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  • Radical Labels: The New Weapon Against Traditional Beliefs

    Radical Labels: The New Weapon Against Traditional Beliefs

    Daily now I find people online (mostly in comment sections of certain videos/sites) calling everything radical right-wing extremists. What I’ve noticed is that such comments usually target anyone/anything that tries to unify a certain group of people, whether that be a family or a whole community.

    They use it as the easiest weapon of suppression, because if you don’t like someone just slap a tag on his face that says “Radical right-wing extremists” and that person immediately loses credibility. They are using the fact that people don’t know what that term means (otherwise they would disagree with such accusations).

    Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by radical conservatism, authoritarianism and ultra-nationalism. Examples include Nazism and fascism in general.

    However, what you can see today is that for merely not aligning with mainstream ideas you will be called a fascist, extremist, radical, etc. You want to have kids and family and you don’t care about how that’s not popular nowadays. The insults will just keep coming from everywhere and now congratulations, sooner or later you will be labeled as a radical fascist.

    Nowadays, if you are a Christian and promote family values like roles within the family, accountability and family prayer, if you don’t support LGBTQ nonsense and don’t fuel their delusions, if you use your head and logic to question what those in power present to you as something that’s best for you, you are now an extremist and are a danger to society.

    If I say that abortion is murder of a baby within the womb, I will be declared a bigot, when it is a widely accepted scientific fact that life begins at conception1. I am portrayed(and people like me) as the evil man who wants to control the woman’s body by telling her what she can or cannot do. By claiming that, they forget that the baby is not a part of HER body, the baby has its own body and what people like me are doing is fighting for that baby’s body by claiming this “outrageous” fact that a woman doesn’t have the authority of her baby’s body, meaning she is not allowed to dismantle or in any other way terminate baby’s life.

    1. Biologists from 1,058 academic institutions around the world assessed survey items on when a human’s life begins and, overall, 96% (5337 out of 5577) affirmed the fertilization view.
      https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36629778/ ↩︎

  • 6th March, 2025

    Rosary is the scourge1 of the devil.

    Pope Adrian VI

    Personal story

    Recently my wife and I started learning the rosary prayer. We are decided to pray once a week with long term goal of eventually praying it every day. The night before last we got into bed and prepared to pray it together, when suddenly my wife became irritated with everything (myself included). She was uncomfortable and didn’t like anything I said, immediately raising her voice in anger.

    She was trying to relax before we start with prayer and I suggested that she should just start anyways and that will bring her peace. She raised her tone telling me to stop talking and that she needs to cool off. After letting her cool off for a couple of minutes I told her that it seems like the evil forces are trying really hard to stop us from praying the rosary. She then replied: “You know… that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking a moment ago, but no evil force will stop me from praying right now.”

    So we started, not a minute passed by and we almost started fighting, but we just continued praying. By the end we were okay and not at all mad at each other. We won this fight against the devil, but I’m sure he’ll try to strike again soon.

    Conclusion

    Seems like the devil really doesn’t like couples that relentlessly pray the rosary together. It must drive him mad not being able to touch us as we are grounded in our faith and prayer.

    Remember this: Couples that pray together, stay together!

    1. the scourge = to cause a lot of trouble or suffering for (someone or something) ↩︎

  • 5th March, 2025

    What children take from us, they give… We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply and love more deeply.

    Sonia Taitz

    My wife sent me this quote recently and I really liked it.

    Children mirror our behavior, how you behave today, your baby will behave tomorrow. That being said, the most effective way to instill certain values to your children is by practicing them yourself in front of your children, but also when they are not around because those values should be normal to you and a habit.

    One of my favorite examples for this from my life is when I go to church with my wife and daughter. Every time we enter a church my wife and I would dip our fingers into holy water and crossed ourselves saying “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.” It didn’t take long for my 2 year old daughter to catch on what we were doing, now every time we enter a church she immediately asks to dip her hand into holy water and then she crosses herself and she does it very loudly, everyone can hear her and she sparks a lot of smiles around her when she does it. That always makes me proud.

    So to wrap up, if you want your child to grow up and be kind to people, you must be kind to people. If you want your child to be able to recognize what love is so that he/she can choose a right partner, YOU must show your child how to love your partner. The child must witness love their parents have for each other, no amount of TALK about what true love looks like can replace you SHOWING them that every day. If you don’t want your child to swear, YOU must be the one that controls the words you speak, especially in anger, to control your anger and refrain from swearing and other bad words. We could go on and on with examples, but it’s not necessary.

    I hope that you will apply this to your life either now if you have kids or one day you get them. Have a lovely Wednesday and come back again some other day.

  • 4th March, 2025

    Peace begins with a smile.

    Mother Teresa

    When you look at a person who always has a frown on its face, the adjectives your mind will create about them are often in a negative tone, examples are hostile, furious, unwelcoming etc. A smiling person we consider to be friendly, happy and often times more trustworthy.

    For that reason, if we are “at war” with someone, if we had a big fight or disagreement, the best way to approach a peace offering is with a genuine smile on your face. Such smiles will immediately indicate a good intention and willingness to improve your relationship.

    Numerous research(mostly on primates) has found that smiling is a submissive sign and with it primates express themselves as not a threat and from that follows that through smiling primates establish cooperation between each other. Similar effect can be applied to humans. If you’ve ever watched some videos on body language or watched the show “Lie to me” you are familiar with what I’m talking about here.

    So by smiling you really will trigger a response in others that will make them more likely to cooperate with you.

    One of my favorite books I’ve ever read is about body language called “The definitive book of body language” by Allan and Barbara Pease. If you haven’t read it I highly recommend it, after reading it you really start seeing a world with a whole new set of eyes, you start noticing a wide array of subtle body language cues and it’s a lot of fun(not to mention very useful).

  • Rethinking Family: The Case for Early Parenthood

    Rethinking Family: The Case for Early Parenthood

    Hard topic!

    First of all, I was never a fan of the term “to settle down”, most likely because it is often used in such a bad tone. Often times it describes the part of life where you move from fun end exciting life to a dull and tedious life. I am most definitely biased to some extent and to me when someone says “I think it’s time for me to settle down” it just sounds like something that he/she doesn’t want but is doing it because everyone else is doing it.

    From the start I was of belief that being married is ten times better then partying around and now since we went back to God I believe it is 100 times better. Therefore I am not saying to you “Don’t have fun”, I am actually claiming that it is more fun to be married young then to party young.

    Example

    Let’s take two different couples and discuss them:

    First couple dated very little or maybe didn’t date at all prior to meeting each other, they met at 20, married at 23, first child at 24, that child is a grownup as the couple has only entered into their 40s.

    Second couple, both of them dated and fooled around with many people during their 20s, they met each other at 32, married at 35, first child at 36, that child is a grownup as the couple enters their 50s.

    For some simplicity we will stick to one child per couple for now. Out of these basic information you can really pull out a lot of pros of starting a family young.

    • Married young means less partners before the marriage which means less possible disease (although I encourage people to wait before marriage, I know most won’t listen so I am including this into the comparison as well)
    • You are more likely to be compatible young then in your 30s, because all of those earlier relationships have made an impact on you and standards you require from your partner raise until they become unrealistic. As we get older it seems to me ego rises and you become far less willing to compromise for a marriage, which makes marriage very hard.
    • In this example I used the same time it takes to go from meeting each other to marriage and to first child. In reality this time frame I used is much more likely to happen in the first couple’s case. As we get older not only is it harder to trust each other to consider marriage but it is also a lot harder to conceive a child.
    • You mature much faster when you have kids, because you don’t have a choice. You now have someone who clearly depends on you.
    • If you wanted to, you have much more chances of having more then one child if you start young and much more energy, quite self explanatory.

    These are some reasons on top of my head.

    But it was never a right time

    As the Daily quote page said three days ago “Time will never be just right”(link to specific quote). I promised in that post that I will dive deeper into that topic so here it is. I will talk about primarily having children, but most of the things can be applied to getting married as well as other things in life.

    To my understanding from what I see online and from what I hear from some of my friends, it is almost widespread notion in the western world to get all of you’re affairs in order like housing, career etc. before starting a family. Everyone seems to be waiting for the perfect moment when stars will align before they start a family. That is just outright ridiculous.

    The mainstream idea is that children are a burden, complicate life and you can’t achieve anything once you have them. That is not true. Now what I wonder a lot is who benefits from people believing these so called “facts”? It is almost like some taboo topic because I would immediately be classified as a conspiracy theorist and/or crazy for even questioning that these beliefs are not free will of the people but are actually imposed on us from young age by someone else who benefits from it.

    Don’t you think it is weird that nowadays people who stand for family values and want to live in a big and stable family are often labeled as extremists? I’ve even experienced it myself, well I haven’t exactly been called that way but I have shocked a lot of people when they found out how young I had children and that I will have more. Their shock was on the level as if I told them I was 15 with two kids, their shock actually often shocks me. It’s like, why wouldn’t I have kids while I’m young?

    What was I supposed to wait for, I found a woman I wanted to marry and have kids, what else is there to wait for except getting married. Disclaimer: We did have our first child before getting married, it was before we became firm believers and have repent and the Lord blessed us(we got married and now my wife is pregnant again).

    The consequence of starting a family at an older age

    At this link you can see a visual representation of how over the time the age of when mothers got their first baby changed over the past few decades (info is for US, but the similar trend can be seen in Europe as well). What is the broader consequence of that? It’s that families on average are smaller(counting the kids), fewer in numbers(married/family vs being single ratio) and less unified.

    All these things together can cause the country to collapse. For example, I read a few days ago a statement by European Commission how Europe needs additional 1 million migrants yearly to function (due to population aging). Why did that happen? It’s because people are discouraged to have kids and if one pair of people (man and woman) have zero or one child, population declines, two children and population stagnates, three or more and population will grow. Nowadays, all I hear from people(exceptions are rare) is either “I don’t want kids” or “I will have one, max two kids”. So now Europe is forced to import a lot of foreign people to meet its needs in the workforce.

    What kind of people is Europe importing? Mainly people from Africa, Middle East and southeast Asia. People of vastly different culture, religion and worst of all: not willing to assimilate. This is now destroying Europe and whoever follows events around Europe has seen what those immigrants are doing, unfortunately news outlets and other official media are rarely reporting on it.

    Just take a look at Sweden in example, once known as a quiet and peaceful country saw 32 bombings in January 2025 alone, that’s more than one bomb daily. Some of them are directly related to Islamic terrorist attacks while others to gang wars. I don’t think I even have to talk much about what is happening in Germany, France and UK. I saw multiple videos online of migrants from Middle East shouting on the European streets how they will take over the power. Shouting how they on average have 5-6 kids while we Europeans have 1 or 2, how we will be a minority and they will rule Europe. Do we want that? I don’t.

    Conclusion

    Don’t blindly follow the mainstream idea that children and family are something you should aim for in your 30s. You can call me biased but I look at the future of Europe and I am scared and sad, and what saddens me the most is the indifference of people when presented with facts and videos of what these illegal migrations are doing to us. If you don’t want kids, okay, but please don’t believe that it is impossible to have kids, even in early 20s.

    Most importantly, please stop judging people that have kids at an early age (if you are one of them, I am not claiming you are). Having kids at 20 is more biologically natural than having them at 30, it’s just that most people are brainwashed into thinking that 10 other things must happen before you have kids when in reality 3 things need to happen:

    • You must be willing to have them and to sacrifice some of your free time for greater good
    • You must find a good partner (which I believe is as hard as everyone seems to think, if you look at right places)
    • You must get married, which doesn’t have to be expensive

    I understand that some phrases and views I used might come off as offensive to some of you. To clarify, I am not calling out people for not having children, only to question a belief that it is not wise to have kids at an early age.

    Lastly, I am not a fan of political correctness(as you can tell by now) and the notion that every word you say must be wrapped nicely, because God forbid that someone gets offended. Political correctness is one of the reasons the world is a mess. For that reason I encourage everyone to dial down their political correctness (at least when speaking to me), you don’t have to be rude, but calling out on people’s BS should not be frowned upon.

    Daily quote linked to this article: 3rd March, 2025

    P.S. even the WordPress’s AI assistant is advising me to soften my language to resonate with larger audience aka. “You need more political correctness”. I don’t care if this posts preforms poorly. What use do I have from a post that skyrockets in terms of views if in it I am choosing my language carefully and saying what everyone else is saying. I believe that we should address what we think even if broader public doesn’t like our view. Otherwise, what’s the point? You would just be following a crowd.