means a kind of love that is not romantic. But that’s not how Plato wrote love. It’s hard to say what his own opinion was on the matter, but he really had some interesting stuff in his dialogues about it. Also his other work on love, Phaedrus written in consid…	/r/TheRedPill	18/09/18 08:14 AM
1	On the nature of game. Not too sure about perception being the only principle of game. Some sort of heuristic is involved when determining how to assimilate perceptions into doing. It is usually pathological, like emotional responses; or logical, like if-then statements. Either way, something else has to take place in order to make sense of perceptions and act on them. As Sartre said, “Consciousness is consciousness of something.” The essence of being is the phenomena. We come to know things by their appearance, but c…	/r/TheRedPill	18/09/18 07:52 AM
2	Mental Fitness Pick up a book and don’t put it down. Discipline is the golden egg of mental fitness. You can live on your own terms, putting grueling hours into things of your choice — or you can bitch out and do shit you don’t want to do for other people or institutions. Do yourself a favor and read a hard book, and read it to completion. Then do it over and over again because that is how it has to be from now on. Discipline yourself and live as a man or waste away like a mindless zombie bitch.	/r/TheRedPill	10/09/18 08:46 PM
3	Some Men Just Aren’t Ready. On the one hand, there is the “elitist” (or I would even go as far to say Nietzschean) view that says RP is for those who can truly overcome themselves and attain a sense of “master morality.” On the other hand, there is the egalitarian view which supposes that everybody can overcome regardless of how they are by nature. Leading by example is important because it doesn’t necessarily imply that one has to settle on one view of the other. While I do believe that “overcoming” is a self-selective pr…	/r/TheRedPill	06/09/18 06:36 PM
8	Primordial Archetypes Splitting hairs a bit, but it’s worth mentioning that not all cultural or religious phenomenon deal with this. Some include other kinds of social contracts, theologies, cosmologies, and messages about human nature. Inevitably, however, we must accept that there is a profound amount of literature and history that affected the development of social institutions - particularly as far as the primal behaviors of men and women are as concerned. “Hypergamy,” in my opinion should be understood as a prov…	/r/TheRedPill	05/09/18 06:46 AM
6	Instant Gratification That sounds like a pretty good burger. You must live around a big city, because I could never get a fancy internet burger delivered in my neck of the woods. Speaking of self-reliance, people need to reconnect with nature better - watching nature fulfil it’s yearning to continue living year after year, over far greater timespans than each of our lives, watching this and realizing one is part of this great harmony is by itself fulfilling. You needn’t become an hermit in the woods, but take an oppo…	/r/TheRedPill	05/09/18 06:28 AM
5	There are so few men who are willing and able to lead a woman that they’re practically begging for it. Be that fucking guy. They will work to sabotage relationships if they are the ones left to be in charge. The Hydra is a dizzy monster. With its many heads, one would think it could perceive from multiple angles, and by itself achieve a well-reasoned Democratic discourse. This failure is something of which men are often guilty as well. People tend to resist leadership in fear of accepting subordination, which in an egalitarian world is sacrilege. Hence, societies deprive themselves of sound leadership through force o…	/r/TheRedPill	02/09/18 09:40 PM