At the end of the day, the alternatives to marriage are a lot of times people want to get. They don't want to give anything they don't want to sacrifice anything. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared podcast. I'm your host, Austin Creed, and my friends, you know, I've been getting more and more comments about how I'm really tough on Christian women. I'm really tough on Christian men. I'm tough on. Money. And I've noticed more people are joining the channel, which is fantastic. The one thing I've noticed in particular is people they they're telling me that I'm really hard on people, but I'm not giving alternatives. I'm not giving a solution to the problem. And my friends, as much as I would love to say that I have all the solutions. I don't really only have one, my solution is being a biblical bachelor. The reason I say this I have it actually right, right, right, right. On this side of the screen right here. The reason I I wrote a whole book on my philosophy when it comes to women when it comes to life, when it comes to building wealth, when it comes to doing all these things that I practice every day, I know I'm not a millionaire. You can see I'm in Polish, OK? I'm not some millionaire. Not yet anyway. But I have a lifestyle that I use. To get through life. And I know a lot of other people on this side of the Internet who make content somewhere to mine that are probably going to be in your recommended box unless Homeland Security has blocked them out, which is a real story, by the way. You can look. That. One up as well. Maybe I'll do a whole show on that, even though it's arguably old news, but the alternatives I give to marriage and to. The traditional relationship is, say, look gentlemen. One of the problems we have is we're trying to use. Old. Tradition with the modern day and it's never been harder than it is right now to do so. And so by solution is you have to adapt. You have to say, OK, what is it I want? Do I want to chill? Do I want to be married to have children? Do I want to be married because I want sex? Do I want to be married because I want love I address? Every single one of these points in this book. Now, if you're an audiobook guy, you can listen to it on audiobook. I had a guy named Sam. He did a great job with the audiobook. I wrote this not because I want to make millions of dollars would be great, but I wrote it because I know there are men out there who have the same struggles as me and have similar struggles to me. What you have right now, as you're listening to this show. We all want to get through life and we are told from a young age in our own biology says hey, get married, procreate, multiply, build, have a family structure. We have these things, we all we want to have these things because it's put in us to want to. So I'm not going to fault you for that. I still have it too. I'm not some robot who or AI program that doesn't have feelings and doesn't have desires. Of course I. Do. But I say marriage is not in my best interest because it doesn't coincide with with the current culture. Number one, you look at culture, we look at no fault divorce. You look at the fact that feminism is the default setting for most women, even if they're. Even if you can call them sisters in Christ or you, or they're just regular secular women, they all have a least a little bit of the feminist programming mixed into what they'll tell, mixed in with what they tell they tell you it's part of what they don't tell you, that you really need to look into. So when we talk about alternatives, there are multiple of them. One of my favorite content creators in the space is coach. Mike Adams. He talks about being a free agent. Now free agent is kind of similar to what Biblical bachelor is, but with the minds more of a Christian twist to it. I talking about it more of a morality for me, not a moral perspective more than anything from just a how you could live perspective. I understand that people have desires, they have needs, we have wants. That's totally fine. But it's less about telling you what to do. As a man, it's more about saying, OK, what is it I actually want? Because a lot of people, they just do things they don't understand, huh. Why is it I want a long term relationship? Why is it that I want to be married? Have you ever asked yourself that quest? Question we were asked. Wait a minute. Why is it I want a marriage? Why is it I want to do these things? Because if you haven't asked that question, then you can't find an alternative because you don't even know why you're doing it. For example, I'll use myself as an example. I want I I at least wanted. I don't really want it anymore, but I wanted a marriage back in the day because I wanted to be a somewhat nice and decent decent. Nice guy. Sorry, I'm mixing my words up today. Wanted to be a decent, nice guy. I wanted to have sex. I wanted to not be mean to people. I wanted to build a family and I some of those things I still want. But then I realized you can have everything, just not all at the same time. So when it comes down to it, wanting sex is totally normal as a man. But you see, when we take the culture of when the Bible was written, whether it's the Old Testament and the New Testament, that culture is pretty much the exact opposite as it is today. Back in the day, people got married when they were teenagers. Today, people don't only get married till they're like 25 or 30. So when you talk about holding out for marriage as a first of all, you have to understand, gentlemen, I know. You don't like this? But most women, if not all women, they don't do that. Not because they're bad people, but because they are usually romance junkies. The romance novel industry is the biggest genre in existence, and it's that way. Not because of the men, but because of the women. Women want romance the same way that you as a man want sex. And the reason that women use give sex is because they want romance from men, especially the men they're attracted to. So they'll use that to try to get what they want from. 

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If you're that guy that they're attracted to, that's what we talked about, Chad and Tyrone and Pookie, all these these guys are all archetypes, like memes of men who are are the type of guy that women are tend to be attracted to. And so when we talk about them giving up their intimacy on what not to those men, they do it because they want those men to love them. But those men have a lot of women. So when you're trying to give your love to this woman, this woman is secretly the love of another man. And that's why it's not working until she hits 25303540. Then she's going to settle for you. Of course she won't say that, but that's what it. Actually is. So if you want to still be married, God bless you. Go ahead, get married. I'm not telling you what to do when I'm giving you as an alternative, which is the biblical bachelor lifestyle? That's what I do. You could take anybody elses in this space is world view or a lifestyle if you want or you can make one for yourself. That'd be even better in my opinion. You can do that if you. Looked but at the end of the day I can only give the solution that's working for me. Because you can even be a passport bro if you really want to be married. You really want that tradition? Then go to a country that's more traditional. It's gonna have less freedom. But it's gonna have more tradition. You can go on a country like that if you want to do that. Go do that. There are a lot of men who are doing that. But at the end. Of the day, the alternatives to marriage. Or a lot of times people want to get they don't want to give anything they don't want to sacrifice anything. I've seen people in my comment section talk about, well, Austin, you can just be Amish and whatnot. I'm like, so in other words, you're willing to trade your entire life for a life you want to go live with a on a on a farm with a horse and a buggy and be a blacksmith. You want. Go ahead. That's what you wanna do. Go right ahead. But you're not gonna be able to live the lifestyle you have right now. You get what you want. You often have to lose what you have. But a lot of people don't want to do that because that's hard, it's uncomfortable, and oftentimes it's very unpleasant. But that's what we do in this world. We make decisions to either keep the status quo or to go out there and do something new. So my friends, when we talk about alternatives to marriage, you might ask yourself, if not marriage, then what? What am I supposed to? 

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The answer is for me, biblical bachelor ISM. If you want to check out the book, you. Can. I'm probably going to make another addition to it as my I'll probably add and make new additions to it as my life continues forward. I'm only in my early mid 20s so I my life will change. I guarantee you I'm not going to get married. Because the culture is just not. Situated for it anymore. And frankly, to get the things I want, I want to have children. I want to have, you know, look after children. I want to have sex. I want to do these things. I don't need to be married to do those things. Now, can I? Yes, but can I also lose a lot of my things and sacrifice other aspects of my life that I don't want to sacrifice? There's also that element, too. And look, if you want to shame me for living that way, go right ahead. It's not going to change anything. But this is part of the adopting if we lived in a culture that supported marriage, I'd be married. I could be married if I wanted to. It's not for a lack of trying. Trust me. You want to call me and in selling all those things you you can call me whenever you want. But my body counts. Higher than you might expect. My friends. Please, I encourage you to think about what it is you want. And therefore you can find the alternatives where it's no different. Than if you're. On a diet, you want to lose weight, you don't eat the cotton candy and the and the sugary garbage. You find, the more you find the sugar free alternatives, right? Well, it's the same thing with marriage. If you want to have a meaningful relationships, you can still have them. You still have to be married to have them. You want to have. Like you don't have to be married to have that now. If that's gonna make you feel guilty, well, then that's something you're gonna have to work. The end of. The day you have to work with what you can live with and deal with what you can, that's what life is. I don't claim to be perfect. I don't claim to be blameless. No one's perfect. I'm adapting to the best I can. I'd love to hear what you can do and what you've worked. What? Works for you, my friends. Take care of yourselves. Feel free to ask me questions in the comments section. To vote or provide alternatives and solutions that work for you, that'd be great. I'd love to hear them. My friends take care of yourselves. I'm out of here. Peace.