Seasons of Men
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Affects of Seasons that Humans fall into
Affects of Seasons that Humans fall into
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Hard Times Create Strong Men - Joseph
Hard Times Create Strong Men - Joseph
Hard Times Create Strong Men: During challenging and difficult times, individuals are forced to confront adversity, develop resilience, and overcome obstacles. These experiences cultivate strength, determination, and a sense of resourcefulness. It is through these struggles that individuals build character and resilience, emerging as strong individuals capable of shaping their destinies.
people who are tough-minded and physically able create good, easy times because they are competent, hardworking, and responsible enough for their prosperity so that life becomes great as a result.
Tough times create strong men means that mentally (and sometimes physically) strong people get created due to going through, enduring, and eventually overcoming hardships.
It means that challenging times can be incredibly tough, uncomfortable, and discouraging, but that it is exactly these hardships that provide a unique opportunity to learn and to grow as a human being.
People who have gone through hardships and successfully overcome these hard times grow stronger, and become more resilient to acute and chronic stress in the future.
Joseph
Joseph
JOSEPH SOLD INTO SLAVERY - GENESIS 37:12
17 YRS OLD, showed respect and integrity
JOSEPH IN POTIPHAR’S HOUSE - GENESIS 39
Strong Men Create Good Times
Strong Men Create Good Times
Strong Men Create Good Times: The strength, ingenuity, and perseverance of individuals who have endured and overcome hardships contribute to the creation of prosperous and stable times. Their resourcefulness, work ethic, and vision bring about positive changes, laying the foundation for progress and prosperity. They establish systems, institutions, and a supportive environment that fosters growth and success.
Strong men create good times, intends that people who are tough-minded and physically able create good, easy times because they are competent, hardworking, and responsible enough for their prosperity so that life becomes great as a result.
Hard men make easy times because they take responsibility and will make it a point to not only improve their own lives but that of others as well. Thus, creating good times in the process.
Good Times Create Weak Men
Good Times Create Weak Men
Good Times Create Weak Men: During prosperous periods, people tend to become complacent, comfortable, and less inclined to face challenges or take risks. This can lead to a decline in ambition, discipline, and the drive to innovate. Without the need to overcome adversity, individuals may become reliant on the systems and structures established by their predecessors, leading to a weakening of character and a sense of entitlement.
Good times create weak men communicate that good times are too easy because there’s a lack of adversity and intent to improve.
Due to this fact, people become complacent and lazy. This means that they don’t develop the necessary skills to become capable, hardworking, and responsible members of society. Therefore, creating weak men in the end.
Good times may be so effortless that they don’t entice improvement. And when we fail to improve, men, and people as a whole, become weak and incompetent.
Weak Men Create Hard Times
Weak Men Create Hard Times
Weak Men Create Hard Times: The decline of strong character and the lack of resilience in individuals can result in a deterioration of societal structures. Weakness in the face of challenges, an inability to adapt, and a lack of accountability can lead to the erosion of institutions and the loss of progress. This, in turn, creates a climate of hardship and struggle, ultimately setting the stage for a new cycle to begin.
Understanding this cycle prompts us to reflect on the importance of resilience, self-reliance, and personal growth. It serves as a reminder that it is through overcoming challenges and embracing adversity that we build strength and character. To avoid perpetuating the cycle of decline, individuals must strive to maintain their resilience, discipline, and adaptability even during prosperous times.
Weak men create hard times signifies that people who are incompetent, immature, lazy, complacent, and irresponsible create hard times because they lack the necessary amount of competence and accountability to make their own, and other people’s lives better.
Due to these negative traits that weak men possess, they are unwilling to take the necessary amount of responsibility for their existence, never mind for improving that of others.
How weak men create tough times
How weak men create tough times
Out of necessity
Out of necessity
Tough times create tough men out of necessity. Things such as war, no matter how unfortunate it is, can create strong people because it’s a necessity to survive in a harsh environment.
Weak people don’t survive in tough times, such as in warfare. People have to scavenge, cooperate, and possibly fight for their lives just to survive.
Hard times create tough men because the challenge is needed in order to grow. There can’t be good without the bad. Life can’t exist without dying. And likewise, you can’t be tough without going through hardships.
Having to stand up against difficulties means you will have to work hard, be smart, and be persistent to succeed. It teaches you valuable skills that you will desperately need to thrive in this universe. Lo and behold, these same abilities are also required to become a tough individual.
You become a hardened individual
WHY WE NEED JESUS
Hard times create tough men because the challenge is needed in order to grow. There can’t be good without the bad. Life can’t exist without dying. And likewise, you can’t be tough without going through hardships.
Having to stand up against difficulties means you will have to work hard, be smart, and be persistent to succeed. It teaches you valuable skills that you will desperately need to thrive in this universe. Lo and behold, these same abilities are also required to become a tough individual.
You become a hardened individual
How weak men create tough times
How weak men create tough times
Weak men create hard times because we can’t grow as individuals if everything comes easy or naturally to us.
That’s because it prevents us from going through failure and building a necessity to evolve to keep us from being left behind.
If we get everything handed to us on a silver platter, then that will just make us weak. It means that we will not have developed vital skills such as determination, being strong-willed, hardworking, and perseverance.
This is all good and well, and people might argue that easy times are a sign of prosperity and that this might last indefinitely. But that’s not the case. Life is hard, and there will be multiple hurdles on our road. Sooner or later, disaster will strike us. And in that case, it’s better to be prepared and tough rather than unprepared and weak-minded. Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
I would argue that our current, modern society is a breeding ground for weak people. Let me explain why.
Soft, undisciplined upbringing
Soft, undisciplined upbringing
Our education at home and school has become far too soft. There’s generally not enough discipline being taught and applied while growing up. And if a child gets punished at school for being unruly, then the parents regularly come running over knocking at the school gate to berate the teacher for punishing “poor little Timmy.”
Children are children. And children can’t properly decide for themselves, since they aren’t developed, nor disciplined enough. Their brains are still evolving and maturing. That’s why they NEED to be disciplined during childhood or there will be constant problems in adulthood. Children, and even adult people to some degree, need to learn their boundaries. They will push and pull until someone draws a line in the sand.
I would suspect that getting rid of the duty to serve in the army plays a part in this as well. Although I must admit that I haven’t been in the army either, since there was no army duty when I came of age. But the way I see and hear it from my elders, even the most unruly of young adults got taught to listen. Either the easy way or the hard way, due to a variety of punishments to those who wouldn’t fall in line.
Not standing up for themselves, others, and society
Not standing up for themselves, others, and society
Weak men create tough times because weak men are afraid to stand up for themselves and those around them.
This allows society to turn rotten and to change for the worse. Things tend to spiral out of control when people don’t speak up, or not soon enough. That’s because our morals and values keep degrading little by little each time we don’t oppose what’s malicious.
It’s much easier to tackle issues when they’re still small, rather than when they have ample time to develop and grow in power.
Skewed perception of reality
Skewed perception of reality
Furthermore, strength, and a healthy body weight used to be promoted and considered a form of beauty and wellbeing, as it should be.
These days, the propaganda has been fed that “all shapes are beautiful and equally healthy.” Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but health is not. It has since long been established that being overweight is unhealthy. To add to this notion, it has been shown that obesity greatly increases the risk of getting chronic diseases and leads to a higher mortality rate.
But the concern isn’t just the skewed beauty and wellness perceptions. The larger issue is the warped perception of reality that our society has increasingly fallen victim to.
