Hey folks, Roosh’s interview on my channel is now live. You can check out “Women, Writing, And The End Of The World” right here:
My Interview With Roosh
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One of the things I noticed, even before you began talking about him, was that Michael has that same accent people ask about when viewing or hearing Fr. Josiah (I think you are from the same region, no?). Thanks for the interview, gentlemen.
Emperor Constantine
Kingfisher
Roosh's opening comments about LARPing reminded me of something a friend of mine told me once. He was a lapsed Mormon -an agnostic- and after his divorce he spent time thinking about why so many Mormon marriages worked out well, and why marriages end up so poorly for most of the population. His conclusion? "Everybody needs God in their marriage, whether he exists or not."
They get into really important thoughts at 45+ regarding the fear of death, trusting the world, etc. Also, looking at things from a slightly different perspective regarding pastoral care and maybe their realizing that faith is not, let's just say, at an all time high. Good point, Roosh.
SubversiveSquare
Pigeon
Hi Michael -- another former Jew here, and interestingly enough came to Christ at basically the same time you did (sorry, I went the Catholic route). I've actually been binge-watching your channel over the past couple of weeks. I highly recommend this interview as well as the whole channel to everyone here.
You've recently started talking about writing. If I remember correctly, you talked about the importance of having some sort of writing community for criticism and feedback. I actually just finished school yesterday and wanted to spend my time unemployed (until if/when this covid stuff dissipates) writing as well. Do you have any more leads as far as this community goes? I'd love to have somewhere constructive to go to be able to submit any work or ask for advice.
Keep up the good work!
You've recently started talking about writing. If I remember correctly, you talked about the importance of having some sort of writing community for criticism and feedback. I actually just finished school yesterday and wanted to spend my time unemployed (until if/when this covid stuff dissipates) writing as well. Do you have any more leads as far as this community goes? I'd love to have somewhere constructive to go to be able to submit any work or ask for advice.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you, please keep me in your prayers so that I will stay on the path and continue to have the wisdom that, without God, I would not have in any measure. As far as writing goes, what I've realized after half a year of looking is that there are really no living writers worth anything as teachers - IF you're trying to create real literary art instead of just shallow, profit-producing pulp. I've taken a Masterclass course, workshops, been part of Facebook groups, and it's all the same modern nonsense (mostly romantic fiction and space marine fiction, for women and men respectively) just looking to capitalize on trends. The best (sadly, dead) teacher I've found thus far is John Gardner, and I recommend all three of his instructional books: On Moral Fiction, On Becoming A Novelist, and The Art Of Fiction. His novel Grendel is also written beautifully and I'm a few chapters into it at the moment. Sadly most of the great masters of the past, if not all of them, did not leave any instruction behind as to how they did what they did. So we are left to learn from dead men by reading and analyzing and doing our best to figure out how they did it, rather than having the same opportunities men of the past had to be real apprentices and learn from real masters.
Emperor Constantine
Kingfisher
I can't speak for the quality of his instruction, but Orson Scott Card teaches writing at SVU and has a few books about how to write. And his novels and short stories are worth reading: he's always tackling moral questions (abortion, pacificism, imperialism, etc), and has an engaging writing style.
Didn’t realize that, I’ll check him out thanks!
As a big Dostoevsky fan, I too think I'll check out Demons/The Possessed ... or perhaps I'll look into the Gambler. For anyone who hasn't read Fyodor yet, I'd start with Crime and Punishment for sure. It is great reading and fairly quick, captivating. The Brothers Karamazov is the greatest, a true magnum opus, and it is dense, and longer. I should probably read Notes From Underground again. Dostoevsky is a literary genius.
MovingForward2050
Pelican
As I listened to the video interview, I kept on thinking about Chinese mainland Christians, now being heavily persecuted by the tyrannical Communist government there. Church buildings have been bulldozed, while others have had every Christian picture removed and destroyed. And pastors there have been threatened and at times imprisoned. The extreme hard times for them has already begin. What should we do to help them?