1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared Podcast. 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,000 I'm your host Austin Creed. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,400 My friends, I have a question for you today on the show. 4 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:24,600 The question is this, do you believe that not wanting marriage makes a man a coward? 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,200 You might ask, well, why would I ask a question like that? 6 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:35,200 My friends, can you imagine having a conversation with one of your oldest friends? 7 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:42,200 And I won't put people's names out here because I don't think it's necessary, but he's around the same age as me. 8 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,200 He's married, he actually has kids, which is fantastic. 9 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:53,200 But you know, we had a very interesting conversation and the conversation evolved around the man-a-sphere space and whatnot. 10 00:00:53,200 --> 00:01:04,200 And you know, normally I don't like to talk about a ton of politics or religion or, you know, the side of the internet with people who I classify as a little more normie, 11 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,200 just because I don't see the point in bringing it up. 12 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:19,200 What was interesting is he brought it up, not me, and to top it all off, we got into a very fascinating conversation because he's a little more traditionalist than me. 13 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:32,200 I personally think that, gentlemen, we have this philosophy on this little portion of the internet, you know, this space about creating your own personal philosophy. 14 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:47,200 My friends, can you imagine being called like, outward if you don't want to roll the dice on marriage, if you don't want to throw your future to the proverbial wolves to the wind? 15 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,200 Because let's be honest, a lot of times women's emotions are like the wind. 16 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,200 They change directions, you don't know where they're coming from all the time. 17 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:03,200 It could be sometimes really hard to walk through when it's pushing you right back, but that's what we have to deal with, right? 18 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:12,200 And it was really interesting to hear what he had to say because normally, normally I have people who are adamantly against it or are adamantly for it, 19 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:22,200 but when we have this conversation, I really want to know what you think about this because everyone's life is different and everybody has different things they want out of this life. 20 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:31,200 But when somebody comes to me and they say that it's outwardly if you don't want to get married, if you don't want to roll the dice with the marriage laws, 21 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:41,200 and the solution revolves around just throwing yourself into church, into religion, and really getting devout with it. 22 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:48,200 You know, part of me says that can be a solution, but the problem is this. 23 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:53,200 Number one, I know where he comes from, he's a good guy, but it's not just about my friend. 24 00:02:53,200 --> 00:03:01,200 It's a broader conversation when you realize that yes, you listening to the show, if you identify with any of these, 25 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:06,200 with any of the content creators on the side of the internet, myself included, 26 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:18,200 you have the philosophy of kind of going your own way, maybe even you're a monk, or maybe you're just not sure that this dating marketplace is for you and you're a little on the outskirts. 27 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,200 You are being attacked from both sides. 28 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:27,200 Some of us who have been in the space for a long time or were consumers of this content, we know of this, 29 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:33,200 but it's really tough when you're reminded that you're being assaulted from both sides. 30 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:41,200 From the lefties, we know that the feminists, the rainbow riders, we know that we know that they don't like us. 31 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:49,200 The mainstream media, the legacy media, they don't like us. We know that the normies, we know that. 32 00:03:49,200 --> 00:04:00,200 But when you see guys like Matt Walsh, guys like Ben Shapiro, guys like, what is his name? Andrew Clavin, I think that's his name. 33 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:09,200 When you see these guys, and a lot of people who identify with the more traditional, like, Treadcon people, 34 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:17,200 when you realize that they're not actual, they're just as much your adversaries as the leftists, you gotta realize something. 35 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:23,200 A lot of times the Treadcons, you know, and I'm a little more conservative than you might expect, 36 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:31,200 but when you see that these people are very much aligned with the left, with how they approach relationships, with telling you, 37 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:38,200 if you're a migtau, you, if you consider yourself red pill or red pill aware, or whatever you want to classify yourself, 38 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:46,200 there's multiple different labels. If you believe that you're on this side of the internet, or you believe in this philosophy, 39 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:54,200 whether it's a content creator or you've carved out your own, but you realize that you have mutual enemies on both sides of the political spectrum, 40 00:04:54,200 --> 00:05:05,200 you don't have to ask yourself, wait a minute, are we the true centrists? Are we the true libertarians? Are we the true centered? 41 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:13,200 Because when you realize you're being attacked from both sides, you have to ask yourself, wait, I'm being called a coward on one end, 42 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:23,200 and being called a deplorable and a toxic man on the other side, you gotta realize that when you're being attacked from all sides, 43 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:35,200 you have to ask yourself, does that kind of validate my position? Does that say, wait a minute, if both sides who say they're against each other are both against you, 44 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:44,200 does that make you right? Or does that make you think that you might be on the right track a little closer to the truth than you might have realized? 45 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:54,200 Because this side of the internet has gotten enormous, whether it's people making videos about reacting to women who are acting completely clueless, 46 00:05:54,200 --> 00:06:01,200 or you have guys like CGA who are trying to educate not only men about the current society, but where the society is going, 47 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:11,200 when you have all different flavors of the same ideology, and you have dudes making mad money on this type of content, 48 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:22,200 you have to ask yourself, do you think that maybe we're closer to the truth, closer to the heartbeat of society than the so-called Tragcons, 49 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:29,200 or even the liberal, you know, socialist commies, if you want to call them that, which wouldn't be completely out of line for saying that. 50 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:35,200 But when you see that both sides are kind of converging on the middle, which is you, you have to ask yourself, 51 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:42,200 are we really the cowards, or are we the front line, are we like the last bastion of sanity in the society? 52 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:51,200 Because when you see through everything, you have the most enemies, you have the most conflict that's going to come your way. 53 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:59,200 And my friends, I want you to truly grapple with the realities of what we're talking about today. 54 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:06,200 Do you often think that you might be the last seers, like when you start seeing things for how they actually are, 55 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:11,200 anybody who suffers from any kind of delusion, and you know, it's really funny, 56 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:16,200 it was Karl Marx and Frédéric Engels who called religion the opium of the masses, 57 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:21,200 and then when you kind of pull your, if you're a religious person, or you were raised religious or whatever, 58 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:27,200 and even if you are religious, but you can kind of pull yourself out and get a bird's eye view of what's going on, 59 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:33,200 realize why he would say that. Because a lot of times people see it as this type of painkiller. 60 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:38,200 I was actually at a church, a very fundamentalist Baptist church last Sunday, 61 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:46,200 and the pastor was talking about a very traditionalist view, which you know, I understood what he was talking about, 62 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:52,200 but the problem is you realize why the founding fathers put this distinction between the church and state, 63 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,200 because historically the church and the state have been one and the same. 64 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:02,200 You look in ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, you could go down the list. 65 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:09,200 A lot of these people mixed the gods and the men together to try to control both sides of the coin. 66 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:15,200 But then we have in this country in America this distinction between church and state, 67 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,200 which in some cases is good and other times I'd argue it's bad. 68 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:25,200 But when you see that a lot of people can't pull the two apart and think for themselves all too clearly, 69 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,200 you realize why Karl Marx would say that. 70 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:33,200 Now again, I do not agree with Karl Marx and I don't quote him as if I lured him, I don't. 71 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:39,200 I think he was a despicable human being quite frankly and has done a lot of damage to the world. 72 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:48,200 But when you, not every, a broken clock is right twice a day, and on this side I can see what he's talking about. 73 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:55,200 And so when you realize that both of the religious side and the secular side are both kind of converging on the middle, 74 00:08:55,200 --> 00:09:03,200 which is you, if you're listening to this show, you identify with any of the philosophy of a biblical bachelor, 75 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:09,200 if you've read my book, if you haven't, you could pick up the audiobook on Audible or you can get the hard copy at your local bookstore 76 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:14,200 by just asking for it, they'll order it for you or you can order it on Amazon. 77 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:22,200 But if you identify with either my biblical bachelor philosophy or maybe it's someone like Rollo Tomasi, CGA, we got, 78 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:28,200 we got multiple content creators out here in the space, okay? Press your favorite podcasts out there, shout out to those guys. 79 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:34,200 There are multiple guys out here who talk this talk and walk this walk every day. 80 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:40,200 And when you see that both sides are kind of converging on them, you have to ask yourself, wait a minute, if they're converging on us, 81 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:47,200 us being people who identify with this side of the internet, you have to ask yourself, are we closer to the truth than them? 82 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:53,200 Considering that both sides are converging on the middle, which would be us, what do you think about that? 83 00:09:53,200 --> 00:10:01,200 I think it's a very interesting topic to discuss because you find yourself, can you imagine that both sides are kind of gaslighting you 84 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:09,200 and you're thinking you're the problem? And more someone tries to gaslight you, lie, and try to call you names, 85 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:14,200 you realize that they're not coming at this from an angle of logic, they're coming at it more, 86 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:20,200 they're not using their ethos or logos to try to convince you, they're using their ethos to appeal to you. 87 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:27,200 Ethos comes from the Greek meaning pathetic. And unless you want to be pathetic, I wouldn't use your emotional 88 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:33,200 or moral or moral side to really distinguish between what is right and what is wrong in my opinion. 89 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:40,200 But hey, this is your life and you what you want. And call me fair, foul, somewhere in the middle, this is your life we're talking about. 90 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:47,200 And you could decide what you want. That's the beauty of life. A lot of people don't have the courage and they're swayed by these people, 91 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:53,200 which is why I think it's important we talk about it. And I'll continue to talk about it in the days, months, and years to come, 92 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:59,200 but I really wanted to present this today because I think that we might be closer to the truth than you might realize. 93 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:06,200 I'm not saying that you're erratical because if you're not erratical, if both sides of the spectrum are converging in on you, 94 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:13,200 let's just think about that for a second. Walking away is not an extreme reaction, but yet for some reason, 95 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:19,200 walking away has become one of the most toxic things to most people today. If you walk away from relationships, 96 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:25,200 you walk away from the church which is imploding, you walk away from the politicians which are paid liars, 97 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,200 if you walk away from these people, you walk away from society, they call you the issue, 98 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:36,200 not the fact that if you had a stake in society and something that actually gained by contributing to it, you would do it. 99 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:42,200 But most people, a lot of us are catching on to the lie of society and relationships benefiting us. 100 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:48,200 They say that we are privileged, but yet we're the ones that ask the bill and pay for everything, 101 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:53,200 and a lot of men are catching on to this, and that's why we're checking out. That's why you've probably checked out. 102 00:11:53,200 --> 00:12:00,200 But what about my friends? Let me know what you think about this. I think this is a very important discussion we need to have, 103 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,200 and I look forward to having it. If you want to type your story or you want to say your piece and you do it in the comments, 104 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:13,200 you can do it on my X page, sheep gets sheared, whether you want to DM me directly or respond to the thousands of posts I have on there, 105 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:18,200 and you want to say your piece, you're welcome to do it, I invite you to do it. I don't care if you agree with me or not, 106 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:26,200 you're more than welcome to say your piece. Well, my friends, in the meantime, I encourage you to really think about this topic and question everything 107 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:35,200 because at the end of the day, that's the only way to truly think for yourself is to engage your brain and not just accept or reject things that are told to you. 108 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:40,200 Process it, really analyze it and see if you want to accept it or not. 109 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:49,200 My friends, until next time, I look forward to hearing from you and I'll catch y'all next time. I'm out. Peace.