Anything is possible, but it sounds like you're actively fighting against believing, because it would mean you'd have to act on that belief. Try asking God, sincerely. Sincerity would include being willing to be chaste and go to church.
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Finding a traditional wife abroad
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thats probably key pick one place live there, 1 or 2 years the chances of meeting a good girl are much higher than being in a place for 3 to 6 months its not enough to get established.
Brilliant post. The simple, godly life can be beautiful.
“Then he said to them, ‘Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.’”
Luke 12
Yes, and I did it completely broke yet with much success. However, I am tall, above "decent" looking, and fairly talented (play guitar and sing which is always a winning skill set with women). This is changing as I ease into the later stages of life and so I can't rely on my looks the way I use to, but now I have a bit more money, a great business (that is very popular with women), and a beautiful off-grid tiny house on acerage with lots of nice things (furniture, appliances, tools, art, electronics, etc.). And so I believe that since I've built it she will come. But I do not seek "her." I've actually resigned myself to accepting my monk-mode fate. I simply pray everyday for forgiveness for my past sins and for God to make clear and to indicate to me the next step(s) I should take. At this juncture, it appears women will not be part of my future. But who knows? Stranger things have happened.
I'll pray for you to find God. You are obviously a bright and hard working "youngish" man and I do think, though a bit misguided, you are operating in good faith. May God bless you and give you a good life.
You’re correct. Where are you located if you don’t mind me asking? Especially if the culture supports it, what you describe is absolutely possible.
The problem with this in the US is that the culture glorifies degeneracy instead of Godliness. You definitely won’t be the only guy in church, and chances are there will be way more males than females skewing the ratio.
Good stuff. Thanks. I agree.
Indeed. For some, they'll be the new "explorers" - not just backpackers, who are largely broke and just crowd the places, tourist-y.
They aren't foreigners though.
I don't want to say people don't naturally have this but I'm convinced now it's rare, and certainly with women you can form connection over time. If you are impressive in various ways they'll allow this to happen. But for men the boner test reigns.
Yeah, and there are TONS of successful men, even if a minority, who just won't have a reasonable pairing or counterpart. You lose it in the west due to the age gap problems socially, with sparse connections or even other people caring over the years, and spoiling.
I agree. Keep going, and do it wisely, with whatever is most suitable.
Yes, even if met some of these over the years, most of the time (some were even immigrants), sadly they were older. A few were good spirits, I think truly well directed and solid enough, but the problem was that it's hard to dive into things with older women that you're just lukewarm, at best, about. At this point the churches are a sausage fest (hate how overused that was for years but haven't heard it for a while, lol), but that's actually to the glory of God since people are waking up to the fact that there is more to life than BS materialism and propaganda. It isn't stopping them from crowding any small # of women, though, that's for sure.
I'm in Georgia, originally in Tbilisi, now in a smaller town. Would rather not say which since Georgia is basically one big village already and I'm the only westerner in this town so it'd make my identity even more obvious.
Thanks was just interested in general location. Its amazing what a culture and country dedicated to being religious can bring about.
You are assuming that it would be advantageous to humanity for God to make it more "obvious". That's not necessarily the case. The ultimate goal of human life from the Orthodox perspective is to seek union with God, to attain salvation. The universe that God created is the best possible universe that will save the most souls. He sees billions of factors that we don't see.
Think about this. The devil knows God exists, he has zero doubt. And yet, he still rebelled against him along with a third of the angels. Because creatures with free will cannot help but become prideful. It is better to remain ignorant and to reject God than to be sure of His existence and still reject Him. In the latter case, the person's sin will be greater because he consciously rejects the truth and thus his soul will become darker. So God protects those who would willfully reject Him by making Himself only obvious to those who seek Him. The evidence we have is sufficient. Jesus Christ is by far the most documented historical figure from the ancient world. The miracles He performed are exceedingly well documented, and He also fulfilled dozens of prophecies from the Old Testament. But people have to look a bit to be convinced, and that helps train the virtue of faith, which further draws us closer to God.
Not to mention, how would God prove to us he exists with 100% certainty and still allow us free will? I can't think of any way. Even if He wrote "Jesus Christ is Lord" in the stars, some would say they are going mad, or aliens did it, or outer space is an illusion. So what evidence would it take to convince you?
The reason there are thousands of religions is because people 1) some people far from the Holy Land could feel God's presence and so did the best they could without divine revelation and formulated a religious system on their own like Laozi and his Taoism, and 2) others were tricked by the devil into worshipping demons like the Hindus. Or it's a mix of both.
I think you are right that there are roughly 3 groups of countries. You can predict the level of in-group preference by the level of genetic similarity/inbreeding between people. The most inbred people in Europe are from the Western Balkans, so they are highly focused on their own in-group and don't like outsiders. Middle Easterners are a more extreme example. Certain Americans like those in Appalachia are also very inbred due to historical circumstances.
On the other hand, the most outbred are the Dutch, but this is what led to them and other Western Europeans flooding their countries with millions of migrants and accepting woke ideology. They don't care about their own people, everyone is the same as far as they're concerned.
Then you have this group in the East that stretches from Greece and Bulgaria up to Poland and Russia. They have moderate levels of inbreeding, so they are nationalistic, but I'm guessing not so extreme as to reject people outside their social groups. So my guess is that's your sweet spot and my personal experience gives credence to this theory.
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How is Iceland not the most inbred country on the map? They used to have an app to determine whether a potential mate was related.
This is the gist of the answer to "why doesn't God just reveal himself openly" that you'll get from pretty much all Christian churches, in my experience. It makes sense to me, so I buy it.
Also as good an answer to "why are there so many different religions" as you'll find. About worshiping literal demons, it's more common than people think. The Aztecs and Mayans with their worship of blood and death through human sacrifice, most "animist" African paganism (e.g. Voodoo), in addition to the demon gods of the Hindus.
There is a good book written by an Orthodox monk called "Christ the Eternal Tao", which I can recommend. God revealed Himself to the whole world in various ways but only completely through Abraham-Isaac-Jacob....through Jesus Christ. I believe St. Paul said in his epistle to the Romans that we will be judged by the Light that was given us. However nice that sounds, that puts a huge onus on Christians, particularly the Orthodox, who have the fullness of the Faith.