tl;dr You have more opportunity than any man before you in history. Take advantage of it.
Summary:
I've noticed a lot of negativity present on trp as of late, and as a result I've stopped reading for a few weeks. I'm making this post as a response to that negativity.
Now is the greatest time to be alive as a man. I can imagine many sighs of disbelief throughout the community as you read that. "How can we be happy in this day and age with the declining quality of women?", one of the many questions you ask yourself as you observe people throughout your day. Then you come home and browse trp and have your concerns reassured by others who share a similar mindset. I'm going to state some of the benefits you can enjoy in 2016, many of them will be obvious and redundant. Hopefully this post can help instill a positive frame of mind for some readers, and I'll tell you why that's important in a bit. As you are reading this, you have access to all the history, knowledge, experiences, and thoughts of humanity compressed into a machine that you can fit into a small box. Anything you need to know or wish to discover can be answered with ease. You can connect with people from around the world to collaborate with, chat with, or to engage in commerce with. You are alive during a time when fitness is at its peak. Read the history of weight training, examine the top specimens 100 or even 1000 years ago and how it is possible for you to attain that and even exceed what has been accomplished before you. You can board a plane, take a nap and wake up across the world in a different culture surrounded by different people. Women are voluntarily being open about their promiscuous nature with platforms like Tinder. If you want a slut, you can get a slut. If you want a wife, you can get a wife. You may have to go outside of your home country, but don’t complain that you can’t find a decent woman. I’m not dismissing AWALT, I’m saying you can find women who act upon their natural instincts with less frequency and who make a safer bet when gambling your time, resources, and emotional well-being if you decide you want marriage/family. A quick Google search shows that there are about 3.52 billion women in the world as of 2014. You will meet less than 0.0001% of them. Happiness is not ignorance, but the acceptance of what you cannot change. Learn from trp, act upon the knowledge you have gained, but do not hate what you have no control over. The world does not need another stoic badass who walks around with a grim look on his face. If you don’t already, try smiling at everybody and everything. Widen your eyes with curiosity and embrace the world for what it is. I have noticed a significant change in the interactions I have with strangers, friends, family, boys, girls, teachers, etc. by displaying a positive and lighthearted attitude at all times.
I’ve been pondering as to why my own change in behavior can also change everyone around me. “Surely this is a solipsistic point of view,” I thought to myself, “because how can I change how others present themselves to me?” After reading some essays from the great https://illimitablemen.com/, I’ve reached a conclusion that is probably not wholly original. The majority of the people you encounter hate themselves. This deep seated hatred is rooted into their very being. From the moment they wake up to the moment they go to sleep, this hatred manifests itself into the way they go about their activities to their interactions with other people. The masses hate themselves because they know they aren’t achieving what they are truly capable of. Without knowing it, people let this toxicity affect everything they touch. Those who have been in the anger phase or have been depressed for lengths of time know how it affects everything, from your work ethic to the way you present yourself. When these people encounter you, a man on the path of self-improvement who is not where he wants to be yet but is happy where he currently stands, they want to be a part of that success in any way possible. Naturally some will try and bring you down to their level, but simply refusing to acknowledge their negativity and pessimism is usually enough to shut that down and encourage them to be positive. Visualize your idea of perfection in a man. Write it down if you need to physically see and hold what you believe qualifies someone to be the best. If you can dream of what should be done, you can get to work and do what needs to be done. Some may protest with excuses like “I’m not 6”1’” or “I can’t grow a thick beard”. You are a man, not a victim. If what makes a man to you is height or facial hair, you are basing your expectations, goals and dreams off of what society and women want, not what you want.
To put all of this rambling into some perspective for the community, I’ll relate it to my life. I don’t want children and I plan to get a vasectomy before 30. I also plan to store samples of my sperm indefinitely should I change my mind in the future. What a time to be alive when I can say that and have it be reality, not science fiction. Girls have always said I was cute, handsome, or “like a TV actor”, and I’ve been getting physical affection with girls since the first grade. You may not believe it, but I know it is true. I pulled quite a bit of tail in high school despite being barely 110 lbs. at 6 feet, looking completely emaciated. Girls would say “he’s cute but too skinny” or “you would be the perfect guy if you gained a little weight”. I started lifting, eating, and bulking not for them and their whimsical desires, but for the disdain I had for myself and the change I wanted to see manifested. I’m in college now. I was on the path of computer science like every other guy who browses the internet. I decided to change my major a few months ago (without losing any progress) to English Secondary Education. “But awmace5, there’s no money in teaching,” or “You’re going to hate teaching. All the teachers I know hate their jobs,” and many more that I’m sure you can imagine. I chose this path because I realized when I was staying up late doing a coding project that yielded nothing to me in terms of joy, accomplishment, or wisdom, that my definition of a man is different from most people. My definition includes working to live, not living to work. Obviously this wouldn’t apply to a man who has a family and a mortgage, but alas I am not that man, so I should not judge myself according to his standards. I’ll be a teacher because they work 190 days of the year, have every holiday off, it’s easy which reduces my stress and allows me to do things that are important to me, and I get to be a positive male role model to the students who need one, which is most. Pay is not something that I hold in high regard. I have a budget created that allows me to live very comfortably with $40,000 take home, which is a low estimate compared to what I expect to get.
To wrap this up, now is the greatest time to be alive (for me) because I can have complete confidence in my own birth control while still maintaining my options, can seek a job that offers less pay but more time off to focus on myself through travel and skill building, and can still get women through good looks, muscularity, and a masculine frame. In times past, men would fight wars for the women that are walking around half naked today. Now, with a swipe of my finger or a flash of a smile, I can have that which is so coveted.
Why is now the greatest time to be alive as a man for you?
Lessons Learned:
• Focus on the positives, not what you cannot change.
• Do not mistake happiness for ignorance.
• Do what is best for you in all situations. If you have children or others who rely upon you, you can better provide for them when you are in a positive state of mind.
• Define your definition of perfection in a man, because everybody has their own definition.
• Never act according to someone else’s wishes. Before you do anything that consumes your precious time, consciously acknowledge why you are doing it and who you are doing it for.
• Smile.
favours_of_the_moon 7y ago
I call it The Poonanny Jailbreak.
In the 70s, the big thing was to find a girl who would give you a <gasp> BLOWJOB!
In the 90s, it was threesomes.
Nowadays these "modern girls" grow up with infinite free pron. Their biggest fear is that there is some enormity that they might be missing out on.
BlueFreedom420 7y ago
You have it wrong. They did everything under the sun before the Roman Empire fell and then some.
Aslong as you had power you could get a woman to do anything in any era.
This is the worst time to be a man. Government is too big and women have too much power and self importance.
OwlsExterminator 7y ago
Agreed, women haven't changed. But what is considered acceptable/normal has changed. There are definitely more women doing things that say 20-30 years ago not as many of them did. For instance in the last 10-15 years the rise of women getting genital HSV-1 from oral sex has skyrocketed. That's attributed to the rise of internet porn.
Yes you could have found a women do what you want in any age of time but today's post Roman world they're much more today.
Yes Rome was a perverts delight. No age of consent, sex slaves, incest, pederasty, etc. Hell, one of their gods was depicted as fucking a goat.
Derbi50 7y ago
Have an up vote for the use of enormity.
Love concious archaism in discussion. People think you are smart.
Now off to my newest infamy.
Drok_MothLord 7y ago
Do you think this is going to be a full circle kind of effect?
favours_of_the_moon 7y ago
It's my sense that there are some "nice girls" of the millenial generation.
There's a certain segment that want and/or choose to be "nice girls."
In general I'm in favor of sexual liberation. I do consider it to be overall conducive to sanity. However I would like to see both genders liberated in that regard.
OwlsExterminator 7y ago
Those nice girls are the ones that are either religious, old fashioned, or just ugly and they rationalize it as if it's their choice not to be fucking.
Regardless we're all human, we all have raging hormones. Girls are no different, albeit as others point out, for a girl knowing a guy wants to fuck her is just as good as fucking.
I think any "nice" girl has a past or future slut in her.
sickofallofyou 7y ago
The greatest time for men will happen when the male birth control pill comes out. No more trapping.
new_alpha 7y ago
Congratulations for this, we need more male teachers like this. It's our primary way to fight against the feminine imperative
redwurst 7y ago
Everything fine but what's with you and this smiling shit guys? Yes there are times to be charming and to never smile is stupid, but I think sometimes you walk around smiling like an idiot and liking everyone you meet. If something isn't funny I don't smile, period.
pharaohchromium 7y ago
You're right! And i am so excited. I am 29 years old, 6 weeks off finishing my Masters degree, which will allow me to work in practically any country in the world. I'm fit. I'm free. I have money. I can do whatever the fuck i want. It's taken a lot of hard work and fuck ups too, but god damn... things are looking up.
awmace5 7y ago
With your youth and freedom, you will become the most marketable man in the room wherever you may travel.
icelander12 7y ago
And of course... Donald J. Trump
zozimoz 7y ago
Great and timely post! I would say that this post describes a stoic badass more aptly than one who walks around with a grim look. A stoic man is happy completely regardless of his circumstances.
vandaalen 7y ago
A stoic man takes the things that come and deals with them, regardless of his current emotional state. He knows that happines and unhappiness are on the same scale, just on opposite ends, and acknowledges that the pendulum does not stop swinging from one end to the other until he takes his last shit.
zozimoz 7y ago
A Stoic man does not let external events influence his emotional state. It was the common notion that Stoicism is related to enduring events "with a grim look" rather than being unaffected by them, as Epictetus taught, that made me comment however.
ahmedpie 7y ago
If my job gave me a drive, a passion, a sense of being alive. I would work for free
throwaway-aa2 7y ago
Question: How much to store sperm?
Question: Are you afraid of what will happen if the vasectomy goes wrong? As a man who doesn't like to leave anything up to chance, why should I roll the dice and get a vasectomy when there is a chance it could fuck up?
Comment: So sperm (someone familiar with the biology behind making a kid) told me that the healthier you are at one point, the sperm at that point will make a difference on the kid you actually have. If you're a super super strong muscular dude who is eating healthy and you take a sperm sample from that time, you'll have a much better baby than if you weren't at that point. What's your thoughts on that (let's just pretend devils advocate if that is true).
grewapair 7y ago
It's a one time charge of around $1500 and then there are annual fees you would typically prepay, about $250 per year (i.e ten years would be $2500). It's potentially useable for about ten years. After that, it's not likely to be useable, but might last as long as 20 years.
Only 3-5% are ever retrieved.
marplaneit 7y ago
About your comment:
If you are healthy when you take your sperm for storage it will help with the amount and quality of different macromolecules that will help the spermatozoid to fertilize the eggs, but won't make a "stronger" baby. That's pure bullshit, it's randomness genes selection, nothing you can do about it (unless you genetically modify it in a lab).
MoneyStatusLooks 7y ago
I'm hoping that vaselgel stuff solves this problem. From a personal perspective, use protection on unknowns and plates. Don't LTR unless you think you can trust them to a high percentage to not get knocked up and that they are on the pill.
Every action you take has some form of risk and potential consequences. There is no free lunch as they say.
Personally, I think a vasectomy at such a young age is a bad idea even with small risks.
down_with_whomever 7y ago
Vasectomies are soon to become obsolete. Vaselgel is going to hit the market soon and you can have a temporary, cheap, reversible vasectomy.
Precisely every single man with half a brain in his head will get it immediately as soon he has access to it.
imadazhell 7y ago
Just saw the Vaselgel FB post today where they are trying to crowdfund the money to produce the first trial sample batch.
M3_Drifter 7y ago
Soon, as in maybe 5 years. They are ridiculously optimistic with their timelines, although I guess maybe it's a marketing trick. The original plan (when I read about it first in 2012) was for clinical trials to begin in 2013 and have the product on the market in 2015. I expect clinical trials to begin in 2017, and then we need to wait some years. 2020 might be feasible if they are really fast/lucky.
elevul 7y ago
We'll see. There is very little funding for it, and many companies and groups are going actively against it, for economical and ideological reasons.
throwaway-aa2 7y ago
sure but... when you say SOON... my understanding is that it'll be quite some time before it hits, and I plan to fuck a lot of women before then so it's not helping me now.
down_with_whomever 7y ago
You're right. it'll be a few more years. You'll have to get a vasectomy now or stick to gay sex until the vaselgel comes out. Or both, just to be safe.
throwaway-aa2 7y ago
yeah you know you do have a point though, I can just fuck dudes, instead of trying to get girls to do anal.
down_with_whomever 7y ago
it really would make the whole process a lot easier.
RedMoonAscendant 7y ago
Yeah, but only land-whale dudes have tits, and I gotta have at least some token tits.
elevul 7y ago
Just make sure you use condoms. HIV still doesn't have a cure.
down_with_whomever 7y ago
HIV is for bottoms. Us TRP alphas top every time.
elokr 7y ago
Vasalgel will never make it to market.
juliusstreicher 7y ago
I was going to say this. "Crowdfund? For a sample? Trial?" Yeah, and did you hear about the 400 dollar Corvette?
scottbrio 7y ago
It has an arduous road ahead fighting Big Pharma, but it will make it. The demand is there 100%.
elokr 7y ago
We've been hearing about male birth control for decades. Risug has been around for 20 years with success in humans yet it hasn't made it out of India.
steelerfaninperu 7y ago
It's not so much that anyone is resisting it so much as Big Pharma just doesn't care. It's cheap, and would put an end to their days of doping women with hormones. They don't want it here, but that also doesn't mean they're putting up major obstacles. They control what gets developed and what doesn't, and by ignoring Vasalgel they pretty much have kept it out.
In addition, the US has very strict clinical trial procedures in order for a product to get to market. That's probably a good thing.
They're crowdfunding and building up international support. Once they have the money to run trials in the US and file a patent they'll be able to market it with or without big companies standing in the way.
stonepimpletilists 7y ago
Money trumps womens imperative.
If vagina got things in spite of that? Porn would have never been the giant it is
elevul 7y ago
Problem is, there is very little money in Vasalgel and way too much money in birth control pills for women.
That's why Vasalgel will never make it to the market: because the pharma companies would lose tons of money from women buying less birth control pills.
Eyes_Of_The_Dragon 7y ago
There is enough demand for Vasalgel to make it to market. Women will still buy the pill regardless of if men buy Vasalgel or not.
stonepimpletilists 7y ago
Condoms sell well, I'm sure that it's there
elevul 7y ago
Condoms are like 1€ each for a piece of rubber, and they have to be thrown away after every fuck. Vasalgel is a single operation that lasts many years. Unless they put it at like 5000€ they're not going to get much profit out of it compared to condoms.
stonepimpletilists 7y ago
Well, considering the company making the gel won't be the same one making condoms, they will make more profit than waiting for trojan.
Or trojan buys them out. Either way, there's profit to be made.
Plus, don't forget 4/5th of the world are having mass population crisis right now. India, China alone would probably be state subsidizing the fuck out of this.
2 billion people spending a 150 bucks a pop is no joke
Eyes_Of_The_Dragon 7y ago
My guess is that they will guarantee that Vasalgel will work for a conservative amount of time say 3 years and then you need to get followup testing.
THEDICKDEALER 7y ago
I literally was floored when I forund out teachers get 52% of the year off.
eye_drive 7y ago
Dropped. Nothing you say holds any merit. Enjoy your silver spoon, asshole.
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Mr_Get_Right 7y ago
Recently my research has led me to understand I don't have to be miserable. You got the nail on the head and I'm not even done reading. I'm just so excited someone else gets it.
It's not mysticism or feel good fluff, you operate inside of a mental model. Everything you perceive about reality is filtered through you're lens.
You grow, change, and importantly let go of old parts of yourself.
I've successfully lived the best day of my life like a fucking month in a row because I'm developing my perception, learning mental judo, and fucking inspiring people. I haven't even done anything that should be impressive to them yet, but strangers are pretty much willing to trust me completely. Me being in the room passively makes people feel relaxed and happy.
It's not bullshit. I just lived with a certain painful scarcity mindset my entire life, but literally reforming your brain takes time but every step gets better and better and
You start experiencing happiness and peace like you never thought possible, and you can share it freely with the world and it only gets stronger.
I came from a lot of the same hurt and confusion you guys did. I don't worry about money, it's not real, I can be wealthier than the richest man because I have peace. And now that money has no power over me? I'm controlling it instead of vice versa.
I dropped all my plates but one. If I want more I'll get more. I'm not losing my mind trying to attract shallow women to validate me. I don't need it. I don't hunger for it.
I never would have made it to this point with trp. Trp teaches you its okay to fight.
But there comes a time when your transformation is moving at such a break neck speed that you don't need it anymore. You don't need to feel victimized anymore. The indignant feeling leaves when you realize you are in control. Of eveything. Period.
Grow your mental model. When you grow to much, simply discard your cocoon and begin a new one.
See you guys in the field.
mintegral 7y ago
Can you explain a little bit deeper how you got to that mindset?
Any book recommendations or ressources?
Mr_Get_Right 7y ago
For zen and peace, living a pleasing life enjoying the game and experience? Alan Watts. I suggest the audio book collections of "It's You!" And "out of your mind". There are also plenty of Alan Watts resources on youtube as well.
Right now I'm enjoying my power trip by focusing on activation energy. I would suggest "Stop saying your fine!" It's a good source for productivity habits. For example:
Try to follow through on an impulse in under 5 seconds of getting it. Longer than 5 seconds and the activation energy dies as you distract yourself with something else to maintain the status qou.
These are skills that are infinitely more interesting than anything in games or videos. Recreational media has its place, but you start seeing it for what it is. Noise.
Let me know if you'd ever like to talk about anything. Lone Wolfing stuff is admirable but humans are wired to play off eachother, and another perspective is as good as gold when changing your life perspective. I never would have attained these results without wonderful research partners.
steelerfaninperu 7y ago
This is a great post and echoes many of my sentiments. I also teach and see it as quite rewarding, although not as much perhaps as other things I enjoy due to the abundance of idiocy that surrounds me.
That's the struggle, how do you work with that? I smile, I'm nice to everyone, I talk to everybody and I'm a happy person both inside and out.
But then I'm forced to engage with people (mostly women in positions of power in my workplace) who are outright idiots with no communication skills, no sense of leadership, no logic, and are readily ignorant of my abilities due to my younger age and their perceived superiority. And they sap the joy out of me on many days.
I don't work in America so things are different. I have to kiss my boss's ass or I don't get another contract next year and I'm out of a job. Empowered cunts with a bullshit title of "coordinator" think they're god's gift to the earth and refuse to acknowledge anything I do, and if what I do goes outside of their wishes, they run to said boss and bitch about it with her in a female bitchfest.
And it doesn't end at work. Most people are fucking stupid. You can be RP all you want but it doesn't change the fact that you have little control over most people's behavior. How does that not eat away at your soul?
marplaneit 7y ago
That's why people here that know this, recommend to start your own bussines sooner or later, but you must do it or it will kill your soul.
flat6turbo 7y ago
yes, people are fucking idiots. they won't spend 10 minutes on google to solve their own problems. i run a company and nearly 100% of my customers fit this profile. not only that, they get indignant about their own stupidity. it's mind blowing. most people don't actually work very hard, or know very much. they just wallow in a state of ignorant helplessness and beg/shout at things that pass into their consciousness.
the answer to all these questions is: make sure you are compensated accordingly. this is literally why they invented money. if you aren't, demand it, or leave. that's the only power you have. and f you don't exercise it, you're going to have a bad time.
"fuck you, pay me."
steelerfaninperu 7y ago
Yeah, I get paid pretty well so I put up with it, but job opportunities at this level aren't great given my circumstances, and foreigners are kind of the boss's bitch when it comes to contract renewal.
I take care of myself, get paid, save up, but still I have to dance the dance.
AlphaEndoGorillaKing 7y ago
If you took the determination, toughness and work ethic of a man of yesteryear and used that in conjunction with today's opportunities, convenience and ability to connect/create you'd be a badass mofo.
MagicGainbow 7y ago
Nothing would guaranteeably happen as scientists have found in the case of people born in poverty often despite their best efforts do not pull themselves out of that bucket.
Life isn't fair, and these days who you know matters more.
down_with_whomever 7y ago
I think you're looking at the past through rose-colored glasses a little bit.
People in the past labored more because life required it. It's easy to work 14 hour days when not doing so means you don't eat. There are plenty of people in the world today who are this poor and lack the mental faculties to be a success as you imagine it because of what that kind of life does to you.
To be a success requires a type of mental discipline which is emphasized much more in our modern world than it was before.
However, I agree with your underlying point that today's world is full of opportunity for someone with the balls and the brain to seize it.
redrummr 7y ago
Rose-coloured or not, he's spot on.
In stoic literature/philosophy, inducing some controlled restrictions (food, stimulus...) and knowing that you are benefiting from this by becoming more hardened, opens the door to the type of success OP is talking about.
Example: It absolutely sucks to have interruptions all day, but when you can check off 1 box from your "Work through 10 distractions a day" checklist, every distraction now is met with a vibrant you, because you know you'll manage the distraction, continue to work and you are unstoppable. It's much better than complaining.
These days, you can complain and still find a way to eat. In the older days, you couldn't.
If you set up the conditions for this, you can do the same. And productivity in this time and age is such that, if you (for example) use 30 minutes of every day to optimise some part of the rest of your day, you will reach goals more quickly.
We are already way more productive (not in total/economic terms, to which machinery, social advances, infrastructure and computers played a huge role, but rather in terms of micro-managing in the workplace and the need to do so in our own lives to absolutely destroy competition) than we were like 50 years ago - by a multiple of 3 to 5.
So when you add up the work ethic (or rather the 'non-complaining') of man of yesteryear, yes, you can be absolutely great. Balls and brains is what it takes, and just going for it.
Everyone loves to give a powerful man what they want, if that person looks like they actually want it. Whether it's a job, or a lay, if you don't want it enough, there is going to be trouble (HR will get bad feedback about the hire they recommended, or the guy/girl in the sexual scenario will not really be pleased). By wanting it, you are freeing the person with the potential offering from all worry -- they know you will take over and manage yourself. People just want to know they are giving something to somebody that will be productive.
Wanting it, means you kinda know what you're going to do, or you will find a way to succeed, any means necessary. That is the positive desperation of yesteryear.
RPFlame 7y ago
That's still true, though. Human nature didn't changed overnight. If you know that you're a bottom feeder stuck in the low floors of the social hierarchy, you're gonna ask yourself if you wanna get the hell out. You're not motivated by greed for more, you're motivated by the need to survive. High status means better sex life, more money, better health and stability.
There are many middle class people who feel that they are low in the hierarchy because they constantly compare themselves with what's higher ("omg I can only go in 3 islands this summer instead of 4, literally impoverished!"), and dismiss the lower floors as nonexistent or extreme.
Back in topic. Conscientiousness breaks down to Orderliness and Industriousness. The theory is that, since people who like a tidy and orderly life also feel disgusted easier with dirt, messy rooms/houses and are more strict with what they eat, industriousness also rises from the disgust of being associated with low status. Like the Asian kid who studies to avoid dying in a farm, milking cows.
NotUpToAnythingGood 7y ago
Maslov's Hierarchy of Needs...
We inherently desire the peak of that scale. So as we achieve each level of need, we want the next one. Too damn many people want the shortcut instead of the journey there.
RPFlame 7y ago
Too damn many people think that all they need to do is read the sidebar, and lift for a year and boom, life goals accomplished.
It's a marathon, not a sprint.
elevul 7y ago
Technically that's not wrong, depending on what their goals are and on whether they are willing to use the tools given to them to achieve said goals.
i_love_shitposting 7y ago
Because we love sluts. NA has the best sluts, don't we folks? We have the biggest sluts, absolutely the sluttiest.
[deleted] 7y ago
Isn't it grand? Sluts are great.
The_Game_Delegate 7y ago
You mean now is the greatest time to be a MALE BACHELOR!!!
Wooo party!!!
human_ball_of_clay 7y ago
Fuck, dudes, think of all the miserable men in China who are being taken to the park by their fathers to try and find female companionship, and can't find any, because there isn't enough women to go around and think about how good you have it here.
'Murica!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!
maxineasher 7y ago
It's not about money, it's about having and sticking to your passion. I am a successful engineer and though I work a lot I don't really feel like I've worked a day in my life.
marplaneit 7y ago
I'm a med student, when I practice surgery I may be 6+ hours in the operating room, and I feel it was 30-40 minutes at most.
Though I feel earning a lot of money is important, not cause money = happines but because money = power.
deepthrill 7y ago
And power gives you freedom and comfort which to me is a source of happiness.
deepthrill 7y ago
Well, we all are entitled to our opinions.
Money is key.
For me passion's just a bonus. But enough money and you can pursue any and all passions with ease.
Just my opinion.
Wavyes 7y ago
I agree. I wanted to become an English Lit professor because of my love and appreciation for the wisdom you get from the greatest minds in the world. However, I soon learned that best case scenario I would end up as an adjunct. So I said fuck that, I don't need to rely on my passions to make a living, I can make a living doing other things to afford time for my passions. So for now the plan is law school; the law is something which I believe is sacred and hold up to the same pedestal of respect with literature, and though it can be less enjoyable, it is more practical and sustainable as a career prospect.
Well this is just my outlook at the current moment, I'd appreciate some criticisms and advice.
fuckin_retard 7y ago
I like you. Love of literature and respect for the Law - good shit. I hope you hold on to your ideals through law school; apparently it's a real meat grinder. We need good men out there who believe in principles, justice, and truth.
Advice? I can't give you any. I never went to Law school and probably never will. But I'd say that you should always strive to be at the top of your class so you can choose the field you go into. You don't want to get stuck doing some soul-sucking shit for a paycheck, even if it is the Law. For example, contract law. Well, maybe that's what gets your jimmies rustled, but I've heard it's not exactly enriching work.
Good luck.
human_ball_of_clay 7y ago
Here's my criticism, FUCK THE LAW. The world would be better off without them and instead a bunch of hard-ass motherfuckers running around and showing people how to live by sheer willpower.
Anarchism, FTW!
RedEyesBlueShades 7y ago
Luckily for YOU, there is no anarchy in place and law is enforced. With anarchy and no law I'd find you, catch you by surprise and beat the shit out of you, if necessary by ganging up with a bunch of friends.
Why? Because I think you're full of shit.
human_ball_of_clay 7y ago
I'm not full of shit. I think laws are bullshit and that people need to live by the law of cause and effect instead. Anarchism is the ultimate Red Pill fantasy, as it should be.
globst 7y ago
Encouraging.
The only problem with storing away sperm is that they are starting to believe IVF children have more issues later in life due to the fact that the sperm chosen in IVF is usually done randomly, whereas through a natural process only the strongest survive
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078347-multiple-births-not-heart-disease-is-biggest-ivf-health-risk/
That being said - Gattaca type situations (choosing embryos to filter out unwanted hereditary traits) is already somewhat possible and will hopefully become more prevalent in the future.
RedSugarPill 7y ago
Why can't they put the freshly unfrozen sperm in a race, and then pick the winner?
globst 7y ago
The vagina is a v. harsh environment for most sperm. The majority die on the way (we're talking about millions upon millions here). Then of those that survive, hundreds of sperm team together to help the one sperm penetrate the inner membrane of the egg.
It would be hard to replicate that environment in a petri dish.
RedSugarPill 7y ago
Back in 1999, I asked my computer science friend why 56k was the limit on the phone line modem bandwidth. He said it was the theoretical maximum that the wires could carry. I was puzzled. Then came DSL. I stopped being puzzled after that.
Some day, there will be IVF sperm races.
globst 7y ago
Some day - just (unfortunately) not at present.
I suspect it will be more likely that they will invent scanners to filter the sperm and/or the fertilized embryo and then let the parent choose the best fit. Basically a Gattaca type situation (legality and SJW world permitting)
RedSugarPill 7y ago
OK, I predict it will be publicly known in less than 5 years.
globst 7y ago
(See my edit above)
Even if the technology was available to recreate vagina environment and/or make a petri dish that could choose the "fittest" sperm through a race - I don't think this would be a logical step forward.
If the desire is to pick the strongest (or amongst the strongest) sperm to fertilise the egg, then it would make more sense (and be far easier) to concentrate on eliminating poor sperm choices (and eventually being able to select the best out of millions) as opposed to recreating a biological environment (with the myriad of biological outputs) within a petri dish or fake vagina.
Either option is fine anyway - I don't want a wife, don't want to be committed to a woman and hope that one day I can have a son, who will inherit all the good parts and none of the bad parts, from a surrogate mother.
RedSugarPill 7y ago
I totally appreciate your comments and insights. I am not sure how logical any of the present technology or laws are... Imperatives are not necessarily the result of logical thinking. Either way, it's interesting to think about..
globst 7y ago
It's funny that we've had this discussion as I just read this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36202622
Basically they've found a way to increase the time an embryo can say outside the womb - which in theory will allow scientists to understand (and presumably in the future) filter out negative hereditary traits.
RedSugarPill 7y ago
As a scientist and recently awakened 'Gervias Principle' Clueless member of society, it has become remarkably obvious to me that science, in general, is amoral and sociopathic in its very nature.
NeoreactionSafe 7y ago
There are two processes at play in the world now:
The Blue Pill - Makes women less attractive and dumbs down men and makes them lack masculine polarity and behave like slaves.
These forces work opposite to each other...
So in a sense as we Enjoy the Destruction of the Blue Pill there is pleasure in this new trend.
I'd say the most depressing time was a couple of years ago before the Manosphere came about.
Worldwide the positive energy Red Pill forces are rising.
However, the negative forces are "peaking".
Which means it's:
"The best of times and the worst of times."
...the power of the globalists to dumb us down seems to be faltering so in that we can all celebrate.
We can at least see the end now.
StoicCrane 7y ago
From Walden in the words of the revered author Henry David Thoreau from well over a century ago:
Societal progression is an illusion. What we believe to be technological advancements are in reality, in most instances, unecessary distractions. History repeats itself from those who fail to learn from past blunders.
If the minutia of life infringed on people's ability to live abundantly when the cost of living was low oved a centuary ago how much more so today?! We live in an age where access to information is unprecedented granted but the toil required to live a seemingly sustainable life stifles on our basic humanity through needless commodities and technology. The OP is wearing rose-tinted glasses with kaleidoscope vision.
makechangegreatagain 7y ago
Women have been the way they are now since forever. There were plenty of red pill-esque mens magazines back in the day and general pop culture jokes that poked fun at women.
Families also split up back in the day if the opportunity presented itself. The difference is today that opportunity is readily available for every couple all over the socio-economic spectrum.
And honestly, who cares? Do you really wanna stay married to some bitch who doesn't love you or is a shitty wife in one way or another? IDK about anyone else here but I'd rather have the freedom to leave that situation and go my own way.
Also, dudes need to stop kicking themselves when their girlfriend leaves them for "something better" or cheats on him with "chad".. Okay, so your girlfriend fucked a better looking more successful dude than you...
Are you going to sit there and cry about how much better he is than you? Or are you going to take it as a wake up call that something has to fucking change? Realize that the women you're attracted to require a man of high caliber and if you want her to value you, you must work to make yourself a high caliber man.. Lift / do some fucking cardio, study hard in university, devote your free time to your talents/hobbies and getting better at them (I personally decided to cut watching tv shows/dicking around on Facebook in exchange for practicing guitar).. You might as well do something that's useful and respectable with your free time.. I know a lot may disagree with me, but I feel that watching tv, playing video games, and just hanging out with friends doing nothing but sitting on the couch drinking and smoking pot is a waste of time (fri and sat nights only if there's nothing social planned).
A lot of dudes simply just need to get their priorities straight if they want to attract women. Stop blaming disney fantasies and your mom telling you to be a good boy and just be more observant your more "successful" friends.
TurboApe 7y ago
Agreed. I was recently going through the last year of top posts and too many of them centered around "Look guys, another example of how we are right about women/society". The comments amounted to a circlejerk of mutual affirmation. It is important to focus more on the pragmatism at the heart of TRP. After confirming these truths for ourselves, we have to implement them into getting what we want. Knowledge without acceptance and application is just masturbation.
Askada 7y ago
I agree overall, except this:
It's not the best way of thinking. Women don't necessarily cheat with better. Different is often enough. The most handsome and successful guy on the world still can be cheated on, and WILL be cheated on, given enough time.
Of course it doesn't mean you shouldn't work on yourself, just that you should be aware.
afkb39sdfb 7y ago
As the old saying goes, "familiarity breeds contempt"
makechangegreatagain 7y ago
Ahh yeah that's what I was trying to get across the board there but that sentence came out wrong.. What I meant was to not compare yourself to others and just do what you can to make yourself the best you can be.
valhalladclxvi 7y ago
I thought this was going to be a Trump thread.
sir_wankalot_here 7y ago
Stalin came from conservative Georgia, which was highly influenced by Islam. He was plowing everyone's wife. For that matter it is the possibility he was the cuckold of a priest. So mainly it is a case of rose tinted rear view mirrors.
Then there are the hamsters who claim it was better 400+ years ago. I guess they must think being dead is better then living. As I covered in one of my blog posts feminism played a role in the decline of violence in civilization.
Or maybe said hamster, if he was European thinks being a slave in a Libyan pirate gallery was a better way of life. Mind you he would atleast could be happy the Libyan pirates where not racist, the chained slaves of all colors and religions to the oars of their galleys, very open minded that way, very equalitarian.
Physio_Tool 7y ago
For every story where a saintly woman was a secret whore, there is 5 more traditional women who didn't neglect her family and her values she was raised in. But TRP just wants you to focus on the negative so you can hamster away your decision to not get married.
Sawagurumi 7y ago
Your first sentence is quite possibly true, but does not excuse the second one. A decision not to marry is rational, it does not need hamstering. Signing a one-way contract with the government that is purely optional, in exchange for nothing that you couldn't get without said contract, is just stupid.
That does not mean that every marriage will end up with the woman looking to divorce-rape you, but odds of around 1-in-2 for half of everything you have ever worked for is simply insane. There is no justification for that kind of gamble. Further, signing that contract locks you in, it means she can walk away with cash and prizes, but you are penalized for doing so, even if she cheated and you didn't. That hands the power in the relationship to the woman (also known as 'an equal partnership' in BP-land). As any marriage guy here can tell you, you can have a good relationship if you are married, and the same stuff works, but it is RP on hard-mode, because ultimately she knows you don't have the ultimate weapon, your ability to simply walk away and find a better woman.
So no, RP does exaggerate some stuff, but the inadvisability of getting getting a licence from the State is not exaggerated, it is common sense, and only societal indoctrination could convince you otherwise.
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harkrank 7y ago
Almost all women have some period in their life of being sexually attractive to all men. This might be from 15-35, from 20-28, from 16-20 etc. Women all get at least a few good years, usually at least 10.
TakeYourDailyDose 7y ago
The lessons in summation are all extremely solid pieces of advice. However, at the same time, I have to say that it's silly to imply that today's women make good wife material compared to the women of the past. I wouldn't dismiss complaints along that line as pure self-depreciating negativity. The lack of legitimate "female companionship" beyond getting laid is a completely valid point (there is no storybook love- women don't want your love, and aren't even capable of the same kind of love we feel), and probably one of the things men discovering TRP for the first time have the hardest time coping with.
Tamazin_ 7y ago
Now? Id' say the time when sex robots arrive that we can't distinguish from humans arrive is when it would be the greatest time to be alive as a man (Due to women now realizing men won't buy them drinks in bars to get laid or whatever, since they can get a perfect lay at home with their sexbot).
ToSeeAndToHear 7y ago
Human-looking and -feeling robots are not that far off if they don't need to be social, and even closer to reality if you include VR options.
That only really works for male sexuality, though. As we all know, female attraction includes things like status, preselection, and dominance. A robot that you can turn off is never going to be realistically dominant.
In short, I think sex-bots will be a thing only for men, and women will be starving for attention from a dominant man.
Tamazin_ 7y ago
Hmm good points. Some women of course will use a sexrobot in the same way the use a dildo i guess. Definately looking forward to it! :)
Eyes_Of_The_Dragon 7y ago
Humanoid sex robots will definitely change things. Why deal with a human when you can get a robot that does everything you want with no drama? No "surprise" pregnancies either.
fuckin_retard 7y ago
I gotta be honest, I'm super skeptical.
Part of the satisfaction of sex, for me, is knowing that I'm bumping uglies with a conscious female human being on the other end of that interaction. A huge component of sex is the chase itself. The conversation, the build up, the chemistry, the implications, the subtleties. That's all part of the beauty of it. Women, after all, aren't just physical objects. They're as complex and deep as we are - even if we can find common patterns among them. I mean, it's not hard for a woman to seduce a man right? Does that mean we're simpletons? I'd like to think not.
Call me old-fashioned. Hell, I'll call myself that. But I prefer the loving touch of a real flesh and blood homo-sapien hottie with a body.
I might give the robots a try, but I'm not banking on it liberating me from my yearning to connect sexually with real chicks.
Just my two cents.
Eyes_Of_The_Dragon 7y ago
Will I resign myself to sex robots? Probably not. But it could be a useful tool for dread game.
StirlingG 7y ago
seriously...things easily given are not appreciated.
Tamazin_ 7y ago
Exactly. Then things will finaly be on an even playing field. Will be a wakening for many women im sure. Unless all of mankind decides robota are preferable and reproduction is done in the lab etc. Time will tell :)
harkrank 7y ago
That day will never come. What a meaningless dream to hold on to when the real thing is so plentiful.
Tamazin_ 7y ago
That day will indeed come, it's just a matter of time. If it was easily avaliabe you wouldnt have seddit and tinder and whatnot.
harkrank 7y ago
You are imagining it would be something nice, but when that day come you will be completely repulsed by even trying to masturbate with a machine doll. I'd rather off myself than get off in some gears and plastic.
Don't limit yourself with this nonsense, go out and conquer the world. Die trying is better than giving up life.
Tamazin_ 7y ago
If you can't tell the robot apart from a human being, would you still be as repulsed by it?
Oh i do, i'm up to somewhere above 300 so it's not that. It's the fact that guys has to do so much more 'work' to get laid or even get a chance of getting laid, whilst a girl just has to snap her fingers, irregardless of her looks, and she can get laid within a few minutes (as long as she's not too picky). The same can't be said about guys. So my main wish for this to happen is to level the playing fields; the sex with the robot is so good that you'd much rather do that than buying drinks at a bar, laughing at boring jokes from a brainless chick that is 20-30kg heavier than you and was beaten with the ugly stick just to get laid.
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RPFlame 7y ago
Great post, OP! I want to add something complementary
Psychological research suggests that hard-working people aren't the ones who can postpone gratification for the future, like they used to believe. Hard-working and conscientious people are the ones who work hard because they hate going down their perceived image of a loser.
Since you're reading Illimitable Men, he basically admitted it in the post called "How to be happy".
The reason why people like TRP and are sticking in the long-term is because the body of knowledge they acquire from here translates into action that improves them. Therefore it's necessary to at least have the concept of how "someone you don't want to be" behaves. In our case, this is what a blue pill man is, who puts women as a priority, bends to their whims and needs, opts to avoid working out and taking care of his body, and has no money influx to be financial independent.
People learn and adapt out of necessity. They learn when they realize that what they know and what they do doesn't produce the desired results. This is also the reason why TRP will never become mainstream, you need to eat shit first before you question what you know, and when someone is happily ignorant about everything he doesn't see any reasons to fix anything.
Vivid_Goober 7y ago
I agree 100%. While people do know this sub as the dumping ground for anger phase posts, it's always good to remind them there's light at the end of the tunnel. Whether that light is the outside or an oncoming train is unknown, but it's something. Something more than they had before when they were fumbling around in the dark.
To add to the happiness circle-jerk, you have to legitimately be happy if you want to exude the confidence and positive vibes.
You can try to play the part and you may nail it a few times, but you don't want to patch up the hole in your ship with duct tape forever. Eventually that duct tape is going to break away and there's gonna be a bigger hole than before.
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MeatCurtainRod 7y ago
I prefer the older days where it was accepted for men to approach women and flirt with them without being labelled a rapist. Decades ago, men on average were more confident and manly and women were more feminine.
And contrary to popular belief, metrosexual and all that hybrid shit is NOT manly.
harkrank 7y ago
You can do that these days, but if you have the mindset that she's gonna think you're a creep she will sense it and think you're a creep.
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stonepimpletilists 7y ago
I've said this to all the 'fall of rome' types.
You realize that you're more likely to shoot yourself in war, than be shot by enemy action? killed by an animal? you'd have to crawl into the cage and fuck with him.
You're probably the first or maybe second generation to say that. the disposable male is an opt in problem today, you won't get your shotgun wedding, just live
chief66red 7y ago
I see that drake/future reference
yomo86 7y ago
Finally a positive post.
Guys don't get one thing you so extraordinarly described: in the past the good woman was as good as her man or as a failsafe society allowed them to be. But you were limited as a man as well. You had to marry. You basically were forced to have kids with a woman, no fooling around.
Sure the game is rigged, still, but to stay in the Matrix-analogy you are freed; there are sentinals, everbody can be your enemy, but you know the truth. Act on it instead on cursing the system.
radianceofparadise 7y ago
Great post. Thank you for it. I've grown weary of all the negative posts on here.
One thing I'd like to add- have gratitude for what you already have, gentleman. Gratitude is the destroyer of pity. Not only that, but gratitude destroys negative self talk. We only have one life that we know of and every single day could be our last. How are you going to spend it?
Keep the awe and curiosity of a child. We are all students of life; here to learn about ourselves and our relationships with others. Don't let the little things beat you down and stop your progress. The things we fear are just illusions. Confront them and watch them fade away.
awmace5 7y ago
Perfectly stated. Gratitude is the purest form of humbleness, and a humble man is a powerful man for he knows what he is capable of and chooses to restrain himself.
JohnGalt316 7y ago
Now is the greatest time to be alive period
Are the mods deleting the lulz posts ... Only reason I stay subbed is to read the unintentional redpill lol
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Adderallabuse 7y ago
The negativity is misplaced. Lets not confuse the problems society faces with the problems we as individuals face.
This feminized culture with fat, sensitive, stoner dudes is an opportunity for a game aware fit guy who has his shit together.
Some of you (not OP) are or will be fathers to boys. Imagine the leg up you will give your sons when you teach them to take pride in themselves through academics,.athletics, and hobbies. I dont decry how unfair the world is because whining for handouts is for women. Instead, I just take what I want and am teaching the willing how to do the same.
PanisHakkinenTakagi 7y ago
And imagine what will happen to those sons when they go to kindergarten and after that enter the school system. Especially if they are white. Just imagine. The horror.
baube19 7y ago
yeah! fuck negativity
JUST DO IT
4HO-DMT 7y ago
Positive Frame! I am using this more and more in my life. It rubs off through state transference on everyone (Women, friends, family) But more importantly it makes yourself feel good. The game will feel easier, and life will be taken in more stride. We do not need to be so negative, women want to have a good time and this frame is very helpful to spreading the fun.
lone_wanderer101 7y ago
Well I'm mgtow so the state of women doesnt affect me in the slightest.
Trump_Donald_J 7y ago
Enjoyed reading. Good write up
hunteeer 7y ago
I want a woman. My bad, I guess.
But your text shows you're a spoiled dipshit. Let's hope they fuck up your sperm conservation.