You Have To Make The Choice

 

The Lecture

The first martial art that I studied was an art named Sanuces Ryu-Jujitsu created by the legendary (late) Dr. Moses Powell.  I studied under one of his students in the DMV area.  The creator of this art, grew up in New York City in the ’50s and ’60s, so his art was a survival art to contend with the violence lurking in New York City!  

My sensei transmitted many of Dr. Powell’s teachings to me and my peers.  Things that I never heard before.  Things that would forever change my life.  One of those things that I learned would forever change my life.  Not only would it protect me in my day-to-day, but it would also protect me in the career that I worked in for over 20 years.  

At this time I was probably a green belt.  In the middle of the class, Sensei stopped us and had us all sit down.  It was time to give us the lecture.  What lecture you may ask?  Well, here it goes.  

“As a man (or a woman), all of you will have to make a decision in your life.  You must decide whether you are willing to kill someone to save your life or the lives of your loved ones.  Not murder!  Self-protection.  Now many of you will say, ‘Of course, I would kill to save my life or a loved one.’  But trust me, you must sit down and make the decision.  You must make the decision to kill if you have to protect your life, your loved ones, or a victim in your presence. 

Because if you don’t make this decision, when it is time to act, you will freeze.  And in the midst of freezing, you can and will lose your life or the life or your family.”

 

I was in my twenties.  I never thought about this before.  I never had a father that would have probably given me this lecture. I also never served in the military (esp. during wartime), so I’ve never taken a life.  So this was a realm that I never entered.  This was a choice that I had to make.  

 

The closer you are to the land, the more  you are familiar with the taking of life

 

Sometime in the early 80’s, my cousin and I spent 2 to 3 months in Haiti to spend with his father (that raised me as a son while he was previously in the states).  This trip would forever change my life.  But one of the things that it brought me close to was death.  You see, I grew up in Florida.  Any animal flesh I saw come to the house was in a plastic wrap from Publix or Winn Dixie!  I never correlated that what I ate was once alive until I went to Haiti!

 

Our Friend, the Chicken

I’ve only been around my paternal grandmother twice.  Once in Miami when I was even younger, and when I visited Haiti.  She lived with my uncle at the time.  When we first came there, there was a chicken in the backyard.  My cousin and I named the chicken and became friends with her.  Every day we came back from traveling all over the city, we’d run and go see the chicken.  

 

Then one day, we were gone all day.  When we got home, we ran to the backyard to find the chicken missing.  We asked our grandmother, ‘Where’s the chicken?’  She responded I don’t know.  Then later on we asked her what was for dinner?  She responded, “chicken.”  We looked at each other, thinking, Could this be our little friend?  We didn’t ask.  But that chicken tasted great!  But we really began to process that we may have eaten our friend!  Did we just eat our friend?  We never fully processed that idea.  But after going into the countryside, we began to realize some things.

 

The Goat

A relative of ours had some land in the mountains.  We spent several days there.  It was so beautiful.  There were grapes growing on the pillars of the patios and hanging off the ceiling.  An infestation of grapes!

 

There were also people living on my relatives’ land, who paid him with crops.  I met some kids who were younger and older than I who’ve never seen the inside of a school.  Some of them wore no shoes!  Everything I saw on that land, I had never seen before.  It was definitely a culture shock!

 

The first day we got there, we saw a goat tied to a tree.  We instantly became friends with it.  In those mountains, we also saw chickens get their throats slit.  That shook us.  They’d run around going crazy blood everywhere, until they would just drop.  Then they would dress and prepare them to be cooked. 

 

But that morning when we saw the cook with a bucket full of organs and our friendly goat missing, we knew that something was wrong.  And what did we have for dinner that evening?  Goat.  

 

Did we eat it?  Hell no  and we got a serious beating for it.  We saw animals give up their lives, for us to eat.  In America, if you grew up in the cities, you just are disconnected from this.  A child thinks that meat only comes from grocery stores! 

 

You only are in touch with reality, when you grow up on farms or you’re hunting.  You see the animal die, and it ends up on your plate.  You are in touch with the cycles of life.  Something must die in order for you to live.   

 

Side note, it got to the point that when we visited a relative and saw a livestock animal tied to a tree or stake, we didn’t get attached to it.  We began to realize that that animal may eventually be food on our plate!

 

Her Place?

Many women of today have an objection to the word, “Place”.  They have a humongous issue with the phrasing, “A woman’s place.” They probably have this issue because, for centuries, a lot of males only believed that she was only created to be “barefoot and pregnant”. In other words, to only be a mother.  Well, that is one of her functions.  The greats of this world come through her.  The woman directly molds and impacts the future through her “womb”. 

 

But that’s not the only thing that she was born to do.  She was created to be more than that.  But I digress.  I believe feminism was created to bring balance to the world concerning women.  It was created to give them the rights of a human being.  It was created to bring humanity to women.   But in my opinion, in  it’s extremism the baby got thrown out with the bath water.  And now this system of belief looks at things that are traditionally feminine as weak.  It tends to look at the “PLACE” of the woman as imprisonment.  But like it or not, she does have a place.  

 

We All Have a Place

 

But the reality is that we all have a place.  Shoot, no matter how “Independent” a woman is, she has an innate expectation of a man to provide, if not all, then the majority of the finances to take care of her.  This instinct especially kicks in when she decides to marry and begins to conceive offspring.  She expects him to provide for her, the offspring that she may bring into the marriage and the offspring that she produces for him.  You find this anywhere you go on the planet.

 

Simply speaking, place means position.  Everyone has a place or a position in a family.  The man has a place, the woman has a place, the children have a place, even grandparents have a place.  Your family has a place.  This place is their position.  And the way the Creator made it, 

 

“The people in your family have an innate desire for you to fulfill that position”  

 

For example, a child needs a mother to be a nurturer to them.  This is in her, and the child needs her to fulfill this aspect of her nature.  And if she doesn’t fulfill it because she places her career first or her childhood experiences robbed her of the ability to nurture (i.e. child molestation, rape, verbal abuse, physical abuse, not experiencing a mother who nurtures, etc.), that child will be unfulfilled.  Then  the child grows into adulthood and will probably damage another generation of people.  

 

The man needs her to be feminine.  He needs her to be his comfort.  He needs her to be his helpmeet.  He needs her for so many other things.  But one thing for sure, he needs her to fulfill her position.  He needs her to know her place. Well What about the man?  

 

One of Your Duties is to Protect

Well, one thing that the women and children in your life need from you as a man, is for you to protect them. 

Your woman and your children need to know and feel that you are able to kill an animal or a person if need be to protect them.  If they don’t feel this from you they won’t feel “Secure“.  And if she doesn’t feel secure, she will now begin to lose respect for you.  

 

Weak Nations are Conquered Because the Men are Weak

 

Historically, a nation full of weak males becomes the prey to strong nations.  They desire your material wealth and your women.  Historically this was called booty.  After they conquer your nation, they have their way with your women, your daughters, and even your boys.  This is what happens when the men of a nation are weak.  They indoctrinate your people with their ideas and religion and conquer.  And you stand by and submit because you are weak.

 

Just as weak nations are preyed on, families with no strong men are also preyed on.  But a family with plenty of men and plenty of strong men, are protected, and other men don’t prey on them.  

 

Don’t Let Anyone Stop You from Fulfilling Your Duty as a Man

 

I’ve met men who have told me and my comrades that they weren’t allowed to have firearms or other weapons in their household because she didn’t feel safe with it.  Why would you let some woman stop you from fulfilling your duty as a man, father, and a husband?  Are you willing to compromise the essence of your being for some damn woman?  No woman should ever LET you be a man!  Be a man and protect your home and your family.  And if she or anyone has a problem with it, they can go to hell!  A man must be a man.  And a man doesn’t need the permission of anyone to be it!  Either they accept it or they can kick rocks.  But you must fulfill your position.  You must know your place!  You must be a man.

The women I know expect and demand you to be a man.  They expect you to protect them and the children they produce for you. And if they have to stand up to protect themselves and their children because you’re too much of a coward to protect your family, then they will lose respect for you.  

 

Conclusion

 

In conclusion, you must sit down and make a tough decision.  Are you willing to protect yourself and what you love to the point that you are willing to kill?  You must really ask yourself this question, and make the decision that every man has to make.  

 

Are you willing to kill to protect what you love?  Are you willing to kill to provide justice?  Do the males that date your daughters know the repercussions of harming your daughters?  Do their parents know?  Do your neighbors know and respect the fact that you are willing to go all the way if your wife, daughters or sons are assaulted in any way?  When you’ve made the choice in your heart and mind to be willing to go all the way if need be, other men can feel it.  

 

You must not only come to this decision, but you must train the mind and the body to be prepared to protect.  But first it must start with making the choice.  Not to Murder!  But to protect yourself and your family in self-defense.  And to cause harm to those that harm what you love and protect: your woman, daughters, and sons as well, and the other people you love. Sit down today and contemplate the decision. 

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