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Oct. 1, 2019 - Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh
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Babylon Road #15 - Yuma, St. Anthony's Monastery, Phoenix
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All right, I'm leaving San Diego and going east.
So Phoenix is the next stop and I have time.
I'm in Yuma, Arizona.
My beard told me to stop here.
So what the beard says, I follow.
Yuma kind of sounds like the name of a girlfriend I had in South America.
Hey, Yuma, it's Roosh.
Do you want to meet tonight for premarital sex that makes us feel good in the moment, but which impairs our long-term ability to pair bond with the opposite sex while making us cynical and jaded and even hateful of the opposite sex?
You do?
Great.
Okay, let's meet at 8 p.m. at our usual spot, El Cholo Gordo.
See you then.
My Yuma ex-girlfriend is more beautiful than this place.
It seems like they had no planning involved when they made it.
I couldn't even find a center to film.
It was just sprawl.
Very few buildings were bigger than two stories high.
It's mostly Hispanic people.
I don't know why the beard wanted to see this.
So usually during lunch, I have a picnic and I do a search for picnic tables to find a place where I can eat.
And I didn't know it, but I had a picnic next to a high school and I was eating and then the high school let out and a bunch of kids passed me by and some sat near me in the picnic table and the bad news is that American youth are doomed.
The good is that they don't have any tattoos and none of the males and females.
But everyone was listening to the black music.
You had the Hispanic youngsters saying, nigga, nigga, nigga.
The girls were on their phones listening to Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande.
So the momentum is being built in this high school for them to degrade themselves currently and when they get out.
Now, if you're a parent, you may not like what I'm about to say.
But if you send your kid to public schools, you could be insane because six hours a day you're sending them to a black box of corruption.
Six hours they are corrupting your kid.
You have no control over who your kid talks to, what music they listen to, what education they get, nothing.
You probably barely even know the teachers that are, quote, teaching your kid or indoctrinating your kid, giving your kid propaganda, teaching them to be gay.
Man, if you're a man who wants to be a parent, you have to account for homeschooling.
Don't even think about it.
Don't, I mean, unless you got good public school in a good area, which means not 80% vibrant, just public schools are gone.
This institution, like other institutions, have just collapsed.
I mean, it was so sad to see these young people, their lives haven't even gotten started yet, but it's already over.
Already their minds are full with tons of junk that the parents, I don't know, are the parents going to be able to remove that propaganda?
Do they care?
But you don't see the illness yet in these kids.
You only see, I mean, you see a bit of it, but not until after they graduate high school.
Will you really see it?
They come out as trans, they harm themselves more directly.
Yeah, so if you're counting on Generation Z to wake up, it's only going to be a small percentage of them.
The ones that are going to the average public schools, they are going to be in bad shape.
Also, they were very overweight too.
I mean, geez.
God have mercy on those kids.
They don't even know that they're succumbing to evil before they even know what evil is.
Well, you know, this is just another thing that I had to see.
So I continue going east.
I'm in
Florence, Arizona.
It's a dusty old town that seems to be dying.
A lot of shops are closed.
But this is the kind of town that I would want to move into.
I would want to move into a dying town.
And it's dying because people left it.
It's not comfortable enough.
It's not fun enough.
There's not enough money, enough sexual partners.
So they fleed to more worldly cities where they can have more worldly things.
But if you want to live in a place, you don't want all these worldly people who are just there to tempt you to put up their gay flags.
There were no gay flags here.
There is no one to virtue signal to.
There is no one to show status to, except the dirt.
That's going to be your only audience here if you want to act out.
If everybody wants to live in a place, I would go the opposite way.
If everyone is going through the wide gate, well, you're just following the crowd straight to hell.
Yeah, here you have some weirdos, some roughnecks, but you also have some salt of the earth people who are just here because they want to live a quiet life.
It's very quiet here.
You're walking on the streets and there's nobody.
It's a bit dry though, a bit dry.
But Florence is a town that most people would skip over.
There's nothing interesting to take photos of, no cool sights.
But when it comes to living somewhere, I would start with a place like this.
There's a lot of cacti here.
They look just like the ones in the Wiley Coyote cartoons.
I'm in St. Anthony's monastery and my visit didn't start so well.
I wanted to attend the Vespers.
This is an evening prayer.
It's about two hours long, I think.
So I came ready to worship God there.
And the monk said, oh, since you're the monk I talked to said, since you're Armenian Orthodox, you have to hang out in the narthex, not in the main hall of a church.
And the narthex is like the hallway.
And I tried, but through the glass and the door, I couldn't hear or see anything.
And then this was, it was useless.
So I left.
I walked out and I was starting to get upset.
And I was like, screw this.
Screw everybody here.
Screw the Greeks.
I am going home.
And by home, I mean the next hotel that I have to stay in.
But then I thought, well, while I'm here, let me at least get some footage for my vlog.
So I walked around a bit, but as I was walking around filming, I was getting heated.
How dare they exclude a Christian?
How can they tell me that I'm not allowed to worship God like them?
Just because I'm in a different church, just because my beard is more full.
I mean, this is totally exclusionary.
i'm a christian and my anger is rising and rising I'm starting to hate all Greeks.
And then I decide, okay, that's enough filming.
It's time to go.
I'm not going to tell anybody to come here.
And then I'm starting to walk out.
And who do I run into but the same monk who said that I can't go in?
And I'm like, I hope he says something to me.
And he did.
He said, how was the Vespers?
I said, well, it was hard to enjoy it through the wall and the glass.
So I left.
And I said, you know, I've been to a lot of monasteries.
I've been to now four.
This is the first time I was excluded.
That I was not allowed to worship God.
And he kind of said, well, you're allowed to worship God, just not there.
It didn't make things better.
And I was thinking, man, I was heated.
I started arguing with the monk in the monastery.
I was like telling him, no, I was excluded.
This is really hurtful stuff, man.
You didn't, I mean, whatever rules you have, I abide by them.
I obey your rules, but it was, it felt to me wrong.
And he was starting to get into the theological basis of why this is and the church histories.
I don't want to hear it.
And I'm just, in respect to him, I was just, you know, trying not to blow my top.
And then this really old man starts walking down the path.
He had to be helped by another monk.
And I turned to him.
And I look at the monk I was talking to, and he said, that is Elder Ephraim.
This is the man, the holy man, who established 18 monasteries in the United States.
Spiritual father to dozens and dozens, hundreds.
I mean, he is destined for sainthood.
And I went up to him, I touched the ground, and I put my hands out.
He put his right hand in my palm and I kissed his hand and I received his blessing.
And I looked at him and he had he was really old, but he had this, it was like a high contrast glow.
Like he stood out like his contrast, the contrast on his skin is different than anyone else's.
It was high.
It was like a little glow to it.
And he was this vibrating holiness.
He had a shake to him.
And when he gave his blessing to me, I started, like, I was extremely angry because I couldn't attend the vespers in the main church hall.
Once he gave his blessing to me, I was overcome by just happiness.
I started smiling.
And the monk I was talking to after the elder, after we separated from the elder, the monk I was talking to was still going into the theological basis of separating the Armenian Orthodox, blah blah blah.
I didn't care anymore.
I was just in a contentful stupor.
I was smiling.
And the monk said, oh, I'm sorry.
I can see you're having a moment.
what was i angry about i've never seen a man as holy as that You just get overcome because you know he dedicated his life to Christ totally.
Totally.
Wow.
And me and the monk, we started talking.
And I said I was going to go.
I guess the bookstore was closed.
And he said, well, I can open it up.
And so he walked me in.
And then we went on to have a very lovely half an hour chat.
I told him, or maybe longer than that.
He recommended a book.
I don't have the, oh, I forgot the name.
It's a book written by Elder Ephraim.
And I bought an icon.
I was looking for the ladder of divine ascent.
I've been looking for this icon and I found it.
It is here.
So me and the monk talked.
I told him some things, some spiritual battles that I was going through.
We talked about different forms of grace.
How I was giving grace in a big boost, a big shot in the arm, but he said for other people, it's a step-by-step.
So I need to understand that because I don't meet a lot of people who receive the kind of grace that I have.
So then all my anger subsided totally.
I bought some books.
I bought something for my mom.
And yeah, I can walk out of here happy that I was blessed by a very, very holy man.
And, you know, I caught him at this time.
There wasn't, there was only one other man there, so it was very quiet.
I could absorb his essence.
And God bless him.
And God bless all the men here who have dedicated their lives to Jesus Christ.
Don't just be forewarned.
If you're not Eastern Orthodox, you have to hang out in the Northex.
But hopefully, if God wills it, there will still be opportunities for you to experience the holiness that this place has.
I leave here and I go to Phoenix next.
I'm recording this in front of the matrimonial bed that only I use.
You know, I don't have many good things to say about Phoenix.
It's just not interesting.
I went to the downtown area.
I had over an hour to film.
There was nothing really to film except ugly parking garages.
The buildings were ugly.
The worst architecture I've seen in the United States.
The only thing saving this city are the cactuses, the cacti.
It's just bland all around.
Phoenix makes Columbus, Ohio full of culture.
Columbus, wow, they had a lot of stuff going compared to this.
So very, it's like the generic place.
Phoenix is the generic place west of the Mississippi.
I tried to like it.
I mean, I really did, but unfortunately, I could not.
Phoenix had nothing to offer me.
The goods and services were bland.
I got an herbal tea for $5 today and I looked at the tea and there was a cherry on top, a floating cherry in a tea.
They don't even know how to make tea here.
There were a lot of strip clubs here, non-stop.
And there were a lot of advertisements for personal injury lawyers.
Because when you slip and fall in the Walmart, you don't know who to call.
And oh, well, there's advertisements everywhere.
So you can, because they care about your personal injury.
They will get top dollar from whatever thing happened to you.
The women here, I can talk about that.
They are dressed very inappropriately.
They show a lot of skin here because it's too hot.
You know, let's not talk about the women of old who covered everything before air conditioning.
But Phoenix girls, they need to show everything.
Mid-riffs everywhere.
They also have that, I'm eternally going to the gym look.
You're right, you're not going to the gym.
You know, she's just going to, or she's just going to go to body build her butt, to butt build.
So the girl, she has to show you her big butt.
All right.
Things got a little bit more interesting in Scottsdale.
I went to Scottsdale and there they had this artsy fartsy old town.
Old town, if you bring a European here and say, this is Old Town, they would laugh in your face because everything is new.
There was nothing old about it except the women.
There were a lot of cougars there.
Cougars with the plastic surgery with the fake lips.
You know, trying to pretend that they are young.
So it's a little bit sad.
You know, I mean, as you see, I have a lot of white hair in my beard.
I'm getting older.
Every year I'm getting older, more white hair comes.
I don't deny that.
I don't deny human existence where I am going.
Six feet under soon.
But the women, they are making a deal with the plastic surgeon, with Satan, to look young.
There was an anti-aging clinic.
Anti-aging.
Yeah, you are going to reverse the hands of time.
The picture of Dorian Gray.
I was walking on the sidewalk and I caught a glimpse of a woman who was older.
She had the tight lip.
What is it called here?
This space, the nasolabial fold?
No, no, that is here.
So anyway, in her mustache area.
It was just very tight, like tighter than even a newborn baby has.
And she was walking with a man.
I hadn't seen the man yet.
And I thought to myself, I guarantee he's a young dude.
And I turned to him and sure enough, he's like 20 years younger than Granny.
And that's how it is.
These women, they deny themselves.
They deny who they are.
So they have to pretend.
Yeah, I'm young.
You know, a woman doesn't get all that plastic surgery to date a man her own age.
No, no, she has to be, she has to delude herself that she's not going to die and she's still beautiful like the 20-year-old girls.
There's quite a few of the 20-year-olds, I think, due to the universities here.
What else can I say about Phoenix?
That's it.
That's it.
I mean, there is nothing going on here except people escaping from California.
So you got people who left California and they're coming here.
They're going to Salt Lake City.
They are bringing, some of them are bringing their gay lifestyle, their globo homo type of lifestyle.
But the best thing Phoenix has going for is that there's not a lot of homeless.
I haven't seen a single tent here.
You know, if there's no tent cities, then it can't be that bad, right?
So, and lastly, my Phoenix event, it went well.
Met some interesting people and now I'm going east going to Texas.
So I'm pretty excited about that.
I have events in Dallas, Austin, and Houston.
If you want to join, go to Roosh.live and you can teach me about the Tex-Mex culture there.
So that's all I have.
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