What Does it Take to Be a Man?

It takes a very special combination of ingredients to be a man. It isn't anything unordinary but the means by which they are acquired may be. It takes a little something special or circumstance and it really can't be rushed in any way. The makings of a man are grown, sown, cultivated, and found throughout ages. Times of growth and discovery.

Nothing makes itself known to you until it's ready. A steady balance of careful consideration coupled with an innate ability to comprehend situation. It's a mouthful I know. But so is antidisestablishmentarianism and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. But those are just words. And you won't need to know them to understand. You just have to listen. Something about the sound of them tells you what they mean. And you could say it's quite atrocious. But I digress.

Love is something that you fight for. Today we've forgotten that. Now we fight with little words and zero patience. Now we fight for recognition and resist progress for God knows why. It's a terrible Imbalance that's been placed on our shoulders. An imbalance created by less than equal opportunities and an increase in wage disparities. We have more federal Intervention in this country than ever before. Even now the National Guard could be in your backyard fighting a war you didn't know was waging. It boiled up to the surface from some place down below and now that you notice it you realize it's about to burst. This is the country we live in.

Nationality and ethnicity are not mutual. They are not hand in hand. But try telling that to some people and you'll be met with disagreement. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. But their parents probably didn't teach them that, and they fought the school system that would and tied it's hands behind it's back. But that's a tale for another day. This one is about being a man.

Now ladies, this doesn't exclude you either. You're allowed to listen and weigh in. That's the beauty of what I do. I get to decide what gets said here. This is my little piece of freedom. These words are my real estate. Everyone is a part of this conversation. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Part skeleton

Part nervous system

Part epidermis

Wait. No. I think we're looking too deep.

Sorry, I lost the recipe and I'm working from memory. Da Vinci had a pretty good recipe. He called his the Vitruvian Man. All the mathematics needed to make a complete human being. Too bad the way to decipher it correctly was lost to time. Anyway here goes. I'll try again.

Part confidence

Part sincerity

Part intellect

Part resilience

Part empathy

Part ambition

And most importantly part mission

You see God created us equal and created us for the same mission. To sustain humanity. Too many of you think it's to eradicate your political adversaries. Too many of you think it's to brainwash the masses to think like you do. Too many of you fell victim to the algorithm and your preferred candidate. You closed your eyes and wished for something better but you never opened them again. You kept your eyes closed and refused to open them.

Being a man doesn't mean anything anymore. So the question I posed is a moot point. It's not going to matter for much longer. You abandoned Christ's teachings and taught your children and neighbors your own ideology. You might've been raised in church but your children aren't. That's because you forgot teachers lead by example. And that's something I'd like to set straight. You aren't your father's children anymore. Or your mother's for that matter. You belong to the state. And a twisted and faithless state at that.

You forgot about honor in the name of killing. You set aside legacy for infamy. You refused intellect in the name of riches. You stole what didn't belong to you and created something else to offer in its place. And that is where we stand.

The media has your attention so I guess it's not a surprise that you didn't notice what's happening. It's getting far too hot in here and there's no way to cool it down. If there is that plan has been dismantled in favor of a completely made up creation called economy. Sure it exists. But only because you made it so. It was never really God's plan for things to work this way. He just wanted us to laugh and play and enjoy the planet in harmony. Guess that wasn't enough for some of you. Now a days we sell the earth we walk on to large corporations so they can harvest it for more "stuff".

And I have to tell you. Some of that "stuff" never sells. It just sits in warehouses that become abandoned and lost to time. Well now that "stuff" is about to come back to haunt you. It's about to get a whole lot hotter in this place. Another tipping point has been hit and I'm calling it now. I can't predict the time or place but it is inevitable. It is coming. It's too bad the Internet became what it is today. Otherwise we'd all be educated on what's about to happen. Irrefutable damage is about to take place and I'm not exactly ready for it. I bet you aren't either.

Signing off until another time,

The Torchbearer