Reality checks

We like to compare ourselves to others. We like to contrast what we are capable of with what others are capable of. We like to understand where we are at in a proverbial hierarchy. We then like to act based on where we think we are versus where we think we should be.

A video shared by Vox Day in a recent post was this type of video. It is supposed to be an erudite discussion related to a book that Vox Day recently published, but it rather quickly turned into a petty competition between the speakers as to who was "better" than Vox Day.

This is a great example of what not to do, because even the "winner" of such a lame competition is still a loser, and that's before we account for the feminine passive-aggressive methods they use to try and "win" in the first place.

If you watch the video, it's much easier to suffer through it if you pretend that everyone speaking is a woman, and they're all upset because a man had the audacity to call their whore friend a whore, and since they're also whores, they're now defending their whore friend to prevent anyone from calling them a whore as well.

If that doesn't work for you, also realize those folks are all going to hell, and you can tell this because of how they argue. It's revealed by what they think really matters, and in their belief that sacrificing truth, let alone cogency and brevity, that they believe they will somehow dazzle God the same way they can run circles around people who aren't as smart as they are. That they'll find a loophole and get the upper hand on God, because their own judgment is really that good. That if they just keep talking, just like their false prophets, that they'll accidentally stumble upon the magic words that will save them from their sins. Because they keep talking for almost three hours.

Their plan won't work, and Christians "playing along" only reinforce their delusion that the game is going "their way", so the best thing to do is not play along at all. To point out lies and deceit and to shun unrepentant sinners, and to properly foreshadow how conditional God's grace and mercy ultimately are.

At this point in time, the only way folks like these have a chance of becoming aware of just how many false gods they worship is if every one of those gods is utterly destroyed. That'll happen at the end of time, but we'd be doing them a favor if we crushed the false gods sooner than later.

When not destroying their idols, you can also pray for them and people like them, who are still on the outside looking in, convinced that they'll remedy their fallen state by their own power. Pray that God can break their stubbornness well before they meet God face-to-face on judgment day.