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AGAINST BLACKPILLING: A Practical Thread
To blackpill is merely to commit the sin of despair.
"Blackpill" is better as a verb noun because the sin of despair involves an act of the will to give up hope.
DO NOT BLACKPILL. YOU MUST RESIST EVEN UNTO DEATH.
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To blackpill is merely to commit the sin of despair.
"Blackpill" is better as a verb noun because the sin of despair involves an act of the will to give up hope.
DO NOT BLACKPILL. YOU MUST RESIST EVEN UNTO DEATH.
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(For the very technical among you, I use blackpill more broadly than the narrow definition of despair and warrant that my expansion of the definition is not to define blackpill as an actual sin for moral theology purposes, which I leave to those qualified)
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The creeping tendrils of evil assail us in the many aspects of our lives; our spiritual and physical health, the order of our families, our communities, our nations, the fabric and abilities of our own minds.
Can we avoid or defeat this constant and relentless assault?
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Can we avoid or defeat this constant and relentless assault?
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There is little point attempting to define this evil beyond mere description. It has been defined for long millenia. It is the demonic exploitation of our own fallen nature. There is no need and maybe no ability to define this further.
But it can be counteracted.
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But it can be counteracted.
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Inasmuch as the evil is miasmic, attacking at every angle, so must any solution have, at its root, a complete vision of human life. Half-measures and reactive flailing will always fail.
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There is, of course, only one solution which provides so complete and radical a vision of the Good - that is to be a slave to Christ and dutiful son of His Church.
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For those who see the evil but who are not Catholic or even Christian, I reason in whatever measure other faiths have truly discover the living God, in that same measure they can provide practical defenses against the miasmic evil. I dont turn away allies, despite differences.
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A genuine faith, a perception of existence as a spiritual matter, is the first and hardest hurdle to mounting an effective defense against the assault. Thus, this vision of reality is the thing most aggressively and successfully attacked by this evil.
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In fact, the true unified nature of these attacks cannot even be discerned without this vision, so natural to childhood. But once reclaimed, the nature of the thing can be seen, and defenses ordered.
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If you are not ordering your life around your faith, you are not even in the game. You have no effective ability to resist evil. In fact, your natural abilities are exploited by the very evil you are worried about.
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So, faith - then what?
Then personal human virtue. You must practice personal virtue in your life. I mean practice them. Do reps and sets. You develop these virtues by the act of your own will.
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Then personal human virtue. You must practice personal virtue in your life. I mean practice them. Do reps and sets. You develop these virtues by the act of your own will.
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There are also virtues by which we relate to God. These virtues are infused by God into our souls, rather than developed by our own will. However, we must embrace these virtues or reject them. Embrace them to align yourself perfectly with the divine.
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Step 1: Embrace a vision of reality that acknowledges and pursues divine truth.
Step 2: Having acknowledged divine truth, develop virtue to align yourself with that divine truth.
These movements are the foundation for everything that comes after.
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Step 2: Having acknowledged divine truth, develop virtue to align yourself with that divine truth.
These movements are the foundation for everything that comes after.
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And what comes after is this: you must pursue God, the highest good, with your whole being.
Evil will be defeated along the way.
And where it is not stamped out or denied access, it will be transmuted into Good, as God promises us.
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Evil will be defeated along the way.
And where it is not stamped out or denied access, it will be transmuted into Good, as God promises us.
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How? God himself shows us the path to Him, the path to Beatitude (supreme blessedness, union with God).
We all want this. The evils that beset us do so to keep us from this.
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We all want this. The evils that beset us do so to keep us from this.
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(This will draw objections. We hate to hear words like meek, who have been so long plagued by our enemies.
These words are complex. Great saints have written about their meaning. I urge you to explore these writings. Aphoristic teachings go deeper than Meriam Webster.)
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These words are complex. Great saints have written about their meaning. I urge you to explore these writings. Aphoristic teachings go deeper than Meriam Webster.)
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Step 1: embrace vision of faith
Step 2: inculcate virtue
Step 3: pursue the blessings of God
Step 4: The inverse of your duty to practice virtue and pursue blessings is a duty to avoid and reject participating in evil. To do so is to sin.
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Step 2: inculcate virtue
Step 3: pursue the blessings of God
Step 4: The inverse of your duty to practice virtue and pursue blessings is a duty to avoid and reject participating in evil. To do so is to sin.
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Sin is a negative feedback loop. By sinning, you become an unwitting agent of the miasmic evil, spreading it more as it replicates in you.
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The evils around us are the direct or indirect result of our cooperation with sin. To fight them, we must not sin. To not sin, we must inculcate virtue and pursue divine blessings. If all our attention is actively focused on the divine, we are secure.
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If you are mired in sin, you compromise those around you. The responsibility is ultimately theirs, but you, mired in sin, contribute to the sinfulness of your family, your community, etc. Thus, miasmic evil creeps in, and you blackpill.
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The blackpill is the rational response to an incomplete vision of reality and your role in it. You see the horror of sin and evil around you, but you don't see your own role in it, and/or do not see that God is greater than this tawdry evil.
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On the contrary, when you recognize the greatness of God and enslave yourself to Him, pursuing the blessings he offers, the miasmic evil is swept away or transmuted as a matter of necessity. God is perfect. Nothing imperfect can remain in His presence.
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Evil is simple in principle-inversion and destruction of Good-but in operation, its forms proliferate in conjunction with every man's unique circumstances. Thus, making specific recommendations to counter evil is difficult if I do not know you personally and intimately.
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In fact, you should be wary of concrete recommendations from those who do not know your circumstances personally and intimately. But according to the principle that good and evil cannot subsist in the same space, embracing what is good drives out evil.
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Therefore, the most effect counter to miasmic evil is taking up the space it fills with good things. Vices correspond with virtues. Note what is evil and re-vert it back to the good it distorts. The evil that besets you marks your path to good. Do not blackpill.
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